getting frustrated symptoms get better and then worse. tendon and muscle pain

Hi Everyone,

Was diagnosed with Lyme and Babesia. On Clarythromysin and Mepron. Just started with Doxy again too. Felt pretty good for three days so I thought I was rounding the corner. Then BAM next day... muscle and tendon pain is back everywhere. Especially behind knees, upper thighs and buttocks and upper arms. Tingling back too. Ugh. I've been on antibiotics for almost 5 months. Does anyone have this experience with muscle and tendon pain. My muscles just don't seem to get better. My upper thigh and buttocks feel achy and almost like they are burning. Does anyone have experience with this. I do feel confident with my LLMD but I'm wondering if my BABS was misdiagnosed and it is something else. Any ideas? I am getting so frustrated because of the way these symptoms change on a daily basis. It is baffling to me. Half the time I can't even describe what I'm feeling!

Your post caught my attention, I have really similar symptoms. I have seen improvement in all my symptoms except for the muscle and tendon pain, and the nerve tingling. Nothing seems to touch it.

I was diagnosed last year in November, and have been trying to shake this lyme and bartonella ever since. I'm not sure which one causes all the pain, but like you said, both of my legs throb and hurt, especially behind the knees and calves. The pain is intense for most of the time, with a couple days every once in a while of feeling kind of normal.

I'm getting really sick of it too, I just wanna get back to working out and feeling alive in general! I'm taking Rifampin (which is supposedly a slayer for bart), and Biaxin. Not really doing much, so I'm going to ask my LLMD at my appointment tomorrow if he thinks there is something else were not addressing that is holding me back. I think that's probably your best bet too, seems like both of us should be feeling better already!