I remember recently reading here on lymenet of a couple of people who say they really did not get better until they started addressing Candida problems, is this a coinsidence?

Clinical effects of fluconazole in patients with neuroborreliosis.

Schardt FW.

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I was on Diflucan for 4 months 10 years ago and still ill. Then again for 30 days in March/April this year and not cured by that.

Maybe it only works for some.

As far as outcomes, three people no longer had positive IgMs. But we all know how much THAT means. There is no indication as to the IgG response.

There is also a lot of room for wiggling when they say there were no symptoms. It all depends on what where considered symptoms. Since they are talking about Neuroborrelliosis did they include arthritic or other symptoms as criteria?

It's possible that the full article contains some of this information, but based on the abstract, it's impossible to evaluate the relevance.

I was on Sporanox (another azole) full time for over six months, and didn't get cured, though it made a big impact in symptoms from my mold infections.

I gave my doc the above study and we figured it can't hurt to try it. I've been taking 200mg nightly with my vantin (abx) and flagyl for 4 weeks now.

I have to say, I am feeling MUCH MUCH better. I had terrible thrush when I first started the abx, but that cleared up very rapidly with the Diflucan.

So, for what it's worth, I think the Diflucan has really helped me. I feel much better than before I started the Lyme treatment in August, particularly in terms of brain fog. It may be in conjunction with the flagyl and vantin, or not.

I'm drinking tons of water to help reduce the load on my liver. (I need to start a thread and ask what kinds of supplements have worked for folks to help detox the liver/bladder/spleen, just in case.)

So far, so good.

Through out my treatment which started in March '04 I have not been taking any diflucan, but have started taking maybe 3 a week, at 100 mg each time. Have not noticed too much difference, but have noticed that I've been less dizzy in the head.

At that smaller dose, you might want to try it daily for a week or two. I think it's one of those meds that's better when you keep the blood concentration even - you have to build up & keep a steady amount.

Let me know if you try it!

I am considering taking diflucan for a month straight, but wanted to do some more research before starting. I remembered a heath news item a month or so ago regarding erithroymcin (sp?) which is I think biaxin, that can cause heart attacks if taking certain drugs, and diflucan was one of them. Since I am on zithromax, which is also a macrolide and similar to biaxin, I am worried about taking both together.

I noticed you are on something else. I have never heard of, vantin. What is that?