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Posted 7/13/2017 10:56 AM (GMT -5)
After five months antibiotics i took a break as I couldn't handle the herx reactions. I took two weeks off and felt great. Started antibiotics again and I took one pill azitromycin and one pill rifampicin and feel like herx again

Is this possible you can herx on one dose of two different antibiotic. As in I only took one of each. I stopped antibiotics again and waited another week then took one of the school again and exactly same thing herx within hours
Is this actually a herx or just a flare up of symptoms? I didn't know one pill of each could cause herx straight away
Posted 7/13/2017 11:58 AM (GMT -5)
are you detoxing?
Posted 7/13/2017 12:19 PM (GMT -5)
I am taking some supplements to detox but surely you don't need to detox on one pill?
Posted 7/13/2017 12:45 PM (GMT -5)
I have always herxed/had symptom flares soon after taking a dose of abx. I've been pulsing for over a year and it doesn't happen every time now and when it does it's much milder but it can still happen. It actually even happens to me when I eat foods with weak antimicrobials, coconut oil, ginger, garlic, etc. I could actually be drinking a cup of ginger tea and about halfway through I would have symptoms - every single time. And I've treated in the past and it was the same.
Posted 7/13/2017 2:33 PM (GMT -5)
Chills are coming back as main herx symptom. I thought it might be relapse since riff antibiotics two weeks. Crazy how easy I hex though. Sounds like you!
Posted 7/13/2017 2:54 PM (GMT -5)
From Rifampicine I herx in max. 1 hour(tinnitus, but had many more symptoms).
Posted 7/13/2017 2:58 PM (GMT -5)
I pulse abx so I'm on two weeks, off two weeks and every time I restart I'll herx right away & then it subsides. You won't really "relapse" after two weeks off but it does allow microbes to come out of hiding so that when you restart the abx can target them. It's actually a good thing which is why some doctors are having patients pulse abx rather than take them continuously.
Posted 7/13/2017 2:58 PM (GMT -5)
That's crazy one hour. I just be the same then
No antibiotics two w else then one rifampicin 300mg and herx so I stopped. Started again week later and same again its insane
Posted 7/13/2017 3:13 PM (GMT -5)
I'm not on pulse protocol. I've been on constant antibiotics so it's been pretty hard going on my body. Makes sense that they will come out of hiding so maybe that's why I herx on one pill.
Posted 7/13/2017 7:53 PM (GMT -5)
>>After five months antibiotics i took a break as I couldn't handle the herx reactions. I took two weeks off and felt great. Started antibiotics again and I took one pill azitromycin and one pill rifampicin and feel like herx again

This is perfectly normal and frankly expected as when you stop the abx you reduce the killing and therefore the symptoms. If you think you don't need abx and take longer times off it'll just be that much worse when you start them again as the bugs aren't going anywhere.

Everyone has a different reaction to medicine. My wife herxes within 30 minutes of taking one type of herb. I herx 40 minutes after taking a particular abx. Some people will go days without herxing from something. Mileage will always vary.
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