Alternatives to Biaxin for Babesia, and so on...

[Guest guest]

Has anyone experienced having or chosing to take an alternative to Biaxin with

Mepron for Babesia. I experienced a rash with erythromyacin about 20 years ago

and was told to try the Biaxin anyway because it is so important to my

treatment. I picked up to prescription today and read that a rash is considered

an extreme allergic reaction and now I am afraid to take the Biaxin as it is in

the myacin family. This is just not going to be easy is it? Anybody been

allergic and stayed on the drug or any drug? Can you do that?

Also, I have been on Doxy (prescribed by another doc which I started taking

because I was beginning to feel worse and afraid not to have something working

in my system while waiting for the Mepron to come in at the drug store) for the

last 4 days and experiencing flu like symptoms and headaches, esp in back of

head and neck. I sometimes feel pretty good in the morning and then go downhill

pretty fast. Is it in any of your experiences that Herx effects happen so soon

and this way? Or is this the Babesia just getting worse? Is this how it can act?

I was put on Minocycline for trace gram neg staff in my sinuses earlier this

month before my Bab diag and had to come off after 6 days because of shakes and

tachtycardia. I wasn't sure if this was the fact that I was also taking some

decongestants (I have dysautonomia/POTS and have since I was a teenager.. this

runs in my family).... but now I am wondering if it was herx reaction. Any

similar experiences?

I am still in shock with this diagnosis and emotional. Then I think I am losing

my mind and worry about neuro symptoms.. like when I forgot my son's name a few

months ago for about 10 seconds. It was very scary. I think I fear the

cognitive, psych symptoms and deterioration more than anything else. I know I

have been losing words more and forgetting what I am talking about in

conversations and needing lists more. My mind races at times and I get racing

images coming at me. I thought this was due to the excess adrenaline that I

supposedly experience because of my POTS (adrenaline surges to make heart beat

faster because of low blood volume)... but..... ??? I also realize that I have

been on a short emotional trigger the last few years.. at times, esp when having

symptoms. Now that I look back...

Thank you for any words of wisdom, experience, and assurance (please!!!!:-)), as

I am getting depressed fast, would be so welcome. I have accessed tons of info

and am grateful for all the info and a bit discouraged at how much the medical

community is at odds to the extent it is.

Sally

[Guest guest]

I am on the Lyme Buhner group, and I follow his protocol for

Lyme and its co-infections.

I used artemisinin and boneset tea for babesia and I had a quick recovery.

For more info read Buhner's Lyme book or

health./group/ .

good luck with it whatever you do.

ellen

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> Has anyone experienced having or chosing to take an alternative to

Biaxin with Mepron for Babesia. I experienced a rash with

erythromyacin about 20 years ago and was told to try the Biaxin anyway

because it is so important to my treatment. I picked up to

prescription today and read that a rash is considered an extreme

allergic reaction and now I am afraid to take the Biaxin as it is in

the myacin family. This is just not going to be easy is it? Anybody

been allergic and stayed on the drug or any drug? Can you do that?

> Also, I have been on Doxy (prescribed by another doc which I started

taking because I was beginning to feel worse and afraid not to have

something working in my system while waiting for the Mepron to come in

at the drug store) for the last 4 days and experiencing flu like

symptoms and headaches, esp in back of head and neck. I sometimes feel

pretty good in the morning and then go downhill pretty fast. Is it in

any of your experiences that Herx effects happen so soon and this way?

Or is this the Babesia just getting worse? Is this how it can act?

> I was put on Minocycline for trace gram neg staff in my sinuses

earlier this month before my Bab diag and had to come off after 6 days

because of shakes and tachtycardia. I wasn't sure if this was the fact

that I was also taking some decongestants (I have dysautonomia/POTS

and have since I was a teenager.. this runs in my family).... but now

I am wondering if it was herx reaction. Any similar experiences?

> I am still in shock with this diagnosis and emotional. Then I think

I am losing my mind and worry about neuro symptoms.. like when I

forgot my son's name a few months ago for about 10 seconds. It was

very scary. I think I fear the cognitive, psych symptoms and

deterioration more than anything else. I know I have been losing words

more and forgetting what I am talking about in conversations and

needing lists more. My mind races at times and I get racing images

coming at me. I thought this was due to the excess adrenaline that I

supposedly experience because of my POTS (adrenaline surges to make

heart beat faster because of low blood volume)... but..... ??? I also

realize that I have been on a short emotional trigger the last few

years.. at times, esp when having symptoms. Now that I look back...

> Thank you for any words of wisdom, experience, and assurance

(please!!!!:-)), as I am getting depressed fast, would be so welcome.

I have accessed tons of info and am grateful for all the info and a

bit discouraged at how much the medical community is at odds to the

extent it is.

> Sally

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