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Tuesday and yesterday, I had been having a terrible fit of crying over everything and depression symptoms (*really* unlike my usual self) and I was pretty sure it was a result of herxing terribly from doxy -- but couldn't shake it at all.
About mid-day, I took a dose of diflucan for yeast -- I'm doing the herbal/probiotics protocol for yeast, but it gets me anyways...
Within half an hour, the depressive symptoms and crying stopped totally, and I was completely back to my normal goofy, chipper self!! It was literally like someone had flipped a switch and turned off the crying fits....
The only thing I can come up with is that the diflucan somehow mediated the herx response.
Anyone else had something like this????
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Or you had yeast you didn't recognize. Glad it worked!!!!
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cantgiveupyet
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ive been posting about my diflucan oddities.
I swear it does something. Ive had similar things with burning i was having. Took it and it was better.
i was beyond happy when my llmd added it to my treatment this month.
there has to be some connection with diflucan and lyme.
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Sounds good to me. I'm now taking it daily.
Let's keep each other updated.
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I could write a long list of all the things that happened after I started taking diflucan.
These things happened almost immediately. I started sleeping like a baby. I woke up with no aches and pains.
I had tennis elbow, for eight months, so bad I could not lift a glass of water. On the second night, taking diflucan, my elbow started itching like crazy. The next day I had absolutely no pain or tennis elbow, totally gone!
My dreams totally changed. From anxiety and nightmares, to waking up laughing!
All my aches and pains disappeared, I was doing hard labor, and waking up the next day with no pain.
My bow and bladder started working perfectly.
I totally felt like a new person, I was so happy I was crying.
Unfortunately, after about 1 1/2 to 2 months. Everything came back again, in full force.
Now when I take diflucan I have no noticeable changes. There has to be a clue here somewhere! This drug totally , and I mean totally changed my life, for two months.
When I look back , the biggest change was in my central nervous system, my brain. With my reasoning, this would tell me that I had some type of fungal meningitis. In my spine or brain.
No doctor seems to take this seriously, but I'm convinced this is at the core of my problem.
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Phil - I have to relate very similar experiences.
Way back in the early 90's I went to an "alternative" doc for my mystery illness (which turned out to be Lyme but I didn't learn that till much later)....
This doc told me I had systemic yeast and put me on Diflucan (but ONLY for 1 week!). That week was magical.
Within minutes of taking the drug I had a bunch of gas (sorry) and then, like magic, all my muscles relaxed, my mood improved tremendously, energy skyrocketed, and sleep! Sleep was fantastic that whole week.
Unfortunately, after discontinuing the drug all my sx came back immediately. I've taken three or four other courses of Diflucan and had no effect from it whatsoever! (Except once, recently, my liver enzymes went up)
What's weirder, is I have had similar experiences with Nystatin and some other powerful antifungals (herbal mostly) - they all work great for a few days (ie, I feel marvelous) and then stop working...
It is frustrating. There is clue there to this Lyme complex thing - and I think yeast is a big player - but what's really going on, and how the yeast can allegedly become so resistant to the drugs so quickly, I dunno.
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BorreliaBrain, I agree with you totally! I really think that true Lyme doctors should research this more aggressively.
Maybe the Lyme infection allows the fungus or yeast to cross the blood brain barrier. I say this because the anti-fungal medicine , definitely helped my brain function!
Just like you said, I don't understand how quickly this medication becomes ineffective.
Maybe we need to be hospitalized and use IV infusion with a stronger antifungal medicine, like sporax(sorry about spelling)
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I take it every week for a couple of days. The last couple of times I have gotten a sudden tickly cough a while after taking it. It's freaking me out a bit in that I am concerned I'm developing an allergy to it or something.
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Interesting! I hope that happens to me. I took 1 pill, then another 3 days later, and I am to take once a week after that. Not exactly sure why that cycle. I am also on Nystatin.
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There is clue there to this Lyme complex thing - and I think yeast is a big player - but what's really going on, and how the yeast can allegedly become so resistant to the drugs so quickly, I dunno.
One of the top LLMDs in CT uses Diflucan if his patients don't respond to tetra or doxy.
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I have what I think are Lyme symptoms ...take a diflucan and I am a new person...
I'm still not sure if this is b.c I had Yeast, or the diflucan has an effect on the BB... Or Both..........
But glad it works not matter what!!
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It is very mysterious. Fungal problems are the main problems I have from lyme...and the fungus does become resistant quickly to whatever strategies one applies. Perhaps that is because, imo, lyme by suppressing Toll like receptors makes one inherently immunosuppressed where fungi are concerned. Still, the connection is mysterious, for some of us, profound. I don't get it either.
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