Babesia - Malarone

This is my second time on Malarone because of reinfection. At first I had the same effects that you have seen but it is very mild now. With my first time on it, improvement came suddenly and completely. I hope that comes for you soon. Keep plugging away at it!

With the addition of malarone to the bartonella abx our daughter was taking, she experienced improved cognitive/executive function, but not an improvement of the last 20% of the bartonella pain symptoms we had been looking for.

She did not herx with malarone, but did with CSA - overt babesia symptoms that we had never seen before, and indeed we didn't know she had babesia until she took CSA.

So, for our daughter, malarone helped cognitive function but didn't produce a babesia herx like CSA did; and didn't give us the resolution of bartonella symptoms that were obviously the result of an undiagnosed, underlying babesia infection that CSA did.

A tincture combination of three of the herbs (cryptolepis/sida acuta/alchornea) Buhner recommends for babesia/protozoan infection.

http://www.woodlandessence.com/herbal.htm

We had significant resolution of her remaining bartonella symptoms with 15 drops 2x daily (am and bedtime). Anything higher than that initially caused herxing.