A-Bab intolerance?

Started my A-Bab drops with the lowest possible dosage just to see how I react. Have been taking 1/2 drop once daily for the past 3 days (missed one day in between). I felt nauseous every day after taking the dose, 1 cap of ginger gravol helps alleviate it but today I ended up taking two caps because it was really bad. Could it be that the herbs are not agreeing with me? I know that nausea is one of the Babesia symptoms and I've experienced it off and on since becoming ill but it's never been this bad. I don't know if I should tough it out tomorrow with one more try and then contact my dr office on Monday to find out what to do.

I don't want to go back to abx, really want to try the herbal route as I just started seeing my LLND.

K used A-Bart during approx. 2/3 of her 2 years of antibiotic treatment for bartonella. She never used A-Babs though, sorry.

A-Bart caused huge herxing both at the start and every time we increased by 1 drop. Shin pain, headache, foot pain, motor ticcing; all the good bartonella symptoms. It took a couple of months to get to the recommended dosage of 20 drops 3x daily. She did this for at least 1 year.

When our LLMD weaned her from antibiotics I discontinued A-Bart because I wanted to start the Buhner protocol without interference from A-Bart.

After I had gotten the herbs from Buhner's bartonella protocol up and going, I decided to trial A-Bart again. And again she had a severe herx from just 4 drops. I didn't want to go through all of that herxing again, and for what? At least a year on max dosages of A-Bart with no real resolution of symptoms that I couldn't attribute to A-Bart alone. It certainly didn't resolve her bartonella symptoms.

To be fair though, our LLMD didn't prescribe any of the BW detox remedies, so I don't know if they would have helped with the herxing. But frankly, after documenting K's symptoms vs protocol, daily for several years, at no time was I able to attribute any improvements to A-Bart. Only herxing.

Also we found later that K was infected with babesia as well which seemed to have hindered her complete healing from bartonella. Perhaps if we had trialled A-Babs as well we might have seen more improvement.

We have seen more healing with Buhner's protocols than we did with multiple antibiotics (biaxin, rifampin, plaquinel, minocycline, azithromycin, tindamax, malarone) and A-Bart.

You don't have to give up herbal protocols, perhaps try a different one.

Byron Whites are really strong. You could start with 1 drop every other day. I had herxing with every drop increase and never increased by more than a drop every 2 weeks.

Also maybe try his detox protocol first or alongside.

I too agree that it's most likely part of a herx for you. Try using strong ginger tea or eating ginger nibs (my fav!) and increasing what you are doing for detoxing.

Best of luck!

We talked about this in another thread I believe, but I'm pretty sure it is indeed a herx. Do it every other day if you have to. You're not intolerant, you're just reacting to ti.

My daughter started it a couple of weeks ago and she reacted to one drop. She has decided to not take it every day if it bothers her a lot. She'll wait for the reaction to lessen and then take another.

Razzle's idea sounds like a good way to take it too, maybe better than skipping days.