My husband has a number of symptoms of early Lyme disease and possibly babesiosis or other co-infections. One of his doctors initially put him on doxy as well as some meds for babesiosis.
Now the 4 days of IV doxy in the hospital and 10 day course of doxy at home have ended. I can't get his docs to let him remain on them while they try to rule out some possible rheumatological type diseases they think might be a possibility.
I am wondering if anybody knows how long a typical dose of doxycycline should be to be effective?
Is 14 days enough? His symptoms are not yet resolved although they have improved.
If anyone knows where I could find an article or reference that I could show to his doctors to back up my idea that he may need more than 14 days to completely beat this, please let me know.
Thanks for your input.
Posted by adamm (Member # 11910) on :
It HAS to be 400 mg/day, continued for 2 months after all symptoms
resolve. Any lower a dose is bacteriostatic (i.e. only keeps
bacteria from reproducing, but does not kill them--useless,
as our immune systems can' do a thing about this one), and any
shorter a duration (the spirochete divides once every weeks,
and is only vulnerable to doxy while doing so) will leave
some bugs alive to cause chronic neurological disease.
Please find a way to get the right treatment now--every day
matters, at this point, and there is no experience in this world
worse than that of chronic Lyme. I speak from personal
experience; a month of 200mg/ day utterly failed me.
try lymecryme.com and lymeinfo.net for the studies you're looking for.
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Oh my!!! His window of opportunity to keep this thing from going chronic is very small!!
Get more meds ASAP!!! Can he make it to a walk-in clinic or something?? Go to two of them!
Do whatever it takes to get him enough meds for 8 wks of treatment. 400mg sounds good to me too.
Find him an LLMD right away. Babesia needs separate meds to clear it. A regular GP won't be able to handle that either.
Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
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Yes, Ditto to above replies. The window of opportunity is vital - and so is combination treatment.
Sorry, I don't have the energy to repost some articles that may be of help. There are many vital links at this other current thread: