Antibiotics Shot

Anyone heard of this Intramuscular injection?

Treatments for lyme....

- by IV (this is mainly for people who are very seriously sick, or who have severe neurological Lyme Disease).
- by intramuscular injection (IM) (often used for people who can't tolerate oral medications, or towards the end of Lyme treatment).

Many Lyme patients are given Bicillin IM (intramuscular injection) in the bottom because it is a large muscle. Other medications can be given in the arm or thigh, but Bicillin has to be given in the bottom, as the arm or thigh are not large enough muscles).

A girl at the store told me that her friend who was just diagnosed with Lyme has been treated at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Lyme with IV and shots. She did the shot once a week .

Is this a better option? Why don't they just use these for everyone?

Bicillin is part of the penicillin family.

I did IM Rocepin and another IM antibiotic. Both were done in the hip/butt area due to the amount of medicine being injected. Rocephin was 3 times a week. The other was 5 times a week. Ideally Bicillin is 2 to 3 times a week. There is only so long you can do IM abx's. The area of injection gets bruised and becomes hardened under the surface. It started to become difficult to find spots to inject. It took a few months for a the lumps to completely dissipate.

They weren't painful but became annoying. Bicillin is painful because as it's injected it balls up under the skin so that it can disperse over the next few days.