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Posted by kcmorton (Member # 27806) on :
 
New doctor just put me on mino and 1000mg amoxicillin with diflucan. Does this sounds reasonable, I was only taking 200mg doxy before?

*** moderator's note - edited to remove dosages, whole protocols not allowed. I left amoxy dosage for discussion purposes ***

[ 11-01-2010, 10:17 PM: Message edited by: sixgoofykids ]
 
Posted by dmc (Member # 5102) on :
 
Try looking at Dr. B 2008 guidelines for hints.
It's third one down the page
http://www.ilads.org/lyme_disease/treatment_guidelines.html

Amoxi is usually much higher dosage & taken with probenecid (to keep amoxi levels in body longer).

your dosages are low, that's all. Diflucan is at the thereputic dose though.
 
Posted by kcmorton (Member # 27806) on :
 
actually, 6,000 mg amoxicillin...seems excessive?
 
Posted by JOLA (Member # 23498) on :
 
Thats what I thought at first but it is the only thing that ever helped w/my headpressure.

I have been treating almost 2 years and I think high dose amoxy is the first thing that has actually helped even a bit.

Pamela Weintraub (Cure Unknown) also spoke of high dose amoxy as being the thing that saved her.
 
Posted by sixgoofykids (Member # 11141) on :
 
I agree, that's a low amoxy dosage. I took 2500 mg three times per day for a total of 7500 mg.!! I also took the probenecid to keep the amoxy working longer.

I had a peak level blood test done to see if I had the right dosage, and my dosage was raised to this.
 
Posted by kcmorton (Member # 27806) on :
 
good to know..thank you.
Just curious if I should stick to doxy with amoxycillin or try minocycline, I can't find much about mino working.
 
Posted by viva (Member # 8183) on :
 
KC,

My husband is currently taking Amoxicillin with Doryx (a form of doxicycline ), and (knock wood) it's helping with his head/neck/spine symptoms.

The first month of Amoxi was at a high dose (near sixgoofykids') to load up his system. The pharmacist even called LLMD's office to check that the dose was correct! This did help; we found that detoxing was especially important with a high dose like this.

He's now on a lower dose, but is also taking a host of pharmas and supplements.

He has been on Mino in the past, including a recent attempt at the Amoxi plus Mino. If you can tolerate the Mino, it can be a great drug for CNS symptoms. His experience in the past was that it caused dizziness for about 3 weeks, which then faded. This time around, the dizziness was too severe for him to tolerate, hence the switch to Doryx.

Hop this helps.
Viva
 
Posted by sixgoofykids (Member # 11141) on :
 
I much preferred mino to amoxy.
 


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