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I am not sure if its in bad taste to see more than on DR, but I was recently diagnosed and got frightened so I sought the advice of several Drs., I ended up going on Doxy and Hydrcloroquine(sp?I did not have on Herx except for maybe a headache. The DR wants to switch me to zithro/Mepron but another DR thinks that Ceften is what will actually kill the critters not these others, who do you believe? I already did 5 weeks of Doxy and hate to do something else with little results any info greatly appreciated.
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mepron/zithro are for treating babesia doxy or ceftin would be for treating lyme
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This is strictly one person's opinion, but the antibiotics you describe are a little... how shall we say... old school. Ceftin is a weaker cephalosporin, chloroquine (also called plaquenil) was declared obsolete for treating malaria a year ago by the World Health Organization, and zithromax now has a next generation called ketek. Doxy is helpful with early Lyme or Lyme-without-co-infections, but is not the best choice if you also have babesia. Mepron is still fabulous, but many LLMDs are prescribing it at higher doses, for longer time periods, than they used to.
In the Lyme community, you must shop and keep shopping, because we are all learning as we go, because there is not as much peer review here as in the mainstream medical community, because LLMDs tend to cost $300-800 per visit, and because even the most honest LLMDs can fall behind in this rapidly changing field.
I've done best by combining a strong cephalosporin (such as rocephin, omnicef, or ceftin) with a strong macrolide (ketek, zithromax, biaxin) and a cyst buster (flagyl, tinidazole). I also take artemisinin and high-dose mepron for babesia, low-dose rifampin for bartonella, nystatin and coptis extract for yeast (a big problem with any longterm abx regimen) and the best quality liver support I could find.
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This is strictly one person's opinion, but the antibiotics you describe are a little... how shall we say... old school. Ceftin is a weaker cephalosporin, chloroquine (also called plaquenil) was declared obsolete for treating malaria a year ago by the World Health Organization, and zithromax now has a next generation called ketek. Doxy is helpful with early Lyme or Lyme-without-co-infections, but is not the best choice if you also have babesia. Mepron is still fabulous, but many LLMDs are prescribing it at higher doses, for longer time periods, than they used to.
In the Lyme community, you must shop and keep shopping, because we are all learning as we go, because there is not as much peer review here as in the mainstream medical community, because LLMDs tend to cost $300-800 per visit, and because even the most honest LLMDs can fall behind in this rapidly changing field.
I've done best by combining a strong cephalosporin (such as rocephin, omnicef, or ceftin) with a strong macrolide (ketek, zithromax, biaxin) and a cyst buster (flagyl, tinidazole). I also take artemisinin and high-dose mepron for babesia, low-dose rifampin for bartonella, nystatin and coptis extract for yeast (a big problem with any longterm abx regimen) and the best quality liver support I could find.
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