gfields said...
Girlie, how did you get diagnosed with Bartonella? Antibody blood test? I'm thinking about going through Fry labs. I think I may have Bart or Babesia.
My twitching kicked in with vengeance over the past couple of days. My pectoral muscle has been twitching violently, along with my arm, leg, and lip and eyelid a little. gah! I thought this went away.
gfields
The testing for coinfections is even less reliable than Lyme testing....and much more expensive.
There are more strains of Babesia and Bartonella than tests available. New strains of each are being discovered every few months.
It's highly unlikely that any one of us has "just" Lyme. In fact, Bartonella has become so prevalent that some scientists say Lyme should be considered a coinfection.
It's not uncommon for people to have asymptomatic infections which, left untreated, can impede healing from the other(s)
Even though I herxed with symptoms that overlapped between Lyme and Babs/Bart, my (ILADS-trained) LLMD remained insistent that I'd only been dealing with Lyme....and kept repeating that the doxy he prescribed hit the co's.
LLMD's more savvy than mine will trial meds geared towards the co's and will treat for them if herx symptoms indicate the possibility of the infection.
It wasn't until I started treating herbally for Babs and Bart that I'm finally experiencing improvements that were elusive after 5 months on abx and almost 6 months on Cowden.