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I finally got to see my LLMD for the first time. He's a careful clinician and started from scratch trying to analyze my symptoms. In particular, he was interested in trying to discover whether my illness is acute or an acute illness on top of a chronic one. I found this approach needfully tedious and I appreciated it.
He drew more blood work (I've never tested positive on an ELISA) and sent it off for analysis. In the mean time he's had me stop all suppliments and my doxy as well (I had been on the doxy for about 5 weeks) He gave me the option of staying on the azyth (which I had been on for 2 weeks).
I believe his rational for stopping my meds is two-fold, and here inlies my question to you all.
I think that he's stopping my "treatment" to both build a colony back a little and to see where my symptoms are at a "baseline." In other words, he's assuming that symmptomatically I'll get a little worse over the next few weeks until I see him again. He'll use how I feel at that time, just prior to starting a different regimen as a benchmark and watch for changes from there.
I am comfortable with this approach but I wanted to run it by you experienced lymies to see what you thought.
Any thoughts?
BT
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Well, it depends upon how long you've been ill. This is not a "recent" tick bite?? IF it's not, then stopping the doxy won't matter a whole lot.
Also ... ***He gave me the option of staying on the azyth..***
Do you mean azithromycin?? Biaxin?? If so, then you're covered.
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I have heard of LLMDs stopping all supplements before because sometimes people are getting side effects from mixing so many things!!! I don't know why your doc is doing this though... Bottom line, you trust him or you don't. It sounds like you do!! That is what is best anyway- a doctor who is trustworthy-
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