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isabel
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Member # 8022

posted

I would like to know if there is sombody whit lyme desease and co-infection (bartonella)

i WILL going specialist to Vermont next week and then he will start traitment bartonella.

Do you know, when I will start a traitement like levaquin or ripamphin, I have a herx reaction or i will fell better.Do you know if depression gones after this traitement?

I receive, one years traitement for lyme never for bart.Do you think i receive traitement for lyme for nothing?

Doctors start abx after 3 months sick (Tick)
Do you think i have a good chance? to return sport and working like before?

When we have co-infection is it possible, the life come back normaly after traitement ABX?
Is it somebody is O.K. i'm very descouraged

Thank you

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isa

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Melanie Reber
Frequent Contributor (5K+ posts)
Member # 3707

posted

Good afternoon Isabel,

There is ALWAYS hope! [Smile]

I had a hidden bart infection with Lyme...but once I treated it, my symptoms really began to improve. I think many here could say the same for co-infection treatment.

I do not believe that your year of Lyme treatment was a waste...it most likely helped to lower the bacterial load some, and is what allowed the co-infection to come to the forefront.

You can expect to herx with bart treatment as you do with lyme treatment. Depression, while very common with Lyme disease, is an individualized symptom, so it is difficult to say if you will experience it or not. Some drugs do have a side effect of depression, so be certain to discuss this with your LLMD.

Yes, you have a very good chance for recovery...just keep that hope alive!

My best,
Melanie

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groovy2
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 6304

posted

Hi Isabel

I was sick as hell for 20 years--
a couple of years of good treatment
and I have gotten Much better--

You can too--

Lyme treatment was not a waste-
you lowered germ load--
Treatment takes awhile to
show results--but they will
come--Jay--

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