Like any Bb species and strains you are likely to experience in Europe, except no ACA.
The party line is that it primarily attacks joints, and it is sorta identified with swollen knees. But that pigeonhole has pretty much been exposed as a definition characterizing the scope of a disease, as opposed to the disease symptoms and etiology qualifying its definition. So, if you can imagine a manifestation, odds are Bbss can deliver.
A growing community of researchers believes that primary manifestations include many that are neurological. In the US, that is disputed by the IDSA Guidelines, which deal primarily with Bb sensu stricto. I'm sure you have heard it has been misdiagnosed as MS, ALS, etc. It also can impact the heart; supposedly, too, eyes, the thyroid...it's a scrolling list. But how can it manifest? If it truly is a systemic infection that can attack tissue, organs, cartilage - singularly or in concert - well, the sky's the limit.
Of course, in some people, it is purported to resolve on its own with no symptoms. Other resolve with IDSA-recommended therapies. Some need much more. Some appear to never resolve.
For some, it may simply act as a trigger for ME/CFS.
Relative to co-infections: As with Lyme testing, testing for coinfections can be unreliable. It took several years of negative tests before I tested positive for bartonella, which I have tested positive for now for four years running. And the first two times I tested for babesia I tested positive, but now I do not, despite never receiving treatment for it.
So, when you go for additional testing after whatever treatment regimen is prescribed, you may want to recheck coinfections as well.
Thanks for that Duncan. I'm in the process of reading Dr. Horowitz's book at the moment and then I plan to study the latest Lyme research.
Due to being untreated for so long I am affected in virtually every system of the body. I will definitely retest Borrelia and coinfections throughout my treatment to determine what's working and what isn't. Have you found anything you've done to be particularly beneficial?
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