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Topic: Does Mepron break cysts?

Ruffy
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Member # 7146

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My LLMD, Dr. P, is perscribing it as a cyst buster saying that studies has shown it to be a very effective cyst buster without all the side effects of apparently cancer inducing abx like Flagyl. He is a very conservative doctor. I really don't see much on this board supporting that. Would anyone know if there is truth to this?

Ruffy

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Corgilla
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 4066

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Hi Ruffy,

I can't say for sure but it does get a lot of stuff. It's an antiprotozoal. It helped my pinky toe nail fungus. The full babesia treatment combo has definitely turned my recovery in the right direction.

Maybe someone else knows more.

Corgilla

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minoucat
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Up, does anyone have info on this?

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bpeck
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Member # 3235

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As stated before, there is no supporting studies that show that mepron damages a (lyme) cyst. He may just be going on the empirical findings that his patients feel better on Mepron. And if that's the case.. then who knows.
Barb

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zipzip
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Member # 6226

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mepron is anti-parastic medication. it has no known effects on borrelia at all, let alone the ubiquitious cyst busting.

maybe your doc has the "inside dope" on research we haven't accessed.

maybe he is conflating mepron with the medication plaquenil?

plaquenil is an anti-parasitic drug that when taken in combination with a macrolide - biaxin, zithromax - changes the acidic endosome or Ph balance of the borrelia organism.

it has been suggested that this change in Ph is a cyst-busting mechanism.

make sure to discuss the delineations of the two meds with said doc.

best of luck.

zip

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liz28
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I have no idea if mepron works on cysts or not, but...

so sorry to add another depressing factoid to this board, but I was on flagyl for two years (and it was the wrong drug--for me, it had a mildly suppressive effect on an undiagnosed case of bartonella, which I mistook for an effect on Lyme). A month ago, I was diagnosed with a basal cell carcinoma, or skin cancer. I'm 38, and there is no history at all of cancer in my family.

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zipzip
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my brother, with no history of illness, had the same skin cancer on his ear at 31.

make sure you get the infected area checked out every six months.

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liz28
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Zip--I'm so sorry to hear that about your brother, but am glad he caught it early. That's scary that people are getting it at younger ages, but for the purposes of this board, it also clears flagyl use a little more.

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