I was reading Dr. B.s guidelines, and I feel a little discouraged. He says that the Azithromycin class of drugs have a poor success rate when administered orally. Am I taking Zithromax for nothing? If it has poor success rates, why would my LLMD give it to me?
Posted by savebabe (Member # 9847) on :
I guess different docs have different treatment approaches. I know from personal experiences with Dr. B that he does not give zith to fight lyme. Maybe you could contact your llmd and suggest mino or doxy. This is a very complicated disease, and it takes a lot of medication adjustments to find a treatment plan that works for you.
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Most of us have an "infectious soup" ... a mix of different pathogens from the ticks. So Zithromax may work for SOMETHING you now have.
Most Lyme patients herx on it...that's for sure. It's also good to take with mepron or artemisinin for babesia.
Posted by Health (Member # 6034) on :
Hi,
I was on azithromycin and flagyl and relapsed while on it on the 2nd month.
I felt it was not strong like the Biaxin. I had not read about this in Dr B's guidlines at the time, and was really upset because
I was starting to wake up with a suffocation feeling while on it by the end of the 2nd month. I had other symptoms returning, it was
not a herx.
I was then put on Doxycycline and this helped.
I later read about this with the Azithromycin and felt relieved because other things Dr B wrote about had happened to me.
For myself, I find that Dr B's guidlines work, except for the supps, the supps make me sick, but when the lyme was better, the supps were ok to take.
I think you may add plaquenil in to make the azithromycin get more into the cells, but I know that some cannot take plaquenil.
just some thoughts,
Trish
Posted by ByronSBell 2007 (Member # 11496) on :
I have heard zithromax is a great drug for the spirochete forms! It also works better when combined with flagyl or mepron
Posted by *Robin* (Member # 11393) on :
I didn't want to take any of the Doxy, Mino, etc., because I know I'm going to be outside a lot this summer and that's something I just can't avoid.
I'm taking 2 Zithromax, 2 Cat's Claw, 2 AG-Immune, and 2 Probiotics per day. I asked about adding Artemesin, but she said not yet.
I don't see her for another 3 weeks. Is there something else I should suggest?
Posted by kitkat32 (Member # 9682) on :
Try not to stress out about what this doctor said or about others medications.
Your doc might be starting you on one abx slowly and then adding another with it. My LLMD starts me off slow and then increases as I adjust to them.
Base your treatment on how you feel and what you think your progress is. If you go over and over in your head what everyone has said about multiple meds you will drive yourself insane.
For example...many people don't do well on Zithro. For me combining it with Flagyll has been a life safer for me. I have taken different abx...some of them other Lyme people have raved about..and they did nothing for me.
I think it all depends on co-infections, how long you have been infected, your immune response, etc.
I use to drive myself crazy thinking I should be doing this or that but now I try to go with the flow.