I was woken by heart palpitations and tremors at 4am; definitely not the way I prefer to start my mornings. I took some 5HTP and went back to bed, sleeping on and off until 7am. I felt very sick, shaky and with a bad headache, and I was somewhat surprised to be feeling so much [...]
I woke up still feeling nauseous and shaky, but thankfully I had somehow managed to sleep through the night, and I didn’t feel as bad as the day before. I managed to force down some dry toast, and we took the car to Infusio for the usual 9am start. Unfortunately, by the time we arrived [...]
From the second I awoke, I was acutely aware that yesterday’s IV cocktails, designed to stop me going through withdrawal, had not worked. I felt like I had been hit by a truck, and had extreme muscle and joint pain, heart palpitations, headache and nausea. I managed to get out of bed and make it [...]
I spent the weekend completely exhausted from the first week of treatment, and primarily I was just thankful for the opportunity for myself (and my veins) to rest. We mainly relaxed in the hotel, watching TV, FaceTiming family and friends and lying by the pool when I felt up to it, and ate in the [...]
I woke with no nausea and feeling well rested which was a nice surprise, and we had breakfast in the hotel before heading into Infusio for the last day of the first week of my treatment. My stomach and back were feeling sore from all the injections, and my arms were covered in bruises, so [...]
I slept well again on Wednesday night and woke up on Thursday feeling pretty stable. I felt like I had finally adjusted to the time zone, and was getting into a pretty good routine of going to sleep around 9 pm and waking around 7 am. In the evenings we would start watching something on [...]
I slept much better on Tuesday night and didn’t wake the next morning until 5.30 am. I was grateful that from the minute I woke up I felt so much better, far less nauseous and revived from finally getting a good night’s sleep (or as revived as a Lyme patient ever feels; it’s all relative [...]
