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What is going on with me? I've been sick for about a year and at one point made great progress and then relapsed horrible early this summer.
I just started with a new llmd about a month ago. We started to treat babs and bart with Bactrim, and then I added Zith last week.
My thighs started hurting on Monday, and have gotten worse every single day.
On Tuesday my drs office called and had me stop Zith for a week to treat some other infection that showed up (in my stomach) for 7 days and then I'm to go back on Zith.
I'm worried by tomorrow I will barely be able to walk. Why this new pain in both thighs?
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Tricky Tickey
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I wish I had the answer. I too am suffering from unexplained pain & I'm very confused. If it helps any, just know you aren't alone!
-------------------- Early Disseminated LD- 2010. Currently doing acupuncture and yoga. Negative Igenex (IND & Pos Bands) ISSUES AFTER: Tendonitis, letter reversal, Low immune system. PREVENTION:SaltC,Iodine,Humaworm, Chiropractic. Posts: 1013 | From In a van down by the river. | Registered: Jun 2010
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Sounds like a typical lyme thing to me. Just have to get used to the craziest things happening.
But, you were saved by the other infection. Yeah!
So, hopefully, the pain will now subside, and when you go back on the zith, hopefully if you get it again it won't be as severe.
It is a stroke of luck that you get to stop the zith. Seems like it was causing this to me. Must have been killing something. Zith is a very important lyme drug, per my doc.
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Yes, the zith was likely targeting something that needed to be killed out. Will your new dr allow you to stop meds for a day or two if your herx gets out of hand??
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bcb1200
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Thigh pain is a common Bab's symptom. I think it means you are killing it.
see the symptom list below: Babesiosis
As with other co-infections, there is a lot of overlap of symptoms between Lyme disease and Babesiosis. An accumulation of the following signs and symptoms probably warrant testing and/or treatment of Babesiosis:
___Chills
___Fatigue and often excessive sleepiness
___High fever at onset of illness
___Night sweats that are often drenching and profuse
___Severe muscle pains, especially the large muscles of the legs (quads, buttocks, etc.)
___Neurological symptoms often described as "dizzy, tipsy, and spaciness," similar to a sensation of "floating" or "walking off the top of a mountain onto a cloud"
___Depression
___Episodes of breathlessness, "air hunger", and/or cough
___Decreased appetite and/or nausea
___Spleen and/or liver enlargement
___Abnormal labs (low white blood count, low platelet counts, mild elevation of liver enzymes, and elevated sed rate)
___Headaches (migraine-like, persistent, and especially involving the back of the head and upper neck areas)
___Joint pain (more common with Lyme and Bartonella)
___anxiety/panic (more common with Bartonella)
___Lymph gland swelling (more common with Bartonella and Lyme)
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