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Topic: how does this happen?

SpdDrv
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 5861

posted

How do I come down with the flu when I am taking zithromax, plaqunil and flagyl? I thought I would be protected from anything with all the medicine I am on! could the flu actually be a herx? got all the aching and stuff to but also stuffy head cough chest hurts.

The weird thing is I feel like and look like I am burning up with fever my face is all red and I feel like I am burning up with a fever but there is no fever.

guess like everything else it has to run its course and I will moan and complain in the process.
Sorry gang,
stacie

Posts: 220 | From Louisiana | Registered: Jun 2004 | IP: Logged |

dullchime
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 6024

posted

It could be a herx but you may be getting sick as well. Im on pretty strong stuff and I had a pretty bad case of bronchitis for a while- I thought the same thing. I think the lyme drops our immune systems and the abx only brings some of us up to normal. So yeah you could be getting the flu- yet the beat redness all over sounds like Lyme.

Posts: 232 | From kennett square, PA USA | Registered: Aug 2004 | IP: Logged |

Lymetoo
Moderator
Member # 743

posted

The flu is a virus and abx don't work on viruses. If you are beet red and feel like you have fever....and don't....it's probably a herx. I used to do that alot when herxing. Sorry you're so miserable. Hope it lets up soon!

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Lymetutu

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Mathias
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 5298

posted

Ask your doctor for a prescription for this ASAP. It's an antiviral and works during the first 48 hours after developing flu symptoms.
http://www.tamiflu.com/

Posts: 1250 | From New Jersey | Registered: Feb 2004 | IP: Logged |

WildCondor
Unregistered

posted

Antibiotics do not work on viruses. Amantatide can help if taken right awy when influenza starts.

make sure you are taking probiotics!

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treepatrol
Honored Contributor (10K+ posts)
Member # 4117

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I guess I havent done it very well its probaly a herx because of the flagyl opening cysts to the other abx's especially every 28 to 34 days cycle.

I mistook my big herx's for the flu for three months then it donned on me I was begining these flu symptoms every month.

At first it was harder for me to understand because I was almost continually herxing.

Why you ask I had three strains cycleing at three different times.
Once I got down to one strain it became evident that I was herxing every 28 to 34 days.

Flu? huh uh Doubtful
http://flash.lymenet.org/ubb/Forum1/HTML/031290.html

[This message has been edited by treepatrol (edited 03 February 2005).]

Posts: 10564 | From PA Where the Creeks are Red | Registered: Jun 2003 | IP: Logged |

Kara Tyson
Frequent Contributor (5K+ posts)
Member # 939

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The flu is a virus. Antibiotics will not protect you.

However, the flu can turn into Pneumonia which is then bacterial.

Posts: 6022 | From Mobile, AL | Registered: Apr 2001 | IP: Logged |

SpdDrv
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 5861

posted

I have to agree with dullchine, lymetoo and treepatrol. I think it is a HERX. I got to thinking and about 3 and 1/2 weeks ago I had the flu then to! I even ran a fever it just climbed right up to almost 105 then bam it dropped out on me and I had the cruds for a few days then got better.
This time if I have a fever it isn't getting very high but I am red hot to the touch at times and ache all over. I do have a l ittle congestion but I think that is just a weather thing. SO I think I am in a herx. Normally my herxes are a LOT more severe pain wise and such so I guess this is a sign I might be improving?
If it looks like a herx and acts like a herx then I guess I am in a herx.
Stacie

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