Is anyone familiar with which co-infection (or is it Lyme?) that goes along hand-in-hand with constant upper respiratory infections and/or sinus infections?
Thanks for any imput.........
Nancy
Posted by Elizabeth in MN (Member # 8466) on :
I'd love to know the same thing. I've been sick with a cough, post-nasal drip, acute sinusitis, and lung infection. Last fall I was actually diagnosed with whooping cough! I didn't exactly have the "whoop" as part of my symptoms, but my PCP tested for it anyways. I came up positive.
Anybody else know if this is considered part of a co-infection? Or is it just another bonus benefit of having an screwed up immune system?
Elizabeth
Posted by luvdogs (Member # 9507) on :
I think that plain old Lyme can be a large player in the chronic upper resp. tract infections. In fact, I think I have on of them now I think it is on the Lyme sx questionaire list. But maybe it is a co-infection?
Posted by serendipity (Member # 8474) on :
There is now evidence that most rhinitis and sinustis infections are fungal in nature
Comprimised immune system along with long term antibiotics that promote fungal growth likely lead to these symptoms.
Posted by Nancy2 (Member # 95) on :
UP!!!! Posted by clpgotlyme (Member # 7875) on :
Nancy, I used to get one sinus infection after the other. After 1 1/2 years of mostly Lyme treatment, I havent had one in quite a while! My immune system actually seems to be functioning again. Cindy
Posted by Ladylee210 (Member # 9945) on :
Hi, I too all to often suffer with upper resp. and or sinuis infections.
I read up on the "salt pipe" within these forums, it sounds promising so I ordered it a couple of days ago.
Posted by polar blast (Member # 9142) on :
when I stop the low dose mino that I am on I get within two weeks a flu like syptoms...runny nose chills and the like it gets so bad that I have to go back on mino to stop ot... eric
Posted by 3ktykatz (Member # 9596) on :
Up. Anybody?
I believe that the ear / nose / throat (plus kidney) infections are what is keeping my body too weak to be able to handle Lyme treatment. I would love to find out what's up. I really think it could change my life. Thanks in advance!
Kitty hugs, 3 or maybe now 4ktykatz
Posted by Carol in PA (Member # 5338) on :
So many people with Lyme have constant sinus problems.
I read about using Serrapeptase for sinus problems. It thins the mucous, and everything drains better.
Serrapeptase is a systemic enzyme, just as Nattokinase and Wobenzym are.
Systemic enzyme therapy works on hypercoagulation.
I wonder if sinus problems have anything to do with the finding that 90% of Lyme patients have hypercoagulation?
If you have alot of bronchitis type problems, you might want to look into the salt pipe. With this device, you breathe in salt ions, which kills bacteria.
Thank you everyone! I have been taking Serrapeptase since June, and it really does help.
Somewhere though, I have read that constant sinus infectiions and respiratory infections are connected to a co-infection, but I can't remember which one
Does this ring a bell with anyone?
Nancy
Posted by Ladylee210 (Member # 9945) on :
Yes Nancy,
Co-Infection = Yeast
Posted by lymeinhell (Member # 4622) on :
YEAST, YEAST, and more YEAST.
I've soooooo been there.
My 'chronic sinusitus' COMPLETELY disappeared after 40 days of Diflucan.
This was my biggest issue in the 9 months of heck trying to find out what was wrong with me. No amount of Levaquin would touch it - in fact, I got worse (as quacks don't tell you diddly about acidophillus, yeast, carb control, etc.
Upon seeing an LLMD, who quickly realized many of my issues were fungal in nature, and returning a month later (after Diflucan treatment) to my allergist and ENT, they were shocked and amazed....
Posted by 3ktykatz (Member # 9596) on :
My low level infections get better on "non Lyme" abx like Cipro or Tequin. I have taken Diflucan when I got sick, and I rarely have seen an improvement. I do know that I have, at times, I have had yeast in my nose. However, that seemed to coincide with just a stuffed nose, not the whole ear, nose, throat and sometime kidney thing.
Hmmm. The yeast is probably playing a part for me, but why do I improve on abx? Within a week or two of stopping abx, I get the whole thing again.
Any ideas?
Thanks to everyone so much! 3ktykatz
Posted by Ladylee210 (Member # 9945) on :
Antibiotics = feeding the yeast!
Posted by Laurie (Member # 159) on :
I never had a sinus infection in my life before I got Lyme. After that it was one after the other, triggered by head colds at first but then by anything -- a change in the weather, dry air in winter, allergies in spring, etc. I was on so many short courses of abx I can't begin to count them. I didn't know I had Lyme at the time.
When I went on Doxy 300mg/day for about a year 1/2, this did NOT stop my sinus infections though it did me well for the Lyme. After awhile, I went on longterm Biaxin. My sinus infections continued. Then there was that discovery that fungus plays a part. My ENT doc tried me on a homemade nose spray of saline, baking soda, a drop of Lotrimin. This helped reduce the number of sinus infections, so that tells me something.
However, when I went on Omnicef, I had no sinus infections for the TWO YEARS that I was on this. They're back now and I have to hit them with Sulfa drugs or Levaquin. Not sure if my sinus bugs got smart enough to resist the Omni (and Doxy and Biaxin) or if fungus is flaring up, so I'm starting regular doses of Diflucan to try to keep this at bay.
I did have babesiosis but I think we nailed that with Mepron, Mallarone etc. I think it's just plain Lyme that sparks these infections.
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I think it is on the Lyme sx questionaire list. But maybe it is a co-infection?
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