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Does anybody have any experience with combo of Bactrim and Biaxin(clarithromycin)?
I'm primary interested in those reports who took this combo(Bactrim\Septra + Biaxin) in isolated manner -i.e. without any other drugs like Malarone, Mepron etc.
If you had taken this combo with some additional drugs and nevertheless want to report because of good\bad\strange experience -PLEASE SPECIFY all drugs what was taken additionally to this combo(Bactrim\Septra + Biaxin) at the same time.
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I took bactrim/zith for a long time-helped diminish babs, and I hope knocked out bart!
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Thx for your info Beths.
There are a lot of reports about bactrim\zithro combo with or without additional drugs.
But according to some theories Bactrim\Biaxin(clarithro) without any additional stuf might be very effective combo.
That is why i'm asking exactly about Bactrim\Biaxin combination.
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my llmd said there is a mild interaction between bactrim and biaxin and she wouldnt prescribe them at the same time. You can check it with a drug interaction checker...not sure why its any different than bactrim and zith.
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Tickbiter, i'm sorry and don't wanna say anything about your llmd, but she\he is wrong. There is no any significant interaction between bactrim and biaxin.
Sure, abs. any\all drugs interact with each other in some way\to some degree, but the question is if such interaction is clinicaly significant.
Bactrim and Biaxin have no any significant interaction (except of heart complicated patients).
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I took Bactrm DS and biaxin with nothing else for about 6 months. When the Biaxin started making my mouth really dry I switched to zithromax, another macrolide. I continued with that combo for another 4 months or so.
It was a great combination which helped get bart under control. It did not do anything for the babesia. After this I went on Mepron and zithromax.
Unfortunately I developed an allergy to zithro and recently had a reaction to Bactrim, so these drugs are now off limits for me.
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I took Bactrm DS and biaxin with nothing else for about 6 months. When the Biaxin started making my mouth really dry I switched to zithromax, another macrolide. I continued with that combo for another 4 months or so.
It was a great combination which helped get bart under control. It did not do anything for the babesia. After this I went on Mepron and zithromax.
Unfortunately I developed an allergy to zithro and recently had a reaction to Bactrim, so these drugs are now off limits for me.
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Nefferdun,
Wow! You are exactly one whom i'm looking for. Very interesting....
May i ask you some additional questions? ------------------------
quote:Originally posted by nefferdun: I took Bactrm DS and biaxin with nothing else for about 6 months. When the Biaxin started making my mouth really dry I switched to zithromax
What do you mean "making my mouth really dry"? What it was like? What was with skin, joints, eyes and sleeping at the same time?
quote:Originally posted by nefferdun: It was a great combination which helped get bart under control.
Could you be so kind to describe in more details how did this combo(Bactrim\Biaxin) help you with taking bart under control? I.e. on what basis you made such conclusion? What symptoms and manifestations\signs were cleared and what remained?
quote:Originally posted by nefferdun: It did not do anything for the babesia.
The same question: Why you conculed that, on what base\ground\reasons?
And the last one: what dosage of Bactrim was used? ------------------------
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I tend to develop sensitivity to drugs when I take them a long time. After months of biaxin use with no problems my mouths would become extremely dry after taking it. I would literally be unable to talk clearly because of it. It was like having cotton in your mouth. So I switched to zithromax. Later on I developed an allergy to that.
I took Bactrim DS (for double strength) - one tablet twice a day and 500 mg zithro once a day.
The symptoms that cleared up were pain/burning in my shins, headaches, muscle twitching, insomnia, brown spots on skin and irritation.
My babesia symptoms increased. When I started the bactrim combo I had hot flashes and some air hunger occasionally. As the bart symptoms went away I developed extreme fatigue, mental confussion, dizziness, breathlessness, more hot flashing, more air hunger, sweating, depression etc.
I also got very bad yeast from Bactrim. My tongue was literally black so I quit it and went to another LLMD. I have always found Bactrim makes it more difficult for me to sleep but a lot of drugs affect me this way.
So after treating babesia 8 months with Mepron/ zithro and then malarone/zithro with rounds of coartem, I developed an allergy to zithromax and had to quit it. When I did that I noticed symptoms of bart returning so I tried taking the Bactrim DS in place of the zithro. It made me extremely dizzy.
At the present time, I can't take any drug without a wild attack of dizziness a couple of hours later that puts me down for the whole day. I also had swelling under my eyes and a very groggy feeling like I was retaining water.
I took a break from everything and then tried them separately. Malarone and Bactrim are both making me dizzy. Last night I had bart symptoms - irritation, burning shins, muscle twicthing.
Today I am doing a small dose of LDN and I hope I can tolerate it. I don't know what I will do from here. The herbs are pretty worthless. I did massive amounts of them for months when this happened to me twice before.
With any luck I will detox and get over this and be able to go back on something else before I get too far under.
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Wow! You are exactly one whom i'm looking for. Very interesting....
May i ask you some additional questions? ------------------------ Originally posted by nefferdun: I took Bactrm DS and biaxin with nothing else for about 6 months. When the Biaxin started making my mouth really dry I switched to zithromax
What do you mean "making my mouth really dry"? What it was like? What was with skin, joints, eyes and sleeping at the same time?
Originally posted by nefferdun: It was a great combination which helped get bart under control.[/QUOTE]Could you be so kind to describe in more details how did this combo(Bactrim\Biaxin) help you with taking bart under control? I.e. on what basis you made such conclusion? What symptoms and manifestations\signs were cleared and what remained?
Originally posted by nefferdun: It did not do anything for the babesia.[/QUOTE]The same question: Why you conculed that, on what base\ground\reasons?
And the last one: what dosage of Bactrim was used? ------------------------
Many thanks again![/QUOTE]--
- sounds rather like an inquisition
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