Just wanted to ask what is the best combination to treat bart and babs at the same time. Or do I have to battle bart first. Background: I have done the Wheldon cap for cpn for 8 month(Doxy 200, Zithro 250 Mo/We/Fr + Tini pulses). Then we found out that I am bartonella positive. That is why we changed my protocol to Rifampin 900 + Zithro.500 p.d + Tini Pulses. I started 5 weeks ago and I feel horrible. How long does it take to feel improvements?
I am also suspecting babs because I have very strong night sweats, dark urine, air hunger , diarrhea. The other reason why I suspect babs is, that my awfullst herx was on clindamycin for three days -but after three days getting much better. Also tini helps me - but only for 3- 5 days after a 5 day pulse. The babs test was negative - but the tests here in germany are not very good for babs.
Might it be agood idea to change to bactrim and rifampin+artemisinin to cover both?
Please share your experiences.
Thanks in advance.
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Geneal
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Bumping up for help.
I did each co-infection at a time.
Hugs,
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I did Malarone and Zith for several months and now doing Mepron and Zith.
I took 600mg of Zith a day, and I'm pretty tiny. For me both Malarone and Mepron have taken care of babs and the Zith cleared the Bart.
Lauren
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Amanda, why should you not take Mepron and Levequin at the same time? I was taking both but had to stop Lev bc of worsening joint pain.
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my protocol is mepron/biaxin/bactrim/clindamycin and soon to add primaquine and alinia. I might reconsider the primaquine and alinia, we'll see how I do on this massive amount of babs meds! You might want to consider clindamycin. I think this combo is helping, along with incresing my dosage of mepron.
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I want to clarify that I am still fighting babs. Haven't been able to beat this one yet, but I don't feel Bart is a problem for me anymore.
Lauren
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Dr. Burrescano has warned about this in various presentations. I heard his lecture in Sept 08 and there He suggested treating bart first b/c it's his theory that if Levaquin (his first choice for bart) is taken after treatment with Mepron, apparently the Levaquin is less effective on the bart.
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