Topic: Please let me have your thoughts on my treatment protocol...
tickbattler
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I saw an LLMD this week and it was suggested I do the following...
take 50 mg minocycline for the first month every other day and watch for a herx.
If tolerated fine, then the following month take 100 mg minocycline every day and watch for a herx.
If tolerated well, add zithromax at the beginnning of the third month along with the minocyline.
Take zith possibly for the next 4 months. May possibly switch to levaquin, rifampin down the road.
I am also to take Pharmanex's Lifepak supplement right away to start boosting my immune system, and Metagenix Ultraclear Plus for detoxing along with saccharomycin and probiotics. Do any of you take any of these supplements?
I have been diagnosed with lyme and bart due to a positive lyme test through Igenex and a positive hemobartonella/mycoplasma on the Fry blood smear. I have very few mild symptoms (pain in ear or head once or twice a month and pink eye a few times last winter).
ANTIVERTIGINOUS ACTION OF VITAMIN B 6 ON EXPERIMENTAL MINOCYCLINE-INDUCED VERTIGO IN MAN
[Article in German]
Claussen CF, Claussen E.
Neurootologie, Universit�ts-HNO-Klinik W�rzburg.
By means of a former investigation it has been proved equilibriometrically that the application of 7 X 100 mg minocycline may induce a central equilibrium dysregulation of the brainstem type.
It was the purpose of this study to further assure that the minocycline induced brainstem vertigo is due to a destabilization of a supervisory gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)ergic loop from the archeocerebellum upon the pontomedullary vestibular regulating pathways.
As it is pharmacologically known that pyridoxine is essential for the synthesis of GABA, an inhibitory CNS neurotransmitter, (2)
2 separate double blind trials on 20 healthy young persons each were carried out after the intake of 7 X 100 mg minocycline during 3 days with and without 7 X 40 mg pyridoxine simultaneously.
These trials were checked against an additional placebo or initial non drug investigation.
In all the 40 test persons it could be proved that the amount of vertigo and nausea symptoms was increased significantly due to the application of minocycline only.
However, when combining minocycline with vitamin B 6, the vertigo and nausea symptoms as well as the nystagmus signs from the monaural and the binaural vestibular ocular tests as well as (the)
the vestibular spinal signs from the craniocorpography recordings of the stepping and the standing procedures were remarkably reduced.
. . .
The same holds for the vestibular vegetative reactions, measured by the simultaneous electrocardiography during the vestibular tests.
- All the equilibriometric tests applied showed a significant destabilization under the influence of a pure minocycline loading.
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