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Posted by Hoosiers51 (Member # 15759) on :

I am not necessarily worried about treating anything with 250 mg Zith a day, but is that enough to prevent my Mepron from becoming resistant?

Even if I increase my Mepron to 2 tsp twice daily?

Thank you.

Posted by keltyl (Member # 14050) on :

I am on Zith and Mepron, have never heard that. My doc knows what he is doing so I would say no.

Posted by UnexpectedIlls (Member # 15144) on :

Hoos,

I was on 250mg for a while and my LLMD kept teling me to take 500mg or I could get resistance. So I finally put my zith to 500mg.

I am not saying that he is 100% right, but that is what was said to me.

I don't know what the difference is exactly???

[Smile]

Posted by johnnyb (Member # 7645) on :

That is an excellent question. I'd love to get a definite answer to this as well, because the dose would be the same on other macrolides.

In my case, biaxin, which is covered for only 20 500mg pills a month, would last me the whole month with no out-of-pocket if I could get by on only 250mg a once a day, but at twice a day, I have to pay for the other 10 pills (not a catastrophe, of course).

For the zithromax, they would only cover 6 pills a month, so [toilet]

with that idea. They won't allow the doc to override that limit anymore.

But, I will say that I think the biaxin was working better than the zith did (you were right, six!) so go figure. First time I took the biaxin I felt AWFUL, but after doing the mepron with the zith for awhile, switching to the biaxin seemed to be better, for me, anyway.

Take it for what its worth...

- J