L-theanine can help to some degree - it acts on the GABA system also i am also wary of pharma sleep meds but really need something to help me maintain sleep at present, i am using : 1mg melatonin...
Fenbendazole and many of the other azoles have activity against Bartonella also - so it may be an indication you are dealing with Bart. i have read that bartonella forms resistance to single...
Marty Ross MD is one of the LLMD's that uses it in his article here he describes its use in treating Bart as part of a wider protocol https://www.treatlyme.net/guide/kills-bartonella-a-brief-guide...
Welcome to the forum! Your Dr should be able to test you for tickborne diseases - via Armin Labs. I will look up the contact info and post it for you. Here it is https://arminlabs.com Many forum...
Awesome! thanks, Rainy - saved me the cost of the book - as this was the main thing I was interested in buying it for....
the traditional Buhner herbs for Bart are as Girlie posted buhner later posted that he like Salvia Militorrhiza for any chronic bacterial infection - and it is protective of the endothelial cells (...
yep - my partner used to have extreme rage and panic attacks ( she is ill also with the same thing as me - but more or less recovered now - but used to have lots of neuro symptoms) we found...
hi insomniaaa, i have been researching this a little lately. the WHO regards it as v safe - the only caution is in people who may have been exposed to a filarial disease called Loa Loa - typically...
very interesting Carl - thank you for updating i am a little surprised to hear of Herx effects - as its being used by some Lyme MD's for immune dysfunction - ie to help settle down overactive immune...
i have been taking it in tincture form in low/tonic doses for around 3 years now - about 2ml 3x a day i think it helps a little in terms of helping build my strength up / as an adaptogen long term -...
Hi Carl - i know you are taking a lot of different medications concurrently and feeling pretty rough at times did you experience any ill effects from taking the ivermectin that you could apportion...
from what I have read the dose is generally 12mg a day as in the above example this is the standard dose for its original use as an anti-parasitic drug its actually dosed by body weight - and the...
good point Breezy - i had forgotten about the difference sin P450 activity...
OK, i would expect the powdered herbs to remain largely unabsorbed ( there is a lot of plant fiber and insoluble proteins etc in powdered herbs that will not disolve ) and so it's entirely normal for...
what was it made from?...
i have read that Clarithromyxin is thought to be better for Bart and maybe lyme. Bart docs tend to refer to clarithromycin to be harder for Bart to develop resistance to - something bart does fairly...
interesting so it's basically the same as their original culture the qPCR process except that now the cultured sample is emulsified into 20,000 droplets and the PCR multiplication of DNA is done in...
the doctor Mo Been channel also has quite a lot of info on the mechanism of action for Ivermectin in Covid and Dr Steven Philips mentions it for chronic lyme in his new book "chronic" i am interested...
hi Dimitry - thanks for this - but even when i eat carbs i get little or no spike in glucose - nothing outside the normal range on a blood glucose meter - so its seems less likely its directly from...
this is tricky Jay - but my vote would be relapse - from the symptoms and scenario you describe. relapse after remission is a common thing with both Lyme and babesia especially if some kind of stress...
which antibiotics have you been prescribed Skeletonflower?...
Hi Martin you have many similarities to my own condition it seems - i have Lyme and suspected Bartonella also - possibly others as I also have high titers to Mycoplasma Pneumonia - but no lung or...
I think it's one of the most informative tests i have done - especially if done alongside other tests at the same time - like stool tests and breath tests - as it allows you to build a fuller...
so i finished the Blautia genus article its basically one of the most common and abundant genus of bacteria in the human gut - approx 99-100% of samples contain it, and an average of around 10% of...
WBF- yep my glutathione, NAC, and I think Vitamin C were all on the floor also basically, the antioxidant system was working overtime and running out...
i'm no expert DCD - i went through some of this stuff to understand my own OAT ( Great plains lab - so different) however i had some different markers to you out of range - so did different research...
ref Quinolinic acid - thats unusual Martin - from my research pretty much all intracellular pathogens that can infect the CNS tend to cause high quinolinic acid - Lyme, Bartonella, rickettsia, etc...
to my knowledge FISH and IFA tests are usually recommended as suitable tests for Babesia however none of the available tests are perfect and there are many issues - mainly to do with sensitivity as I...
yep - mine seems to have stabilized at 33 / 5.2 ( IFCC HbA1c (mmol/mol) / NGSP HbA1c (%))...
Wow - Evanston - I would love to hear an account of your experiences with the hyperthermic treatment. what was involved - how long, how hot, any meds with it / abx or just the hyperthermic treatment...
I wonder if urtica dentate would be useful (see below).. can't seem to find much info about it. I also wonder if coumarins can be found in the more common urtica dioica (stinging nettle):...
yep - it seems highly likely to me that there are similar mechanisms at play in both illnesses - there are also studies that link covid severity to pre-existing perturbations in the gut microbiome -...
fruit is a bit of a no-no for me - basically, any carbs tend to trigger more symptoms it's not all linear though - for instance i can tolerate a v small amount of oats - especially if they are not...
yep, one of the issues with testing for many of us is that most test will only look for these two species and yet there is something like 30 species known at this point ( species not strains ), and...
I guess it's possible - you could certainly see how a random selection process could select for adaptations that enhanced its survival this way - i think we will find that many organisms have the...
hi WBF - yes - the gut microbiome - measured by PCR sequencing of stool samples preserved at point of collection on existing platforms - for around a month after hospitalization as i understood their...
I'm still following this subject of similarities between long COVID and Chronic Lyme came across this study in my exploration - it notes disturbance of the microbiome during and after COVID infection...
yes - i suffer ongoing inflammation, pain in muscles and joints and gut issues, high oxidative stress, and inflammation markers show up on things like Organic Acid Testing - and high gut...
i get flare-ups from breaking the keto diet a single piece of baked goods will do it for me - basically, pretty much anything that has carbs in it seems to trigger brain fog, headache, fatigue - as...
from what I recall of digging into the Organic Acid Testing results and markers - it was suggested that the amount of these organic acids appearing in the urine as a whole can be taken as a kind of...
a great many people with Lyme have gastro issues - myself included - i have had all the same tests done and found much the same results plenty of others here get tested for SIBO and come back...
the PEM is certainly a key indicator of a CFS/ME like illness - and Lyme and its co-infections can certainly cause it i have Lyme ( positive serology - the test that came back positive used B....
No Problem Dcd - i can't argue with anything you have said - and the whole point of the thread was to open a discussion and your input is always welcome. it is frustrating that we can see half of the...
yeah, pots, the way I read it is that anything that competes in the same space as the Blautia genus may reduce Blautia abundance - by any one of several mechanisms - and this would apply to other...
this is a link to a snapshot of things that reduce Blautia abundance - according to published studies - presented as a map. it took me a little while to figure out that the way the data is presented...
don't know what to make of this ..... of course, i hope it works - or is of at least some benefit but what I just read of the story rang some alarm bells for me -some biochemists came up with a...
yep, apparently its quite common - may be antimicrobial to various intracellular bacteria - mycoplasma, Bartonella, chlamydia i think. seems fine if I start very gently - eg 250mg 2x a day and work...
300mg 2x a day here - have done for years now - probably since around 2016 found a low glutathione marker in one of my tests and so added this to help suppoprt it no adverse effects that i have ever...
Yeah, it's meant as more of a question for discussion - rather than a prescription for a cure. it hurts my brain as well by the way - but i refuse to give up trying to understand what might be going...
K07 - I think Blautia is in 99% of all samples in the general population - so unfortunately it's the levels that have the most meaning as almost everyone has some. I took a look at the Virome gut...