Its happening.. I think the flagyl has gotten to my brain.
This is day number 6 of Flagyl. I'm up to 500mg 3x per day. I'm really having a hard time right now.
I have mini panic attacks that last around 5 - 10 minutes. I'm actually on the downward slope of one right now... it's what's prompting me to send this message.
Can anyone help me? What can be done to get through these rough times? I feel very empty inside. Impending doom... I know it's the flagyl doing it's evil, but it doesn't make this any less real for me.
-------------------- 26 months of treatment. And counting....... Posts: 298 | From Northeast Kansas | Registered: Oct 2006
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lymeHerx001
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Killing parisites and cysts and killing you.!!
Well just drink water and try some advil or aspirin. No alcohol please. Its contraindicated.
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Dear Visual,
In the past, my LLMD has given me permission to back off on a med when it is about to do me in!!!
Flagyl is about the worst of the worst.
I don't doubt that your LLMD would do the same.
Especially at your EXTREMELY HIGH DOSE.
Call and leave a message like this with his office:
"Please tell Dr. ___ I am having a horrid time on Flagyl; cannot take it, need a two-day break at least, will take one unless he calls back and says I can't. Thanks SO much!!!"
Then detox like crazy with tons of water with lemon, warm baths with a bit of epsom salts, rest, and remember, it is going to relent soon....
It is a POWERFUL drug known to cause terrible depression.
This is NOT you!! It will pass!
Now, go do that -- maybe you'll get lucky and get a call back from your doc, but if not, I'd leave that message.
Hugs,
Michelle PS This is just what I would do, and not medical advice, of course!!
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This is terrible. I felt pretty good last night.. I felt a little bit manic...
I felt mellow this morning... and a bit sad.
This late this morning I got bogged down and stressed at work. It kicked off a bad panic attack. I feel pretty screwed up.
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Visual, have you done a search on this site about flagyl? It was the worst of the worst for me. I effected me mentally, emotionally and physically.
Sometimes one man's medicine is another man's poison.
Pam
-------------------- "Never, never, never, never, never give up" Winston Churchill Posts: 6478 | From Louisville, Ky | Registered: Jan 2002
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I have done countless hours of research on Flagyl on this site. It sounds like it caused all sorts of issues for those taking it.
However, since I was feeling somewhat better on the the flagyl, I thought maybe I was tolerating it well. I've been on this dose of 1500 mg per day for 3 days now.. I figured if it was going to hit me, it would have hit right away.
I guess I was looking for reinforcement from others that the flagyl is kicking in... and suggestions as to what helped them get through the rough times.
So far some pretty good ones.
I did call the docs office.. left a message. Not sure if I'll hear back from them. In the mean time... I'll suffer through my day.
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MY doc says:
Do I WANT you to hang in there? YUP.
Is it gonna hurt? YUP.
Am I gonna be mad at you if you just can't? NOPE.
He has allowed me, in past, to decrease the dosage of a med, then try "sneaking back up on it."
I'm thankful your stint on Flagyl is a relatively short one.
We are with you in spirit, Visual...!!
Michelle
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Just started flagyl too- Am in the middle of babs tx-mepron, zith & artemisia and my ND just added flagyl. I was doing so well so I said well lets get this part over with so...
I live in Europe-have NY lyme for 19 yrs-and the protocol of a Swiss LLMD is to pulse it for 3 days at 3x 500 mg, wait a week and then go back to the 3 days so that's what we're doing.
For those 3 days, I was ice cold and then when I stopped huge babs herx w/sweats & air hunger. Still strugling 4 days later and not looking forward to the next 3 days but it's pulling the bugs up and hope out.
Maybe you might want to talk to your doctor about pulsing rather then staying the course. Supposed to trick the bugs. Had heavy anxiety form the lyme et al so know -- must be time for you to contact your doc. Good luck, Andrea
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