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Just wanted to know if anyone is on IV Zithromax and how it has worked for you. I just started on 500mg a day. I know each person is different. My main symptoms are neuro. Have you found it beneficial?
Thanks
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My teenage daughter on IV Zithromax for about 3 weeks now + oral augmentin (for the last week). Just starting to see some improvement in the last few days. Her main symptom was fatigue and not neuro though.
Good luck!
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I was on IV Zith just before moving to IV Doxy. I was on it for 3 months minus one week.
Near the end, I started having trouble with feeling like my ears were blocked and under water. Since Zith can cause hearing loss, they wanted me to stop it just incase.
But I think it was a great drug and would have liked to continue on it.
I too have mostly neuro symptoms and was on the babs orals along with it.
Good luck and hope it treats you well.
Cathy
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My husband did well on it and didn't have any problems. He's not particularly neuro. It did help with lung problems he has.
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I tried IV doxy then IV rocephin a long time ago, though the rocephin was only for 4 weeks, but neither provided the kind of success I was looking for. I did 3 months on the IV doxy. At the end of it, my doctor and parents were both like, this is ridiculous, we need to stop this.
I think my current LLMD might want to put me on IV again since I have had Lyme for awhile, so I wonder if IV Zithromax would be something good for me? It would be discouraging to go on IV's again and not see a decent amount of improvement.
I have seen improvments from some oral things, but the IV just seemed to go a lot worse for me than it does for most people---I go super sick and didn't really show much improvement considering how sick I got on them.
Did this happen to anyone on some IV meds, but then there was one that actually seemed to work?
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Did you do other antibiotics with the IV or just one antibiotic at a time? Combos sometimes work better.
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I did Zithromax with them too I think. So IV Doxy + oral Zith, then IV rocephin + oral Zith.
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