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Does staying on low dose/maintenance abx keep folks from relapsing or relapsing harder?
If one has lyme and co-infections, do the maintenance abx include those for lyme as well as co-infections if they're not the same?
What are the major consequences of doing this? I assume yeast is a big issue, perhaps potentially elevated liver enzymes?
Are maintenance abx taken continuously or just a few weeks at a time, or only when symptoms appear and until they resolve?
Thank you all.
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GiGi
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Peruse the Stephen Buhner book - "Healing Lyme". He has a section in it for prevention of infection to start or relapse.
Take care.
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caat
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depends on what strain(s) you have, what co-infections, how your immune system is and if you're possibly genetically prone to any of the infections to begin with....
Just depends.
I know one person who can easily maintain on 200mg doxy, while I've needed 400mg throughout 3 years just to maintain. I've relapsed time and time again on just 200mg doxy. I have at least one co-infection and seem to have (had?) a very neurological strain of Bb.- may have a lot to do with it- who knows...
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