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Has anyone actually beat it completely? If so, what did you do?
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lla2
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I did 8 cycles of mepron with biaxin xl and 3 months of artemesian. then I did 3 months of malarone with plaquenil and biaxin xl and septra, then i added artemesian back into the last mix for the last 3 months...so a total of 14 months of everything all together... the plaquenil and septra supposidly work as antimalarials as well as the artemesian...worked for me anywya...malarone is considered mepron lite..so it was like a step down from mepron, rather than just stopping it straight...
I'm all better now...
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Knowing I had Babesiosis years ago, I tried all the treatments suggested but my tests still showed Babs were still there. They did not show up on my last Bowen tests recently and I have no symptoms of the pathogen. I put this down to it being a very close cousin of Malaria and we know that if one survives Malaria, as I did, it burns itself out in about 10 years and is no longer able to produce symptoms. I have the opinion that if anyone has Babesiosis, it will also burn itself out in 10 years and not continue to cause symptoms. Ted
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quote:Originally posted by Angie: Has anyone actually beat it completely? If so, what did you do?
I may have- I still seem to be on the up, in general, though I don't feel so great today (I thinks its just some nasty virus trying to attack- hopefully I'll snuff it with a pile of herbs and vitamin c and zinc!) For babesia, I took artimesia anua 2g/day,4 weeks on, 4-5 days off, for 3 months or so, and 'malarone' (atovaquone-proguinil combi), 2 courses of about a 1 or 2 months, and mountains of garlic. I was alsoon doxycycline and clarithromycin, then tinidazole and clarithromycin, when I did these treatments. DaveS
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I couldn't get beyond a certain point until I seriously went after the babs. One thing to consider: babesia might be as bad as lyme for chronicity-- I asked about giving blood, after I was sure I had gotten rid of everything, and they said I could never give blood, not because I had had lyme, but because I had had babesia! Go figure! DaveS
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I think I have -- 5 months sx free for babs.
Tx was bicillin for Bb; concurrent with Mepron (1 tsp am and pm); 500 mg zithromax; 300 mg artemisinin am and pm for 7 months. Also used mangosteen for the last 4 months of tx (dunno how well it worked but it tasted great). Hubby did the same for 10 months.
Am still following up for Bb and bart with bicillin (continuous), omnicef (2 months), then ketek, and now Ketek and Tinidazole. Still experience a lot of fatigue and I have a 4 day crash about every 2 weeks, but the sweats, chills, breathlessness, and epic headaches have gone. And I'm no longer nauseous after excersise, which is great. The crash is minor compared to what I'm used to.
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My current treatment for Bb and Babs is the same as Minoucat's first tx. I am doing well on it. Will be adding the mangosteen as soon as it arrives.
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A doctor who treats WWII vets said that some who had malaria during the war still have occasional relapses, once a year sometimes. That is a long time to carry this parasite, and I don't see why babesia could not hang on a long time too.
I was bitten in 1996, had no babesia treatment until 2001 after it was seen in my red blood cells. So, in five years it did not burn itself out.
Have since been on malarone, mepron + zithromax, clindymycin and artemesia. Some of the symptoms I thought were babesia are now gone. Not sure whether other symptoms are babs or lyme or mycoplasma. Got my fingers crossed that the babs is gone. Would be nice to knock at least one of those germs on the head.
Don't want to go back on mepron again; after quite a spell on this drug, it caused itching and abdominal pain ( listed as side effects).
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Sorry about the dashing of the time thing. I had Babbs utreated and un diag for 18 years,and had it very severly. MADDOG
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