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Before I got sick with lyme disease in October of 2005. I had a bad problem with sweating for a couple years. I would sweat mostly out of my armpits but the rest of my body would sweat too. I could never figure out why and I have had the sweating problem throughout my lyme illness as well.
For a while it seemed to get better or almost gone about 6 months into ABX treatment but now it is back. I spent most of the night awake and sweating yesterday...
Question is: I know babesia is known for night sweats but can lyme alone (w/o co-infections) cause sweating like I described? I'm trying to figure out this co-infection stuff and waiting for Igenex to call me back.
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tdtid
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I will be very interested to hear what you find out about this. I was doing the bed wetting soaks before my diagnosis and it was easiest I think for the doctors to blame it on menopausal or peri menopausal symptoms at the time.
The thing is, is that it actually did go away as other symptoms took hold until my lyme diagosis after five years of the misdiagnosis's.
It wasn't until I started the babs treatment that this symptom has come back in major force and is still going strong. At this time, I'm on mepron, zith and art for babs and cipro for bart.
But your question of whether it could be lyme related.....I'm not a doctor and have no clue since my LLMD started treating me for babs even with a negative test result. I only tested positive for lyme and he's treating the other two on past 5 year history.
Hopefully someone will have more insight to this since I would be very interested to know as well and if you hear anything from Igenex regarding this topic, please write me either here or privately since this symptom has been knocking the wind out of my sails.
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kelmo
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Byron, my daughter started severe sweating around 6th grade. She started wearing a jacket all the time, and mostly black or white.
It now comes and goes to extremes during the last 18 months of treatment. She'll be sweating buckets, but be freezing cold.
One day, on Oprah, there was a physician talking about general health. He said that you should looke for a bacterial infection with excessive sweating.
That's the first time we connected the two.
I think it's the body detoxing. And it sounds like you have a lot to detox.
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Oh...forgot to add, the sweating really ramped up when she started Mepron/zith.
So babs is a good possibility.
Are you being treated for that, yet?
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tailz
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It concerns me that male-dominated science is quick to blame sweats (in women) on menopause or perimenopause.
Take it from someone whose doctors assured her and argued with her that her early menopause was completely and totally normal. "I've seen women go into menopause at (I forget here) 32!", my doctor argued.
I no longer believe menopause at ANY age is 'normal', and we need more women in medicine and research because - trust me on this - men will never figure this one out. As long as our critical (genital) parts work, that's all they care about (in my opinion).
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I was sweating for years before diagnosis. Went to a bunch of doctors who couldn't figure it out (my eyesight was getting floater-full and my balance was also out of wack...)
I even had a doctor tell me to put a cotton mattress pad on my bed as opposed to polyester and to stop wearing polyster-blends. It did help, but didn't stop the sweating. Now I never wear anything with polyester in it, because I can't stop sweating in it.
Started Rocephin and the sweating stopped. Oral abx's didn't bring it back either. BUT, just having started malarone, the sweating is back. I'm glistening at all times, AC or not.
I'm positive for Babesia, so I think/know the malarone is stirring up some critters.
Good luck with confirming test results. Try staying away from polyester since it seems to make things worse...
Best,
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ByronSBell 2007
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wow, you sound just like me, wisor...
Maybe I do have babs and it is keeping me from getting well, I got the test ordered from Igenex today, expensive!
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I was treated for babs ontop of lyme and when I was on mepron + biaxin then minocin the sweating stopped.
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