Your treatment experiences

So, within 11 months I was bitten by a tick, have experienced a number of symptoms, tested positive for Lyme through Igenex, and am now beginning treatment for lyme and for possible babesia and bartonella infections (diagnosis pending further tests).

To all of you that have dealt with these unfortunate diseases, what was your experience in treatment? How long did it take you to recover, and how many months of treatment did you face?

I am just trying to gauge how long people in different circumstances take to become healthy again. Understandably, everyone deals differently with these illnesses. But given it was under a year ago that I was bitten, I remain optimistic (possibly naively) that a recovery should be swift.

HI Summer,
If you really haven't seen much if any improvements after a year in treatment, then it's time to change something!

As you probably already know - I've been infected most of my life, having had Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever at the age of 7 & collecting more infections as I went along! Of course, being someone who has always loved being outside, playing around in those areas where ticks like to hang out (which is practically everywhere! LOL!) never did help me avoid getting more infections!!

Any way, I was only in treatment for Lyme for only 9 months and Bartonella for 6 months. I had such dramatic improvements, that we were then able to move on to treating Babesia now. That one is proving to be a bit trickier for a number of reasons. Now that's not to say that I'm healed and don't need any more treatment for Lyme or Bart - only that I have had major improvements in that amount of time. You should be seeing good improvements having been in treatment for about a year as well.

Are you detoxing well? Does your body have trouble detoxing? If so there are things you can do that will help. Have you spoken to your doctor about this? If so, what have they said about it? If you haven't spoken to your doc, please do!

LOL! I'm one of those oddballs, Sayersn! I was infected at the age of 7 with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever & who knows what else! I was very active outside with animal all of my life -except when my infections would flare bad enough to make me either bed or house bound - so there's no telling how many time I was re-infected. I was finally diagnosed in 2007 at the age of 44, so that's 37 years undiagnosed and untreated.

There is good news though!! I'm now much healthier and have a life back again!! I figure I'm the healthiest I've been in over 25 years right now! Woo Hoo!!!

For me I think the most important thing has been finding the right supportive therapies. As far as dealing with the actual infection(s), there are a million ways to go about it, luckily - ranging from completely natural remedies to IV antibiotics. But that really is just one piece of the puzzle. A lot of things go into how quickly you get better, including how sick you are to begin with, how well your body is able to detox, etc. Also including how you treat your body during the treatment process. For me, after 15 years of undiagnosed Lyme, it's taken me about a year to get to a point of noticeable improvement. I did experience some improvement maybe 6 months ago, but then I crashed down again. I'm also dealing with a few unrelenting viral infections, mycoplasma, heavy metals, mold, difficulty detoxing, etc.

Healing is one of those annoying things...like watching a pot of water boil! You have to let go of wanting to rush it, to have it be done already, and just sort of let it happen in its own time. Just do the best you can to supplement with healthy habits and you'll be much better off. Good luck - keep us posted!