Treating Babesia and facing possibly bad systemic Candida - what to do?

I’m currently on Malarone regimen treating mostly Babesia + Bartonella - since 1.5 month.

After switching to Babesia regimen I felt 80% better in about week or two, and felt like that for maybe a month.

Then my doctor added 3rd antibiotic, which is pretty strong and everything started to go downhill.

I had multiple rashes on neck, skin and started to face typical Candida symptoms like hypoglycemia, stomach pain, digestive issues, slurres speech, metalic taste in mouth, bad breath low energy, brain fog and stuff like that, and I started to feel horrible again.

In that state I have big issues with keeping my job duties as it’s physical job.

I wonder what should I do - my doctor requested me to do D-arabinitol testing for Candida, but result waiting time is about 3 months, and I can’t wait that long feeling like that.

I’m currently taking fluconazole 100 mg 2 times a week prophylactically since starting working with that doctor, but I wonder if it’s enough if my Candida problem is big.

Should I treat Candida while taking antibiotics or take them off and risk Babesia flop? What would you do in my situation?

Mepron/malarone generally kills candida or fungus. I often take mepron for mold or fungal infections and it works quite well, so I suspect that's not the cause of your problem.

Really what you describe seems like a typical herx, but fluconazole does tend to mess with adrenals and electrolytes, so that might be the cause of some of your issues. Also you really have to watch your folate levels if you are taking malarone, as proguanil is a rather strong folate inhibitor. I got folate deficiency from it, and it made me feel terrible.

Bartonella die off caused me a lot of stomach issues, and some of what you're taking hits bartonella so you're probably getting some herx from that in addition to the babesia. Bartonella also causes skin rashes, but so do a lot of other things.