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Topic: Question to people who used Flagyl or Tinidazole and improved after

Areneli
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If you took in the past a few months treatment with Flagyl (or Tinidazole) and experienced dramatic improvement once you have discontinued the mentioned drugs, can you tell us how long this improvement lasted for you?

I am asking because I try to figure out what is going on with this cysts opening treatments.

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zipzip
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the best method of using flagyl is to 'pulse' it.

use the flagyl for 5-7 days in a week and then switch to an antibiotic that will kill the spirochete form (e.g. ketek) during the next 5-7 day week... continue rotating.

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Areneli
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Actually, I try to figure out how this stuff work. Sometime before I have read on this board that people regained a lot clarity of thinking after Flagyl. Just wanted to know how much and for how long this improvement lasted.

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Areneli
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Zipzip, do you have neurolyme?

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liz28
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I'm not sure if flagyl worked on cysts or not. But it did suppress the symptoms of bartonella. So there was dramatic improvement while on it, and when I stopped, the symptoms that came back were so obviously different from Lyme that I was able to figure them out.

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lymeHerx001
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Areneli I know we were talking about flagyl before.

Now Im on day 7 strait of 250mg twice daily.

I notice some neuro herxing (depression, parinoia, anxiety) and then things clear up.

They dont clear up for that long but long enough for me to notice them.

I just hope that I dont develop diarhoea on it.

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Areneli
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Thanks cave76, we still don't have answer for it.

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minoucat
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I took a fairly long (several months) course of flagyl a couple of years ago, before treating coinfections. No help, plus I got a transient neruopathy. And not that transient, either, because it took over 6 months to resolve.

I've just started tinidazole. Will post in 6 months if there is long term improvement this time--I have big hopes, since this time I've completed babs and bart tx and have been on bicillin for the past year.

I'm utterly wiped out. I'm not pulsing anything -- I'm on bicillin every 5 days, plus Ketek. Was also on samento and artemisinin, but had wall-crawling anxiety which eased off when I quit samento.

Lymeherx, sacchromyces bouldardii in particular helped me with the flagyl-induced diahrrhea.

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EZ-E
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I'm on 400mg Vantin & 750mg Flagyl a day now, at the same time. Head feels alot clearer. My llmd says don't cycle it. I like it alot so far. I have fairly serious nuero lyme.My doc says the flagyl opens the cysts, & the vantin kills the spirochetes.... I've been coughing up alot of flim since starting the flagyl, 14 days ago...

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