Topic: Anyone get worse then better with Rifampin?
suki444
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Hi I think I still have Bart hanging in there...have bad brain fog, tiny pimples on upper body, red stretch marks, imbalance, nausea at times.
However the one time I took Rifampin a couple of days later I had a funny turn - cold sweat, nausea, feeling like I was going to pass out. I did continue it for 10 days but felt more and more fatigued and run down so my LLMD stopped it.
So my questions is - has anyone else felt horrible whilst taking Rifampin at first then felt improvements later?
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when i first started rifampin, i was pulsing it M-F with zithro on sat, sun. I would feel bad when i first start it on mon and tues,but the symptoms were:
i had burning pain in all my muscles, flu-like achy feeling. i took motrin for it and it helped. it would start to go away by wed, and be gone thur and fri.
then the symptoms would start again on mondaywhen I went back on it, but not be as bad as the last time.
the zithro was giving me headaches so now i am on the rifampin all the time. i tolerate it well
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adamm
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yeah--rifampin didn't do jack squat for me
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I felt horrible the first 2 months on rifampin-slowly felt better end of month 3. Insomnia, anxiety, burning muscle pain, fatigue..ugh.
Roro-I was on the same protocol-was your LLMD Dr S?
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just don
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Suki,
Do YOU and your DOC know what a herx is??(cant spell long word for it). It is where you FEEL worse because of the toxic die off!!! Is this what you had??
read up on it,,,sounds like the abx was working and just needed continued IF that is what was happening!!
Thats all I got to say about THAT!!!being--just don--
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Clarissa
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First 2 months were pretty hellish...clearings started coming in 3rd month.
thanks everyone...maybe I should ask to re-try it as I do not tolerate the fluroquinolones very well.
Just Don...I am not sure if it was a herx or not, Dr B was my LLMD at the time and he advised stopping it. I am trying to figure out if, had I continued things would have improved. I was so fatigued and run down on it.
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