Penicillin taking away all symptoms?

So I have had severe neuro symptoms for 4 years now. With naseau and throwing up.

I had tried high dose bactrim, dapsone , doxycycline, minocycline, methleyne blue, rifampin , every herb in the book and nothing ever seemed to help with anything.

I tested negative for Lyme and co infections through quest as I am poor and can’t afford the expensive tests.

A month ago I got penicillin orally and it started to take away some of my symptoms.

Wednesday I went to the ER and got a penicillin shot.

Since Wednesday 90 percent of my symptoms have drastically improved.

Why would penicillin take away all my symptoms?

Am I possibly dealing with a different type of infection?

yep - you could be dealing with something other than Lyme - or something a well as lyme

but that is an unusually rapid response to antibiotics of any sort for someone who has been ill for as long as you have

but penicillin is active for borrelia - and there is also research showing that individual strains of these infections found in the wild - are differently susceptible to different antibiotics - compared to other strains of the same species - and the differences in susceptibility can be orders of magnitude - eg the dose needed to kill 50% of the bacteria can be 10x greater for one strain vs the next.
there are also similar differences in blood concentrations reached with each antibiotic from one human individual to another

so it could just be that you have hit on something that is particularly effective for you for whichever strain of whatever organism is making you sick

if so it gives us all hope that, even after trying several abx there might still be one that would work particularly well for us

However, from what i can gather from reading up on LLMD's and their protocols and peoples experiences on boards like this one - it seems to be a pretty rare thing

its good news - i would stay on it until all symptoms are fully gone- then at least another 1 month to be on the safe side as relapse is common with these infections

all the best

I had told the ER I had syphilis.

Saultarus said...
I had told the ER I had syphilis.

I answered bk to your post even before I had scrolled to the bottom and saw that you mentioned syphilis. Just so happens studying much and working in the med field I already knew penicillin was used for syphilis. It can cause tons of neuro symptoms actually. Did u tell the er you had syphilis just to get a shot or did you actually hv it?