I am currently treating Babesia with IV Zith, Malarone, and Art (this is my third week 4 days on 3 days off) and I have started with a low grade fever and body aches. This all started on my 3 days off after a b12 injection. (day after)
I do have a PICC line and my LLMD has taken blood cultures to rule out PICC infection. After 24 hours there seems to be no bacterial growth but I have to wait 72 hrs for the final report.
Can bart emerge while treating babs? I feel terrible. Flu-like.
Help!
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Only a guess but these symptoms may simply indicate that your immune system is finally kicking in somewhat against this disease eg Babs. Glad your BC is staying negative. You are killing the parasite that lives in your RBC's, keep it up.
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Often when you are treating one co-infection, symptoms from another arise.
I had this while treating babesia (bart symptoms came out).
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I am treating Bart and making much progress in just a few weeks.
I have noticed Babesia symptoms coming into the picture - mild air hunger and sweating.
Lyme symptoms also coming back into the picture, lightening bolts in my cheek moving up to my ear and then down into my jaw.
Just happened a few times in a few days.
To me, it means things are working, things are getting riled up. The lead monster is no longer in the lead.
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Jenny, certainly! It happened to me all the time. I attack one coinfection, another pops up. I suspect that you are either cleaning the layers of infection and that you got to pass through that until all infections are doomed,
or that the ecossystem in your body works like in nature: when you got a sterilized place, you'll get it filled with the first oportunistic bacteria or microbe. If the place had been occupied by something else, there's little space for newcomers to enter.
Bart for me ONLY appeared symptomatic after my babesia was gone. I got my first bart rashes on the skin after attacking babesia (if my memory is good).
But the good thing is that bart is usually one of the last infections to go, accordign to dr. K, together with borrelia.
As for the fall of an infection and rise of ANOTHER infection, I've seen that too many times to count. It doesn't mean that the other low profile infection was NOT there before. It was, but it just didn't have 'space' to act. At least, that is how I understand.
I've been reading books about plants, and the symbiotic mechanism of bacteria in their roots. If these good bacteria go, other harmful microbes come and the root can get sick (like some bad fungi, etc). To have the root COMPLETELY covered with beneficial bacteria is one of the ways plants protect themselves from disease, by allowing these good bacteria to thrive.
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Thank you so much for the responses guys. In the beginning, before I knew I had Lyme and Co's I have fevers (low grade) and felt very flu like but not sicne starting treatment 1 1/2 years ago.
The fact that I have a fever and body aches really concerns me. Really hope that the PICC line blood cultures are accurate because I don't want to mess around with that.
I am also concerned with the racing heart. Is that bart or babs?
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Does everyone that gets bart get the rash etc?
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