Stress does lead to diabetes, but I found that cortisol wasn't the main problem. It was the endorphins/enkephalins which lead to a tolerance effect where the cells become unresponsive not only to...
Bartonella majorly screwed up my gut, especially when herxing. I killed the bart with antibiotics, and just suffered through the herxes. The problem went away once the bart was all gone. Also I found...
The weight loss was a small part of it. Getting the HPA axis stress under control was a much bigger factor, as this directly contributes to insulin resistance. Getting the pancreatic beta cells to...
It could be a herx. I got a lot of bowel pain from bartonella herx (not from rifampin specifically)....
If so, you wouldn't be the first person to find out the hard way that vitamin D is toxic in excess, especially if you take excess calcium too. Many people on this forum have reported problems with...
The typical outcome with invokana (canagliflozin) isn't much better. Although it avoids weight gain and associated cardiovascular risk by making you piss out the excess sugar, it doesn't fix the...
Yes, I did try taking canagliflozin, which makes you pee out sugar. So I could 'drain the reserve' by taking hydrocortisone to release the sugar, and then canagliflozin to piss it out. This did not...
I found with diabetes there are actually two problems. First there is the insulin resistance, and then there is the death of pancreatic beta cells. Due to adrenal and metabolic issues, insulin levels...
No, kidneys aren't supposed to hurt. That's a little concerning as it could be a sign of kidney stones. Rifampin made me pee more and made my pee orange, but didn't cause kidney pain....
The creatinine problem didn't show up with rifampin, just bactrim. Rifampin was majorly stressing my adrenals. I was peeing a lot, losing salt and getting headaches. I managed to eat enough extra...
Bactrim caused my creatinine to be high on a blood test, yes. It also caused my sodium and potassium to be a bit more variable. I seem to have kinda poor adrenal function, so anything that messes...
I took most of those antibiotics and never had any problems with red blood cell production or other obvious bone marrow effects. However, minocycline did suppress my immune system. It's not...
dcd2103 - You also mentioned that you had a bad reaction to vitamin D. Taking high doses of vitamin D can raise your calcium, so that probably didn't help....
I've used dna connexions and the test is pretty accurate, but I did get one false negative (for bartonella). So it's not perfect. It takes a week or two to get the results....
I've gotten covid repeatedly and I didn't get majorly sick but it is a very persistent infection that is hard to get rid of. I just don't seem to get antibodies to it, probably because my immune...
dnaconnexions.com If the infection is in the early stages, you do run the risk of a false negative....
I found that LDN increased my immune response to viral infections somewhat, and it alleviated some of the symptoms of HPA axis dysfunction. I never noticed any effect on lyme/bart. I took ivermectin...
Yes, bart does mess with the immune system in some way, which is probably why I couldn't get antibodies to it. Ultimately I was able to kill it with antibiotics, so the poor immune response didn't...
Actually that's not quite how bartonella works. It invades the red blood cells to reproduce, but then goes back into its dormant state, hiding elsewhere. When it's in the blood, it is vulnerable to...
At times when I was feeling sick it was usually pretty obvious from standard blood tests. When I would take abx and herx, my neutrophil counts would go up. When bart flared, bilirubin and B6 would go...
Borrelia burgdorferi is not known to produce B6. However, Bartonella genome sequence reveals a vitamin B6 synthesis pathway... https://www.genome.jp/entry/bhe:BH10900 My LLMD didn't seem too...
Bartonella. It doesn't go away, because the bacteria will make more....
I used to have this problem. My insulin levels were slightly low. Not so low as to cause extremely high blood sugar (although it would occasionally get somewhat high) but low enough to cause poor...
Having less energy is probably just a herx. Symptoms of cortisol deficiency include peeing a lot (salt loss), feeling nervous but tired, sleep disruption, constipation/diarrhea (endorphin effect)....
I found that mepron works best when combined with other abx. Mepron plus minocycline and clarithromycin definitely made me herx, however it only took a few days. There are some drugs that can stay in...
I found that mepron would only last a day or two. This was especially noticeable with covid since the virus would relapse once the mepron was gone. Maybe I metabolize it faster than usual, but do not...
If you have a viral infection, a couple of hours. Atovaquone can inactivate certain viruses, and this can lead to an inflammatory response as the immune system reacts. If you have babesia, I found...
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Bartonella I was able to eliminate with antibiotics. Lyme has been much more difficult....
Claritin has been shown to affect borrelia burgdorferi in vitro, albeit weakly. I actually did get some herxing from it, which surprised me a little....
It can, but not necessarily in a predictable or obvious way. Simply the stress of it can raise cortisol. Another thing that can happen is that when your liver tries to detox, the liver enzymes break...
My first suspicion here is the cryptolepis. Cryptolepis made me feel very tired and nervous. I'm not sure exactly what it did, but it clearly inhibited some important metabolic process. Herxing and...
This report found viral antigen in recovered patients up to 180 days later. https://gut.bmj.com/content/gutjnl/early/2021/06/13/gutjnl-2021-324280.full.pdf It's unclear if these patients could spread...
There's also this general bartonella group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1104493829902071/ The reviews on the various treatment options are quite mixed, and not entirely positive....
Vaccinated people can still spread the virus somewhat. It's possible that someone got infected. It's also possible that whatever activity they were doing weakened their immune system and led to a...
Some people on facebook have been discussing gallium nitrate and nitroxoline as possible treatments for bartonella....
Azithromycin or clarithromycin were favorites of Dr M. I don't know if that's his current protocol though....
General notes on bart treatment: Rifampin or rifabutin plus azithromycin or clarithromycin is often the first protocol tried for bart. High rate of failure due to increasing resistance of bartonella...
Can you tolerate bactrim?...
I didn't always get a fever from bartonella. Also, minocycline is anti-inflammatory and tends to suppress fever....
The belching (poor gastric motility) and heart palpitations can be signs of adrenal dysfunction. A lot of things can cause that, it's not really specific to bart. Bart did get into my eyes and cause...
The pollen allergy was one of my first symptoms, before I realized I had Lyme. It eventually went away. I'm not sure if that was directly from killing the bacteria, or my immune system just got...
The bartonella herx is very distinctive, and different from Lyme. I tended to get a fever, dark urine, and stomach pain followed by diarrhea. Where I had skin rashes, it would itch. It also smelled...
When I first got Lyme, I started getting allergic to everything. Not just foods, but pollen, etc. It went away with antibiotic treatment....
I took clarithromycin and it didn't mess with my heart too much but I noticed that at times I would feel a little bloated, and other times would pee more. I suspect it was messing with my...
I suspect I have Gilbert's syndrome as my bilirubin is often at the upper end of the normal range, around 1.0-1.2 mg/dL. However, when I had an active bartonella infection, it was much higher -...
I've had blood tests show excessive vitamin B6. That one in particular seems to be a problem if you take too much....
The herx was crazy bad. When I took the valproate, for the first few days nothing happened, but after a week or so the bacteria started dying, and the die off became more and more intense. Borrelia...
I was surprised how much trouble I had with covid. I went through several bottles of mepron dealing with that. Atovaquone stops the virus pretty quickly, within a few hours, but if I stopped taking...
Yes, I had stretch marks and skin rashes from bart, but I suspect I had it long before those symptoms showed up. I haven't had a cat in more than 10 years and I probably had the bartonella infection...