Topic: Does comfortable mean the abx is no longer killing?
lymebytes
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I posted a question one day, asking what the longest you have been on ONE abx or abx combo. Some answers were 3years one was 5+ years.
I have been on the same combo for 15 months - I have added other abx to this combo -and then dropped the additional abx and just remained on the the same combo.
Is it still killing? There has to be a point where an antibiotic combo is complete in its work. Although I did read a story of a guy whom remained 3 years on the same combo I am on and got well.
What is the answer to change every 3-6 months or remain on what you are comfortable on? Or does comfortable mean you aren't killing? (Note: by comfortable I don't mean well or pain free)
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This is from a previous post of mine - might be pertinent to your question:
quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CYCLING REMOVES THE PRESSURE
Between 1997 and 1999, Raymond et al[6] conducted a study of a surgical ICU in which antibiotics were administered conventionally for one year; in the following year, antibiotics were cycled on a quarterly basis. Cycling was found to reduce mortality associated with infection, as well as the incidence of gram-positive coccal and gram-negative bacillary infections; it was also an independent predictor of survival. ``When you withdraw the antibiotic from the environment for a period of time, you reduce the pressure for those resistance genes and they will be deselected,'' said Dr. Kollef. ``By having more effective drugs in the environment, Raymond et al were seeing an improvement in outcomes.'' source: http://tinyurl.com/39jfba
To take this logic to an extreme, what would happen if you cycled over 4 classes of abx, one per week. For example, week 1 macrolide, week 2 tetracycline, week 3 penicillin, week 4 cephalosporin, and repeat all over again (of course keep another parallel cycle going for coinfections with fluoroquinones/atovaquone, etc).
I think there is something to this as it would hit the bacteria from a different angle as soon as they start to "get comfortable" with a particular drug.
Same would apply to herbs. I've seen herbal users here who have switched herbs very frequently, due to muscle testing/ART, and have beaten the bacteria succesfully.
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