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I'm only on supplements right now, and can't get information I need from my LLMD, long story.
She had mentioned taking Artemisinin, but I don't know how much or a good brand to use. I'm taking 100mg/day right now due to lack of better information, Doctor's Best brand.
Is there a danger in taking too much, or is there a type I need to look for? I don't even remember why she said to take it, for the Babs or LD.
I'm having a major communication problem with my LLMD right now!
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This question has been asked many times before. To read the old posts and get plenty of answers, just click on the "search" function near the top of the screen, and then use the search word "artemisinin."
I did this for you and found the following June 5 thread among many, many others:
My doc had me take AllergyResearchGroup brand, 100 mg twice per day on an empty stomach. I took it Friday through Sunday of each week to encompass my weekly babs flares. It worked like a miracle.
You can get that brand from the Vitamin Shoppe.
Art is used to treat babs. You can find that in the Burrascano Guidelines, page 24 where he says:
"Artemesia (a nonprescription herb) should be added in all cases."
You can also search the Burrascano Guidelines for any word. You can learn a lot that way.
It really pays for a lyme patient to become as educated as they can about this disease and treatment. Reading and studying the Guidelines document is an excellent way of getting that education.
This way, you will understand what the doctor is doing, why you are being treated the way you are, and even figure out if your treatment is inadequate. So, it really is a must for all lyme patients to become educated. Otherwise, you could waste years on inadequate treatment and not realize it.
There have been studies that showed that taking art daily leads the intestines to produce an enzyme that negates the artemisinin. That's why you have to take breaks from it--to keep it effective.
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I pulse it following what Dr. R. from Seattle suggests. I do 400mg 3x per day for 3 days on and 11 days off. I use Nutricology Super Artemisinin. I herxed much more in the beginning of taking that then I did on Mepron.
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All I can do right now is study and take supplements, my LLMD has really let me down, and I'm afraid to even begin treatment with the prescriptions she sent me (finally, after a month of phone calls and letters!)
I have only sketchy notes from the phone conversation I had with her after my IGeneX tests came back, and the Rxs arrived in the mail with no information or comment.
They consist of an "antibiotic cocktail" of Doxy, Clyndymicin and Coartem, along with Plaquenil. I'm kind of afraid of starting them knowing that I have no access to my LLMD, apparently.
I'm having to locate another LLMD at this point, and am just taking supplements to help me feel better in the meanwhile.
Thanks for the help! I'll download the docs and read them closely. I feel like I'm pretty much on my own at this point, so I better figure it out as best I can!
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If you decide to take the doxy, be sure to stay out of the sun. Doxy can cause a medication burn if you go in the sun. It is so nasty that nasty is not a good enough word for it.
To my mind there is no sense taking artemisinin if you are not on antibiotics for babesiosis. Art by itself is insufficient to treat babs.
If you want the name of a great lyme doc in Washington, D.C., let me know. After the first in-person appointment, she will do telephone appointments. So, you would only have to travel to D.C. twice per year.
You can email her and get responses to all of your questions quickly, even on weekends and Sundays and holidays. All of her patients remark about this, and everyone loves her.
Let me know. I don't think there is much in your area. Many from down south are coming to D.C.
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I grew up very close to DC, but even then don't get up that way often enough to see family. It's a 9 hour trek from here.
I've got a few contacts left, they are all in NC, just an overnight trip at least, and they are getting good marks so far.
I'm holding off on the Doxy until after July 4th due to a commitment in a local parade for 1 1/2 hours-after that I can avoid the sun completely (and it'll be too stinking hot to want to go outside at that point!)
I'll let you know, TF, if DC becomes my only alternative and I need the information. Thanks!
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