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I was on mepron for 5 months in 2010 and then went on to other drugs. More recently I had been off all drugs since around January until mid-May but I had low level headaches. When I went to the dentist, he discovered another problem while he was working on a tooth and I was in the chair for some time. After that, my headaches grew worse and I knew I had to go back on mepron.
I've been on mepron and artemesinin for a month and have been sweating in increasing frequency. Last night I had a drenching sweat and suspect that will recur. What is causing these sweats? Is it babesia flaring or bartonella or just trying to sweat out the drugs and/or toxins?
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TF
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Page 23 of Burrascano:
"SYMPTOMS
Clues to the presence of Babesiosis include a more acute initial illness- patients often recall a high fever and chills at the onset of their Lyme. Over time, they can note night sweats, air hunger, an occasional cough, persistent migraine-like headache, a vague sense of imbalance without true vertigo, encephalopathy and fatigue."
Drenching night sweats are classic babesiosis.
Once I started treating babs, I started having terrible flares every 7 days like clockwork. My lyme doc called them flares, not herxes.
We knew the babs was gone when I had no more flares, not even little ones (which evolved to just the overwhelming need to go to sleep for a short while.)
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Definitely Babs. You likely did not treat it long enough intially.
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The sweats you discuss definitley sound like one of my Babesia symptoms and when you start treating it with the mepron, it will bring on a herx which tends to be making the symptom get worse before it gets better.
I know it's not fun to go through, but it really does work if you can try to push through it. It does sound like you didn't get the Babesia treated long enough the first time.
This co-infection can be VERY persistent. In my case, I had to go through five rounds of Babs treatment, one round being 9 months long, before I was able to get that sucker under control.
Hang in there. It will get better and this really is expected in treatment. It's actually a good sign that you are on the right medication that it causing a reaction.
Cathy
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