Presently I am pulsing with tetracycline (2 weeks on / 2 weeks off). It seems that in the last 2 cycles, about 4-5 days after getting off the tetra, I feel like getting the flu (dizzy, cold, throat ache). Is it just that I actually get sick (I am in/out of airplanes all the time, have small children so you know it's easy to get sick) OR can it be a side effect of pulsing? Does anybody have a similar experience?

Thanks,

Ciao,

I pulsed my abx too. But I found that
AFter i'd been on abx for an extended period of time, my body seemed to conpensate in it's functioning to include this new everyday substance- (this is aside from the antibiotic properties).. so that if I went off 'cold turkey' my body had to re-adjust, and I would feel like crap during this period. (and some think it's a relapse)

I don't think it has anything to do with bacteria or relapsing at all. Most of the abx we take were not designed to be on for the lenghth of time we take them.

Through trial and error - I found that if I WEANED off the antbiotics, reducing the dose over the course of 3 or 4 days, then I did not feel crappy after stopping them.
So I think it's a compensatory or withdrawal
phenonomen.

Try it - and I'd be interested to see if this works for you - or if it's all just in my mind (the way some people have said..).