Azithromycin for lyme disease
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Hi All,
My husband wrote the previous post regarding myself with possible lyme's disease. Here are all my symptoms: headaches, joint aches, swollen lymph nodes in neck, ear pain in and behind ear, jaw pain with some tooth pain, fatigue, dizziness (almost like a brain fog), some word-finding difficulties (could be related to fatigue), and some occasional tingling/numbness in arms, hands, and left side of face. All these symptoms are intermittent. What are your thoughts?
The Igenex one was strongly positive for Lyme and the Labcorp one was negative. I had experienced about 85% of related Lyme symptoms over the course of 3 years. I took 4 courses of 1 month of oral antibiotic treatments for Lyme. I am not feeling much better physically than before treatment. I was wondering if anyone has experience of CD57-NK testing prior to and after Lyme treatment?
(Datum: 19.September 2011)
Knauer J, Krupka I, Fueldner C, Lehmann J, Straubinger RK. "Evaluation of the preventive capacities of a topically applied azithromycin formulation against Lyme borreliosis in a murine model." J Antimicrob Chemother. 2011 Sep 15.
Our data indicate that topical treatment with a formulation containing azithromycin is a promising approach to prevent Lyme borreliosis shortly after a tick bite.
I was diagnosed approximately three years ago with Lyme Disease. I live in Arizona and I'm struggling to find a doctor to help me out. I didn't actually end up with the disease from Arizona as far as I know but I may have had it for the last few decades. After almost 2 years of testing my doctor randomly through Lyme into my tests and it came back positive. After that I had two more tests and they were both positive as well. I went through the rounds of doxycycline and Azithromycin.
re right that some co infection are even harder to test for than lyme, and most good lyme docs do treat for those based on symptoms if they feel the clinical case is clear enough.
There are quite a few strains of bartonella for which there literally is no lab test.
They also do seem to be terribly hard to get rid of.
The good docs in America seem to be figuring out good antibiotic combos which treat for several infections at once.
Treated 3 years ago for 3 weeks with doxy for lyme. In learning more about Lyme reoccurance my symptoms match up very closely to what the literature is saying. My symtoms over the last 2 months have been horrible and pointing toward Lyme. Regular Internist wants me to see an ID specialist and my thoughts are more toward a LLMD. My internist was willing to Rx Azithromycin 250mg for 30 days but can't get to see a LLMD for at least 60 days. Too booked and busy.
I was on 1/2 dose for one week and then full dose for 2 weeks and now I am off for 2 weeks. I was told that if I feel like **** for the two weeks that I am off Flagyl that it means the treatment is working.
His explanation, the 2 weeks of flagyl destroy the Cystic Form of the spirochette but the other antibiotic in my case Doxy destroys the actual spirochette.
t remember exactly how long I was in treatment (meaning taking antibiotics) for Lyme and a co-infection that comes along with a Lyme infection, but the meds are often given piecemeal: first come the meds for infection #1, then when it's gone, move to the meds for infection #2, etc. As I recall, I was on various antibiotics for about 9 months total.
Once I was treated for babs and it was cleared out, I was switched to azithromycin and Flagyl (metronidazole) for Lyme. Flagyl is the cyst-buster. There are others too, I think, but Flagyl worked well for me.
So I'd say you could indeed have babesia and that the good effect of Mg on you doesn't rule out having babs .... but we're at the limits of my understanding of all this.
What does your doc say?
I have been suffering from almost every symptom listed for Lyme Disease since being diagosed in 2007. Most recently I have had seizures and cognitive problems causing problems at work.
Does anyone have any information regarding preferred treatment other than antibiotics and pills for the symptoms. I rarely have a day withont pain.
Help!
What is/are the urine test(s) definitive
Some who are officially diagnosed with MS, ALS, Parkinson etc. really have Lyme disease. For years I was blown off by infectious disease doctors and told I had a false-positive Lyme test. The years I lost in dealing with the havoc the disease was wreaking inside my body due to nondiagnosis will likely result in permanent disability and premature death. It has already reached my kidneys. If you are undiagnosed and not getting anywhere, don't lose any more time.
I have had more costly issues with (lack of) coverage for the prescriptions, because most of them have limits on the number of pills that the insurance will cover in a given period of time. For example, azithromycin was covered for 6 pills every 28 days (and of course, "covered" means they will pay their part of it). I needed 24 pills every 28 days, so I had to pay the full cost of the 18 that were over what the insurance company determined was sufficient.
Hi All,
I am 38 weeks pregnant and have been treated my entire pregnancy with azithromycin for Lyme disease. My lyme literate doctor only keeps his patients on 1 antibiotic through pregnancy. I was treated with bactrim for 3 months prior to becoming pregnant and I don't know when I contracted lymes. My issue is whether or not to breastfeed. My LL Dr. says NO. I have been in touch with infant risk and they rate lymes on a scale of 4 out of 5, with 5 being not recommended to breast feed.
It seems as though the deer tick has to be latched on for at least 24 for infection to take place. Despite that it seems that Lyme disease seems to be rarer in tropical regions (eg Thailand) especially the more southern cities. When I flicked the insect off I could remember that it was still very much black (and engorged deer ticks become bluish grey). As Ricobord pointed out it may not have even been a tick and I just have to wait a little.
What specialists have you seen already?
While not common, I have heard of some lyme patients describes the symptoms you have.
Doxcycline supposed to work against Lyme too..but it didn't for me, at least not much. Azithromycin works better for me, in conjunction with Rocephin IV.
Have you ever been tested for Lyme Disease? It's a bad one. I think that my husband has it now, but his test was negative. I'm thinking of taking him somewhere else to have it tested again. That's the only thing that makes sense as all of his blood tests have come back fine. This is a man that has was a logger, never been sickly and very active. He has been running a fever for 4 weeks, has joint pain, and overall lameness now. He needs help putting on his socks and shoes.
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