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Topic: ROXITRHOMYCIN Dosage???

bears1985
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I am going to start Roxithromycin soon...does anyone know the dosage? Is it 300mg or 600mg per day? Thanks.

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psano2
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I started at 150mg twice a day but then felt I was regressing so then increased it to 300mg twice a day and started making headway. I'm still on 600mg/day. It's helped a lot, but sometimes I think about trying 900mg/day. I found one old post from someone who took that and I think they said it helped.

You need to be sure to check your labs regularly, you know. It can cause diabetes in about 7 to 9% (? I think) of patients studied.

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bears1985
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Psano2 - Thanks for the reply, but where are you getting the Diabetes number from??

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psano2
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well, I thought I read that that was the main reason it was taken off the market in the US, but now I can't seem to find it, so maybe I was mistaken.

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'Kete-tracker
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*I* heard it was taken off the market as other "superior" macrolides were [at the time] available here in the U.S. Personally I think it was a $$ thing. Biaxin-maker Abbott Labs wanted the U.S. market for itself. (Roxythromycin was introduced by a German pharma company in 1987.)

Starting out at 150mg twice a day & progressing to 300mg twice a day IS the typical dosage as I recall from a Lymenet contact in the SouthWest, who had been on it for some time (& made good progress!)

bears- Read this Austrian study from 1995:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7782115
Seems adding co-trimoxazole helps a lot. [Wink]

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