are so inferior?
Posted by scorpiogirl (Member # 31907) on :
The answer is simple, because they still don't believe that there is chronic lyme and that there is no way we all could be this sick!! Why fix something they don't believe we have?
Posted by seibertneurolyme (Member # 6416) on :
It is not quite that simple. If your immune system is overactive then you risk developing an autoimmune disease and possibly permanent nerve damage.
Also if you have bart it is probably suppressing your immune system in a major way and you may have no idea just what all you are infected with.
We think hubby has finally gotten rid of his bartonella or mycoplasma or BLO or whatever the mystery pathogen was. But now he has a new problem -- he is trying to treat babesia aggressively.
As a result when his red blood cells burst (hemolysis) his white blood count goes up and he runs very high fevers. He has been diagnosed with bacteremnia by blood cultures 2 times and has been hospitalized 4 times in the last 9 weeks with high fevers.
The normal 10 days of antibiotics for his specific bacteria have not worked as they should. His immune system almost seems to be working too well to identify the bacteria but it is not working to kill the bacteria.
This is just one example of how the immune system can be both under and over active and dysfunctional.
Bea Seibert
Posted by IrTabby2 (Member # 31079) on :
Thats an interesting way of lookint at it Bea. Tho,
your husbands story is just giving me more to worry