I saw briefly on an earlier post about amoxicillin not a good choice of antibiotic for Lyme. Can anyone give me the information on this, why this is and where they got their information?
Posted by liz28 on :
I can only give you personal experience--which is that no way should you trust amoxicillin on its own. While there may be many reasons for this, an important one is that amox will not kill any subclinical co-infections you have.
If you have started reading through Lymenet, you probably know by now that one of the biggest causes of chronic Lyme is co-infection, especially babesia or bartonella, which protect Lyme from antibiotics.
If you are in the early stages of choosing an antibiotic regimen, you should know that we here on Lymenet learn as we go, and also that abx regimens have upgraded a lot in the past couple of years. While we all have our favorites, the most common winners seem to be combinations of a strong cephalosporin, a strong macrolide, and a cyst buster, in addition to co-infection treatment.
Posted by Lymeindunkirk (Member # 7118) on :
My son takes a very high dosage of amoxicillin with biaxin. The combination seems to be working well for him. I think liz is right. I'm not so sure it works well by itself. In the past I would get a sinus infection every spring and every fall like clock work until about 4 or 5 years ago. Amoxicillin always worked well to clear it up for me. I wonder sometimes if it kept my other symptoms at bay. Whos to know?
Posted by valymemom (Member # 7076) on :
You can go to Dr. Burrascano's treatment guidelines. He explains it. ( I didn't and when my youngest removed a tick in January we treated him with his brother's amox and were able to get some from our then primary duck but..........so he had 5-6 weeks). I am quite upset with myself...... he will now have to probably go thru months of treatment.
he has had low grade fevers and symptoms and is being tested by Igenex.
Posted by cindy_leigh (Member # 3514) on :
Amoxicillin is what Dr. J ordered for my then- 9 year old daughter when she had a tick bite.
Posted by perplexed (Member # 1913) on :
Early this Spring I had a case of tonsillitis and was put on amoxcycillin. I must have herxed on it...I was sicker with the amoxy than with the tonsillitis..wow the headaches, body aches, neck everything hurt.
I could not even roll over in bed without waking up and nauseous...oh my!! I felt lousy for about 6 weeks after that.
Just from what I went through with it, boy it knocked something out of me!! But, only for 10 days..too short a time.
Jean
Posted by Michelle M (Member # 7200) on :
Just DX'd recently and did 1 month of Doxycycline in June. Saw LLMD this week. He was impressed with great progress on Doxy in just one month, even though I despise it! Rather than going straight to IV (neuroborreleosis dx & brain lesions) as promised, he's decided to let me try a month of Amoxicillin at 3000 mg per day plus Probenecid.
He has told me that if there is infection or inflammation, it crosses the blood brain barrier as well as Doxycycline, and since I improved so much on the Doxy (even tho I hated it), it would be OK to give it a try for a month and see if I kept improving.
He DID say that some people don't improve that much on orals but for whatever reason, I really DID. (YAY! Clapping!!!)
I was ALL in favor of this plan!
This is my third day on it; my stomach's happy again but my brain has some serious Alzheimers... work yesterday was about the worst ever. Couldn't remember what I did five minutes ago.
I guess I'll know in a month how Amoxicillin compares to Doxy but my LLMD team is bright, up on every shred of current research, on ILADS Board, and I trust them 100%, so I'm jumpin' in with the greatest of optimism!
