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Topic: length of course of doxy in acute stage

mattBa
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Member # 16785

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My husband has a number of symptoms of early Lyme disease and possibly babesiosis or other co-infections. One of his doctors initially put him on doxy as well as some meds for babesiosis.

Now the 4 days of IV doxy in the hospital and 10 day course of doxy at home have ended. I can't get his docs to let him remain on them while they try to rule out some possible rheumatological type diseases they think might be a possibility.

I am wondering if anybody knows how long a typical dose of doxycycline should be to be effective?

Is 14 days enough? His symptoms are not yet resolved although they have improved.

If anyone knows where I could find an article or reference that I could show to his doctors to back up my idea that he may need more than 14 days to completely beat this, please let me know.

Thanks for your input.

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adamm
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It HAS to be 400 mg/day, continued for 2 months after all symptoms

resolve. Any lower a dose is bacteriostatic (i.e. only keeps

bacteria from reproducing, but does not kill them--useless,

as our immune systems can' do a thing about this one), and any

shorter a duration (the spirochete divides once every weeks,

and is only vulnerable to doxy while doing so) will leave

some bugs alive to cause chronic neurological disease.

Please find a way to get the right treatment now--every day

matters, at this point, and there is no experience in this world

worse than that of chronic Lyme. I speak from personal

experience; a month of 200mg/ day utterly failed me.

try lymecryme.com and lymeinfo.net for the studies you're looking for.

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Lymetoo
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Member # 743

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Oh my!!! His window of opportunity to keep this thing from going chronic is very small!!

Get more meds ASAP!!! Can he make it to a walk-in clinic or something?? Go to two of them!

Do whatever it takes to get him enough meds for 8 wks of treatment. 400mg sounds good to me too.

Find him an LLMD right away. Babesia needs separate meds to clear it. A regular GP won't be able to handle that either.

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Opinions, not medical advice!

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Keebler
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Member # 12673

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Yes, Ditto to above replies. The window of opportunity is vital - and so is combination treatment.

Sorry, I don't have the energy to repost some articles that may be of help. There are many vital links at this other current thread:

http://flash.lymenet.org/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=070482

good luck.

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adamm
Unregistered

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seriously--if you need to, have him lie to get pills.

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