Must you treat Bart and Babs before treating lyme? Or do you treat lyme first and then go after the co's?
Posted by Starfall (Member # 26795) on :
I have heard that you need to treat coinfections first. I'm sure if it's the other way round, someone will set me straight.
Posted by canefan17 (Member # 22149) on :
I would treat simultaneously
Posted by marine2783 (Member # 24982) on :
Who knows. Everyone has a different opinion. Just start treating and hope to feel better and go from there.
Posted by seibertneurolyme (Member # 6416) on :
The old way of thinking was to treat bart first -- standard treatment used to be 3 months only of Levaquin. Then to treat babs and add in lyme treatment at some point.
In my opinion treating one infection at a time does not work. Hubby's current LLMD says to treat the most active infection the hardest and to treat lyme, babs and bart all at the same time if possible.
Some meds combine better than others so often people end up treating either bart or babs plus lyme -- but not all 3 infections at once.
Bea Seibert
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Sometimes you have to knock down the lyme a bit before hitting the others. But if you can treat them all at the same time.. go for it.
My LLMD alternated Lyme and babesia meds. Worked for me. I didn't have bart.