Babesia/Lyme Treatments

The usually recommended treatment for babesia is anti-malaria drugs, Mepron or malarone, along with artemisinin or coartem.

If you can't tolerate that, or your insurance won't cover mepron, a combination of valproate and bactrim has been reported to be effective against apicomplexan parasites (which babesia is a type of) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12837520/

Nagayami0083 said...
I was Diagnosed early this year with Lyme and Babesia. I'm currently on Doxycycline and taking Vital plan restore kit. I'm looking for anything to help combat the Babesia / Lyme.

Hi Nagayami - welcome!

As far as Pharmas go - doxy alone isn’t effective for Babesia. The usual antimalarials are Mepron or Malarone combined with at least one other antibiotic.

What I'm taking / doing.
Doxycycline 100mg 2x daily
Vitamin c 5/10,000mg per day
Dhea 10mg 2x daily
Wobenzyn n 3 x2 daily
Kirkman's Biofilm Defense 1 daily
Enzymedica Digest Spectrum 2 daily
Methocarbamol 750mg as needed.
I also try and eat a clove of garlic every other day or garlic supplements.
I eat gluten free and sugar free.
I got a steam sauna I use once or twice a day.
I try and get out in the sun at lest and hour a day.
I walk 2-5 miles a day.
Vital Plan 12 capsules x2 daily .
I also have oil of oregano 2 drops a day.


Lyme hit me strangely I'm under 30 and a fit guy. Neuropathy started 11/29/17 burning in my feet . I've had a herniated disk L4/L5 so my Ortho gave me Prednisone dose pack . I took it for a week right after we went to Florida on vacation and by the end of week two Neuropathy was gone. It came back Suddenly 4/15/18 All my xrays and mriS show nothing that would cause Neuropathy. I've seen 2 orthos and now a Neurologist, I had a skin biopsy 10/18/18 that confirmed Neuropathy vis sweat gland irregularity . Possibly the start of my Lyme?

6/2/18 At work we I ranted a tow dolly to 2 guys covered in ticks this was 2.45pm . My whole family hunts and I grew up running around our woods so I didn't think anything of it. 1st I got a headache around 4pm then dinner 10pm the left side of my face got numb and left arm migraines run in my family so again I didn't think anything of it. Then there was disassociation between my left arm and my brain . Basically my brain wasn't registering that my left arm was moving. By 11pm vomiting , diarrhea , Margin headache. Ok food poisoning. Then bladder spasms Chills all night . The headache behind the eyes and temple lasted June thur Sep chills lasted 2 days. I couldn't focus my vision. I've had dozens of symptoms. Temp. Memory loss was the worst almost got me fired couldn't drive it was bad. Then I read "Unlocking Lyme" disease. My doc did 2 western blots 7/11/18 and Sep. 3 out of the 5 need No Lyme .
I had 3 epidurals didn't affect the Neuropathy all before that biopsy. I should note Nuro. Had me on Gabapentin amitriptyline, I never had a tick bite.

July if figured out sugar made everything worse so I started cutting it out. By the end of Sep. my Neck locked up really bad hard as wood doc gave me Methocarbamol and 800MG of ibuprofen for 2 weeks 3x a day. I also did physical therapy on my neck .

November I found a sever Gluten intolerance stared. Neurologist did blood work showing blood markers to confirm this she said possibly celiacs disease . I started The Vital Plan supplements early December. By December craps and sever muscle tightness spared to my legs calf's started on 12/23/18 . Early December I was referred to a Gastrologist for oil and some blood in stool, mostly oil since June. He said to stop the Vital plan "Trash" . He did a gastro and endoscopy and looked for celiacs 1/2/19 Nothing abnormal.
December though feb I did Keto diet it helped until I drank coke zero then herxed awfully.

I saw a Lyme Md in my area in May. He said it looked like Lyme then we did a lot of blood work sent some to Armen labs. That came back showing Lyme and Babesia and a dozen likely coinfection. He wanted to do Intravenous Vitamin c mega dose after tanking my blood sugar also using dhea then some kind of tank therapy. I was all in until the 15k Price point. That's when I went to my Regular doc. with the Armen test and he proscribed doxy. Lyme is becoming common where I live.
I have tried high dose Vitamin C lypo spheric vitamin c and Vitamins 10-30k mg I started working my way up . It made me Herx really bad Neuropathy spiked randomly through out the day Left side of the face got supper numb hands and feet hurt has if being pinched . Headaches retuned and Confusion. This lasted a week or so then it tapered off. I'm still taking 5-10,000mg a day.

I highly doubt the neurologist will agree with the lyme diagnosis.
Unless this Neurologist is lyme Literate. unlikely she will prescribe Malarone or Mepron.

And Disulfuram isn’t considered mainstream for lyme and CO’s treatment so doubtful she will prescribe it.

You mentioned 15k that the lyme doc was going to charge you... what treatments did that include - and how long would these treatments be? Ie 3 months... 6 months... or?
And will he prescribe Pharma to treat as well ?

Nagayami0083 said...
The treatment was 8 courses. His method was to tank my blood sugar then use DHEA as a conduit then mega dose vitamin c 40-80,000 intravenously. Then hyperbaric chamber. 3x a week for 2 weeks then 2x on the 3rd week. They said it had a success rate of 85%. This sent up red flags from me but I still think about it if my muscles and joints get any worse I may have to.

HBO and vitamin c IV’s are good possible adjuncts to treatment but not enough to fully treat these infections IMO