Anyway, the directions on the amoxicillin say take six 500mg capsules in the morning. Does this sound right? I'm gonna call my doc tomorrow but I was just wondering what you guys thought.

Do you not want to spread them out?
My doctor called in the prescription and I'm wondering if they got it right.

I suppose you could split it into morning and evening doses if you wanted to. I settled on 4.5g/day as my optimal dose.

Amox is easy to tolerate and you can eat with it if you want to.

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Originally posted by charlie:
....Where are you in TX anyway? Since you've got a scrip for bicillin it'd be easy to go to Mexico and fill it....no questions asked.

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You've received great advice from others.

l.) Yes, I agree with you-----talk to your doctor first.

Pharmacists are overworked because they have to fill everyone's individual prescriptions 12X a year.

That in itself is a formula for disastrous medication errors.

2.) The half-life of Amoxicillin is short.
It's baffling to think that one-half of your Amoxicillin will be out of your body in a mere 0.7 to l.4 hours. And that's in patients with normal renal function.

What if you're a fast metabolizer?

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SOURCE:
http://www.rxmed.com/

Click on Drugs & Illness & look up Amoxicillin.

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Here's my amateur viewpoint-------please confirm with your doctor.

It seems to me, that taking 1,000 mg every 8 hours would provide a steady blood level of meds.

It's true, dosages of 6,000 mg daily penetrate the blood brain barrier in patients with inflammed meninges.

With my neuro lyme, I would definitely want to eventualy ramp up SLOWLY to 6,000 mg daily in three divided doses to achieve a therapeutic dose to the BRAIN.

Personally, from what my LLMD told me, is that everyone with Lyme has "some" degree of aseptic meningitis or neck pain/back of head pain. It's due to inflammation-----no fever.

Your LLMD's goal may be to raise you to 6,000 mg Amoxicillin----"eventually."

Anyway as you've said, your doctor should know best.

Listen, I also replied to your other post about Babesia & very much hope you can get a one-month trial run of treatment.....perhaps Mepron/zith.

You're working so hard to get well----you deserve the best care available.

Take Care,
Jan

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