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I had a tick attached to my neck for several days & never saw it. I felt it but thought it was a skin tag. My bathroom mirrors are in odd places so I didn't see it until I finally made a point of it. It was sorta elongated, like a little worm, & I realized then it wasn't a skin tag & pulled it out. Then it looked like a tick about the size of a small pea, but flat then. Dumb me, I flushed it. Told the doctor who put me on 3 days of Doxy.
I have had to be very careful about abx since having Cdiff for 6 months in 2006-2007. I was bitten, I THINK, back in 2007 & went to an alternative doctor in my state who treated with me with supplements like cats claw, artemisimun, lymestat, etc., as well as the Rife machinie. I never had symptoms. Tomorrow I am going to get a Rife machine treatment.
Given the danger of a recurrence of Cdiff, I am between a rock & a hard place. I can take 30 days of Doxy if I can get my doctor to prescribe it but it does a number on me or I can rely on the Rife machine unless I start getting symptoms.
What to do?
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WPinVA
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herbals?
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Lots of probiotic with the doxy (2 hours away from the antibiotics). Make sure you take Saccharomyces boulardii along with it. This helps prevent cdiff.
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Oh believe me, I know all about that! And I've been taking Florastor (Saccharomyces) for 6 years, ever since I took my last Vancomycin pill for the Cdiff in 6/07!
I took the 3 days of Doxy that my local doctor prescribed but I am wondering at what point I should be tested?
I am also considering getting in touch with the naturopathic doctor who had me on herbals last time around.
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The only thing about this new bite? What bad guys was it injecting into you? Rifing for lyme is a given.
But what other co-infections could you be infected with. That's where it gets tricky with rife treatments and co-infections.
Seeing NP maybe they can help you clean up many at one time.
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Ok, here may be a solution...
400 mg doxy daily for minimum 6 weeks...
Tinidazole or flagyl, which kills c.diff AND lforms and cystic forms of lyme. (for 6 weeks with the doxy)
Obviously the florastor and billions of mixed culture probiotics daily...
And if you can't do that, then maybe buhners protocol and rifing together.
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GretaM might be on to something if tindazole will kill cdiff. I don't have any experience with it.
I would just add that if you can start immediately, like a couple of days after removing the tick, a couple of weeks should take care of anything those meds are effective against.
If you wait a couple of weeks 'to see if symptoms develop' you'd need to be on them for a long time. Like 4 weeks. Or maybe a year.
Good luck!
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Tinidazole is similar to Metronidazole (Flagyl) but is not Flagyl. It has a similar mechanism of action & similar side effects but not quite as bad. I was on Flagyl for 6 weeks for Cdiff. I need to check into this. Thanks!
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