Can sweat and breathing trouble be lyme, or is it babesia?

Hi there,

I have a few questions regarding some symptoms that I have, that might be babesia, but I'm not really sure..
First of all.. I was on Malarone for 5 months last year, had to stop because of liver trouble. Started with Mepron and used it for 6 months. But then I had some trouble with my local pharmacy, so I was off the meds for 2 weeks, and my llmd told me the bacteria(or is it a parasite?) would get resistant if I stopped the treatment, so decided to quit Mepron since it's so expensive. I am on Artemisia annua intense and have tried cryptolepis + some other herbs for some time, but can't really say it does anything. When I was on malarone/Mepron I felt the same way. I did combine it with other drugs, think it was azithromycin.

Quite often, especially when lying in bed trying to sleep in the evening my heart often starts to beat fast and I need to actively focus on my breathing, it's not like I'm breathing automatically.
My breath is also kinda short all the time. When I am breathing out and emptying my lungs, I sound like a person that have been smoking 20 cigarettes a day for 20 years.
I also get extremely warm in head and body from time to time and if I'm wearing to much clothes(ie tshirt and pants) I start to sweat. So when my family is sitting in the living room freezing, I am warm as h***. Feels like I'm sitting in a sauna. I do wake up in the middle of the night being all sweaty from time to time, but it's not like my bedclothes are getting wet.

So I wonder if this have to be babesia or if it might be the lyme? I was diagnosed with babesia based on dark field microscopy, but I must say I'm not really sure, since I haven't responded on any of the treatment that I have tried..

Post Edited (ZizouJR) : 2/22/2016 4:37:30 PM (GMT-7)

Generally speaking, the night sweats are drenching when they are from Babesia. We have people that don't have drenching sweats, but do have Babesia though.

Have you ever taken your temp when you notice that you are so much warmer than the other family members? It might be revealing.

Same thing with the shortness of breath, when it's fairly serious, it's usually Babesia, but Lyme can cause a lesser form. When I have some real air hunger from Babesia, I have the most trouble when I lay down, so I have to prop myself up in bed quite a bit in order to sleep.

In other words, it's a pretty fine line. What's severe for one person isn't for the next, so that makes it difficult as well, but night sweats that are drenching and serious air hunger are usually from Babesia.

Traveler,

Yes, I have checked my temp plenty of times, but it always shows around 37 degrees(celsius), so it's normal.
I don't think that I really have air hunger, it's more like my pulse is very fast or sometimes I can't feel it at all, and I struggle to breath, but it doesn't feel like shortness of breath.

I had severe shortness of breath 2 years ago when I first started to get sick, but that was because I thought I had a brain tumor, so it was probably anxiety.

I'm trying to understand what co.infections that I might have, but I don't get any wiser I must say. Reading symptoms charts, but the symptoms I'm mentioning can be both lyme and babesia, maybe even bartonella.


One question about babesia treatment. Is it a problem to stop babesia treatment and then start up again after a few months when using herbs, or will the parasite be resistant?

Parasites and bacteria don't get build resistance to herbs - is that what you are asking? And it's not just me saying this, but a Master Herbalist as well: buhnerhealinglyme.com/herbs/herb-resistance/

Sometimes it's really hard to tell what symptoms are from what infection until you start into treatments some. They can kind of sort themselves out sometimes - or we just understand better, I'm not really sure which it is.

I'm very happy that I could be of help.