Can someone explain what happened to me?

So after I had another "episode" - not sure if it's a seizure, convulsion, or violent muscle spasm - yesterday, the pain and stiffness in my neck is gone. My neck is a little creaky but I have full range of motion. Light sensitivity is much better today - I don't even have to wear my hat! No nausea or anything. I can move my eyes without any pain. Feeling a little bit drained but that's it.

It always seems like there's a build-up to these episodes. I remember it happening last time too. All of last week, when my neck started getting really sore and I had some head pressure/tenderness, I did everything I could to keep my neck muscles from getting too tight and took anti-inflammatories to help with head pressure.

The build-up though always seems to include a period of agitation....I don't mean a little cranky. I mean rage to where I almost quit my job and have to not talk to people too much because I know I'm not myself.

So what is it? Toxin build-up? (But why would I suddenly feel fine a few hours later?)
Am I doing this to myself in some way? I really feel like I'm losing it again. Has anyone else had this and noticed a build-up and pattern of symptoms?

I dunno. Are your eyes usually irritated on wake but resolve as the day progresses? What are your other physical symptoms in detail other than the rage and inflammation?

What are you taking? What symptom responds to what you take and for how long?

Mold triggered my rage but it may not be the cause of it. It seems a good amount of coinfections followed the lowering of the immune system that was caused by the mold.

It can be one organism that hits you with one set of symptoms and brings with it a coinfection, making it more difficult to determine what brought it on and whether on not it will resolve if you treat for one and not the other. It seems coinfection is the only constant.

Untreated it will allow for other coinfections to take hold.

[Bartonella henselae, an ubiquitous agent of proteiform zoonotic disease].
/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20042306

It appears in my case it could have been a zoonotic infection that brought with it Bartonella. Tinidazole should treat the former.

I suspect henselae because I got the macular star in my left eye which resolved, yet they are very irritated and pink on wake with dry itch after almost getting better with Doxy. It starts unilaterally and now is both eyes.

/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3130920/

It responded to Doxy at first and now I cant take enough Doxy for long enough to get in front of it.

I cant wait to receive Rifampin but I have to as they cant get it locally. When that arrives so will the Minocycline and Azithro.

One thing I have noticed about this disease is that symptoms can be very specific. What may give you the best clues are how specific symptoms clinically present. Become familiar with the coinfections and how they clinically present. This still seems more reliable then much of the testing available.

My headaches are always above the eye in a cluster. If I just say headache it provides no leads.

Hi pmm73 -

Boy, that episode sure sounds familiar. I flared like crazy when I started abx for Lyme and that lasted about 4-6 wks then calmed down a lot. I flared again when I started abx for vanco. Mine was filled with hourly cycling through the most extreme emotions - from rage to fear to uncontrollable grief to complete indifference. It was crazy. Finally calmed down.

For the head/neck aching and stiffness, try adding in something that can help support lymphatic process like red root, dry brushing, something like that.

And you might want to try increasing detox for the gut and brain (remember the gut-brain connection in the blood vessels). Try a binder and I usually make good progress with Nutrimedix Burbur and pinella tinctures.

Hope these become less frequent - totally agree w/ Traveler that they should as you progress with treatment.

-p