The Bad News: In general, I just feel crappy in the winter; much worse than spring or summer. One symptom that I think had to do with my Adrenal exhaustion and thus, thyroid ( I have all the symptoms of hypothyroidism, but don't test for it.) is that I have these 'flashes'. I would say they are a hot flash, but they are more like a lightning strike. I feel like I am being shocked by my own body from the inside out. It's a horrible feeling, and runs, exactly like being electrocuted down my legs and arms and up into my head. I have been shocked by an electric fence enough times, and it feels a lot like that, including the bad, weak feeling in your muscles afterward.
I have been especially blah and unmotivated the past couple weeks since coming home from camping. It's been a long time since I really felt the need to lay down and sleep, but the past couple weeks, I have really had to try hard to fight it off. Everything in me is screaming to just go lay down in bed and sleep. This is especially strong when my Adderall wears off in early evening. It's common for me to have a 'crash' when it wears off, but this is extra strong, and even while I am on my Adderall, whatever my hormones are doing, it's overpowering the 'energy' effects of the Adderall.
The way I explained it to my doctor years ago was that if my house were on fire, I would not get up and walk outside. I just have no desire to do anything and my emotional state is somewhat of a black hole of nothingness. Right now, it is not to the extreme severity that I have commonly had in the past where I actually did not want to even live, but it is such a 'bad' feeling to have no desire to do anything. Not even read, watch TV...nothing. Even laying in bed and staring out the window was painful. The only escape was sleep and many times I just never wanted to wake up. Again, I am having a degree of that, but not the extremes I had before. I think my Adderall is keeping me from that really black place, but I am having the other accompanying symptoms, such as the electric shocks. It's been a long time since I have felt these symptoms, so it just sucks to feel like I was out of the woods, only to be sucked back in again.
I am not currently taking any Adrenal supplements, which I need to do. I am taking a powdered Vit. C and for the first few weeks, it was working great. I definitely felt an energy boost a bit after taking it, but now I feel no boost and even wonder if it is backfiring. All sorts of seemingly harmless supplements have done that to me before, such as other pill forms of Vit. C and Vit. D.
The good news: I had a handful of symptoms that always immediately came back when stopping antibiotics. It was like flipping a switch: Take abx, they go away, stop abx, the symptoms came right back.
These few symptoms were obviously Lyme: ringing in my ears, floaters in my vision, severe, unbearable neck pain, sore throat, ear ache, hoarseness, and a few others. The Lyme-N gradually took over where the antibiotics left off. Even though I believed in it, I am still amazed at the results. It is the first time I have been free or nearly free of these symptoms while not taking antibiotics. And for them to actually IMPROVE and go completely away the longer I am off antibiotics and ON Lyme-N speaks volumes. I still get an occasional floater and my neck pain is not 100% gone, but it is improved about 90% and continues to get better and better over the past several weeks.
(Mind you, these are by NO MEANS all my Lyme symptoms, just the ones that were kept under control by antibiotics. )