hello tania
yes it is horrible when our children are sick. My youngest child is the most touched. If it is bartonella, all my children have it.
I have the typical rash since I'm 12 years old;
my children never slept when they were a baby;
my oldest son has Hashimoto;
I had a special rash during my second pregnancy;
my second child had to be hospitalized in intensive care after birth due to infection of unknown origin;
he has very high levels of eosinophiles and nobody knows why;
I had a bone tumor 13 y ago and the bone never healed;
my veins break easily during operations and I even needed a blood transfusion once;
I had all kind of viruses reactivated since 2003 like mono, CMV, parvo, adeno as well as chlamydia pneumonia, mycoplasma, ...
I tested positive for bartonella in 2008 but my doctor said it was nothing, I was bedridden by then.
My last test was positive for babesia but negative for Lyme.
If I test positive for bartonella again, I'll accept antibiotics with both hands this time. I tried all the rest.
And I'll have my children tested as well as my partner ...
Thanks for the tip for Addison, I'll check it out as well as diabetes insipidius.
There are similarities here.
I had to a blood transfusion one time when a minor surgery went wrong and they couldnt stop me from bleeding (complication of getting my tonsils out).
The last doctor I went to thought she saw signs of babesia on my skin.. she took a photo (its on my upper back) to show me and I had strange marks there (I wish I had a copy of the photo she took to show people). Im currently about to be tested for lyme (and have lyme test kit here).. and I guess if it shows up.. I'll then get tests for the lyme coexisting things too eg the babesia (due to the denial of these things being in Australia it is hard to get testing for lyme and its coexisting infections.. Im paying for my lyme test and will have to save up to have other tests done).
One of my children had severe complications of not being able to fight a common virus (which ended up her needing 16-19 surgeries due to the issues that caused). She went throu hell with that virus for about 4? years.
Low thyriod issues run in my family (not my immediate family thou..but I have 3 blood relatives who have thyriod issues).
I have reacting viruses.. 3 times I had a reactiving virus showing last year..... (I suspect the CMV I carry may of be reactiving a times too along with the EBV.. I had severe mono in the past)
chlamydia pneumonia Im currently waiting to hear back of a blood test result.. I finally got a doctor to test me for it. (if I do too much a cough is one of my ME/CFS symptoms and this year a reactiviting virus thing has now made me have to go onto a asthma puffer at times). I havent been tested for parvo and many other things so who knows what else Ive got going on.
I really hope your family can sort it all out.