Vimzor said...
The next day it felt like I had the flu. My temp was 35°C / 95°F and I felt cold, had shivers. Went back to my GP. She prescribed augmentin.
Definitely sounds like either babesia or bartonella....
Vimzor said...
Felt really uneasy about getting C-Diff from clindamycin and I still felt sick on the third day so tried minocycline next.
As long as you're treating with probiotics 2-3 hours away from your antibiotics, along with plain kefir and plain yogurt with low sugar, you should have nothing to worry about
, along with a ketogenic diet that involves less carbs and basically no processed sugars.
Also, if your local hospital is aware, they have 80% cure rate of c-diff with fecal matter tranpslants. Just good to know if you ever get into a problem in this area...
Vimzor said...
Switched to clindamycin and I still felt sick on the third day so tried minocycline next. One dose of 200 mg and wow, the next day I felt normal again. Pain gone, symptoms gone. But I had a really intense and painful head pressure. I was afraid it was intracranial pressure so I immediately stopped the minocycline. After two days my symptoms returned..
Some of these antibiotics may be just halting your chronic lyme from progressing, which is good... But you may want to see how you respond to antiparasitic drugs like flagyl, alinia, artesunate, coartem, malarone or mepron with an antibiotic like doxy or mino. If you get a lot better on any of these antiparasitics, you may have babesia.
Vimzor said...
I'm starting to think it's bartonella? Because when I take my buhner herbs, sida acuta and houttuynia, the pain intensifies for a couple hours. Besides bone pain my leg muscle also hurts.
You very well could have just bartonella and borrelia. Are you in an agitative state and have anxiety as well? Because neuro symptoms are a big sign of bartonella, also look for scratch marks or stretch marks. You also have electric shocks in feet or sore bottoms of feet? Another sign of bartonella. But usually most suffering from a bartonella flare have neuro symptoms, but not all.
Babesia is more fatigue, depression, night sweats, and high fevers.
Vimzor said...
I feel lost. My LLMD is moving to a different city next week and his office will be closed during that time. I don't feel like the meropenem is helping much and I will be without doctor.. It scares me. Only 5 days IV left and my LLMDD will be off the grid for a week. This is really bad timing and it gives me anxiety. I feel really sick without antibiotics, I even went to the ER. They sent me home with a painstiller.. I don't expect much help from them.
Many do when they first contract lyme and if you don't have a LLMD educated in treating coinfections babesia and bartonella properly, that can make treatment 10x harder as well.
After treating chronic lyme for 8 years and studying it, I think there's a lot of LLMDs out there that claim to know how to treat babesia and bartonella effectively, but really they're just pissing in the wind. If you have one of these coinfections, it may take 6-12 months or longer to treat these coinfections with a specific drug, along with treating the borrelia.
For many, babesia tends to be the dominant infection and until you knock this back, you won't be able to treat the bartonella and borrelia effectively. I suspect it may play part in what region of the country you got infected in, for most in the northeast I have reason to believe many are coming down with babesia, bartonella, and borrelia.
However, you may just have bartonella and borrelia, so you'll have to treat with antibiotics that target bartonella first, like bactrim, rifampin, biaxin, omnicef or mino... Usually two antibiotics, sometimes even three are used against bartonella.
You'll have to try different antiparasitic/antibacterial drugs and herbs, see how you respond. But if you're in a chronic state and the infection has already gone deep within the body, it may be hard to tell what works and what doesn't. However, you should see some type of herx reaction after taking some of these drugs.
I did all types of antibiotics for year and half, most of them never induced or herx or caused much a relief for me, until I tried Flagyl with Doxy. Flagyl is antiparasitic and antibacterial, it also
opens up round body forms and good at erradicating biofilms.
I just hope you caught it early, because earlier you catch it, I suspect easier it is to treat by just using antibiotics and letting your immune system battle off the coinfections. However, because lyme symptoms always come on slow for most patients, a lot of times the spirochetes and coinfections get deeply entrenched in the system before you notice anything is seriously wrong.
Vimzor said...
I'm starting to think it's bartonella? Because when I take my buhner herbs, sida acuta and houttuynia, the pain intensifies for a couple hours. Besides bone pain my leg muscle also hurts.
Just because you received an increase in pain, doesn't necessarily mean the treatment is working. Herxes usually involve an increase of muscle twitches, tingling, tremors, fatigue, sometimes even seizures, sometimes an increase of anxiety and a feeling like your legs may give out underneath you.
Post Edited (Charlie55) : 9/21/2019 4:17:34 PM (GMT-6)