Lyme? Bart? Both?

I've had so many strange symptoms for the past year and a half but they came at me full force recently. I began to suspect I have Lyme and the test I just took came back negative but that's not a shocker I still haven't ruled it out and will be doing the Igenex test however I think I definitely have bartonella. I know a lot of the symptoms are very similar but can anyone tell me if this sounds more like Lyme or Bart?
Headaches (very bad migraines and sharp pains near the temple ouch)
Breast pain
Joint pain especially the hip
My fingers sometimes become very sore my mother said it sounds like her arthritis pain and when holding bags or anything my fingers ache after just a few moments
Ear pain/tinnitus
Palpitations
Costochondritis
little red spots that appear fade to brown and disappear
Brown spots that are appearing everywhere stomach/chest/face
Also noticed my red stretch marks might not actually be stretch marks
Sharp pains basically everywhere in my body
Weakness of arm/leg and sometimes my arm/hand feels like it's cramping up
Facial twitching
Brain fog
Recently when the whole episodes started I started getting swollen glands as well as some very painful ones that didn't necessarily feel swollen
Has anyone Had experience with swollen salivary glands?
I've also been experiencing abdominal pain it sometimes hurts on the right side just under the rib cage and around the belly button one or twice sent a shooting pain down to my pelvis
I can't even remember all the symptoms at this time but they're driving me insane
The thing that made a light go off in my head is the bumps along my shins I think I had noticed it before but it feels a lot more noticeable now- for any one that has these how would you describe them?

Also if anyone has experienced the abdominal pain.. what would you recommend its driving me insane and taking everything not to run back to the ER being the hypochondriac that I am

I think I am weird, but I did not try and figure out bart and babs in comparison to lyme. Actually everything I have read says that Myco is more prevalent than all 3 b's.

I just took one step at a time and started treating lyme. However, according to Buhner he advises that you treat your most troublesome symptom first. Mine was my heart. Now was that Babs? Bart? Myco? Ehrlic? I didn't care. I just knew I had to help my heart.

The next worse pain for me was head pain. Oh my gosh, I wanted just 5 minutes without head pain. I tried everything for months to get rid of that. I think I finally figured it was swollen lymph nodes. So I took an herb for that... Phew, I was glad to get rid of that.

All along I just kept treating lyme. So many of the symptoms overlap with one another between lyme and the co-infections. So when you are treating lyme you have a hard time discerning what is what.

What I did -- just my opinion - was I treated my main problem symptoms and I treated lyme. At the end when I had a symptom leftover (I had bart scratches on my abdomen) then I treated for bart. I did not know if I had babs or not, but I treated for it anyway. Just to be sure.

We all have to find our own journey in treating lyme and the buddies. I think everyone will have a different story because we are all so different. Just go with your gut instinct and do what you feel is right for you.

PeteZa said...
I think I am weird, but I did not try and figure out bart and babs in comparison to lyme. Actually everything I have read says that Myco is more prevalent than all 3 b's.

I just took one step at a time and started treating lyme. However, according to Buhner he advises that you treat your most troublesome symptom first. Mine was my heart. Now was that Babs? Bart? Myco? Ehrlic? I didn't care. I just knew I had to help my heart.

When treating with antibiotics you do need to treat each infection - the three B's differently. So at some point you need to use different meds for Bart and Babesia. (Actually, you do the same with herbs)

Mycoplasma is often taken care of when you treat the three B's. (Abx)

If you have heart problems because it's Babesia, then even treating herbally...the Lyme herbs won't be enough, right? You need to - at some point focus on the Babesia and switch or add the herbs that are recommended to treat Babs.

If you had heart symptoms - and you didn't treat with herbs for the infection that you thought was causing it - then what herbs did you use?

I ended up going back to the hospital for my abdominal pain they did a bunch of test so I'll have to wait and see what comes back. I was thinking it was my gallbladder but the symptoms seem to have alleviated. Also got my head CT scans results and they're "normal" which is a relief but just adds my Lyme theory. I guess there's no use in trying to figure out what's causing what until I actually start treatment. I'm heading down the detox road so let's hope that helps! I'm so afraid of bringing parasites up to my doc because he probably already thinks I'm crazy but you gotta do what you gotta do I suppose.