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Since I'm new here, and am presently going through the motions of finding out if my symptoms are in fact lyme, can someone answer another question for me.....If it turns out I do not have lyme, does that automatically rule out having the co-infections? I'm assuming by the usage of "co", that one has to have lyme to have the others, correct? And if you don't have lyme, you don't have the other problems.
Right or wrong?
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Anybody else have more input for Craig? He's growing weary of talking to only me!
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Bugg
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Craig--
I believe it's possible to have babesia, bart, mycoplasma...etc without also being infected with the borrelia burgdorferi...I can't tell you the probability, however. There are numerous journal articles regarding animals who are solely infected with ehrlichia or babesia..In fact, I think if you go on the JAMA site you can find some articles regarding people who were just infected by babesia, for example, and not lyme....HOWEVER,if you read the literature regarding babs, for example, you'll notice that most people don't get severely ill from babs unless they don't have spleens, are elderly, or severly immunocompromised....Meaning, usually, many lyme patients succomb to babesia and are so severly ill because their systems are compromised by the borrelia burgdorferi or another co-infection.....Hope this helps....My LLMD confirms this....
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WRONG*)!*)*)!! !*)!*)*!)*!!
You CAN have just Babs or Ehrlicihosis or Batronella without Lyme!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I'm pretty sure, based on the symptoms list, that I had Bartonella for ten years before I got lyme and Babesia.
I know people who have been diagnosed with just co-infections, but I worry about them.
Lyme can hide from the immune system and from diagnositics very well.
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