Dawn in VA
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I've had episodes of sensory Bell's palsy countless times since "the bite" and always assumed it was Bb. Can bart cause it too? I just started bart treatment a couple of days ago and it came on a few hours afer my first dose of rifampin.
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I had a similar experience when I started Rifampin last week.
Facial nerve stuff got really bad (numbness, pain) and I had a brief bout of minor Bells Palsy. That's usually my sign of a herx.
I'm thinking it was a bart herx because the Rifampin was the only new med I'd started.
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Vermont_Lymie
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Rifampin can also be active against lyme, a gram negative bacteria, I believe, as well as bart. So maybe it is a lyme herx?
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Vermont_lymie, That's entirely possible. I didn't know Rifampin was good for lyme as well.
Probably will never have an answer on what exactly causes what, but it's nice to at least have some sort of clue.
Thanks for the info!
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Dawn in VA
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Vermont_Lymie, thanks for the insight about rifampin and lyme. I didn't know that it might be a lyme fighter, but of course like you said it does work on gram-neg's.
I've never had the palsy as a type of herx before- Bb or or babs, anyway; it has always been solely a symptom for me.
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