When I first got diagnosed with Lyme, I also had positive tests for babesia microti and human monocytic ehrlichia. My treatment has focused primarily on Lyme although I did take doxy in the early stages of treatment. Other than taking Zhang's artemesia for 40 days, the babesia went untreated until recently.

Several months ago, I saw a local naturopath who has one of those darkfield microscopes. He took a tiny sample of blood and viewed it under the microscope. After a few minutes, he said something like "Would you look at this?" and put the image up on the TV screen where I could see it.

Lo and behold, there were little objects inside of my red blood cells. Some were round, one of them looked like four cells joined together to form a sort of cross, and another looked a little like the Race for the Cure pink ribbon, if you know what I mean. After a few seconds, the top of the "ribbon" split and I could see that it was another of the cross forms. The top two arms of the cross had been snuggling, I guess, and it made the cross look sort of like a ribbon.

Well, the naturopath commented that maybe these were mycoplasmas but he didn't really know.

For some reason, I didn't buy the mycoplasma idea. And I recalled that babesia can sometimes take a tetrad or cross form but I couldn't find any pictures to confirm my idea. So I kind of forgot about it.

Time passed and my LLMD recommended that we treat babesia since my progress had plateaued. I started feeling significantly better with the clindamycin quinine protocol, especially when I added in artemesinin (by Nutricology). I'm also doing Rife treatments and taking my supplements with a renewed zeal so it is hard to attribute my improvement to any one thing. But I honestly believe the clindamycin and quinine have helped -- I take these on a rotational basis with amoxicillan and have noticed repeatedly that I feel really good whenever I start the clinda/q.

Given my recent progress, this morning I started thinking about the weird little things we had seen in my blood and I decided to look around for some pictures of babesia. Lo and behold, I found pictures of tetrad forms of babesia that look just like what we saw in my blood cells. It's also called the "maltese cross" form of babesia and it's significant in that it is diagnostic of babesiosis.

Host Defense by New Chapter or Immunity by Nikken are 2 ones avail.

Thanks dor your interesting info on this.

Lst summer I took 2 courses (I think it was 80 days) of Zhangs artemesia and at first I felt "different" but after that I felt better, but that better didn't last very long and am now planning to do a course of Mepron?Biaxin.

Sounds like you are on the right path with including Rife etc.

Marnie, thanks for the recommendation of beta glucans. Those are included in the transfer factor plus so I guess I'm covered.

So glad the clinda/Q is working for you. You may need to take it quite awhile. I took it 2 yrs ago for only a few months, and began 'round 2' about 2 months ago. I'm going to stick with it longer this time to make sure I kicked it!

Thanks for the info!! I'm going to go check out the pics next!

Are you planning to have the naturopath repeat the testing with the darkfield miscroscope?

It would be very interesting to see what it would show after treatment. If possible, and if this treatment is helping, I wouldn't stop it until I retested and it showed clear on the test.

This was very interesting to read..also a bit creepy to think about those things in your blood. I would guess a lot of people have this and don't know it.

God Bless You,

Does anyone out there actually own one of these microscopes?

I did a little snooping on the Internet last night....there are quite a few varieties to choose from.

If I am good, maybe Santa will get me an early Christmas present.