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depends which ab - for example: rocephin = better when on it, minocyclin = better when off (but i still take it).
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springshowers
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I am much better off treatment. If I go anywhere or have any event or have to be somewhere. Even my doctors sometimes. I stop treatment.
Depending on the 1/2 life of the meds is what helps me determine how long i have to be off it to get some relief.
But after that I have taken off a a week up to 3 weeks at a time. I have had no choice sometimes when such as a family emergency has come up or I just need a break or I want to travel. But it has been a crap shoot because even off sometimes if I am flaring it can still be difficult.
BUt for sure.. off is much much better for me and that goes for all abx treatments I have been on. And I have been on most of them.
I hope you are taking a break.. and have some time to enjoy yourself. We all are missing out on that in our lives most of the time. Good Luck.
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One time my LLMD wanted me to take a week off meds so we could figure out my GI problems. He told me that as soon as I had the slightest babs symptom to start the Mepron and Biaxin, but not the other meds I was on at the time (I was on a ton of stuff). I lasted only a few days off the Mepron/Biaxin, but stayed off the other stuff for a full week as he wanted me to. I did feel better.
It takes me about 6 weeks off to start feeling worse ... or it did, back when I was on abx.
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randibear
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i went off for a couple of weeks, wrong!!! the facial twitching, ear ringing, muscle and joint pain all came back with a vengence...
now i'm back on meds...
rats..when this ever end...
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Thanks all for your thoughts. Steven, I wish I could get my hands on some rocephin!
Spring Showers, thank you this helps make my decision easier.
Six, I defintely will head your advice and start back on mepron/b if I feel any babs sx.
Randi, Sorry you can't go off! I have heard some people immediately relapse after going off abx...but I can't tell the difference cause I feel like crap whether on or off.
maybe I haven't given it enough time.
Thxs again
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Geneal
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I feel better with low dose antibiotics.
I feel bad off of everything.
Hugs,
Geneal
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I feel better off abx for a week but worse after two weeks. Adding chelex to the abx is a real "knock-down" for me.
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jt345
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Hi
For Me I feel worse when first starting ,after a break. but that is the herx,making Me ill.
After I have killed off a number of keetes I feel better on them. appleseed
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