Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Byron White A-Bab Notes
The day after starting Byron White A-Bab for a babesia duncani infection I noticed my feet and hands were really cold. We haven't changed the thermostat so it is not that. Nor am I getting ill. The 3rd day of A-Bab, I noticed the cold sensation even more. Right now I am on my 7th day and the tip of my nose is icy, I have been holding hand warmers to keep my hands warm and my feet are cold especially at the toes. I think on the 4th day (8 drops), my right hand seized up and just felt very arthritic. I rarely if ever get the arthritic symptoms so that is interesting too. This A-Bab is bringing out a whole new set of symptoms. Today I took 14 drops. Tomorrow will be 16, Next 18, Then 20 and that will be the final dose. I will wait a few days and then I need to add in the A-Bart 10 drops 2x a day from the start. Then I get to add in the Omnicef. Then, after all that - probably a month down the road, I will have another appointment with my LLND. I really want to have her prescribe Clindamycin. I really felt it was effective at getting into the muscles. My muscles were really sore on it but I felt like it was getting in there where other antibiotics haven't. So right now, I am on Tinidazole and Doxycyline, too add in Omnicef and then hopefully Clindamycin and Malarone. I would like to stay on that protocol for about a year or so - to really hit the deep muscle pain and get rid of babesia. I would do this while staying on the herbs as well. As long as my liver cooperates. Not that I have reason to worry, I just have to go have some bloodwork done to check and make sure my liver is well enough to take the medicines.
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I also want to add that today, I experienced shaking while taking a nap. Like an internal type minor tremor - nothing major but just the feeling of internal shaking. I have had this in the past when trying to fall asleep. So I am now associating this with babesia because I am having it while taking the a-bab.
ReplyDeleteI also need to add about 3 days into taking it I felt pretty irritable. Like when talking to my kids, I would kind of grit my teeth seething a bit when telling them to do something. Kind of odd as I don't normally communicate like that. So I think it is making me irritable. I did a coffee enema yesterday, and took Zeolite yesterday and today just to help detox. My feet haven't been cold today but that I think is because I didn't take any a-bab yesterday. As I write, I have a dose under my tongue and my ear just popped and had a momentary ringing in it that passed. Again, not a normal symptom.
ReplyDeleteHaving pain in upper left of abdomen. Spleen. Anyways. I was researching and found a thread on a lyme board that describes my symptoms (notably internal shakiness and apathy) and that they didn't have the traditional babesia symptoms but had a positive FISH test just like me. Anyways. Today I had also the internal shakiness as I was taking a nap - caused me to wonder if it was related to my heart. Also, the apathy is with me...always. Not a normal part of my personality.
ReplyDeleteHere is the link:
http://flash.lymenet.org/scripts/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=102371;p=0&r=actu
Last night, as I was falling asleep, I had the shaking. I get it when I am first going to sleep but I haven't got it in a long time other than 5-6 days ago at my parent's house when I was taking a nap on the couch. It happens when I am sleeping for some reason. On my parents couch, it happened multiple times. That was Sunday afternoon. On Thursday night (last night), I was falling asleep and the shaking started and woke me a bit but it also caused pictures in my brain to shake. Like frames from film shifting violently back and forth - jerking. I had alot of dreams last night that I remember too. Also, yesterday, while I was on the computer, I noticed my right hand was freezing but my left hand was fine and my feet weren't cold. So the coldness of my extremeties, combined with this shaking while sleeping - is that Babesia for me? Should I be recording this so I can see a pattern? It started with taking the Byron White A-Bab. So...
ReplyDeleteOkay. So I took notes and I got shaking on the 7th, the 10th and the 13th. There are 2 day breaks between the shakes. Interesting. Maybe this is the Babesia pattern?
ReplyDeleteOkay. I have been taking it over a week. And, I am not having that pain under my left rib anymore. However, I was having pain in my left arm. Which scared me a bit although it wasn't real bad. It did hurt. It scared me because I think left arm and think heart attack. Anyways, this type of pain is a new symptom. It is a pain I have yet to describe. It isn't stabbing pain. It isn't a vibration or tremor. But it does come and go. It is like a bruise that you feel and won't go away - except we don't feel bruises when we have them. So it would feel like a bruise if you pressed your finger on the bruise. Except no finger was being pressed on me and that was the pain. It happened in my left armpit, my left elbow area and my left hand. All intermittently. And also the left side of my neck. And I have the sensation in my meck right now. Like a tendon has been pulled or like if it had been in a car accident and was a bit sore. NEVER have I had these symptoms before. Also. a few days ago, I had the shaking while napping too. I was really tired because I was getting really worked up over something dumb on a lyme forum. It was just keeping me up because it was really bothering me. Which is even dumber so I think this a-bab stuff is affecting my brain. Anyways. Shaking. A Bruising Like Pain. And no improvement to the constant depression I have. Not sadness or anything like that. Just a major low key do nothing all day-ness that is not my true personality and came out more after Bartonella was dealt with. Can't wait for it to lift. But will make it lift??
ReplyDeleteLest I forget, the back of my head was all greasy on the nigh of the 22nd. Anyways, I think it could have been the sweats. I think it is cycle every 3 days for me. At least that is what it seems like. I have the shakes and then go 2 days and then the 4th day get them again albeit they are light. Also, I was reading about a Dr's treatment of Babesia and she notes neck pain and fatigue to be primary with Babesia. Intereting that I got neck strain starting the a-bab. A symptom I have never had before!!!
ReplyDeleteOkay, I took 3 doses of 15 drops of A-bab today as I read a doc uses that to determine if a patient has a co-infection or not. I did not take a-bart. I felt a bit of numbing to the left side of my brain briefly but now OMG both my hips bilaterally are sore enough that I look like a feeble 80 year old as I walk. I remember this feeling. 3 years ago. While I lived in Texas and both hips would ache. Especially while sitting in a car I would feel them. Bilaterally. Now why would A-bab make me feel that. That is a WHOLE new symptoms I haven't felt in years. YEARS. So to wrap it up - we several NEW symptoms - hip pain, neck pain, bruised feeling, shaking feeling while sleeping every 3rd day. Not to mention super irritability and anger feelings when I first started it as well as my feet and hands being like icebergs for several days. Right now, as I type, the left side of the jugular on my neck hurts. It feels like I had a minor car accident there. I am slightly aware of it. Just a tension and tightness there.
ReplyDeleteWell, I still have the bilateral hip pain today although I took the same high dose of a-bab. I pushed on the area of my left foot where I had bone pain the past that went away for a month or two but it is back slightly. Hip and Foot bone pain. Interesting symptoms to be cropping up with a-bab. Don't exactly associate with babesia??
ReplyDeleteInteresting - today - I had this symptoms that I quote from another because it is the perfect way to put it: Burning poop/diarrhea that feels like you swallowed a bottle of Tabasco sauce. There. Yah. I have had it before too. When I took Cipro 4 years ago or a few other times but not for a LONG time. Tonight. Mega Headache - made me feel weak. Today I didn't take any of the tinctures. I took 45 drops of a-bab the past few days just to see if I got a reaction. Well. I did. But I am not sure that it is Babesia.
ReplyDeleteI was too tired to add this yesterday, but I spent the whole day in bed with an apsolutely strung out wired high-cortisol feeling that wouldn't go away. It wasn't till I went #2 (see above comment) that I rounded a corner although in the evening I had a massive headache and woke up last night with one as well that I had to take ibuprofen for. So this a-bab is getting at something. It says it gets at bartonell, lyme and erlichia too. Who knows. Today, I am finally rounding the corner. No headache. Did drink zeolite last night. Hopefully that bound up alot of the intestinal toxins. Yuck!
ReplyDeleteYesterday, I think I got the shaky feeling while resting. I forgot to write it down so I am writing it down now.
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