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I had a pic line for 30 days with 2grams of Rocephin per day. I can't tell that it did anything but inflame my veins.
Years ago I herxed on Doxy, seems strange Rocephin didn't do anything. I have always heard great things about it.
I finally get a doctor to do it and it's so disappointing to get nothing out of it.
Have you guy's had better luck with anything else when Rocephin didn't do the trick?
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timaca
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bugbite~ I was on rocephin....and I got a significant herx from it. I was also put on ketek and doxy while on the rocephin. At about 4 months, I started to see improvements. The picc line was pulled at 6 1/2 months due to a fungal infection in the line. 3 weeks later I relapsed.
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Sorry to hear you're disappointed in Rocephin. I was, too.
It took 7 weeks for me to notice much from Rocephin, and then there were more neuro improvements at the 10 week mark.
I kept the picc line for 3 mos, and then opted to go back to orals.
Rocephin, for me, did not give the dramatic improvements that I received from babs treatment.
I think it's very important to do different abx combos if you're on IV, rather than only Rocephin, and also to address co-infections.
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IV Rocephin and sooooooooo much more did NOT cure my sis' lyme.
The cure, I believe, involves 2 things:
Reducing inflammation (bigtime) WHILE doing a treatment to destroy Bb.
AND probiotics...always.
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IV rocephin, IMO is only good for very early cases of Lyme. After my initial six weeks along with oral zithro it was like water running thru my veins.
Plus given that it wrecks the gallbladder I would not take it beyond six weeks and if I knew now what I knew than that I had a very advance case of Lyme and co's I would never had bothered taking it at all.
The "cure" is much more involved than just taking ABX. Being down inflammation is extremely important, as well as taking probiotics, but it goes way beyond that.
This illness, more than any other, requires an integrative approach and it means supporting all bodily systems in a very comprehensive way. ABX alone will never do it.
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I have had non-stop gallbladder problems since the IV which was a year ago.
I see a gastronologist this next week (again) seems as though since a sonogram does not produce any visible stones I just get told "we see no problems" I have told the doc's about the IV and no ones seems to equate problems from the IV to my gallbladder.
I hope for better results this week, especially since I had to make another emergency room trip.
Inflamation is also a problem, I thought maybe it was caused from the gallbladder.
Any suggestions for inflammation?
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did nothing for me good or bad. My new doc explained to my why rocephin doesn't do anythign for certain types but i don't remember why anymore. But yeah.. nothing happened at all.
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There must be someone on here that has made progress with Rocephin. I think the key is having a cyst buster. What is the next choice after Rocephin?
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