HealingWell
Search Close Search
☰

Question about antibiotics...4 at a time? Really?

Support Forums
>
Lyme Disease
✚ New Topic ✚ Reply
❬ ❬ Previous Thread |Next Thread ❭ ❭
Posted 8/8/2014 5:46 PM (GMT -5)
Hey guys,

Saw my LLMD this week and she's decided to mix things up a little by adding two more antibiotics to my cocktail. She had me on 400mg of Doxy daily and pulsing with Tindamax two days a week. To that she's adding 300mg of Rifampin a day and another pulse of 500mg of Azithromycin three days a week. This just seems like A LOT of antibiotics to me! Has anyone else used this mix or a similar one? She has me on supplements to help control some of the damage they could do but I still worry.

Thanks!
Posted 8/9/2014 1:16 AM (GMT -5)
Aw that's nothing. I'm on 2 IV's and 4 oral abx. Boy I guess I really am crazy. I dream of the day I don't have to take any pills.
Posted 8/9/2014 6:48 AM (GMT -5)
Picture of health,

Bless your heart! I haven't had to do IV antibiotics yet this go round. When I was younger I did and it suppressed all my Lyme stuff for 25 years. Keep your head up.
Posted 8/10/2014 12:12 AM (GMT -5)
I think it's a lot.

Pictureofhealth, What kind of iv are you on? I do know that most LLMDs who put their patients on Rocephin don't use any additional abx, depending on what else is present.

My LLMD had me on Mino., Rifampin, and Tindamix, and when he added the Cipro., I got C. Diff. I can't remember if I was taking all four at the same time.

You have to be really careful. Picture, you need to be careful as well.

If you're on more than one abx at a time, you risk messing up your intestinal flora. That's why I think iv abx, even though I've never done them, are far superior to pills. I do know that if you're taking abx in pill form, you're probably going to need more than one to knock everything out.

Malarone and hydroxychloriquine are good, bc they aren't abx, but they still treat Babs and Bart.

Margaret
✚ New Topic ✚ Reply