Any Bartonella successes here?

I have Bart and I have a sore throat all the time! I haven't treated it yet, righgt now I'm just taking a tincture that's for lyme and can also hit babesia. When did your cat bite you?

If you got just bartonella by itself you will probably be okay with antibiotics. I think bartonella is pretty serious infection but it's the bartonella with Lyme that is even more serious. Obviously adding babesia makes it even worse.

If you have bartonella you can take antibiotics like rifampin, bactrim, azithromycin. If you take a pair your symptoms will clear up very fast.

I would say I'm not a success, but I would say I'm successfully treating. That is I treat and get almost no bartonella symptoms, but I feel as if I stop they will come back in full force. So my treatment is not yet successfully finished. Even with treatment I occassionally get some burning in my spine for example or in my neck and chest. I attribute this to bartonella.

Hi Liverette,

I have Bartonella, and had it for years, it is indeed a mean thing... It causes a lot of pain and a lot of emotional distress... The Bartonella rage is something that still continues to amaze me (and my husband - LOL - the poor guy doesn't understand sometimes, why oh why is she behaving like this???)

My dr has a LOT of patients, and his own statistics show that 97% of his patients that have Bartonella will eventually test positive for Borrelia once treatment has been started.
There is not much known about Bartonella, he reads a lot of veterinarian studies, cause there are much more of them.

Bartonella can be very difficult to put down. I have been on abx for 15 months in total, and I keep on having heavy Bartonella flares. I don't want to discourage you at all, I hope you don't interpret it like this, but it's a difficult one to deal with. BUT we have success stories on here, so I am not at all discouraged.

Traveler is one of the success stories, she was infected for decades and she is taking up her life again. She treated the Bartonella with Houttuynia. I'm sure she wouldn't mind if you sent her an email.
You could also use the search function on the upper right side of this page. You'll find a lot of information about Houttuynia.

There is also the Cowden Protocol that treat Bartonella, some people use clove oil, but I haven't done that yet.

I used Houttuynia myself for 2 months (It is very powerful, so if you ever decide to give it a try, I would advice you to go very very slow). Then I had to stop cause my body needed a break, and I couldn't go on with abx and had to start the Cowden protocol (modified version, prescribed by my llmd), but I will restart the Houttuynia once the build up of the Cowden Protocol is complete.

It is good though to keep in mind that testing for coinfections is not accurate at all, and to keep them in mind.

good luck!!!

MarieLS