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The Dr B told hubby that IV rocephin was only bacteriostatic for bart - not bacteriocidal.
I think he was correct. Hubby did 2 months of IV rocephin with another doc before seeing the Dr B and when he stopped the IV rocephin within a week he had lost almost all of the minimal improvements he had made on the rocephin. But his bart had not been treated at that time.
This was back when they were calling it BLO - bartonella like organism and the importance of coinfections was not generally recognized except by a very very few docs.
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Phoiph
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Rocephin also reportedly has anti-inflammatory properties as well as neuro-protective (glutamate inhibitor).
That said, It did not work for me. I became very toxic and increasingly ill during my 9 months on IV Rocephin.
Does it really work for "so many"? I personally have not heard many long term success stories...
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I think you just hear so many people use it because it's cheap.
I don't know if it stopped reproduction or killed it. I do know that it doesn't touch babs.
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I had an initial reaction on my 3rd day of IV rocephin, but after a bit it didn't seem to be helping so we added IV zithromax and flagly and that really brought out a lot of symptoms for me.
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