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I started doing Bicillin last week and today I got my third shot. I still don't have herx and I'm afraid it won't help me....I feel nothing. Does it mean that Bicillin don't work for me?
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I am just now going into my 3rd year with Bicillin and have been weaning off for some time. I now get my injections every 4 wks (just graduated Thurs. from 3 wks).
I have never herxed or have herxed so slightly that I didn't notice it. I did notice in the beginning that I would have some insomnia the 1st night. I think I had some fatigue by the 3rd day after. Like I said if I herxed it was so mild as not to know for sure.
Yet I am so much better and hope to continue to get better. My LLMD tells me it was Bicillin that got her well.
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I don't think it's a sign the med isn't working.
Not everyone herxes, and I would think that with something that is that slooooow of a process (Bicillin is something that can take 4 months to a year to even see progress), you might not see any kind of fireworks-type herxes.
I did have a few herx-y symptoms the day after my first shot, but then what happened was in the second month I started feeling way more tired, and that lasted until about the 4th or 5th month. So it wasn't really an intense herx, as much as it just was making me feel worse (much more tired) as something was "happening."
But I do feel that Bicillin has helped me. I am going off it after about a year, and replacing it with Moxatag because my butt has too many lumps to continue.
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Omgoodness, I totally forgot about the bumps, so I just got up to see (feel my butt LOL) if mine were still there and they aren't! Woohoo!
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So you did have the bumps, but after slowing the Bicillin down, and doing it less often, they went away?
That is good news! It is getting to the point where I have two mounds, one on either side. I am hoping they will go down with time. It's not like you can see them through clothing, but if you just look at my butt without clothes, the lumps are there.
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One think I know for real Bicillin is the most efective drug for lyme and les side efects then enything. Rocephin IV is only 1% more efective then Bicillin IM but have more side efects andis more costly.
Coinfections cover them up to at the same time allways have something that cover viruses and candida to (like artemisinin.garlic,OLE,oil of oregano) .
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Yeah, I didn't know they went away until you mentioned it. My LLMD started doing the shots a little higher in order to avoid them and I never got a bump there, so maybe that is part of the trick. I don't know, but I am glad they are gone.
Oh, and I prayed. I did not like the thoughts of having those bumps there forever. Plus, I had the concern that if it was Bicillin trapped I didn't want it to get released all at once in case of a reaction.
I had gone to a small Lyme gathering and there was another woman there getting the shots and she had the bumps, too.
As for artemisinin, Dr. B said if you use it alone it can cause resistance.
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