ABX+Probiotic+Anti-Fungal Timing Question

Hello everyone,

It's that time again. I'm in my second go at it with ABX.

So I have timing questions:

When taking all 3 ABX, Probiotic, Anti-Fungals, when should I take them and how should I space them out?

I'm hoping this time I wont have stomach issues. The first time I was so new to lyme and didn't know any of this stuff so I just took ABX for several weeks with no probiotics or anti-fungals (I know pretty crazy right?).

And of course it caused gut issues and candida for a month. I stopped ABX and treated this new problem and it took a month of all kinds of digestive problems and debilitating cramps to stop. Not to mention leaky gut which then caused food allergies.

I am most certainly trying to avoid this happening again.

Any helpful insight is much appreciated.

Thank you.

dacarte3 said...
Hello everyone,

It's that time again. I'm in my second go at it with ABX.

So I have timing questions:

When taking all 3 ABX, Probiotic, Anti-Fungals, when should I take them and how should I space them out?

I'm hoping this time I wont have stomach issues. The first time I was so new to lyme and didn't know any of this stuff so I just took ABX for several weeks with no probiotics or anti-fungals (I know pretty crazy right?).

And of course it caused gut issues and candida for a month. I stopped ABX and treated this new problem and it took a month of all kinds of digestive problems and debilitating cramps to stop. Not to mention leaky gut which then caused food allergies.

I am most certainly trying to avoid this happening again.

Any helpful insight is much appreciated.

Thank you.

I was told (my LLND) it was fine to take the anti-fungal (diflucan) same time as my antibiotics. If I'm wrong, hopefully someone will post why that's not a good idea. Many of us aren't on anti-fungals right away...and just do some rounds of them sporadically during our treatment. Other LLMD's have their patients take the Diflucan throughout - maybe one week a month.... or two days every few weeks...it really varies ...there doesn't seem to be a consensus on the dosing/frequency of anti-fungals.

As far as the abx and probiotics. Make sure they are spaced apart by a couple of hours. If you take abx close to the probiotics, the abx will just kill off the good bacteria.

If possible, take some probiotics after your last daily dose of abx...so they probiotics can populate over night while you sleep.

If something needs to be taken on an empty stomach then that would be one hour before food or two hours after food.

Hi dacarte3 -

Is it the Nystatin pills?

Nystatin is a local antifungal so you probably want to take it away from food so it is more potent, and after your abx dose. When you take abx, which kills bacteria, the good ones are killed too and yeast/fungus can start proliferating pretty quickly. So it's OK to take both at the same time or take antifungal AFTER the abx.

Totally agree w/ Girlie about probiotics.

Good luck!

-p

dacarte3,
I found this about it:
Phototoxic reactions are caused when a new chemical in your body interacts with UV rays from the sun. Medications like doxycycline and tetracycline, are the most common cause of this type of reaction.

So its a chemically induced reaction from the medicine(Doxy) , when your exposed to the sun.

I was fortunate and didn't have too much trouble when I was on doxy but it was last fall/winter.

be careful and protect with sunscreen, sunglasses etc. I believe some of us are more sensitive than others since I have read of people burning rather quickly and getting rashes.

Take care, Jo

Girlie said...

dacarte3 said...
Why does doxy create the sunburn look across the face and nose?

It happened the first time I was on doxy and now it's happening again.

dacarte - were you out in the sun?

not really. not longer direct light exposure.

Piro once shared her brilliant schedule it involved a spreadsheat and waking at 8 am ...i wish i was that organized ..maybe use your fone ..but some how she got infusions meds supps binder and pbx all spaced out ...wow just wow

Girlie said...

dacarte3 said...

Girlie said...

dacarte3 said...
Why does doxy create the sunburn look across the face and nose?

It happened the first time I was on doxy and now it's happening again.

dacarte - were you out in the sun?

not really. not longer direct light exposure.

"not. really. not longer direct light exposure" What do you mean by that? lol

Meaning UV light that may be coming through my window. But I didn't really leave the house.