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Welcome fulton. Many of us have co-infections. Sometimes they can be hard to get rid of, like Lyme disease. It is good that you finally got diagnosed. Were you also tested for bartonella?
One way for newbies to get a lot of information about a subject in a big hurry is to use the search function on this website. Go to the top of this page, find a string of 5 words that ends in search. Click on it, fill in the box with the terms (like babesia, etc) and watch a whole raft of previous threads on this subject appear like magic! This way you get the benefit of people who may no longer be posting here or did not see your post. Some topics have been discussed many times, and after a while, people tend to slack off on replies, because they have repeated themselves over and over.
So, give the search function a try. I bet you will like it.
I'm sure you will hear from other people too.
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I was diagnosed with lyme in October 03, and babesia in December 03. I was treated for the first month with Doxycycline and the second month with Omnicef and Doxycycline, then my LLMD found the babesia. I have just finished 8 rounds of Mepron/Zithromax and am finally feeling good most days. I was diagnosed early and received treatment 6 weeks after the bite. Babesia seems to have been the bigger issue for me. It took a good 5-6 rounds of Mepron and Zithromax before I had several good days in a row. I have just recently resumed a walking program and hope to return to work later this fall. I would be interested to know how your treatment for erlichia is going? Take care and hang in there. There is a light at the end of the tunnel.
Rene
P.S. We may have the same LLMD, I live about 30 miles from D.C. in MD.
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Hi fulton, and welcome.
Several of us are going through the babesia treatment now -- you can check it out "in progress" at Mepron Buddies.
Don't know the outcome of treatment yet. But after 5 months, I'm doing much better. One more month on babs tx for me, and I don't know what's after that. I see the doc next week.
Thank you for the responses and support. I am already feeling better.
I know that many people have coinfections, nevertheless, I have not been able to find much information on how to treat multiple coinfections. My doctor says that you cannot treat babesia before the ehrlichia has been treated, while I read somewhere that you cannot treat ehrlichia before treating babesia. Based on my own experience, I am beginning to fear that both may be right.
Is it possible to treat both coinfections at the same time with for example a mepron/zithromax/doxycline combo or doxycycline/artemesinin or something else?
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yes, it is possible to treat both at the same time. I was treated that way, in fact. Both of the combos you mentioned are possibilities, it seems to me, but if you have a Lyme doc, probably are going to have to go with what he or she prescribes.
Not all Lyme docs think the same. I guess that is because it is complex, without any easy answers.
The doc who treated me for babesia and lyme at the same time said his experience was that in co-infections, whatever he wasn't treating got worse.
Of course, a combination of multiple drugs can be harder to cope with, yeast and diet wise, and also any possible drug side effects.
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quote:Originally posted by fulton: My doctor says that you cannot treat babesia before the ehrlichia has been treated, while I read somewhere that you cannot treat ehrlichia before treating babesia.
I don't know about humans, but having an Ehrlichia dog (co-infected with Babesia at one time), I know that in dogs Ehrlichia is usually treated before Babesia.
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