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I have been reading every message on this wonderful site about twitching. Seems to be a hard thing to get rid of. But some of you seem to get relief.
Please, if you have time:
1. Is your twitching lyme or bart related?
2. Have you ever tried levaquin? If so; did the twitches dissapear?
3. Did B12-shots and magnesium help you?
4. Have you ever tried gentamicin? rifampin? streptomycin?
Thank you! (trying to get some info for my treatment and treatment of 3 other scandinavians currently living in exile in Germany.)
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2. Have you ever tried levaquin? If so; did the twitches dissapear?
Haven't tried it.
3. Did B12-shots and magnesium help you?
Oral B-12 seemed to help somewhat. Magnesium, definitely.
4. Have you ever tried gentamicin? rifampin? streptomycin?
I have been on Rifampin, which was the first thing to decrease the twitching. I have had a further reduction-down to almost none-on Bactrim and Zith.
Good luck!
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tailz
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Are you sure you aren't electrosensitive, too?
A Swedish researcher sent me the Bioinitiative Report below.
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My twitching was/is Lyme related. I haven't noticed B12 shots helping but shots of Magnesium sulfate DEFINITELY take care of them for me. I take one gram (2 ml. + 1ml. of 1% Lidocaine) once a week. If I do that, no twitches. If I slack off, they return. Dave
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klutzo
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Magnesium, magnesium, magnesium! Nuf said!
Klutzo
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Keebler
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1. Is your twitching lyme or bart related?
WHO KNOWS ?!
2. Have you ever tried levaquin? If so; did the twitches dissapear?
NEVER TRIED IT
3. Did B12-shots and magnesium help you?
ABSOLUTELY. THE BEST. MAGNESIUM CAN EVEN STOP SEIZURES. IT HELPS DETOX AND CALM. B-12 NOURISHES.
4. Have you ever tried gentamicin? rifampin? streptomycin?
NEVER.
Gentamicin and streptomycin are OTOTOXIC. It can cause deafness, tinnitus &/or other audiological and otological damage.
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Not sure. I am 21 months into lyme treatment and still need to treat for bartonella
2. Have you ever tried levaquin? If so; did the twitches dissapear?
I tried levaquin for two weeks and had tendon issues which sometimes happen with this family of drugs.
My full body twitches went away after one full year of oral treatment and bicillin shots. I also take Peter Gilham's Natural Calm magnesium tea drink at night. I'm not sure if it was my antibiotics or the magnesium drink or the combo that did it.
According to my Lyme Nurse it was the tea drink. The twitches were full body and almost drove me mad. They are now 100% gone.
3. Did B12-shots and magnesium help you?
I did them for six months, never noticed any difference
4. Have you ever tried gentamicin? rifampin?
streptomycin?
I may be starting rifampin for bartonella at some point. I'm now eight months into Rocephin IV therapy. All of my twitching was gone before I even started Rocephin IV.
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The vestibular system, or balance system, is the sensory system that provides the dominant input about movement and equilibrioception.
Together with the cochlea, a part of the auditory system, it constitutes the labyrinth of the inner ear, situated in the vestibulum in the inner ear (Figure 1).
Dawn in VA
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Rx's that really helped to calm down my twitches were IV rocephin and oral tinni/flagyl. I'm on tinni again right now and haven't had them very much at all since getting back on it (knock on wood... )
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Twitching was my worst and most persistent symptom. I was treated for lyme, not bart, using ceftin and then a really heavy duty cyst buster "pulse" but I can't recall the name.
That worked - I have been symptom free for 2 years. I did notice that when I got dehydrated a few twitches would come back. Now they are just gone. Didn't really notice when; but at some point I just realized I hadn't twitched in a long while. Allelujia!
I had to take so many pills I slacked at taking supplements like magnesium although everyone told me to for twitching. (so mag wasn't what helped me.) I did do B-12 shots and don't know if that did it as much as just getting rid of the lyme. Good luck! In restrospect, it wasn't the twitching that was as bad (although annoying) as the not knowing what the hell it was.
Julie
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