How do I come down with the flu when I am taking zithromax, plaqunil and flagyl? I thought I would be protected from anything with all the medicine I am on! could the flu actually be a herx? got all the aching and stuff to but also stuffy head cough chest hurts.
The weird thing is I feel like and look like I am burning up with fever my face is all red and I feel like I am burning up with a fever but there is no fever.
guess like everything else it has to run its course and I will moan and complain in the process. Sorry gang, stacie
Posted by dullchime (Member # 6024) on :
It could be a herx but you may be getting sick as well. Im on pretty strong stuff and I had a pretty bad case of bronchitis for a while- I thought the same thing. I think the lyme drops our immune systems and the abx only brings some of us up to normal. So yeah you could be getting the flu- yet the beat redness all over sounds like Lyme.
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
The flu is a virus and abx don't work on viruses. If you are beet red and feel like you have fever....and don't....it's probably a herx. I used to do that alot when herxing. Sorry you're so miserable. Hope it lets up soon!
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Posted by Mathias (Member # 5298) on :
Ask your doctor for a prescription for this ASAP. It's an antiviral and works during the first 48 hours after developing flu symptoms. http://www.tamiflu.com/ Posted by WildCondor on :
Antibiotics do not work on viruses. Amantatide can help if taken right awy when influenza starts.
I guess I havent done it very well its probaly a herx because of the flagyl opening cysts to the other abx's especially every 28 to 34 days cycle.
I mistook my big herx's for the flu for three months then it donned on me I was begining these flu symptoms every month.
At first it was harder for me to understand because I was almost continually herxing.
Why you ask I had three strains cycleing at three different times. Once I got down to one strain it became evident that I was herxing every 28 to 34 days.
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Posted by Kara Tyson (Member # 939) on :
The flu is a virus. Antibiotics will not protect you.
However, the flu can turn into Pneumonia which is then bacterial.
Posted by SpdDrv (Member # 5861) on :
I have to agree with dullchine, lymetoo and treepatrol. I think it is a HERX. I got to thinking and about 3 and 1/2 weeks ago I had the flu then to! I even ran a fever it just climbed right up to almost 105 then bam it dropped out on me and I had the cruds for a few days then got better. This time if I have a fever it isn't getting very high but I am red hot to the touch at times and ache all over. I do have a l ittle congestion but I think that is just a weather thing. SO I think I am in a herx. Normally my herxes are a LOT more severe pain wise and such so I guess this is a sign I might be improving? If it looks like a herx and acts like a herx then I guess I am in a herx. Stacie
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