Stuck in fight or flight and update

So i think my fight or flight reaction is stuck in the on position. I feel "amped up" all the time. I used to love that feeling and actively chase it riding my 4 wheeler up crazy steep hills, street bike insanely fast, jumping off bridges into the water etc but now i just need to find a way to turn it off. I get a shot of adrenaline from any sound, tv, someone talking etc and sometimes from nothing at all. I'm clinching my teeth and my muscles are always tensing up. Any suggestions on how to calm this down?

I also got my heavy test results. I was in the very high range for cadium, copper, zinc and aluminium and border line for mercury and lead. My llmd says that with everything we are doing right now he can't add anything else to address the metals? He asked if i worked in an industrial, chemical or welding job but i don't. We came to the conclusion that i was exposed to all this from digging for arrowheads in the silt in the shallow water on the banks of the Ohio river. Alot of the places we used to go were behind chemical plants. Also did alot of swimming and water skiing in the ohio river.

My main symptoms still are heart palpitations and extreme joint/spine pain. Still have many others but if i could get those two under control i would be thrilled. I could learn to live with the constant ringing in my ears and twitching. I was doing a little better until i got a flu shot. I feel like it really set me back.

Llmd also says he wants to look into iv nutrition therapies? Not exactly what he means by that, we got sidetracled and i forgot to ask. Any ideas? He did say i would probably have to go out of state for it and well that's just not an option financially for me. I have to start paying COBRA for my family's medical coverage in a few weeks and that alone is $1800/month on top of all of these other lyme related expenses that aren't covered by insurance not to mention all the normal bills.

For those of you taking cordyceps what dose are/did you take and did it help? I've been on the iv rocephrin for 7 months now. Added biaxin and flagyl back in the mix. Sorry about the long post, any help is greatly appreciated.

The amped up feeling could be lots of things, including thyroid. For me, it was thyroid. It was weird, because my fight or flight was off the charts and I was having massive full body panic attacks. Biggest help was getting my thyroid under control and CBD.

CBD is THE BEST for calming you down. No ill effects, but feeling normal.

I have also recently discovered THC bath salts - I have not tried, but the reviews are good for bad pain. I'd like to try tonight if I'm not too tired. But all the CBD balms and such are great for joint pain.

As for Cordyceps, I was taking it in the early days for air hunger - which it helped some - I don't take it now at all, but it did help. I took whatever the recommended dosage on the jar was. I got the powdered kind you stick in smoothies.

Read this on" tired of Lyme "website:

When the body is exposed to a high stress situation, it has an innate response to allow it to cope - the flight or fight response.
The flight or fight response activated in those with Lyme Disease appears to cause more stress on the body than the initial reason that caused it high stress in the first place.

You have the adrenal glands being called upon, and in those with Lyme, adrenal fatigue is likely already present.

Glucose levels rise, or at least they're called upon to do so, and a person with Lyme may be dealing with Lyme induced glucose problems.

The glucose that is needed to fuel muscles during a fight or flight response may not be there for consumption, or may be distorted, which may be the cause for shaky or weak muscles.

The body also releases a lot of hormones during a high stress situation which may also not be available for use because Lyme can affect the endocrine system.

All of these imbalances will not allow the flight or fight response to work in the way evolution has intended it to, and as an alternative result, leave a person with Lyme feeling all out of whack for potentially a day or more.

High stress situations are very taxing on a body without Lyme Disease, and a body with Lyme Disease really takes the hit.


Hope it helps a bit. Could be that some of these reasons need to be addressed to help calm down your system.

I take about 20 drops 3x a day of cordyceps tincture.

Buhner states on p. 230 of healing Lyme 2nd edition under palpitations to check potassium levels and electrolytes.

For extreme pain Buhner states on p.226,

If severe,add:
Angelica tincture is useful for pain, especially when combined with Salvia miltiorrhiza tincture, 1 tbl of the combination(equal parts) every fifteen minutes, reducing dosage and frequency as the pain lessens.

As always I am not an medical expert and I would do your own research and be sure of any contradictions you may have with these herbals.

Take care and I hope you get some relief soon from these symptoms , Jo