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Topic: new to this forum - questions on my lyme-bart treatment

holyedge
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Member # 45364

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i have been treated by a llmd with doryx, rifampin and tindamax for around 7 months for lyme and bartonella.

got off the abx about 10 days ago, after 8th day being off, i've had real bad stiff neck and pressure around base of skull.

they are begging me to not get back on abx to figure out what's going on.

does this sound right? should i get back on abx anyway?

thanks - holyedge

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SacredHeart
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 44733

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Whose begging you not to go back on the antibiotics?

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Lyme flare June, July, August of 2013. Diagnosed September 2014 Lyme, Bartonella, Mycoplasma, Mono

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TF
Frequent Contributor (5K+ posts)
Member # 14183

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If you have studied the Burrascano Lyme Treatment Guidelines, you will notice that Dr. B. recommends treating the patient until they have been symptom free for at least 2 months.

Were you symptom free when you stopped your antibiotic treatment? If not, I would expect that as soon as you stop treatment, your symptoms will come back.

Lyme may take 4 weeks to give you symptoms, but the coinfections (bartonella and babesiosis, for example), will give you symptoms right away.

When I was going to a lyme doc who didn't know enough to cure me, he would have me stop antibiotics every once in a while. Within 2 weeks, I would again be as sick as I was at the start. No wonder! He never tested me or treated me for coinfections, and I had babs and bart both.

The Burrascano Guidelines are here:

http://www.ilads.org/lyme/B_guidelines_12_17_08.pdf

See the bottom of page 16 and 17, plus pages 19-20. See where he says to treat until "no active disease for 6-8 weeks." That means the patient must be symptom free for 6-8 weeks before stopping the antibiotics.

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