Nightmares, etc. - Lyme Disease Message Board

TINUVIEL · 08-13-2005, 12:10 AM

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone else has had experiences with vivid nightmares and if it has anything to do with herxes.

I woke up drenched in sweat, though it wasn't particularly hot in the room. I'd been having some difficulty sleeping to begin with and then woke up from either the nightmare or sweating.

I'd been told that if this and certain other symptoms seem to happen at approximately three week intervals (which is exactly what it's been doing) that it is highly likely to do with the Babesiosis. I've also been feeling sort of spacey and strange lately, and usually for me that occurs around herx-time.

gottagetbetter · 08-13-2005, 07:42 AM

Tinuviel

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You can look through past threads on this. I know for sure you can find more info that way. I can tell you from my personal experience that I would have these awful nightmares. I would dream of scorpions, spiders. They were sooooo vivid. I would run out of the room and wouldn't go back to bed without DH searching the bad for them.

Then I went through a period of time and all I dreamed of was my Grandmom. She was a stroke victim that I took care of for several years. We were closer then any two ever were. I would wake up sobbing for her and feeling so totally lost without her.

As I am healing I am now dreaming of other things and rarely have a nightmare. There was periods of time that my sleep was so disrupted

that I would not dream at all. This is one of the big signs that I am on the right track and healing well because now I am reaching that level of sleep that I only reached while I was having nightmares.

One thing I have found is to do Yoga before bed and totally relaxing. This has helped my sleep patterns also.

Hope your nightmares fade out for you!!
~P

cjFTWORTH · 08-13-2005, 07:51 AM

as for one that doesn't dream much, period, i've definitely had some very bad dreams, several nights in a row, vivid and too real. more sordid than nightmare but NO BUENO. with my history, they are too close to home and are nightmarish from that standpoint.

hurt and angry · 08-13-2005, 09:08 AM

It was right around the time when I really started getting sick, not knowing that I had Lyme, that I had the most heartwrenching nightmares about my youngest, Jonathon. I love to read John Saul mystery books which are normally about children. I had the same nightmare over and over for weeks!!! I would wake up sobbing so hard that I swear my heart hurt. I blamed this all on the book that I had read but now that I look back, it was probably the lyme.

TINUVIEL · 08-13-2005, 03:24 PM

Hi,

Thanks for the replies. It occured to me that I seem to recall having read something once about malaria causing nightsweats and nightmares. Since Babesiosis is akin to malaria, I wonder if that is the culprit.