babesia treatment experience?

I'm doing Buhner's herbal protocol for bartonella, which includes sida acuta, plus cat's claw and danshen/skullcap and lion's mane. A few weeks ago, I started having scalp pain and some hair loss. Hair loss hasn't been bad just something new. Buhner said on the website that whatever your doing for babesia, sida will work better. I can only tolerate tiny doses, though. I take 3 drops 3x day. Even at tiny doses, I still herx over and over again with different symptoms - some bart, some babs. Maybe if you reduce the dosage, the hair loss won't be as bad.

Personally, if I could tolerate normal doses, I'd do all I could to knock them all out. I get impatient and tired of hurting all the time. Hair loss might look awful but it's not painful unless you have scalp pain to go with it.

Thank you for your prompt replies!!

Girlie, of course I can't remember where I was reading about it! I did just find this:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17972063 (sorry, don't know how to do a link!)

Basically, I was reading about how Buhner no longer recommends Artesiminin and he suggests the C.S.A. blend instead. Also he says not to use it for more than a month or two. Additionally, I read that after a 3-7 days (opinions differ), your body develops an enzyme that renders it useless so you should cycle it. Probably you should use this info as "leads" other than truth!

Right now I am on my own treating the babesia unless I go on antibiotics with my LLMD and I'm not at all comfortable either of those scenarios. I basically know just enough to be dangerous! Haha! There is a practice that uses Byron White that I am considering and then there is an online consultant, Dr. Jay Davidson, who is intriguing but I have no idea if I can trust an online source.

WalkingbyFaith - I know it's crazy to forego a treatment because of hair loss. I think I've just lost so much (and gained so much too) from the Lyme that handfuls of hair and blowdrying my nonexistent bangs is too tangible a reminder. I'm also not nearly as sick as I used to be so I'm not as "do anything" as I used to be.

From all the anecdotes I've read, I'd say it's far better to dose with the whole herb Artemisia and NOT any isolated constituent such as artemisinin. I find it strange that Buhner recommends artemisinin, given his paradigm of using whole herbs, and his "the more the merrier" approach with plant chemicals/constituents.

I'm taking an artemisia annua extract and it's working wonders for Babesia symptoms.

Furthermore, I don't think there is any risk of neurotoxicity with the whole plant.

I'm sure this is old news around here, but we each need to find our own protocol that works for us. I'm super sensitive to many herbs, drugs, and abx. Artemesinin did nothing for me. Otoh, byron white a-bab kicked my bum on 1 drop. Ditto with numerous buhner herbs and biaxin.

My llmd says byron white a-bab works better than mepron, fwiw, who knows. I've been having a good response to beyond balance mc-bab 2. My babesia sx are very mild now. It is the strongest of their 3 babesia formulas. I herx on it but to a tolerable degree. Their detox formula "tox-ease gl" seems to be helping me also. I will revisit a-bab as soon as I finish this bottle of mc-bab 2.

Beyond balance also has some other formulas that hit protozoa. They are: parazomin, mc-pz, and pronan. You won't find too much info on byron white or beyond balance formulas because they are only dispensed by practitioners and info to the general public is limited. If I still herx too bad on a-bab next time around, I'll try the bb protozoa formulas.

If I wasn't so darn sensitive, I'd take all of these plus a-bab, alchornea, cryptolepis, sida acuta, and bidens pilosa. My primary herx symptoms are anxiety, dyspnea, and tachycardia. I just can't hack too much of that.

I have a bb pamphlet for practitioners only I can email you if you send me a pm. I found it, It fell off a truck😉 it has better info than the website.