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One of my symptoms that seems to come and go is head pressure and right side headache.
My recent spect scan indicated mild to moderate hypo perfusion. My LLMD indicated that most Lyme patients have this issue. What causes this? is it the toxins or the spirochete itself
Does it go away with treatment? I am on Biaxin and Flagly only for around 1 month now. Will this combo treat for this symptoms
Do I have to go on IV treatment? or can I stick with Abx
-------------------- Dx 3/2008 Pos. WB and Bart- igenex Levequin 500 mg March 2008 Amox 6000 mg - May 2008 Doxy 400 mg - June - oct Biaxin and Flagly 1000 each, oct-dec Zitro, Malarone and Flagly Jan - feb Remission for 6 months Relapse Sept 2009 zithro/flagyl Posts: 130 | From canada | Registered: Mar 2008
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Boomerang
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I think you mean hypoperfusion -- not hyperfusion?
Hypo = too little bloodflow
Hyper = too much bloodflow
Hypoperfusion is usually caused by brain inflammation -- you need antibiotics which penetrate the brain. Some orals can do this if the dose is high enough.
Also may need to check for hypercoagulation -- blood clots too easily. This could also cause or make hypoperfusion worse.
Depends on which areas of the brain have too much or too little bloodflow as to what symptoms hypoperfusion could cause. Your report should give some details about the areas of the brain involved.
Bea Seibert
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david1097
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I think you meant to say hypo perfusion ~ low blood flow.
There is not a lot of recent news on the reasons for this with lyme but some early work (1995 or so) was done (and it was very well done) that showed that some of the outer proteins of the lyme bacteria were inflamatory to blood vessels thus causing constriction. This apparently happens in the very small vasculature in the brain and reduces the overall blood flow. The proteins are given off the baceria when it dies.
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lyme in Putnam
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I took a spect scan in 2005 and it showed mild to moderate global heterogeneous hypoperfusion. It generally says slow blood flow throughout the brain. As seen is encephilitis, vasculitis, medications can cause this as well as lyme disease. Was on IV rocephin for 10 mos. Took spect scan again and it showed exactly the same. I do feel better on treatment, but a year later on iv, it was the same.
feel good.
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