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So I am now on Bart treatment after 10 months of Lyme treatment.
I would like to hear from others about whether my current protocol is typical and if the treatment symptoms I am experiencing are typical.
I am on:
100mg of Minocycline twice daily
600mg of Rifampin daily during the weekdays
600mg of Zithromax daily on the weekends
Is this typical for Bart treatment?
I have been on this protocol for 3 weeks now with no major herx.
Pretty much been feeling tired, a few episodes of lightheadedness, and a brief episode of dry heaving.
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TF
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No, this is not typical treatment for bart. See this page for treatment recommendations:
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thanks TF i read this and am now confident I am on the "right" abx.
I had asked the LLND but she did not explain it a well as this author.
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some point.
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nefferdun
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I think the dosage is about right - but you should be taking it every day. If you take the Rifampin at night you won't feel so sleepy in the daytime (hopefully).
After 8 months of daily abx for bartonella and feeling pretty well (but not 100%), I decided to wean myself back to four days a week and I relapsed in a month. Now I am back on full schedule, having added more abx to the mix, and I'm still not back to where I was. In fact the symptoms keep coming back stronger and stronger.
So I don't see how taking abx two days a week is going to help you. It could just make the bacteria resistant to that drug.
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Zith has a very long half-life, and is often pulsed, as she is doing.
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I believe Zithro is 72 hours and it is often pulsed for other illnesses but she is only taking it two days a week and those days are consecutive. Bartonella is such a horrible disease, in my opinion much worse than lyme, as it affects my mind so much leaving me feeling like a zombie - It is not something I would recommend poking at. You need to be very aggressive.
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