How long to get better from Bartonella on antibiotic treatment?

I'm almost at 3 weeks and again herxing my brains out. I'm told by most people 3 months minimum.

afiya4health said...
This is not true. I've never heard 3 months for full treatment for bartonella.

Please, looking for responses from people who have completed or almost completed treatment for Bartonella!

He said "3 months minimum". That means it's likely to take much longer than 3 months.

Yup, last count I'm at 15 months for Bart. Not there yet

I started hitting Bart Jan of this year so 11 months in and still going I'd say I'm 75-80% on most days and the big gains haven't really come until the last 2-3 months.

If you don't seem to be making any progress and things seem worse its probably a good thing cause you're hitting/killing the bart bugs and that inflames everything.

Most effective abx for me was Rifampin, Rifabutin, Bactrim, Doxycycline, Minocycline, Biaxin (obviously not all at the same time ;).

I found that information at one time - but of course, managed to loose it. I think it's about 1 week for Bart, Blueberry. Same for Babs, maybe a few days less.

I used herbs, and my treatment was with Chronic Tonic herbs and Houttuynia. I treated for 9 months the first time when I healed well.

Rikky, if you could find those sources again, I'd love to have some links to that information. Thank you!!

i'll look for them traveler. from bluelyme's link here's an excerpt:

"While a significant portion of Bartonella cells in an infected organism are found inside RBCs, it appears that every 3-6 days there is a new RBC infection wave. This could indicate that the primary niche is another type of cell (perhaps endothelial cells, or certain bone marrow cells such as angioblasts and erythroblasts) from which new bacteria emerge every few days."

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