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My now 17 year old son was treated for lyme and babs in 2006-2008 (age 9-10) and I also was treated for it plus I also had bartonella (I was CDC positive and he wasn't). We were treated by different doctors due to my son's age and my LLMD could not treat him. I was very happy with both doctors and their extensive knowledge of the disease(s)
In the last few months my son developed depression, anxiety, irritability/anger, adhd, chronic sinusitis, occassional headaches and shooting pains, twitching, fatigue, staph infections of the skin, gluten sensitivity (positive through entero) and cognitive issues.
Most of this became worse over the last 6 months. He is iodine and b1 deficient (thyroid tests are normal). He is an athlete and has always been a good student. Since starting his senior year in the fall he has hated school (due to the adhd that just got diagnosed) and is not enjoying all the fun things that he normally would as a senior.
The staph infections, getting bit by a dog and receiving his 2nd meningitis vaccine all make me wonder if any of those have anything to do with his issues. Did the vaccine bring Lyme to the surface again. He has always been a lover of life and still is trying to be that way.
He did not have all these neuropsych symptoms when treated 2006-2008. He did Doxy and malarone during those 2 years. I did a more aggressive treatment and am ok now. I don't know if he was reinfected. He was on several rounds of antibiotics in the last year for the skin infections and sinus issues.
I took him back to his Lyme doctor in Dec. and we will see him again next week to go over all the results. His Igenex results are as follows:
IGM 30 + 31 IND 39 IND 41 IND 58+ 66+ 83-93 IND
IGG 39 IND 41++
Thoughts are welcomed. Bartonella? Babs? No sweats though. His bart and babs came back negative on a LabCorp test so I don't know if we will retest these through Igenex or not.
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His doctor said the same thing but I was just wondering if anyone had a similar experience with the meningitis vaccine that has or had been treated for Lyme. I don't know if it had anything to do with it but recall within a couple days after the shot that he started with a lot of mood issues, light sensitivity and then when school started back up the cognitive issues became apparent. He also got staph on his knee and sinus infections after that and now has chronic sinusitis.
He is now on Lexapro and Adderall because of all this. Ugh! I hope his LLMD can determine whether the Lyme is back or if he got reinfected or if there are co-infections. I also wonder if he contracted something from the dog bite. He did go on antibiotics for that because it got infected (he didn't tell me about it until 4 days after it happened) and the bite was a month before he got the shot. Too many things to consider!
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CherylSue
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My LLMD had told me to avoid a tetanus shot if I could because that could trigger a relapse. In the past flu shots have triggered relapses, too, and I avoid those as well.
Lyme messes with your immune system, and it sounds like he may need to be retreated.
Sorry to hear of his difficulties. My heart goes out to children with this disease. It's a lot to cope with for anyone, but for them especially.
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