Babesia Question

For me, that is my main symptom. Plus shortness of breath. Both of which are very unsettling.

There is a chart on our intro that lists symptoms for each of the infections, and that tight, band like feeling around the chest is under Babesia. www.lyme-symptoms.com/LymeCoinfectionChart.html

This is my main symptom of babesia. I can take a deep breath but my chest is so tight like a squeezing and my stomach feels bloated. This creates much anxiety for me.

Other occasional symptoms would be flank, chest wall and thigh pain. Since treating, I now have all these along with stomach upset and what feels like a fever but I really don't have one.

I tested negative for four years for babesia and was never treated. In October 2016, I took artemisia and cryptolepsis for a month which increased symptoms. I waited two weeks and retested with Igenex and finally was positive for babesia microti and duncani.

LongJourney, which antimalarials worked best for you? I am currently on Malarone and Zith.

Loutucky, I took chloroquine for 6 months in combination with clindamyncin for 2 months and and clarithoromycin for 2 months.
Clarithoromycin gave me tremors and made me a little crazy. My symptoms got better on the fourth month.

Katebirch, yes tight heavy chest can def be babesia. I have Lyme, babesia microti and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. My breathing has been my biggest issue. (Stopped breathing too many times, have to tell myself to breath). Took me 2 years off insisting, arguing with doctors and doing my own detective work to finally get a dx. Still can't breath right but it has improved some. Still feel like I'm in the dark trying to fight an invisible monster.

pjmrees said...
Katebirch, yes tight heavy chest can def be babesia. I have Lyme, babesia microti and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. My breathing has been my biggest issue. (Stopped breathing too many times, have to tell myself to breath). Took me 2 years off insisting, arguing with doctors and doing my own detective work to finally get a dx. Still can't breath right but it has improved some. Still feel like I'm in the dark trying to fight an invisible monster.

Have you found yourself breathing very shallowly when you aren't active, and sometimes just not really wanting to breath at all, then suddenly a sort of gasp comes out and your lungs inflate?

I've had to try to learn how to breathe properly all over again, but I still don't do it, because my chest doesn't want to expand.

I do wheeze though sometimes now, because I have chronic bronchitis and emphysema.

Katebirch have you made any progress on determining what is causing this issue for you. I have had something similar and would really like to speak with you to see if what we are experiencing is the same.

How can I reach her?

Two days of Mepron made me feel like I was completely cured. It was wonderful. Over the next 3 or 4 weeks, my symptoms returned.

Girlie said...

Georgia Hunter said...
Two days of Mepron made me feel like I was completely cured. It was wonderful. Over the next 3 or 4 weeks, my symptoms returned.

And you had continued taking it? Or you stopped after the two days?

I took it twice a day for 4 months. Each month, my symptoms returned but less each month. By month 4, I thought I was cured. IMO, I had Babesia and something else. I still have something else.