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can anyone please tell me what med's work if you have the coinfection of bartonella? I thought I read somewhere that tetra does the trick? Is there a special blood test for this? If I came up positive with cat scratch fever, and have postive lyme, would you think that I also have bart?
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I got tested a few weeks ago at Igenex and tested positive for lyme and bart. Babs was neg.
Fry labs is sending me a test kit and I'm having the babs test done again.
I was on tetra for 12 weeks and it didn't help me much. I'm know on doxy and planquil 3 weeks. Although I haven't gotten much better I'm in the mist of my first herx. Which is a good sign i guess. and it a good one
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Everyone's different but I'd lobby for a long, hard treatment of bartonella, it's really hard to kill (this from two LLMDs).
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Cat scratch fever is caused by bart so yes, you have it. In my experience it is more difficult to get rid of then Lyme, but I've had it for years. I treated it with a combinations of rifampin, levaquin with doxy. Rifampin and Levaquin are the big guns for bartonella.
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Rifampin, in combination with another abx such as zith, biaxin or minocycline, doxy. The other abx is needed with rifampin to prevent resistance in the bart bacteria.
I have heard from one llmd that biaxin hits bart too -- and I believe it, because I am on biaxin, and it seems to be hitting bart symptoms hard. For example, I am sleeping better than it seems in years after 5 weeks on biaxin.
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My daughter is having results with IV cipro. Not sure how long llmd will continue this. Wonder if she will go to orals for awhile at end? Her symptoms are mainly neurologic and GI. GI has improved alot after a big herx, taking a short break, and starting back!
Also on IV rocephin for lyme and flagyl. Finishing up second round of malarone for babs. Guess they all are helping the symptoms, but I think the bart ones are helped by the cipro.
I think cipro is one generation back from levaquin, older and therefore less expensive. Levaquin caused tendon pain and she had to stop. Four weeks cipro IV total now. Go to llmd next week.
Take Care! MommaK
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Cat Scratch is bartonolla or Bart. The clinicinal name is bartonolla, plus the strain.
I have tested very positive for Lyme, babesia and bart.
Just finished 10 weeks of Mepron/zith for babesia.
Just prescribed today by top LLMD rifampin & minocycline for 10 weeks for bartonolla.
After 10 weeks will take a break for 3 weeks and will retest babs and bart.
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Bartonella
These are only my observations based on patients who have informed me, or from what I've read from medical physicians who specialize in treating Tick-borne infection. This is not medical advice simply a geralized "best to least" list for the average patient.
Levaquin 500mg x 1 combined with Tetracycline 750 x 2 Doxycycline 200 x 2, Minocycline 100 x 2, Bactrim 800mg x 2 or Biaxen 500mg x 2
Second best treatment:
Rifampin 300 x 2 combined with Minocycline 100 x 2
Third best treatment:
Bactrim 800 x 2 combined with Biaxen 500 x 2
Fourth best treatment:
Cipro (dose unknown) combined with the same medicines as Levaquin.
Treatment on average should last 3-6 months, preferably past the point of symptoms disappearing, though you have to understand many of these protocols are severely risky, especially the first one, so you must receive blood work preferably weekly or bi-weekly for liver, kidneys, WBC and other blood counts.
-------------------- I am not a physician, so do your own research to confirm any ideas given and then speak with a health care provider you trust.
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