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I've had neurological lyme for six years, some of yo know me, but the last two years I have had a lot of problems with my white blood cell count being in the ones and twos instead of four to six which is normal.
My red blood cells are really little and irregular shaped.
My hemoglobin is in the nines on a high day, sevens on a low and needing blood transfusions to bring it back up.
I've been on Ferro Food and eating tons of food with iron for five years, trying to remedy this, but it's getting worse lately.
I get infections easily, my spleen is really enlarged, twice it's normal size.
The theory out there by the "specialists" is that either...
a...my spleen is overactive and taking out my good cells, leaving my body unable to make up the difference...
or
b...my bone marrow is messed up by the long term abx, two years of iv treatments, plus all the orals...and it's not making enough of them.
Anybody else have anything like this? I really think we maybe got the lyme disease. My only other bad symptoms is trigeminal neuralgia and occipital neuralgia which I seem to be able to control with peripheral nerve stimulator implants and pain medicine.
So, I would love feedback from anybody else with experience!
I pray for all of you/us every day!
In His care, Jenn
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TerryK
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Sounds like you may have babesia. I think iron feeds it.
Terry I'm not a doctor
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Thank you guys, haven't tried that, didn't know it affected blood. I will look into that right away!
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