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After my third bottle of Mepron (with Biaxin), I've had a week-long herx, with extreme head pressure, numb fingers, sensitive teeth, ear aches, pinpoint rash, and sweats. UGH. And I thought i was through the worst of it.
Anyone else have bad herxes after the 3rd bottle?
Kris
Posts: 245 | From Palo Alto, CA USA | Registered: Jul 2003
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i am glad you posted this. i have had the same thing. i am in to my fourth bottle of mepron with zithro and plaquenil.
In the beginning the first month was just plain terrible. Then i thought for a week of two that i was stepping in the right direction. Then around the 8th week i slipped and was very down about it.
i seem to be coming out of it but slowly and i still feel like i am on the edge of something either getting getter or worse. you know that "left in a lurch" feeling.... its terrible.
hang on and please keep me posted. i would love to compare progress since we seem to be at around the same time in our mepron treatment
w
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troutscout
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Hey...my third week coming up...we'll see if I herx ....then again..I haven't been a third week fella anyway.
Trout
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dontlikeliver
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I'm on about my nearly 7th week. Apart from feeling fantastic for 3-4 days about a week into it - I have felt pretty much consistently very fatigued and under the weather. I'm also on Biaxin.
I seem to have days or clusters of days when I think I'm herxing due to low-grade fever and goosebump feeling, etc, but they dont' really seem to fit any pattern - so it's hard to tell if it's a herx, or just my same old problems.
Also, an old symptom of chronic sore throats, sores in throat and peeling skin in mouth/cheeks is back again. Have had about 3 episodes in 5-6 weeks of that, once with very very sore glands.
DLL
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It sounds like others have had a similar herx pattern as mine. During Mepron Bottle #1, week 3, I had a gigantic almost-went-to-the-ER headache. Bottle #2 I felt great, with the biggest improvement in neuro symptoms in a year. Life was great during Bottle #3, then the first week of Bottle #4 I was hit by the sledgehammer.
In the last couple of weeks, I started taking Gingko for enhanced brain circulation, so I suspect I've been hitting bugs that were hiding out in the tiny capillaries of my brain.
--Kris
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