Monica
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I am so happy to be able to sit at the computer again.
Sunday night/Monday I got slammed with a horrible herx. Upper body pain was excrutiating so that I could barely lift my walker. Trips to the bathroom were like climbs up Mt. Everest.
Backed off the Flagyl - down to 250 mg daily from 750 mg. I may try to get up to 500 tomorrow.
Upper body pain is gone, but my left leg is weaker than usual still.
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hopeful123
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monica,
glad you're over the worst of it. i can hardly imagine the courage it takes to get through more pain in a body with so much pain already.
it means, of course, that the flagyl is doing it's job. i've had some bad herxes, but not like what you're describing.
it makes sense to cut back on the flagyl and then ramp up again.
feel better soon
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Michelle M
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Hi Monica.
Boy, that Flagyl is really packing a punch for you.
Which means: It is hitting a pocket of borrelia previously unfazed by other abx.
Which means: When it is done zapping them, you are going to be able to take Flagyl and say "Yuck, what an awful-tasting pill that is," but not otherwise suffer like a dog.
Which means: your "better" periods are going to get longer and longer.
Most docs like to spare us the Flagyl beast till toward the end of treatment as I'm convinced it'd halfway kill us in the beginning with a full load of Bb.
Good thing to back off slightly then sneak back up on it. Here's hoping your legs soon follow the progress of the rest of your body...
Michelle
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AZURE WISH
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Oh ... flagyl....
I sympathize completely....
I had a 3 month herx on the stuff....
Felt much better when the herx was finally over.
Hoping your herxes get shorter and less severe....
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