Did we actually treat Lyme when we were targeting strep?

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My daughter's symptoms started in the fall with increasing severity through December/January.

 

She started with intermittent blurry vision - the eye doctor nor ophthalmologist could find no cause.

Then the hyperactivity, inattention, emotional liability soon followed. Spinning in circles, Tummy pain, joint pain, moodiness, dilated pupils... I noted all of these things before I even knew what PANDAS was.

 

Since she was only 5, we excused a lot of it as behaviours. The leg pains were growing pains. etc.

 

Then the tics started. And got worse. In Feb we had a positive ASO and started 10 days of Amoxicillan followed by Augmentin.

 

What I can't forget and I remember it VIVIDLY is that almost exactly 1 hour to the minute, after taking her abx , her tics would flare wildly. To the point where I almost wanted to stop giving the abx since I thought she was having a bad reaction to them. Other moms and her ND told me to stay the course and this was herxing.... After about a week it started to calm down, and by 2 weeks it stopped.

 

We added many diet changes, and right now she's a completely different child. But you can tell little something might still be there...I still notice very mild, tics and possibly some compulsions.... no one else would likely notice

Fast forward 3 months... this past June.... we got a positive bartonella titer - 1:64. Docs are telling me that's not really a positive..... Also the 1st Lyme test was reactive but the Western blot was non -reactive. We are now running Igenex.

 

So my question is - could she have actually had Lyme and we "got lucky" and were treating it thinking we were treating the strep? I've read that amox is a treatment for lyme....

Many people are telling me that you don't really herx like that from strep.... but you do from lyme?