Lyme and babesia and ehrlichia chaffeensis

There's a lot of rumors about what order to treat these infections. Bottom line, it's different for everyone. The infection that's holding back the healing in one person may not apply to another person at all.

I treated Lyme first, then added in Bartonella treatments 3 months later - after I was stable on my Lyme treatments because these two infections were creating the worst of my symptoms - and I healed well.

Ehrlichia and Anaplasmosis is usually treated with Doxy, but it take a minimum of 100 mgs am and pm to do this and some find that they have to use 200 mgs am and pm. Generally speaking, Lyme treatment will take care of both of these infections though.

I can't answer on the Ivermectin dosages. Sorry.

Mexlyme said...
Hello everyone Ive Been struggling with this Lyme for quite some time now i got my co-infection lab results and i now know i have babesia and ehrlichia chaffeensis and as i found out it is best to treat co-infeciones before Lyme and well Ive Been taking doxy for quite some time it hasnt done nothing to ehrlichia any1 have any info on this?? Thank you have a good day i Also wanted to take invermectin what dosage is recomended since i AM taking doxy and bactrim

Hi Mexlyme, I'm sorry to hear you're struggling so, and are not getting relief from these infections, particularly the Erhlichia. It is not completely clear what meds you have been on "for quite some time," but if you have been on Bactrim along with the Doxy, this could be why you have not cleared the Erhlichia. Bactrim actually helps Erhlichia grow! It is not understood why this is, but here is what the CDC says about treatment with Bactrim:

/www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/rr/rr6502a1.htm?s_cid=rr6502a1_w

"Sulfonamide antimicrobials are associated with increased severity of tickborne rickettsial diseases. Experimental and accumulated anecdotal clinical data suggest that treatment of patients with RMSF with a sulfonamide drug can result in increased disease severity and death (119,120). Cases of severe ehrlichiosis also have been associated with the use of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (150–153). In some patients treated with sulfonamide or beta-lactam drugs, diagnosis and appropriate treatment of tickborne rickettsial illness was delayed because the development of a rash was mistaken for a drug eruption rather than recognized as a manifestation of rickettsial illness (205)."

Dr. Burrascano recommends the combination of Doxy and Rifampin for severe or difficult cases of Ehrlichiosis/Anaplasmosis. See his 2008 Treatment Guidelines:

www.lymenet.org/BurrGuide200810.pdf

Blue - I've probably asked you this before - what are your symptoms of vasculitis?

I tried bactrim for a couple of weeks - this past summer and I got an increase in back pain...more burning than I've ever had before...

No, i haven't seen Reminder on here for awhile...