Which coinfection causes severe panic and anxiety?

Any idea which coinfection causes SEVERE panic and anxiety?

Babesia?
bartonella?
Ehrlichia?

So, we have 1 vote for babesia and 1 vote for bartonella.

Anyone else???

Sarah posted these links on the other post you your today.

http://www.gordonmedical.com/unravelling-complex-chronic-illness/babesia-like-organisms-bablo-consideration-signs-and-symptoms/


http://www.gordonmedical.com/unravelling-complex-chronic-illness/bartonella-like-organisms-blo-consideration-signs-and-symptoms/

He states that the Babesia causes the panic/anxiety.

Crud! I wish this was more clear cut! How am I ever supposed to figure out which infections I have???

Sarah's links were helpful. But I wanted to hear directly from folks on this forum what their experience was with anxiety and coinfections.

Hopefully more people will chime in.

I did try rifampin for 6 weeks. It did not improve any of my symptoms. It actually made my anxiety worse. Herx? But I never gained any wellness.

They both cause severe panic and anxiety.

I think you have to look at your overall symptoms to give you clues as to whether you have Bart and/or Babs.

I think there are subtle differences between the two. I have read that people with Babs have a tendency to have more fear. However, they both cause anxiety.

The article posted by Sarah describes Babesia's anxiety as:

"Fear! Fear!, Fear!, OCD, anxiety to panic."

Although this is from a veterinarian expert on Bart, these are some common Bart symptoms for illustrative purposes:

"Some common symptoms of Bartonella are severe insomnia, migraines, anxiety, constant worry, agitated-depression, panic attacks, bipolar disorder, depression, agitation, autistic-like symptoms, hallucinations, memory loss, brain fog, and aggression sometimes referred to as 'Bartonella rage'. A person may only have just one symptom or many of them. Bart can, also, cause endocarditis, chronic fatigue, tenderness in muscles, chronic pain, pain in the bottom of your feet much like plantar fasciitis, abdominal pain, vomiting, fever/chills, electric shocks in your organs that can come out of the blue, pins and needles sensation or numbness, neuropathy in any part of your body, ringing in the ears, joint pain, skin rash, stretch marks anywhere in the body, thermal dysregulation, mitochondrial dysfunction, frequency, urgency, cystitis and/or excessive day sweats. Bart can be misdiagnosed, just like Lyme, as Rheumatoid arthritis. If you’re RA factor is normal, but you are told you have RA, it’s possible you could have Bartonella (or Lyme) according to Suzy Cohen, 'America’s Pharmacist'."


http://www.kentuckyindianalymesupport.org/2013/07/01/a-bartonella-guru-speaks-out/

Since they are similar in causing anxiety, you have to look at your overall symptoms for clues. I would look at the Bablo and Bartlo articles to see which symptoms of each you have in order to gain insight as to whether you may have them.

Also check (Bart & Babs are discussed on both pages):

http://www.lyme-symptoms.com/LymeCoinfectionChart.html

All the top Lyme books say Bartonella. I am sure that they both can cause it but the hallmark mental symptom of a bartonella is severe anxiety.

Mine must be so deeply ingrained in me, I don't have anxiety thank God but I had a lot of the other sx which most are gone with all the other anx, hope with this new protocol I can get rid of this. It been a long 16 yrs and I'm not getting any younger.

I wouldn't look as it as what pathogen causes anxiety, but what physical change causes anxiety. That condition is usually metal accumulation and it's often aluminum.

Anxiety was my first and worst symptom. I had never had it before. I figure it might be the key to deciding the appropriate treatment path.

The problem is that it is very hard to determine what co-infection causes specific symptoms since so many of them overlap.

I have recently felt hot and sweaty. Not necessarily drenched. But I'll get hot and then followed by a chill. Not everyday, but it has happened 4-5 times over the last 2 weeks.

I do definitely have c. Pneumonia, and mycoplasma. Can they be causing it?

Utahgal,

Do you have stomach or digestive issues? One of my major issues while battling Lyme is stomach issues, abdominal pain, gut issues. Before lyme was suspected I was diagnosed with GERD, IBS, and gastritis as a result of my two trips to the ER which no one told me were anxiety attacks. For a while any time I got into a car my heart raced, my stomach would tighten and my limbs would tingle and go numb. As I was researching what was wrong with me I read a lot of stuff on the brain and gut connection. When I saw a GI doc and asked him about it, he said brain can affect the gut but it doesn't go the other way. Which surprised me because I read a lot of research on how stomach and gut issues cause mental issues and when fixed, patients saw improvement.

I'm not saying you don't have a co-infection, I tested positive for anaplasma. I'm not sure if anxiety is a symptom of that. But my gut issues have been slowly improving and I haven't had an anxiety attack in a while. Have you tried any alternative treatments like acupuncture?