Very possibly Babesia even if you test negative. I would have never guessed in a thousand years I had Babs.Symptoms: fatigue, night sweats, fever, chills, weakness, weight loss, nausea, abdominal pain, diarrhea, cough, shortness of breath, headache, neck and back stiffness, dark urine or blood in urine.
I'm being treated by a LLMD who treated Bb in 2003 with first Zithromax; next, 6 months of 1 GM Rocephine IM & Flagyl 750 mg & (Actigall).
With persistent shortness of breath a Bowen Lab Test was done 2004. Positive for Lyme, but negative for Babs & Erlichiosis.
Diagnosed clinically for Babs, started with Monday - Friday: Mepron 1 tsp. twice daily, Zithromax 600 mg (allowed to half tablet for twice daily dosing) & then on weekends take Flagyl 750 mg & Mepron.
Sixth day of Mepron awoke with dizziness, head vibrating,left ear whirring sounds, shortnes of breath, fine tremor of head; feet aching horribly; had to crash on bed for 2 hours----felt worse than dead meat.
Started yesterday on 2nd round of Mepron & am awaking daily with dizziness (a new symptom for me). I'll do 3 complete rounds of Mepron & report back to the doctor. (He originally gave me a RX for Mepron with 3 refills--he said it can take 4 rounds to cure it???)
I could never figure out why I was short of breath. Now I know - Babs.
I'm going to push for Bartonella testing even though I would imagine treatment will have to wait until completion of Babs treatment.
Even if you think you don't have any co-infections------get tested. It's worth it. Best of luck. Try to do a Lymnet search on Babesia or co-infections.
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