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In terms of all the emotional stuff, anxiety, mood swings, depression etc.: Are the TBDs hallmarked for certain mood traits that might be different or more prominent than Lyme?
For instance, raging versus sadness in Lyme versus big time swings in Bart or phobias in Babs? (I'm just making these examples up as I go).
I can't help but wonder if Bartonella will win the prize for darkest hours and most radical swings.
Or perhaps there is no teasing the stuff out and we're just all sitting in emotional bouillabaise.
Anyone?
wiserforit
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anyone out there?
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Vermont_Lymie
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Hi Wiser,
Thanks for asking -- I was wondering the exact same question myself this week!
I suspect that we will only know for ourselves once we successfully treat each of the TBDs in turn. Much of my personality was affected by the TBDs and as I get healthier it seems that I am rediscovering the person that I used to be -- much less anxious, more outgoing and social and less depressed!
How is the malarone treating you? You have been on that a long time? We are not sure if we got the babs out after my 5 months on malarone.
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Good questions, I don't know, I guess I am figuring it out as I go along.
One thing I do know; I am discovering the person that I am with treatment.
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Hail Vermonter and Beverly! thanks for the replies!
Well...Malarone treatment is so slow for me because I have only just worked myself up from 1 62.5 mg. pill every other day to a whopping every day dose. In addition, we've tossed in 250 mg. Zithro every three days. (All this is with the 6 1/2 x 875 mg. Amox daily).
Adding the Zithro has begun the stuperous depression with hypersensitivities, nausea and anxiety. I remember these feelings from when I used to take 500 mg. Zith daily.
My goal in the next six weeks is to increase the Amox to 7. Then try increasing the Malarone to 2x 62.5. But I feel really out of body in this depression and find myself talking out loud to myself when I don't know it. I also thrive on social interaction and team work -- when I feel wiggy this way, I isolate myself -- not good.
LLMD says a slow increase is best and that ultimately we may go to Mepron once a lower germ load is achieved. Scarey!
The babesia standard sweats and chills are sort of improving. But the bartonella foot/shin aches and personality changes seem really angry right now. The nausea/body aches/fatigue are sudden and profound too.
I was rediscovering me until the drug increase and now the psych stuff is nasty again. So, Babs treatment for 5 months? Haven't gotten up to dose to even begin the clock ticking!
If I didn't have you guys with roller coaster experience too, I'd never have tolerated so much! It's easier when you can keep saying, "This is awful now, but something is brewing and it will pass and I'll feel alot better."
And so it goes,
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It is so different with different people!!! There's that abstract on Bart species having different presentations and then the abstract on the ONE family with same kind of Bart & difering presentations of EACH- so god only knows with most of it!!!
In general, when I hear RAGES, I think Babs.
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