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Met with my PCP yesterday. I described the neurological symptoms I get if I go off doxy:
brain fog anger/irritability memory loss cognitive loss aphasia severe fatigue
He didn't believe these symptoms were caused by an active bacterial infection, that any bacteria I may have picked up along the way would be long gone after 4 months of doxy.
Instead, he suggested that it was the anti-inflammatory properties of doxy that was relieving these issues. CFS was raised as a possibility for the muscle/joint issues, and an anti-depressant for the neurological issues.
My jaw dropped. I've heard of anti-imflammatory effects of antibiotics - specifically doxycycline - but I'm stumped how that could be causing those neuro symptoms to go away - unless we're talking encephalitis. I don't think my brain is swelling and shrinking within a few days of taking/stopping doxy.
Has anyone else ever heard of this effect?
Thanks!
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METALLlC BLUE
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Well that's great, but why don't "other" anti-inflammatory drugs stop the suffering? That's what I told my doctor. He looked at me like I was a retard. Even steroids don't stop it for most of us, yet the moment a cycline drug helps alleviate some of our symptoms, it's anti-inflammatory properties that get the credit?
Another interesting thing is that usually people have Herxheimer reactions about one week to two weeks on the cycline drugs. An anti-inflammatory drug doesn't do that.
A Brain SPECT scan may be in order.
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I'm still at a loss with the basic idea of ANY anti-inflammatory agent warding off all those neuro symptoms outside of the swollen brain. Somehow I doubt the brain swells and shrinks that fast in reaction to some doxy.
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The medical community has made up so many excuses regarding the effects of antibiotics on Lyme Disease patients.
They deny the bacterium persists in-spite of adequate antibiotics, yet I have more than one hundred studies demonstrating otherwise. They still deny it. It's senseless and purely irrational.
-------------------- I am not a physician, so do your own research to confirm any ideas given and then speak with a health care provider you trust.
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