Just curious-I'm on 2 malarone, but I see most are taking up to 4-what are most people taking for babs?
Anything other than mepron/malarone?
My LLMD said malarone is better for ducani
Posted by Maradona (Member # 24552) on :
Malarone 4 pills a day zithro 500mg a day and sometimes ad artemisinin most of people do this and some take bactrim DS 2 tabs a day.
Posted by beths (Member # 18864) on :
I probably need to talk to my LLMD about upping tha malarone.
Posted by blinkie (Member # 14470) on :
I'm taking lariam, flagyl, bactrim DS and art. I'm going to be switching the lariam for mepron and zith to see how I do on that.
That being said, i have no idea what infection I'm dealing with other than...it is a protozoal infection.
Posted by Tish (Member # 18029) on :
I did 60 days of 40 drops 3 time a day of Cryptolepis extract from Woodland Essence and cured my Babesia. I have a microscope and ended the treatment at Christmas and still have not seen any plasmodiums in my blood. I was loaded with them, when I began. I also "feel" cured of it. I worked up slowly on it and overall I tolerated it very well. Cryptolepis is a Buhner suggested herb for Babesia. I was amazed by it's success. Last year I tried to eradicate it with 4 months of pulsed Artemisinin with no success.
Tish
Posted by beths (Member # 18864) on :
did you herx from the cryptolepis?
Posted by tick battler (Member # 21113) on :
A year of Mepron/zith/bactrim and art did not heal my children's babesia. They had two strains which they tested positive for. Then we discovered electrodermal screening and I could see that the Mepron had little effect on the babesia.
We tried cryptolepsis for awhile and it tested much better than Mepron. We probably did not use it at a high enough dose. However we switched to grapefruit seed extract (Agrisept-L from Nutridiem...can get it on ebay) because that tested the best and is my practitioner's first choice for babesia treatment. In 7 months we cured our entire family of babesia. We were also taking herbs for lyme and bart (samento and Cumanda) which I feel is important to do at the same time.
tickbattler
Posted by tick battler (Member # 21113) on :
Tish - I think I recall reading your story a couple of months ago. I was so inspired by it! It is so impressive you were able to teach yourself how to read slides and use the microscope. I would have probably gone down that road if we hadn't found our alternative practitioner.
I feel with this disease, you either have to do something like what you did or find someone who is good at electrodermal screening or muscle testing so you can see what is going on inside the body. Otherwise, you are shooting in the dark with treatments. That's why this disease complex is so difficult to heal from...we don't know what works with each of us and different things work for different people.
tickbattler
Posted by blinkie (Member # 14470) on :
tish and tickbattler-do you know what strain(s) you were dealing with?
Posted by Hides1 (Member # 6348) on :
Tickbattler- Can you pm me your alternative practioner? And do they do the electral screening?
We are still having problems getting rid of the Babesia in our family.....