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lymiecanuck
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Hi,

Anyone else have this experience? In Dec, I started treatment again. IT was normal, 6, now has risen to 45. Is this typical of keets dying in others experience?

I wonder about co-infections with this stuff too, keep thinking the lupus like symtpoms are babesia, and they raise inflammatory markers etc.

Any thought and experiences.

Thanks
Lymiecanuck


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Pitnum
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I have had the same problem. ESR was elevated when I started treatment. It slowly returned to normal during IV Rocephin.

Two weeks after the PICC line was removed, the ESR began climbing. Now, it is high again! The Dr.'s explanation is that the Lyme is not gone and I need to do another round of IV's.

I don't know if I have any coinfections because I was only tested once and it was negative.


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Thanks for the reply.

I seem to having the opposite situation as mine was normal at beg, of this treatment, yet I was very sick, now still sick but having been getting better and it rises.

The last week has been bad and does reflect blood work though, so very confusing.

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Also, wondering here, if this indicates that all the abx have stirred up the keets but then abx not getting them all and they are causing trouble, or major herxing that is dangerous where I could break something like a blood vessel.

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This doesn't sound right. My sed rate was one of the first tests ordered (by my dermatologist no less) when I began to be ill with strange stuff after contracting and SUPPOSEDLY being treated for Lyme. It was in the 30s, and since then (20 years) it has been monitored and been consistently high, 30s or 40s, no matter when taken and no matter which lab, except for a few little dips which interestingly do seem to occur when I'm feeling better. Are you sure the test was correct? (Either one.) The sed rate is a nonspecific measure of infection and/or inflammation. Could be you just stubbed your toe or had hay fever when the second test was taken. Mysterious, but so's Lyme in general.
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Yeah,

I was getting over the end of a head cold, but nothing else I can think of.

My yeast has gotten out of control and am starting to wonder if this could do it, it is an infection after all and defintly can cause inflammation.

Lymiecanuck


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