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I had a positive titer for lyme when 17 and was treated with 1 month of doxy. I never had any symptoms for about the next 6 years. Over the past years I have been experiencing alot of fatigue, muscle twitches, and pain in the calf muscles especially, numbness and tingling in extremities. Alot of these symptoms sound like the co-infection Bartonella . Symptoms have been gradually increasing slowly over the time frame of about 4 years. Mostly neurological.
So here is my question. If I was treated for lyme and had no problem for that long. You all think I may actually have the co-infection or just lyme?
I was thinking just lyme. I can only afford one test right now. So, im trying to figure out which would be the best.
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disturbedme
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Most people with lyme have one, if not MORE co-infections. If someone only had lyme, I'd be very surprised.
The calf pain does sound like Bartonella for sure. It's highly possible you have that co-infection, if not more. You could be tested for co-infections through Fry or IGeneX. They are both really good labs in finding co's.
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METALLlC BLUE
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The infection was 'possibly' pushed into dormancy, or you could have been reinfected. You could also have killed the first infection entirely and not been co-infected, or the opposite.
Whatever the issue, co-infections must always be taken extremely seriously if Lyme Disease is present, and or if a tick-bite occurred and illness followed.
-------------------- 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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One month of doxy simply cannot get rid of Lyme; it is still in you, and is almost certainly contributing to your illness. You may very well have bart in addition, but the only way to really determine whether or not that's the case is to take bart meds and see how you respond.
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