A note on Diflucan (fluconazole).

[My sitch: neuro/ late Lyme following bullseye 4 years ago. 3 weeks into first abx treatment: 1000mg Flagyl and 400mg Vantin daily.]

I took Diflucan for a yeast infection a few years ago (before ever hearing of Lyme) and I recall it making me feel noticeably better for a bit, above and beyond the yeast issues. Last week I stumbled across this study and my doc is willing to have me try it out and see what happens.

I've been taking 200mg Diflucan for 5 days in a row now and must say I feel markedly better.

Of course, this might not be directly related to the Lyme at all, but to some other undiagnosed systemic fungal infection I might have. It could well be due to the abx gaining speed, too.

But has anyone here had this experience (or any experience) with daily doses of Diflucan?

My own PCP told me he took Diflucan for over 2 months on a daily basis. I forgot exactly what he took it for, though.

I've ordered mine and I, too, am planning on a daily dose for a few months. I am currently on Bicillin IM shots weekly.

This site has the cheapest I've found on the net. I order several things from them frequently. You do not need a prescription.

http://www.antiaging-systems.com/iasstore/acatalog/fluconazole.html

I hope that helps

What an interesting site - I am suprised that you can order abx without an rx....let us know how you respond to daily diflucan.

I also took levequin with it as an initial bartonella treatment.

It did not make me feel any better at all. However my once stinky sweat was no longer stinky. I don;t even have to use deordorant, ever! and no I don't stink.

Was it the the diflucan or the levequin? I am betting it was the levequin but who knows?

Rosemary, thanks for the site ref. Looks like Mexican products? The Diflucan on sale there is 50mg/7 pills per package, so unfortunately it looks pretty expensive to keep up a 200mg daily regime. I'm on COBRA right now, so I don't have to pay much for it ($5/30 200mg pills), thankfully.

lhm, I honestly don't know how important the dosage is. So far it looks like there's just that one observational study done vis-a-vis Lyme.

The packaging says:
Cryptococcal Meningitis
The recommended Diflucan dosage for treatment of acute cryptococcal meningitis is 400 mg on the first day, followed by 200 mg once daily. A dosage of 400 mg once daily may be used, based on medical judgment of the patient's response to therapy. The recommended duration of treatment for initial therapy of cryptococcal meningitis is 10-12 weeks after the cerebrospinal fluid becomes culture negative. The recommended dosage of fluconazole for suppression of relapse of cryptococcal meningitis in patients with AIDS is 200 mg once daily.

So it appears it's not unknown to take for a few months at this dose. Erm .. at least it doesn't seem to have killed anyone.

If your doc OK's it and you decide to try it @ 100mg, do give me a holler here & we can compare notes.

peanut

Gen-Fluconazole 150 mg

[This message has been edited by lymiecanuck (edited 19 September 2004).]

A recent study found that taking Diflucan once weekly rather than every other week, was needed to keep chronic vaginal candida in check.

I don't know how this translates to those of us who most likely have systemic yeast after years of antibiotics. I plan on asking Dr. S at my next appointment in October.

So far, on my 6th day of Diflucan 200mg, I haven't had any side effects that I can notice, and I still feel pretty good. Fingers crossed!

peanut

Good thing for everybody here to know. Looks like amoxicillin is safe with diflucan, though.

Here's the abstract for those interested.

Carol Ann

The deaths were in patients taking verapamil or diltiazem, both blood pressure drugs sold as generics and also under various brand names: Verelan and Isoptin for verapamil, Cardizem and Tiazac for diltiazem.