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Just wanted to get an idea of how long some of you stay on one abx or abx combo before switching...i've been on the same combo since beginning of january....thinking it may be time to change... thanks, sarah
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lla2
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Hi sarah,
I stayed on the combo of abx for as long as i was still herxing...then I knew it was still working for me....I was always on a combo, so that i wouldn't become immune to just one abx. I also was always treating more than one thing at a time, like babesia iwth the lyme, or bartonella with babesia etc....so i was always on combos...
I usually just changed meds if they disagreed with me, or if I had a reaction or if we decided to hit a different infection, like for example we changed gears to hit bartonella, and I added septra ds and artemesinin to the biaxin xl and plaquenil and then added in levoquin pulsing 10 days a month....that kind of thing...but I've been on the biaxin xl/plaq for about 10 months now as the 2 stable meds while adding in others now along tlhe way, for babesia dn bart etc....
hope this helps...It seems to have worked for me...along the last 18 monhths I've taken
ceftin amoxil with probencid biaxin xl with plaquenil doxy (for 5 days) septra ds dynabac mepron levoquin
all of htese I"ve taken in combo with each other..and with herbs like artemesinin etc... sometimes taking up to 4 meds at a time...
but it worked...i'm feeling very good these days....(knock on wood)
hope this helps answer your question. I continued on them because I kept herxing...meaning that they were still killing bugs for me...
Lisa
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Thanks, Lisa. I'm not really sure what's going on with me. I was feeling AWESOME for a while there; and the last two weeks I've felt like crap again (I'm on biaxin/plaquenil/ceftin)...I went off yesterday morning all drugs to see what would happen. I feel so good today. does this make any sense to you? what do you think I should do?
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treepatrol
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Mine switches every three to four months. Like this say I started amoxicilin in july, and in august started on flagyl, I would run the amox till begining of oct amox traded for say ceftin. Now flagyl may run till begining nov switch flagyl say for levaquin.
Always on a different one through the process. Hope that helped
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I switch when I start feeling crappy again.
I usually herx on week 4...feel better, herx and herx again, then when it seems like it quits working, we switch.
Usually every 3 months or so.
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liz28
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Like Lisa, I'm on 4 abx at once. My doctor switches substitutes in, and I add herbs, supplements, or physical therapy that target the symptoms that aren't improving. Right now, I'm at 90% better, but as long as the symptoms were bad I was trying at least three new products every month. I believe anything you take should either improve your symptoms or send you into a herx within two weeks. Otherwise, it probably either doesn't work or isn't strong enough.
My LLMD doctor talks a lot about hitting all the forms of Lyme at once, and my herbalist talks about finding safe ways to get medication across the blood brain barrier. So it's never been so much about switching the whole protocol, as addressing different aspects of the disease little by little. And sometimes an abx is working fine for whatever its target is--like cysts, or intracellular Lyme--but it needs support from something else to achieve its full potential. Like for example, zith gets a big boost from plaquenil.
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