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Posted 7/6/2017 6:18 AM (GMT -5)
I had to take 10 day break from antibiotics due to struggling with herx reactions. I will start again with azithromycin, doxycyline and rifampicin. This is the second timeI had to stop the protocol due to herx reaction.

I read about start stopping rifampicin is not a good idea? I am going to detox much better this time so i can try handle it. Is it ok to go back on rifampicin?
Posted 7/6/2017 6:35 AM (GMT -5)
what choice do you have? Go for it. Some folks need to ramp up Rif slowly, and some can only handle lower dose.
Posted 7/6/2017 8:46 AM (GMT -5)
Be careful when taking time off Rif. You can pulse but no extend periods off.

You also have to take it with another abx which you are doing or else the bugs will quickly become immune to this particular abx.

You need to do everything you can to detox.
Posted 7/6/2017 8:56 AM (GMT -5)
Ive heard of kidney issues for those who take long breaks and restart Rifampin but have no firsthand knowledge.

I am wondering how long it might take before I can tell Rifampin is working.
Posted 7/6/2017 9:35 AM (GMT -5)
for me it was over 6 months that I started noticing babesia systems gaining strength (due to weakened bart)
Posted 7/6/2017 10:33 AM (GMT -5)
david - taking 10 days off of Rifampin shouldn't be a problem.

One of the top LLMD's in the U.S. pulses all his antibiotics...including Rifampin.
Posted 7/6/2017 12:05 PM (GMT -5)
Do you think you are going to ramp up slowly on one med at a time so that you give yourself a better chance to hopefully manage the herxing? Sometimes this is helpful to allow body to acclimate. I think reintroducing all three at once might be intense if you have issues with herxing in the first place. Zith has long half life, that is a good one to ramp up on first I think, then doxy, then could introduce rif. Could check with your healthcare practitioner to see what they think of such a strategy. I've used this strategy myself since I've always had issues with herxing, otherwise if I introduce too much at one I get slammed too hard and burn out.
Posted 7/6/2017 12:20 PM (GMT -5)
seems bartonella and babesia are both stubborn little buggers to get rid of. either one can suppress the other and can take a long time to knock down so the other can rear its ugly head then you go after that. if you're chronic this can take a few years to eradicate both enough to get symptoms gone or mostly under control.

i treated babesia duncani treatment on and off for 10 months and couldn't shake it. then went after bart for almost a year couldn't shake that now back to babesia for at least 6 months before tackling bart again.

the key is to be consistent and persistent when dealing with these pathogens so you don't have to have too many back and forths to eradicate. if i knew then what i knew now i would've been more consistent and gone far longer attacking babesia.

my issue was i didn't treat babesia that way for the 10 months
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