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My dr. recently told me that it sounds like i have babesia along with lyme. I'm just wondering if anyone who HAS Babs, DOES NOT get sweats at night. For that matter i don't HARDLY get sweaty at all.
After getting on the biaxin; about 5 weeks into it, i was getting hot/cold flashes for about a week. And that was IT. I think the dr. made his conclusion PARTIALLY from that episode.
I'm NOT questioning his analysis, because i know he's good, just wondering if there is anyone that does not have this common symptom of babs?
thanks sue
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I have several positive tests for Babs WA-1 and I hardly ever sweat. Before I became sick, I used to sweat profusely.
Go figure!
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Hi,
I don't have sweats. Not everyone with babs does and no one knows why.
With Lyme, babs and bart, the signs and symptoms lists do not mean that you have to have all the signs and symptoms. We are individuls.
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I tested extremely high for babs microti (1:320) when normal range is 1:10 or less. My LLMD feels that I certainly have it with that high of a ratio. I am being treated for it.
No sweats, ever, unless working out.
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I had more chills than sweats. Mine level was 1:1280 when finally found. Not until I got into treatment in 2005 did I finally get the sweats and air hunger everyone talks about. To this day I battle the Babesia as my last recent test was 1:1280 even though my FSH was neg. My Babs was missed for a while because I didn't have the classic sweats in fact for some reason I wasn't sweating much at all even in the summer back then.
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I didn't have sweats either--just would heat up and cool down sometimes for no apparent reason. I did get an out-of-balance feeling sometimes, and sometimes got true vertigo.
I decided to treat for Babs just in case--and got the best results of anything I'd tried to date!! Some particularly bothersome problems went away and haven't come back, including the two I mentioned.
After self-treating with artemisinin and cryptolepsis, I got the Fry Labs test done--smear and titers. The smear was clean, but the titers showed positive, so it wasn't gone. Drat.
I've been treating for Babs for about two months now with an herbal formula from my LLMD, and just started Mepron/Zith today.
Best,
Cass A
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I'm just starting my Babs treatment (have Lyme and Bart too).
I haven't really have night sweats, just an all-around elevation in body temperature, I guess.
I spent this past winter dressed in short-sleeved or sleeveless shirts.
I couldn't bear the thought of putting on a sweater. But I don't have excessive sweating, day or night.
My other Babs symptoms seem to be fatigue, general "wooziness", migraines and huge itchy rashes popping up all over that my dr thinks are Babs-related.
Good luck!
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I, too, had babs with no significant night sweats...Only had a few, light nighsweats once I started Mepron, zith, and art...Before treating for babs, I had extreme fatigue and my legs felt like lead weights...During treatment, I got a very stiff neck and stiff muscles along my spinal column...Now, post-babs, no more heavy legs!!! Also, (as you'll see from a post I put on this board earlier today), make sure you keep up with your magnesium intake...If not, it can cause severe muscle tightness and cramping and exacerbate fatigue.....With babs treatment, I developed hypomagnesemia from an extreme mag deficiency....
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Thank you Bugg,
After taking good doses of magnesium for two 1/2 years, I just stopped because I couldn't fit it in anywhere in my list of meds/supplements, due to starting on cipro.
My pharmacy instructions for cipro say: Take at the same time every day 6 hours before or 2 hours after magnesium, a,luminum, calcium, (and iron or Zinc. )
Avoid milk products, unless it's part of a full meal.
Good grief!
Gotta get it on my list again ... somehow ... because I just started Mepron this morning.
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