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I would really like to know also. I am on the same on boat.
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Rianna
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I personally could not take Mepron and although Malarone was good initially it did not do a thing. My LLMD said he could not understand why people battle on with Mepron or Malarone for months and months when there were so many other Babesia Treatments around.
I switched to Clindamycin 1500mg a day in 3 seperate dosages 600,300,600mg (I switch between oral and IV) taken with quinine sulphate 325 mg 3x day with Cryptolepsis.
Clindamycin can give C.Diff so you need to have high dosage probiotics and weekly rectal reloridization (I get mine from Victoria Bowmann). People keep saying this treatment is old fashioned well..... according to new research done by 3 top ILADS LLMDs it is so successful given in high dosages other LLMD's are going back and retreating patients and the exciting news is given IV it looks as though it also gets Lyme.
Dr J quotes: The use of IV clindamycin has now become routine in our treatment protocol for advanced neuroborreliosis. This change came about after we began using oral clindamycin for suspected cases of babesiosis coinfection in our most recalcitrant, unresponsive patients. We immediately noted some new and positive developments, e.g. absence of fever and night sweats for the first time in months/years, increased mental acuity, and so forth. Other patients had Herxheimer reactions that they had not experienced for weeks on prior therapy, even though we were treating aggressively with both intravenous and oral antibiotics. Since our most debilitated patients were already on IV therapy, we decided to try short courses of IV clindamycin and the effect has been consistently impressive, even more so than with the oral formulation. We have now gone back and retreated those patients who have had an incomplete response to prolonged IV therapy, and in 11/12 of these cases, improvement on IV Clindamycin has been dramatic.
I think there are some other LLMD's that dose it incorrectly.
Primaquine is normally only done at the end of babs treatment as there are so many options now for Babesia
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