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I am on a new regimen of antibiotics. I have chronic lyme and, it appears, a bartonella co-infection. Just wondered how quickly you began noticing changes and how long before you began to try intravenous antibiotics.
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MariaA
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Bartonella tends to make things take longer than if you only had Lyme itself. Sorry to hear that. Everyone's response to antibiotics takes a differing amount of time, depending on your immune system, the particular parts of the body that the microbes have caused disease in, whether the drugs you're on are able to reach the compartments that the bacteria are established in, and very importantly, it can all depend on which strategy your Lyme bacteria are exhibiting when attacked (such as forming cyst-form/l-form inactive forms, etc, going intracellular, etc).
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sutherngrl
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For the first year and a half I didn't notice hardly any improvement. Maybe it was a constant herx, not sure.
Now during the second year and a half I have had a great deal of improvement. So 3 years of treatment and I am getting close to remission.
No IVs, only orals.
Most insurance companies will only pay for 28 days of IV's, and IV's are extremely expensive.
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BackinStOlaf
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Sutherngirl: would you mind telling us what your regimen is?
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MichaelTampa
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I started with IV antibiotics, and noticed significant improvement after 2 months, even some improvement after 1 month.
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Took me about 18 months before I felt even a little better. Never did IV. Got well in 4 yrs. But I'd had it most of my life, so don't go by me!!
Hope you get well more quickly!
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