stobes said...
Hi. I'm overwhelmed by the amount of posts on this site, but also super grateful. I'm 7 days into treatment for babesia. Vibrant confirms exposure as well to anaplasmosis, Bartonella, and borrelia.
In early March, I was driving home and had sudden heart palpitations and shortness of breath that have yet to go away. Since that time, I developed tremors (not really an issue since mid-April), had one night of night sweats, POTS like symptoms (resting heart rate can go anywhere from 60-130, and changing position switches it up from 100-180), insomnia, shower anxiety, chest pains, extreme anxiety and depression, burning sensations in my chest and arms (occasionally), and tingling down the right side of my body (happened once during the night).
Through March and April, I was in the ED 4 times, saw multiple doctors, took multiple tests -- was told every time it was either anxiety or thyroid issues. My TSH is low and remains low, but t3 and t4 are normal so Endocrinologist suspects sick euthyroid.
Finally, I saw a naturopathic doctor and she immediately suspected babesia.
I started mepron, azithromycin, and minocycline a week ago. I have felt awful the whole time. I don't know if I'm herxing or just generally not reacting well to the medications. I can't breathe well (have to keep changing position to get a deep breath), I cry all day long, I feel heavy in my chest and legs, I have intermittent swallowing problems, I feel occasional random pains all over my back, my arms, and middle of my thighs and calves. I'm on some supplements, too, and I'm supposed to stay on this regimen for a month before we reassess protocol. I've noticed in the past week, too, that my heart palpitations (PVCs, tachycardia) has increased. My LLND suspects
that the increase in cardiovascular symptoms is related to the treatment.
Have any of you experienced these same symptoms and responses? If so, when did it get better for you?
I actually experienced all of this on a daily and this was years before I even realized I had babesia. Imagine having it as a child, I was misdiagnosed with anxiety, depression, bipolar, I had severe heart palps, POTS, they actually put me in the phsyc ward as a child thinking I had mental issues, I also became suicidal, and I had lyme., babesia, bartonella, mold toxicity. The er which i landed in many times prescribed me percocet and i almost died! It made the chest pain and breathing worse and the heart palpitations were insane. I've recently realized I had babesia because I'm on clindamycin for a week and that's when I started having burning sensations all throughout my head neck chest arm. My heart rate went through the roof felt.so much panic and doom and depression. I have 3 kids at home no friends or family much so this didnt help. All we can do is detox lots I do alkazeltzer to bring down the herx (bad reactions) or epsom salt bath. I had to stop the clindamycin after a week bt will start up again and I was on sida acuta bt had to stop 1 drop was potent enough to last for at least 3 days ,bt we get used to it after a while, bt I'd say the more u detox the less side effects you'll get.