Hi. I know of several antibiotics that people use to treat bartonella, but they
must either be used in combination with other anitbiotics, or they also treat
bartonelal AND something else.
Is there any antibiotic that treats primarily bart, without also treating
Lyme? I ask because I want to get the bartonella levels down and THEN focus on
that Lyme, because focusin gon them both is extremely hard on my body--the
last time we tried this i had to stop treatment for a full year.
I'm talking with my LLMD tomorrow but if anyone can get back with me about an
antibiotic I'd want to ask him how it really works
Thanks
little olive
Posted by seekhelp (Member # 15067) on :
Levaquin, Rifampin, Factive
Posted by nefferdun (Member # 20157) on :
Levaquin is considered to be the most effective drug against bartonella and you take it alone. But you have to be very careful because it can cause tendonitis and tendon rupture. If you decide to try it, you should load up on magnesium and vitamin C.
The next most commonly prescribed drug is Rifampin. It is taken with a macrolide such as biaxin or zithromax. Macrolides also work against Bb. If you use this combo and pulse tindamax or flagyl you will hit both infections.
Bactrim DS is sometimes used against bartonella with a macrolide. It is also somewhat effective against babesia. I found this combo the easiest to tolerate. I got gradually better without the severe emotional herxing, but it took much longer to work.
Be prepared for some heavy duty emotional herxing when you start bart treatment.
Posted by Tickn (Member # 11590) on :
WOW, Ken, that is an amazing and very useful chart!
Thanks everyone for their input
According to that chart alone, Cipro, Tequin, Levaquin, Ofloxacin, Zagam, and Vancomycin are the bartonella-specific antibiotic choices (that don't kill much else).
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