Antibiotics for Lyme & Co that help with visual blurriness?

Hi wonderful people!

I am new to this site, although I've lurked for...years. I have Lyme & Co, probably for at least 15 years. I grew up in rural Connecticut in the 70s/80s, and then moved to North Carolina, where I was actually bit on several occasions by ticks. I don't recall any bites in Connecticut, but I was a kid, and probably not on the look out for them.

Anyway, have used many of Buhner's herbs with minimal success, mainly likely due to my inability to be consistent. The lyme-brain is so bad, it's like ADHD X 1000, or like someone threw my brain against a wall. I'm sure you all know what I mean.

So, I am going to be trying some abx, finally, to see if I can get a grip on the brain issues, and then maybe switch back to Buhner's later, or perhaps Byron White. Besides the lyme-brain, my biggest issue is light sensitivity/blurriness which came on suddenly a few years ago. I attribute it to Babs & Bart, and was wondering which abx might help with that.

I know in Buhner's book he says that Rifampin plus Doxy, I think, can clear up visual issues from Bart. My doctor, however, wants to start targeting the lyme-brain first with IM Rocephin, Zithro, and Tindemax together. I wonder if those might help with the visual blurriness/sensitivity at all.

Again, thanks so much to all of you here for sharing your experience and wisdom. I appreciate any thoughts/suggestions.

~Savena

Hi Savena - did you end up doing the Zhang protocol that you posted about previously?

The best antibiotic for your symptoms would be one that targets the specific infection that is causing your eye issues.

A good protocol for bart is Rifampin/Rifabutin and minocycline.

For Babesia - the anti malarial Mepron plus an antibiotic (mino, or Azithromycin..are a couple) is a good treatment.

Do you have a LLMD to guide your treatment?

savena said...
Hi Girlie,

I did do the Zhang protocol for a bit, but either it didn't help or I wasn't consistent enough. Funny--that must have been a while ago because I don't even recall posting that. There's my memory. I was thinking of Rifampin maybe with Zithro? I can't tolerate minocycline--caused terrible vertigo. Just wondered if anyone had their blurry vision EVER clear up, or if it's permanent. Thanks!

I doubt if it's permanent. I had my eyes checked - the visual fields test included.

Have you seen an optometrist about your eyes?

Hello,

I have Bartonella and Lyme.

The first symptom I had was photophobia.

I took doxy for one month upon initial symptom presentation and haven't had photophobia since Oct. 2015 (100mg am/pm).

However, my vision is still blurred, especially in low light, but it's better than it was three years ago, yet worsens dramatically if I eat unhealthy foods or enter a moldy environment.

Bluelyme, do you do much rifing? I just started last week on Lyme/Bart/Babesia, as well as a few other infections. I hadn't heard of toxoplasmosis damaging the eyes. I will have to look into it. I also have issues from once having an injection of botox between the eyebrows. I think it triggered my Lyme disease. I was thinking of rifing that too, but don't want to do too much too fast.