I use to get these quite a lot when I was first ill then they seem to have abaited. Now they are back with avengence and I wke up literally drenched. It means I dont sleep well and wake up feeling panicky and very confused. Do night sweats mean you are de-toxing or are they a bad thing. The rest of the day I usually feel quite cold. I also find my brain is functioning less in the mornings and dosent seem to become of any use until later in the day. I am so afraid of it all and dont know whatis happening Tracy

tracy,

I thought of mentioning this to you a few times before because of your extreme symptoms, but drenching sweats is classic for Babesia, which is a co-infection with Lyme Disease.

It's an especially dangerous infection. Even more severe than the Lyme. I had the sweats alternating with feelings of being ice cold back in my early twenties, when I was nowhere NEAR menopause. Yet it felt like I imagined menopause must feel like, but much worse. And yes you wake up feeling like your brain and thoughts are "frozen", and it can take much of the day before it seems like your brain starts to functioning again.

The sweats improved eventually but I was still in the habit of changing my clothes constantly because I tended to fluctuate between way too hot and way too cold.

There's a new book out on Babesia (by James Schaller M.D.) and here's a list of symptoms from it. The most prominent are:

Significant fatigue
Night sweats or sweating during the day
Fever
Chills

Others are:

Muscle aches
Joint aches/pain
Depression
Anxiety/Panic
Nausea
Vomiting
Cough
Shortness of breath
Air hunger or unsatisfying deep breaths
Dark urine
Enlarged liver
Enlarged spleen
Yellow hue on eyes, hands and skin (Jaundice)
Enlarged lymph nodes
Significant memory change
Profound psychiatric illnesses
Struggle organizing
Daytime sleep urgency despite nighttime sleep
Waves of generalized itching
Balance problems with dizziness
Severe chest wall pains
Random stabbing pains
Weight loss
Sensitivity to light
Sleep in excess of 8 1/2 hours per day

I've had most of these symptoms at one time or another, but not all at the same time. I remember the extreme dizziness was around or after the time of the most severe night sweats. I had vertigo so bad my head would just seem to whip around with no warning. Even lying down it felt like my head was spinning!

The symptoms have improved on the Salt/C protocol for Lyme, but the effects on ones personality are the hardest to recover. It can be devastating to your sense of identity because you just feel gradually hollowed out.. -- LB

Yeah I've had the same thing and never knew if it was good or bad. I think personally it's simply a sign of toxic overload. From perhaps candida and/or mercury toxicity.

In my worst moments I had nightsweats nightly. They abated when I went on the candida diet though. However, when I used an antifungal and killled too much candida, which I believed released heavy metals, I was acutely poisoned and got the nightsweats very badly, but luckily they abated again finally.

Not that I'm well, but the diet obviously helped a bit.

Your nightsweats maybe a healing crisis, because if it's something you used to get and you're being hit suddenly again, sometimes the body "retraces" old symptoms in order to heal. So, let us hope it maybe that. I have heard of this happening too. But usually that happens if someone has made changes to their lifestyle for the better, and may initially get worse and re-experience an old symptom until their body heals from it properly.

For me the nightsweats were more of a sign of toxic overload than anything else.

Tracy, ive had this for the last few nights too, i got it everynight since removal up until a few months back, but now i have it again.

I use to have nightsweats before my removal. I am about 9 months post removal and have not had them since. I am doing well overall.

how did you get your fillings removed Jim? What procedures and safety did you use or what dentist..

Thanks

Dear LB how did you know you had this and how did you get tested for it Tracy have you recovered from it

Also one major thing overlooked is your mattress. Unless you've made the effort to buy an all cotton or natural rubber mattress, you're sleeping on pure synthetics.

Consider the lenght of time the synthetics are entering your system through your pores while you're sleeping.
(I actually remember having slept on a synthetic/cotton blend futon and getting night sweats.)

Look online. You can get a 100 % natural latex rubber topper (2") for under 200.00
www.absolutecomfortonsale.com has good prices and delivered pretty quick to us.

Hi tracy,

I had a Bowen test for Lyme and was tested for co-infections too. One of them Babesia. I was shocked when it turned out negative because my symptoms matched so well, and I knew how close I'd been to death so many times.

A couple months later I learned that the tests only pick up three types of Babesia and there are at least 18 types out there now! So I tried artemisinin which is used to treat Babesia because it's a malarial-type illness, and artemisinin has been used to treat malaria for at least hundreds of years. I had a pretty fast response to it, my mood lifted a lot and other symptoms, but mostly I remember the effect it had on depression because that had been dragging me down so much. I wasn't able to take it very long because I got headaches, and every time I've taken it since I soon wind up with headaches so can't take it longterm.

The salt/C protocol kills it though also, albeit more slowly. I'm happy with that though because it's more gradual herxing. The herxing from Babesia can be especially intense, sometimes major vomiting.

I've also found colloidal silver helps, because it will kill every kind of critter including protozoans, and Babesia is a protozoa so regular antibiotics will not work since they only kill bacteria.

It's very hard to recover from it but I'm happy I've made so much progress. I keep getting stronger. And I don't have the fear anymore that periodically I'm going to get sick enough to die. Which changes my perspective about life, a lot! Not to mention the fact that I don't have to put my trust anymore in doctors who didn't know what they were doing.

I can't help but notice all the people on this board that seem to be sicker right now. Lyme flares up worst in the spring and fall. Also every month before the full moon. If you're female it will flare up during your period, too. It can really make your life miserable. But at least if you know when you're likely to be worse it helps you get through it.

My mom has been feeling especially sick. Every day she'll mention her symptoms and I'll tell her she should get tested for Lyme. Yet she doesn't remember me saying that from one day to the next. That's one of the problems. Memory goes bad. Really, she could treat herself, but I know she won't unless she gets a doctor's diagnosis. She needs proof or she won't believe it, as most people seem to. But the medical profession is really bad when it comes to this disease. Most of the time I wouldn't trust them to do the right thing, or give the right test, or the right treatment. Lyme is one of those things they're trying to cover up how widespread it is.

And it is widespread. It's been found on every continent, even Antarctica. Lyme ticks have been found on penguins there.

Like with mercury poisoning, online groups for Lyme are extremely helpful in regards to support and information. They're better than the most "knowledgeable" doctors out there. And totally cheaper, LOL. -- LB

I forgot to mention that one of the first things I read about Babesia online was that it can really wreck the teeth. That rung a bell with me because all mine have been replaced with crowns or bridges except for three, which are full of amalgams. (And would have been crowned by now too if my dentist had gotten his way). I also have two mercury tattoos under my gums and have had 6 root canals. So my mouth is really a mess, and I was chalk full of mercury for sure. Yet I've still improved a whole lot by working on getting rid of my infections first. I also started taking NCD a few months after I started treating the Lyme, and at that time had a great response to it.

I'm actually glad now I didn't have my amalgams out sooner because I'll have a better chance at recovery now that I'm stronger. Also knowing what I know now I wil wait even longer to get my root canals removed. They harbor tons of toxic bacteria and germs, and when you have Babesia it would be especially risky to have a lot of that stuff suddenly released into your bloodstream.

It's kind of a damned if you do damned if you don't situation. All the bugs in your root canals can prevent you from becoming completely better, yet taking them out could potentially make you a lot worse, unfortunately. -- LB

anyone one wanting to get tested for lyme in the uk,theres two places i can reccomend..

www.breakspearmedical.com they send test to bowenlab in america... also they do heavy metal detox.

and the one ive been to is.. dr owen in cardiff. sends tests to igenix in america.. they have to be sent to either of these places... anywhere else is useless...
but be warned the tests are very expensive. and still not 100% accarate..
www.drowen4lyme.co.uk

The year before my amalgam removal (July 2000), I used to wake up drenched in my own sweat. It was especially heavy in the back of my neck and shoulders and behind my knees.

It stopped immediately after my removal never to return.