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Posted 11/4/2021 1:06 PM (GMT -5)
I got them during disulfiram treatment really bad.
Then when I took lumbrokinase the other day I got them again.

They aren't regular nightmares.
It's the kind where you are trying to wake up but you can't.
So being aware that you are having a nightmare is a part of it.

I found a study once that confirmed it happening with disulfiram.
The study's authors said that melatonin helped, and also vitamin E.
But they noted that the reason melatonin worked is because of it's anti-oxidant activity.
Hence why Vitamin E also worked.

Anyway, I was curious if anyone else has these nightmares? They can get pretty bad.
I was semi-sleepwalking because of it, with lumbrokinase.

Thank you!
Posted 11/4/2021 1:29 PM (GMT -5)
Borrelia accumulates a lot of stuff, and it gets released when the bacteria die. It wouldn't surprise me if some old disulfiram is coming out during a herx.
Posted 11/4/2021 2:59 PM (GMT -5)
Hmmm I think I’ve heard night terrors are a symptom of babesia?
Posted 11/4/2021 3:36 PM (GMT -5)
Hi Quin, that's super interesting. I was just reading something similar a while ago, but I didn't realize it would also accumulate things like that. Makes a lot of sense though. Thank you! 🙂

Hi Bailey, I didn't know that ! I wonder a lot about whether or not I also have Babesia. I definitely think I have Bartonella as co-infection. They are both so tough to diagnose. What are your co-infections if you don't mind me asking? Thank you! 🙂
Posted 11/4/2021 6:19 PM (GMT -5)
I wouldn't call mine nightmares, but I can have some really vivid dreams when herxing. And I'm not sure if it's connected to one certain infection.
Posted 11/4/2021 7:44 PM (GMT -5)
I have Lyme, babesia, and bartonella. To be fair my dr’s philosophy is to just treat everything and see how you improve because the tests are unreliable. But I get sicker when removed from abx for any one of those three and in different ways.
Posted 11/5/2021 6:50 AM (GMT -5)
i think it pretty normal to have strange and disturbing dreams when you are unwell

when i was a kid - often when i was sick with a fever of some sort i would have the same recurring dream

Two v sinister men wearing dark suits and bowler hats, like a v menacing Laurel and Hardy would stand over me, forcing me to arrange matchsticks in a very particular grand pattern. It was taking forever and ever and they would criticise what i did endlessly. As the view panned out it became apparent it was a 1:1 scale model of the earth that i was building from matchsticks - and i was just on the skinny bit of central America. Came with vivid feelings of dread and fear that would leave me feeling shaken up a bit even after i woke up.

how crazy is that?

have had it once or twice as an adult too - again when sick or once when having a v strong herx like reaction with fever
Posted 11/5/2021 7:43 AM (GMT -5)
I have a nightmare every night that precedes the start of menstruation. To me, that signals that the interplay of hormones, neurotransmitters, and inflammation is involved. I have not noticed a correlation with Lyme treatment except that I definitely have more nightmares when I am especially sickly. Again, to me, this points to depleted hormone levels and inflammation.

Garzie, that's a crazy dream!
Posted 11/8/2021 4:31 AM (GMT -5)
Woah Garzie that's a crazy dream!
That's like a horror movie or something.
I had a recurring dream as a kid that I was riding my bike on a very tiny wooden bridge across a very deep canyon.
Then I lost balance and while falling down it seemed like it just took forever.
Posted 11/8/2021 9:30 AM (GMT -5)
I think as a kid things in my dreams used to get worse and worse the deeper I slept. That might be more indicative of the fact that my personality worries a lot. Nowadays my recurring nightmares are mostly about flunking out of school or walking into class and not realizing there’s an assignment due I forgot about or there’s a test I didn’t know about— so pretty standard nightmares and nothing truly exotically terrifying.
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