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colonelforbin1992
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Had an interesting personal experience with Rifampin this week...

Started 1 300mg Rifampin daily from last Saturday until today. As of early yesterday, I still felt awful, probably worse than when I first started, despite my LLMD telling me I should be feeling better after a week.

A family friend told me that she thought vitamins interfered with Rifampin based on personal experience. So I did an experiment and didn't take a single vitamin orally yesterday (still took an Epson Salt Bath).

I woke up this morning feeling much better. Best I have in a week. For what it's worth, I was talking B, C, D, Magnesium, garlic, slippery elm, 2-3 hours before Rifampin.

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Yes, I could see that.

When I took rifampin, I took it on an empty stomach a half hour before meals and took my supplements at a different meal.

I'm glad you're feeling better.
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Thanks Greta. It's a weird drug...I wanted to start doing treatments for my babesia but I'm concerned now about Rifampin interactions...trial by fire I suppose

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I would stick with a Lyme/Rif protocol for a while longer and reduce your infection loads before hitting babs. Rif does interfere with some classes of meds, so why take more risks.

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I have nothing of value to add, but I do like your username. 1992 was a good year for forbin.

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Drugs.com has an interactions checker where you list everything you are taking and all the possible interactions are described.

http://www.drugs.com/drug_interactions.html

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quote:
Originally posted by jmb:
I have nothing of value to add, but I do like your username. 1992 was a good year for forbin.
I was in a diaper then, but I've caught a few Forbins in recent years :-)

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nefferdun, I use drugs.com all the time to check for interactions. Have you ever found it to be missing something?

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nefferdun, I use drugs.com all the time to check for interactions. Have you ever found it to be missing something?

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i slowly ramped up Rifampin .

that might have been a little overwhelming . and good 1 hour before or 2 hours after for certain other vitamins.
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I know that rifampin can wreck havoc on certain medications likethyroid, hormones etc. It changes the rate at which they are metabolized or something like that...
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