It just does not go away. Have been on abx since December, It just seems Ceftin, then tini plus zithro does not touch the twitching! What abx helped your twitching? I take magnesium and all the supplements. Thanks! Julie
Posted by pomegranite (Member # 3339) on :
I twitched uncontrollably through my first three years of high dose antibiotics. Finally it is nearly entierly gone after doing 6 months of 300 mg Rifampin for Bart.
Do you know if you have bartonella?
Pomegranite
Posted by valymemom (Member # 7076) on :
I was going to suggest bart also. My son's eye twitching went away with levaquin/ceftin.
Posted by vachick (Member # 8353) on :
Twitching and muscle weakness/cramping are big symptoms for me. They seem to come and go. I have been on Omnicef for five months now and feel the twitching and myoclonic jerking has gotten better at times. I have Bart but have avoided Levaquin due to my already bad muscle issues...it would only make them worse I think.
Does twitching seem to get worse with dehydration, lack of sleep, stress?
Posted by Marnie (Member # 773) on :
Besides calcium influx...research acetylcholine.
Posted by Melanie Reber (Member # 3707) on :
My twitching/tremors were also Bart related I believe.
With strong meds, they eventually faded away.
They are beginning to return though, so I will most likely address the bart again.
My best, M
Posted by Mathias (Member # 5298) on :
My twitching was related to a CNS mycoplasma fermentans infection.
Posted by Andie333 (Member # 7370) on :
I started having twitching and mini-seizures after I'd been on Ceftin for about 4 months.
For me, those symptoms were related to Bart.
After a month or so on Rifampin, they stopped. By the way, test results for co-infections are notoriously unreliable. Mine showed me negative for Bart, despite a list of Bart symptoms.
Andie
Posted by jwenny (Member # 8831) on :
Does anyone know if babs can cause muscle twitches? I have babs and have twitches pretty frequently.
Thanks!
Posted by jwenny (Member # 8831) on :
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Posted by seibertneurolyme (Member # 6416) on :
Hubby's LLMD said his tremors/myoclonus could be caused by Lyme, babesia or bartonella. For him seems to be mostly caused by babesia -- also seizure-like episodes from the babs.
Agree with Marnie that phosphatidylcholine may help.
Bea Seibert
Posted by ksparks (Member # 8098) on :
I saw my LLMD the other day and they told me my tremors/myoclonus is probably from bart. their theory is the infection is affecting the limbic system of the brain. They put me on seizure meds- lamictal and lyrica and it seems to work for me.
Kristen
Posted by jsnyde2 (Member # 7888) on :
Thanks everyone for your responses. My twitching does get worse maybe when I am dehydrated.
Marnie and Bea, my LLMD has me take 3 large acetylcholine capsules per day. I never really knew what they were for. Now I know why she insisted on them.
I can live with the twitching - my main problem is does the twitching mean I am still infected? I am going to try to push my LLMD to treat for Bart. I just have a gut feeling a co-infection needs to be treated. I'll try for lequavin. Thanks again all!