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Topic: Per UNH Conference, why would LLMD then recommend bicillin?

Stoli
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Member # 11175

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Hi-

My LLMD (confirmed LLMD) attended the UNH Conference on Sunday, where certain statements were made about success of concurrent doxycycline or tygecycline (sp?)+ tindamax treatments. Other posters here also commented on this Conference recommendation.

If that's case, does anyone have any thoughts why she would recommend Bicillin + tindamax instead. I may be losing my mind, but I thought Bicillin was a completely separate class of abx than the -cyclines? They aren't the same, right?

I know I should have asked her at the time she wrote the script, but I guess I wasn't thinking clearly enough at the time. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

THANKS

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lou
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There is no one treatment course that works for everyone, so docs try different things. Bicillin is in the penicillin class, not the cycline group.

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pamoisondelune
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What previous drugs have you been on? They need to be rotated.

How's your digestion? Doxycycline is not so easy on the stomach. Tigecycline IV is extremely hard to tolerate, i hear.

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Lymetoo
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Bicillin has been a Godsend for many. Perhaps it hits other infections the patient may have. We all have a MIX of infections.

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MariaA
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Bicillin is intramuscular, so it may penetrate better than orals do, and might be more likely to reach the brain.

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