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Posted 9/26/2017 1:44 PM (GMT 0)
Hi, All,

I just started month six of my Lyme/babesia/bartonella treatment. Took doxy et al for almost three months then stopped to concentrate on killing babesia. Dizziness and imbalance had almost disappeared at three month mark but by month five (two months off of doxy) it returned. Most other babesia symptoms are gone -- drenching sweat, air hunger, disturbing dreams, constant panic, brain fog -- you all know the list -- but the stupid dizziness is really aggravating me! So, is it the Lyme? Is it the babesia? Is it a toxin die off? And most importantly, it disappeared once so can I assume it will disappear again after restarting the doxy? Thanks!
Posted 9/26/2017 2:29 PM (GMT 0)
Time to treat again. So sorry your symptom came back. I hated the ear problems. It can make your equilibrium wonky.

The rule of thumb is to take meds until ALL symptoms are gone and then continue for a couple of months on the meds to ensure that they are really gone. You may have stopped too soon.

3 months to cure lyme is very unusual.

Hang in there and back to treating.
Posted 9/26/2017 2:41 PM (GMT 0)

PeteZa said...

The rule of thumb is to take meds until ALL symptoms are gone

That's a hard to decipher rule. Some symptoms are not lyme itself. Some symptoms are other issues/damage lyme caused. Some symptoms are reactions to certain medication, herbs or supplements.

I mean people that never had lyme and are "healthy" probably rarely experience being inflammation free for an extended period of time.

It's tough to decipher ALL symptoms being gone (if even possible). Just seems like with that rule, human beings need to be on meds until all symptoms of any type of inflammation is gone.

There just something odd with that rule but I can't put my "thumb" on it (see what I did there).
Posted 9/26/2017 3:04 PM (GMT 0)
I did see what you did there. LOL!

I guess because I wrote such an extensive journal of my symptoms, meds, bp, etc., I had a real good idea what were my lyme symptoms. I had no problem with discerning when all my symptoms were gone.

I had no leftover stuff.

I had sinus irritations before lyme. When I got lyme, the sinus irritations were different. I had migraine headaches before lyme. When I got lyme, the migraines were in a different spot and the pain was totally different.

You do get back to normal when you are free of lyme symptoms.

Can you relapse? Most certainly!!! I have had 2 incidences where I felt a lyme symptom coming back. Both were brought on by stress. Now I just don't do stress.
Posted 9/26/2017 3:10 PM (GMT 0)
get screened for intracranial hypertension by your neurologist.

https://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=30&m=3917627
Posted 9/26/2017 6:04 PM (GMT 0)

needhammom said...
Hi, All,

I just started month six of my Lyme/babesia/bartonella treatment. Took doxy et al for almost three months then stopped to concentrate on killing babesia. Dizziness and imbalance had almost disappeared at three month mark but by month five (two months off of doxy) it returned. Most other babesia symptoms are gone -- drenching sweat, air hunger, disturbing dreams, constant panic, brain fog -- you all know the list -- but the stupid dizziness is really aggravating me! So, is it the Lyme? Is it the babesia? Is it a toxin die off? And most importantly, it disappeared once so can I assume it will disappear again after restarting the doxy? Thanks!

"Took doxy et al for almost three months then stopped to concentrate on killing babesia"

What were you using to treat Babesia?

Could be Bartonella if you didn't address that?

Six months is really early in the game still.

Why not treat Babesia and have doxy as one of the antibiotics? It doesn't need to be one or the other, you can treat lyme and babesia together.
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