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I am on Zith and Mepron, have never heard that. My doc knows what he is doing so I would say no.
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I was on 250mg for a while and my LLMD kept teling me to take 500mg or I could get resistance. So I finally put my zith to 500mg.
I am not saying that he is 100% right, but that is what was said to me.
I don't know what the difference is exactly???
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johnnyb
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That is an excellent question. I'd love to get a definite answer to this as well, because the dose would be the same on other macrolides.
In my case, biaxin, which is covered for only 20 500mg pills a month, would last me the whole month with no out-of-pocket if I could get by on only 250mg a once a day, but at twice a day, I have to pay for the other 10 pills (not a catastrophe, of course).
For the zithromax, they would only cover 6 pills a month, so with that idea. They won't allow the doc to override that limit anymore.
But, I will say that I think the biaxin was working better than the zith did (you were right, six!) so go figure. First time I took the biaxin I felt AWFUL, but after doing the mepron with the zith for awhile, switching to the biaxin seemed to be better, for me, anyway.
Take it for what its worth...
- J
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