tricia386
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I have been on plaquenil my whole treatment. Why is this...what is this for?
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dmc
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cyst busting, inflammation. Google plaquenil for Lyme & you find papers about it.
There may be info in the Lymenet library (left side of the page here)
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sammy
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It is also supposed to help some of the intracellular antibiotics work better.
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bcb1200
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The primary reason to take Plaquenil is to help raise cellular ph levels so that macrolide antibiotics (Zith / Biaxin, etc) work better against lyme. Without it, lyme will hang out in low ph areas of a cell where the abx don't work well. Adding plaquenil eliminates these low ph pockets (or so I'm told. ) Amantadine does the same.
I've read Plaquenil may also bust cysts, but Lymemd (blog) says it can make them as well.
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