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I've made progress in my lyme treatment (and now bart treatment) but one of my lingering symptoms is air hunger...its awful!
I went to my llmd today, and asked if we could treat babs since my air hunger has not gotten any better. I thought air hunger is always babs. He said I do not have any of the babs symptoms, and air hunger can also go with lyme and/or bart.
We are going to continue to treat bart for now.
Has anyone else gotten rid of their air hunger by simply treating lyme or bart and not babs?
Help!
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Yes! I have. Pretty sure it was bart.Left on bart meds even though other babs symptoms remained Good luck Kris
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It can also be a Lyme symptom. I don't know how it causes this - does anyone have that info?
There is an article in the Focus newsletter of the Allergy ResearchGroup, October 09, that discusses how some inflammatory chemistry, specifically, nitric oxide and a byproduct, interfere with O2 absorption. Plus there's a list of supplement remedies.
I couldn't get the url to open just now, but if you go to AllergyResearchGroup, click on newsletter, then Oct 09/Pall research, that's the article that talks about oxygen deprivation in the tissues. I don't know if that translates to air hunger.
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yes, I had it due to bart also. Lots of lung and breathing difficulties.
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Thanks, I thought air hunger was only associated with babs. I hope it leaves with my bart treatment!
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NO! It can be Lyme. I know most Lyme docs and research I have read state you can have breathing issues with Borellia.
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I had air hunger for a YEAR after I was finished treating Lyme. I continued to get better and better, and it was only recently that I got rid of the air hunger. I have no idea what was causing it.
It can be thyroid ..... so maybe adrenals? I don't know, but I do know that all my other symptoms were resolved (except for insomnia which also continued to get better as my adrenals healed).
For a while tonic water helped, so it may have been lingering babs that my body eventually got rid of as I healed. After a while the air hunger was minor and tonic didn't help.
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Seems to me by now there would be some scientific knowledge on how Lyme causes air hunger. Anyone know?
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Mine was from Bart. I thought it could be from Babs since I had/have that too but when I went off the Bart meds that came back quickly. I only resume Bart meds and it went away with in several months. Now that I am not on Babs meds no air hunger even though some Babs symptoms have started to come back -- no air hunger ---only chills. So for me I knew mine was from Bart.
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