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LLMD switching me to ceftin in place of doxy. Curious as to what to expect. I have tolerated the doxy well. Occassional gi issues, but not severe.
Has anyone had good results with ceftin? How about side effects? thank you for responding.
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ceftin is a good one- it's the only oral second (or third? I forget) generation cephalasporin that crosses the blood brain barrier.
I followed 1 month of rocephin and flagyl with ceftin and tinnidazole and I think it got rid of lyme!! Now I'm working on co-infections.
Flagyl and tinnidazole work on the cyst (egg) life stages of lyme while ceftin and rocephin work on the adult stages.
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I am on ceftin and omnicef and am feeling alot of pain the last few days and fever.....I have only been taking 1 1/2 weeks. However, I dont have gi upset and usually I do.
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I took oral ceftin , 1000 mg 2x a day, for 11 months, with Doxy added after a couple months, and flagyl pulsed a couple of times. Interestingly I continued to get a monthly rash for about six months. they subsided.
Now I am on IV Rocephin, in same class of Ceftin, and I really think , at least at this point, it is doing some real good. I may still feel physically like a rundown old horse, but I feel more "connected" in my head.
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I took 3,000 mg Ceftin with 2,000 mg Biaxin and 3 shots of Bicillin per week and it worked great! Lots of herxing in the beginning, but very worthwhile. Good luck!
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just an fyi , and i am apparently sensititive to everything
ceftin was great for me, in SOME ways, the three weeks i was on it, joint pain went away, neurpathies greatly reduced, but HAD rashiness , itchiness, anxiousness, and crazy pelvic pain and bleeding, actually my first lyme symptoms. ie, when i first new something was really wrong, --but i had these under control b4 dx
so weird, ceftin, worked on some stuff brought back the old and bad, clearly i could not remain on it, even if you would call it a herx there are certains types of pai nthat you jsut can't continue w/, really i think it was an allergic reaction
so, it looks like it i great for some folks but if for some reason if it is bad for you, know you are not alone
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I was on Ceftin for 8 months. It is one of the few antibiotics that I tolerate really well. I didn't get sick from it, but I also didn't see much improvements either. Everyone is different, so it could work great for you.
Kathy
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Ceftin has been my primary abx for treating Lyme (in combo with rifampin and tindi).
I also herxed badly on the ceftin, but I'd gone undiagnosed for about 9 years and had a high high bacterial load.
I'm back at work finally (after being treated for 1.5 years). Still on ceftin, too.
For me, this has been a great abx.
Feel free to pm me if you want to know anything else.
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Caat,
I never read that the cyst was an egg. I read that the spirochete, went into a cyst to avoid the antibiotics, to hide from it.
that is why you are given an antibiotic to kill the spirochete, and then the flagyl to break open the cyst.
Then there is the L-form, which has no cell wall. I read in Dr B's guidelines that they are not sure if the Cyst form is actually the
L-form. Which would make sense, as the spirochete can loose its cell wall from what I read, and this may be the L-form, or the Cyst.
Trish
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check out the pictures on the first page of my website- the link is below. One is a cyst with spirochetes inside, the other is an adult spirochete with cyst attatched by what looks like slime. Also, if you look around the site there is a collection of studies/observations on cyst forms.
Yep, the correct word is cyst. I use the word "egg" as it's easier to understand. It serves the function of an egg. Baby spirochetes come out of them.
It is also possible that some of them could be hibernation chambers for adults. There are a couple observations that note cysts of 2 different sizes. I don't think there is any definite clear information on that, but it does look possible.
"Reverted to cyst form" could mean 2 different things- that the original spirochetes reverted OR that the spirochetes as a group reverted- they reproduced and the cysts survived while the adults did not.
The L-forms seem to be juvenile spirochetes. Not sure if anyone knows, but they might not be very different from adults. Yes, when they loose the "cyst wall" they are "hatching" and are juveniles or L-forms.
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