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I am now 2 weeks off abx, and feeling good! (After 2 years of aggressively treating lyme/bart/babs).
I had my liver enzymes checked every month or two, and they were always fine. Just had them checked yesterday, and they were elevated, which makes no sense, since I am off abx! Unless they were getting high the last month on malarone, and alternating bactrim.
Anyone have a similar situation..and what did you do?
Only thing I am on now is allicin and resveratrol.
Thanks..I'm freaking out thinking 2 years of abx damaged my liver.
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Babesia can cause elevated liver enzymes. I believe the babesia "die off" can also cause high liver enzymes.
These liver enzymes may have become elevated from the malarone/bactrim killing babesia.
I would think you want to be sure to wipe out a lot of the babesia while it is out of hiding, so as your enzymes allow, maybe you could keep treating babesia if you think it's still there?
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I've been feeling pretty good..actually pretty symptom free for the past 2 months..I did mepron and malarone @ 1 year ago, and have been on bactrin for almost 1 year..then the past 4 months I alternated 1 week malarone/zith, 1 week bactrim/zith.
I don't think I still have babs...I wonder if now that I'm not on meds. all the leftover toxins are flooding my liver
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Why were you still taking the malarone if you didn't think you still had babesia? Maintenence?
Maybe it is that when you were taking LESS malarone and meds, the babesia was able to gain an upper hand and THAT made your liver enzymes elevated.
I don't know how likely that scenario is but you should consider it as a possibility.
If you feel okay though...it is a rough call. But I just feel like I should bring it up. I think sometimes we can feel well and the infections can be gaining an upper hand. Whether or not to treat is a tough judgment call in that situation though.
I'm not sure what else could be causing them to be elevated, but just so you are aware, high liver enzymes are a babesia "symptom."
But if you have no OTHER babesia symptoms, i'm not sure what the proper course of action would be. You could always re-run a babesia test to see if it shows up as active.
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I was symptom free..so I was weaning off over a 3 month time period..hence, the less meds.
Wish I knew. I did stop the milk thistle around a month ago..got tired of taking so many supplements.
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Two possibilities for elevated liver enzymes.....brucellosis, a Lyme coinfection that is hard to eliminate, or hemochromatosis, iron overload.
Good luck with that issu, Jan
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