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So my life is falling apart, i been hanging in to see a lyme literate doc. Well i finally did.
Background quick as possible: I have not been tolerating biaxon due to switching antibiotics months ago and it screwing my stomach up. I have been completely dissociated and losing my brain function while on nothing, which has not come to be tell after i stopped taking antibiotics. I have been under severe stress as i have no help at all, no money and been pushed into being homeless, just found a home but i cant sleep there due to nosie issues, so i have to move again. All this time im slowly losing the ability to deal with anything, as this brain thing has only been THIS severe in the past few months, consequently causing things to get so out of control. BTW if i take a biaxon every three days now it will clear up my mind, but then i seem to get anxiety or cant sleep which is odd as i was handling it fine before. It still is not now agreeing with my stomach. And yes im doing everything i can besides not having the money for more expenxive probitoics. Im at the point where its like you want me to go and steal them, i basically take them and then return them to wf so i can lenghten the time i can afford them. :
So i see the doc, i tell him my history, how i have tried the biaxon and plaq combo and i was severely anxious on the plaq...before heart racing. I told him im not handleing the biaxon now....
He says suck it up, this is the only treatment option, your stomach is not well cause your not taking both, and deal. Just deal. He says taking small amounts of anything is just gonna aggravate your symptoms, and not cure anything.
Now this is not what i expected from a lyme literate doc, any other doc yes, but still....
Now since i have to work with what i got, ive been taking grapefruit extract like 2 drops a day, or more just to see, i cant really say whats causing what at this point as i went a few weeks with out sleeping prior to this week and half...Due to stress leading to a breakdown.
So im here still very very tired, feeling like i have a sinus infection out of it feeling, disscociated. Just wondering what do i do now? is small treatment bs, should i listen to this guy, should i risk another major anxiety attack testing this med again? Can i afford this, but im in pain and feel horrible and want my mind back, oh yeah and where am i gonna live... ARGHH SEE THE amount of stress and thoughts..
Now do i test the plaq on its own? And see again how it settles with me, or do i just wait it out... I dunno. SRSLY people ***, im so lost..
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sixgoofykids
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How long have you been on the Biaxin?
I know I had to push through some miserable symptoms that increased with medication. You might be stirring up the infections and really getting to them with these meds.
I had two meds that didn't agree with me, but I was on them for a few months before we switched to different ones and it was toward the end of treatment. At the beginning of treatment it's pretty normal to get worse before you get better.
If you've seen Under Our Skin, Mandy asks the doctor how much worse she will get, ER worse, and he said yes.
Talk to your doctor. You need to work with him or find a new doctor. He sounds good to me. I'd bet he was probably the same one I went to.
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