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I just started Rifampin 600mg/daily with Minocycline 400mg/daily for bartonella, and I've now had persistent nausea for the past three days.
Should I try cutting back on the Mino or the Rif or both? Which generally causes this kind of persistent nausea even hours after taking it?
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for me it was rifamipin; but it is a side effect that vanishes. Took 14 days until the body adjusted. Mino can also be terrible but "only" gave me vertigo.
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Is there something good to take to subdue the nausea..i.e maalox, tums, or something natural that helps?
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bernieb- I have been getting nausea for over a week now.
For me I think it is Mepron. A few people told me to drink Ginger tea to settle my stomach.
Sometimes it helps for me...
I have anti-nausea medication over the counter that seems to help too.
It is very sweet though. I am sure it has sugar in it.
GOOD LUCK!
Nausea is no fun!!
Laurie
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Benadryl, an over the counter antihistamine, works very well to eliminate nausea. However, it makes many folks very tired.
That is alot of mino to start with! I started mino at 50 mg every 3 days, and worked up from there.
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Mino causes nausea for me. I have to eat a little something when I take it, even though it's supposed to be taken on an empty stomach-otherwise I feel like I am going to throw up.
400 mg seems like a lot. I was taking 200 mg and that bothered by stomach. We knocked it back to 100 mg when taken with other antibiotics.
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My son is on Mino and our LLMd recommended Activated Charcoal capsules (bought at most vitamin stores) for nausea - works awesome. I tried it and my husband too (we all have Ld and nausea) works great. Must be taken 2 hours away (before and/or after)from abx.
Second and third choices - papaya chewable tablets. Ginger root capsules.
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yes, the nausa could actually be a herx, so dont give up until you see its not going away. I puked like crazy and was on toliet massivelly at first on any new abx, but that rapidly vanished.
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