Husband and I have Lyme...

Hello,

I got bit by a tick Memorial Day 2013, no bulls eye rash at all. No symptoms for a month until I was sitting at work and got extreme head pressure and dizziness. I ended up in the ER twice because of this.

Finally got diagnosed with Lyme after finding the dead tick still attached and started doxy October 1. I was on that for a while and now on Zith and Ceftin.

I've never had much pain at all with this... just TMJ, a constant feeling of pressure in the roof of my mouth and the pressure in my head and base of skull with dizziness. Also my heart races when doing anything more extreme than just walking.

I was doing great on Doxy until my LLMD increased the dosage. That brought out extreme air hunger. Then when he switched me to zith and Ceftin, I've been getting pretty bad night sweats.

My LLMD has said all along that when I first went to him, I had classic Babesia symptoms. But he refuses to treat me for it for some reason.

Now we found out my husband also has Lyme and most likely Babesia since we have all the same symptoms.  We are both dying of air hunger right when we are trying to go to bed. Mine is also bad in the morning.

We are stuck because our LLMD won't treat for Babs for some reason, my husband is losing his job so there goes our insurance. We cannot afford any of the other LLMD's in our area ($900 an appointment and remember, there's TWO of us needing to be treated). I ordered Arteminisin (sp?) but I'm too scared to try it because of the liver warning on it.

We have started Samento, banderol, PC Noni and Lauricidin. Also taking Olive Leaf Extract, Vitamin D3, B complex, and we have been doing Monastery of herbs which have REALLY helped but definitely did not get rid of this. 

Is there anything else I can do to treat Babs? It really seems like our only symptoms are coming from the Babs. We are 27 years old and have always ate healthy and exercised. I have searched countless forums and there is so much information, I don't know what to do. And since we have a pretty dead beat LLMD, we are stuck treating ourselves.

P.S. We are IgeneX positive for Lyme. Our LLMD doesn't test for co-infections because it's not reliable I guess. Our naturopath picked up Babs, Ehrlichia, and mycoplasma in us.

There's no one. I called every doctor from that list ILADS provided me and their prices are outrageous. We just don't have the money to do it. My LLMD now accepts our insurance so every appointment is just $15.

These other docs want about $900 an appointment and $300 follow ups.

Hello, thanks for the reply.

I live in Scranton, PA. about 2 hours from Philly, 1 hour from Allentown. We went to...not an herbalist, but he uses Monastery of Herbs to treat Lyme and co's.

They definitely worked and I saw much improvement but I'm still mostly showing all Babesia symptoms. I took the herbs for this already but it has not let up.

My husband has it too but he is in much better shape than me. I've always had an awful immune system and he never gets sick.

Elleon, I found this article on PubMed that says that green tea is effective against Babesia. I have symptoms of babesia so I started drinking Green tea a few months ago in hopes that if I do have it, that it kills it or at least controls its growth.

This is the link to the article and the abstract underneath:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20025823

Abstract
(-)-Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) is the major tea catechin and accounts for 50-80% of the total catechin in green tea. (-)-Epigallocatechin-3-gallate has antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, anti-cancer, and anti-trypanocidal activities. This report describes the inhibitory effect of (-)-Epigallocatechin-3-gallate on the in vitro growth of bovine Babesia parasites and the in vivo growth of the mouse-adapted rodent babesia B. microti. The in vitro growth of the Babesia species was significantly (P<0.05) inhibited in the presence of micromolar concentrations of EGCG (IC50 values=18 and 25 microM for B. bovis, and B. bigemina, respectively). The parasites showed no re-growth at 25 microM for B. bovis and B. bigemina in the subsequent viability test. The drug significantly (P<0.05) inhibited the growth of B. microti at doses of 5 and 10 mg/kg body weight, and the parasites completely cleared on day 14 and 16 post-inoculation in the 5 and 10 mg/kg treated groups, respectively. These findings highlight the potentiality of (-)-Epigallocatechin-3-gallate as a chemotherapeutic drug for the treatment of babesiosis.

Opugirl,

No my LLMD is in Meshoppen right now which is a SMALL town outside Tunkhannock, about an hour from Scranton.

Healing98, yes, thanks for that link. I did read about that and went out and bought organic green tea (the loose kind, not in bags). My husband and I were drinking it A LOT around 6 cups a day but I started getting gall bladder pain with it.

I wasn't sure if it was because of the green tea or because Lyme/Babs is affecting the gallbladder?

My husband and I actually decided to start drinking it again this weekend.

Rowingmom, thanks for the reply. I have done a lot of reading online but don't current have any of Buhner's book. I am going to buy them over the weekend because it does seem like I will get my money's worth with those books.

Have you tried Dr. N in Myerstown - he takes some insurance and I can guarantee you is NOT $300/visit.

Traveler, do you remember what brand of green tea capsules you took? That's interesting and definitely a better way to take it than drinking 6 cups a day.

Opugirl, can you email me his full name and more info? Thats less than 2 hours from me so that's perfect. He's not on the list from ILADs or this other woman i talked to that had a list of LLmD's.

BarnGurl, i'm definitely not upset i cant donate blood. Lol did it once in high school and hated it. I almost passed out!

Well, I did everything I could as cheaply as I could, so I know that there are much better brands out there - but I just used the Spring Valley brand that you can get at Walmart. I had a lot of things that I had to buy and I had to cut some corners, but it worked.

Green tea also helped me to reverse osteopenia - the beginnings of osteoarthritis too!

MIKE - I edited your post - to remove the Dr.'s full name...we only use initials here.

I also posted in the other thread that you posted in.