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I'm to the point where I am not having to use much in the way of drugs. My energy level is not yet where it should be but it seems to be getting there and the brain for is very improved. Everything seems to be steadily improving.
However, every week or two my intestines start hurting and I use one teaspoon of mepron to clear that up. Then nothing further until next time. I'm taking some teasel extract but the intestinal issue was happening before I started with that herb.
It seems unlikely to me that babesia would hide for a week or weeks at a time but maybe I am wrong. I've taken mepron twice in the past, once for 6 months and later for two in combination with bactrim. I can no longer handle a full mepron protocol.
Does anyone know what this might be? Babesia, intestinal parasites, something else?
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Hi there, I personally think it could def. be Babesia. The frequency fits with the cycle and to my experience mepron deals mainly with the babesia present in the blood cycle. Thus, acute problems may be solved by a dose of mepron.
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I agree with Kern.
I used to get horribly sick for 48 hours every week like clockwork when I started treating babesia.
When I reported this to my lyme doctor, he told me that babs has a 7-day cycle and a 14 day cycle.
My sickness every 7 days was the 7-day cycle. So, he had me add artemesinin to my babs treatment, to be taken only on the days of the sickness which he called "flares."
This worked like a miracle. The flares went down to nearly nothing the first week on the art.
Eventually, I got flares once every 2 weeks (it jumped to the 14-day cycle). Eventually, no more flares. That's how we knew the babs was gone. (Even the overewhelming urge to go to sleep in the middle of the day was a flare symptom.)
So, why not add some artemesinin to the weekly mepron and see if that changes things. I took it twice per day on an empty stomach, starting on the morning that the flare was due.
It really really was unbelievable to me how the art took care of things. I went from being a zombie for 48 hours to just having some very mild symptoms for 6 hours the first time I took the art. Then, less and less each week.
Hope it works for you as well as it did for me. Doc had me take AllergyResearchGroup brand, available at Vitamin Shoppe. It was 100 mg pills. Take them on an empty stomach.
Also, I had no apparent babs symptoms, but Igenex found the babs in my blood when looked at through a microscope (FISH). So, don't go by lack of symptoms. Go by the flare cycle.
Here is what Burrascano says about babs flares:
"Symptoms cycle rapidly, with flares every four to six days." (page 26) Burrascano Guidelines
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