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Topic: Bicillin with Rifampin -- Enough?

LymeMECFSMCS
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 13573

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I was taking daily high-dose amoxicillin with rifampin but am about to stop the amox. to start bicillin injections twice a week. I'm a little worried the 2x week bicillin injections aren't enough to counter the dangers of not taking rifampin with another antibiotic. My LLMD doesn't believe rifampin should be taken with another antibiotic.

Has anyone done this combo? Just bicillin and rifampin, no other antibiotics?

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lymebytes
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 11830

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In my humble opinion...2 shots of Bicillin is more than enough. I couldn't tolerate 2 shots per week and then had to go down in dose, 1 shot a week about killed me..Bicillin goes deep and into the brain (trust me I have had many cognitive herxes, stuttering, word searching,etc.)and never experienced any cognitive issues until Bicillin.

I also went from Amoxi to Bicillin - new ballgame.

I think 2 shots a week is fine. I can't do that much bicillin (due to high pain levels) so I do Biaxin too daily.

My LLMD also will not mix Rifampin w/any other drug he says it is much too hard on the liver.

Take care...Bicillin in strong and works.

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psano2
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Member # 11711

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I've done 1 shot/wk, 2.5 shots/wk, and 3 shots/wk of Bicillin, and each time the dose was increased, I got a little better. I was on 3 shots/wk of Bicillin for about 9 months straight after being on the other two doses of Bicillin for about 1.5 years.

I was on Rifampin the whole time I was on 3 shots/wk of Bicillin. I'm still on rifampin, but have finally been able to get completely off the shots w/o relapsing so far (about 4-5 months) At the same time as the Bicillin and Rifampin, I was also on Tindamax and Azithromycin for varying lengths of time.

I think I did very well on the combos I was on. Herbs helped a lot too. I'm taking Artemesinin, Red Root, Boneset, Stephania Root, and Enula in addition to azithromycin, rifampin, Plaquenil, and doxycycline right now.

Patti

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