Posted 4/4/2021 5:30 PM (GMT -5)
Did you thoroughly treat bartonella or only Lyme?
Veterinary literature indicates bartonella has many effects on the reproductive system.
I always had worse PMS symptoms than most and had odd PMS symptoms that were typical to my family but not others. My immune system always seemed to bottom out around my periods, too. Whenever I got sick with colds, it was usually close to my period. I also would get aching pain from the waist down and feel like I had a low grade fever at times. I think I likely have had bartonella since childhood.
When my body went completely dysfunctional with out of control inflammation at age 39, my regular periods stopped and became irregular. Then, all my normal symptoms were almost unrecognizable and felt very different. For example, instead of a normal kind of breast pain with tender breasts, I would feel sore on my sides under my armpits and maybe some across the top ribs. Took me forever to realize it was hormonal.
I also later found I had sky high levels of zearalenone mycotoxins from Fusarium mold. It was not one identified by Real-Time Labs, so it was a couple years later before I knew I had it after testing with Great Plains. It highly affects hormones and mimics estradiol I think. It comes from Fusarium mold, which was not one identified on the ERMI test.