cefdinir and lyme disease

m doing. the supplements enhance the effectiveness of the antibiotics and the 2nd antibiotic (cefdinir) is to go after the lyme. we know there is nothing here to treat the cyst form of lyme but the Dr. didn't want to put me on any more medicines at this time.

Does this mean there is no DNA for Lyme, but you still carry the spirockete that causes Lyme disease and you will never get rig off it? I was tested for lyme twice having these results: Lyme Western Blot Results for first one =0.67; for second one= 0.15 (Negative results) Do you have any idea why the number went down? I have many symptoms, and I asked my infectious disease doctor why he does not prescribe me antibiotic, if there is a probability of infection.

Hi, I have lyme and bartonella and was given a steroid for 7 days (prednisone) a few weeks after being infected (I didn't know I had lyme then). This caused the bacteria to spread and cause my eye symptoms. Will I ever be able to put this in remission since I took steroids for a week? I know it lowered my immune system's response, and now I'm scared I won't be able to recover. I've been treating for 6 months with rifampin and Cefdinir, herbals, vitamins and a diet change.

-- Biaxin (clartihromycin) and Omnicef (cefdinir) for Lyme. However, I have seen references in various places online to Flagyl being used against babesia. If you search "babesiosis flagyl" you'll find what I did. Take care!

clarithromycin) and Omnicef (gen: cefdinir), and then switched to Zithromax (gen: azithromycin) and Flagyl (gen: metronidazole). As I recall, the switch in meds was because I was having a bad reaction to treatment, but it may have been that the doc didn't realize my problem was the probiotic I was taking and not the antibiotics. I don't know. So ..

Personally, I also take the attitude expressed above to focus on the bigger picture of getting well and less on the details. Lyme is systemic, doctors know this and a good Lyme doctor will treat you accordingly.

Wags: I have over 20 lesions on my brain and that's not a typo! Mine are small and scattered throughout my brain. The first thing the neuro asked me was "have you had lyme disease"! They ran every test under the sun and everything including the LP came back normal (thank goodness I guess). Anyhow, it also did not show Lyme disease. I was then tested at Igenex and came back positive for lyme and erlichosis.

There is not one single treatment approach that all docs agree on, largely because (in my estimation) the medical community is still working on the best way to diagnose and treat -- especially so when the patient has multiple infections as you do and as I did (Lyme and babesiosis were mine), and probably other factors still unclear.

the tests to determine this was an ELISHA TEST and a WESTERN BLOT TEST. same tests used for HIV. could it be at all possible that I could have HIV and not Lyme disease and they were diagnosed wrong? Im freaking out and very worried.

Thanks for the help, but I got some bad news today (in my perspective), I went to an ID doctor and he says that the other doctors were wrong and I don't have Lyme Disease, and he doesn't know what I have. He said that I was positive for IgM antibodies , but not the right ones that indicate Lyme. I really don't know. He thinks I might have a rheumatic problem. If anyone has any ideas I'm welcome to any opinions.

In your situation, I would take my child to a Lyme specialist for diagnosis and treatment *now*. Infectious disease MDs are, sadly, some of the docs most resistant to the idea of Lyme as something to be taken seriously. You might take your daughter back to the doc at Emory who at least considered the possibility of Lyme or ask him/her for a referral to a Lyme-friendly doc.

Practitioners not familiar with Lyme disease may mistake depression as the underlying problem rather than a result of the bacterial infection that Lyme disease is. There is lots of medical literature out there on this point. For example, below is a portion of a 1992 article posted at lymenet, co-authored by a number of distinguished and experienced physicians and scientists. Yes, the article is 19 years old and still stands, so this is not new information.

My dog had lyme a couple years ago. I still give him frontline. I don't think they really know whether or not dogs get immune to lyme or not (it's bacterial though, not viral, so it seems you could still get a second infection). I would think my vet would have told me if I did not need to give it anymore. But just to be on the safe side I still give it - I don't want to go through that again. I don't think there are different types of lyme disease.

Dr, What is your opinion on the significance and reliability of the CD57 in diagnosing and treating lyme disease? My cd57 score was a 13. Is it true that ONLY lyme can cause a low cd57 score? Also what is your opinion on the IND bands on the Igenex Lyme WB? Thanks again.

s and infections disease doctor stated that encephalitis is out thank god but that in my case he was not going to treat me for lymes b/c in my CSF it only showed up in 4 bands? and not 5 and that out of 10 time pt does not have lyme disease in my case.

clarithromycin/Biaxin and cefdinir/Omnicef -- 5 months -- drug holiday due to side effects of probiotics--2 months -- for Lyme: Zithromax/azithromycin and Flagyl/metronidazole -- 4 months ------------------------------------------------- This may have been an abbreviated treatment schedule, because I had continuing problems from the probiotics, so my schedule is odd in at least that way.

I have Hashimoto's thyroiditis and insulin resistance, pre-diabetic and lyme disease. I think the Hashimoto's is a sign or chronic lyme. I am researching Yersinia Enterocolitica and Hashimto's and lyme and Hashimoto's. There are many people with thyroid problems and lyme. This appears to be a case of molecular mimicry. Google and read lots of articles..........

Thanks for the advice...after a rough few days there, I am doing a bunch better today, but a set back does focus the mind on these issues. About artemesia, I have a book called 'Healing Lyme' by Harold Buhner. Subtitle is 'Natural Healing and Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis and Its Coinfections', by Raven Press. I got it off Amazon new for $20.

In early 2007 I awoke one morning with numbness of the left side of my body-neck, shoulder and arm. The week before my gen prac ha done an adjustment to my back and suggested I get routine massages for what has been 4 years of musculoskeletal aches/pains. Also took antiinflammatory during those years to no avail. Anyhow, I never told anyone about the numbness but was scared of it. It left as quickly as it came only after 3 days or so.

Unfortunately, you cannot rely on physicians to diagnose this unless they are Lyme literate. Many have been led to believe Lyme disease is rare and even doesn't exist in certain states such as the one I live in, Utah. I have Lyme disease. It does exist in Utah. I have no doubt it is under reported since the guidelines by the CDC are set up so that many Lyme patients will not be considered positive by the CDC and therefore are not reported.

Thank you! :) This process of a diagnosis takes forever. I have Graves disease also, and was told that Lyme and / or it's coinfections can wreck havoc on the thyroid. ( HMMM ??) During the years of treatment for my thyroid, RAI, Radiation to both eyes due to thyroid eye disease, 5 eye surgeries, I began to have a lot of neurological things happen. First was the optic neuropathy. I was told that it was from the eye disease. Second was the slurred speech, that lasted for two weeks.

I was tested for HIV when my doctor received my lab work there were no results for HIV but a positive result for lyme disease. My doctor never ordered a lyme disease test. Is it possible the the results were for HIV? Or was Lyme disease detected when they performed the HIV test.

You are all very good to reply,thanks, and so fast! Yes I did get a second opinion from an oncologist and infectious disease specialist(there's no lyme specialists over here).I don't have lyme anymore,the results just show previous infection with b.b. It's definitely aplastic anemia I have tried everything-blood transfusions...immunosuppressive therapy but nothing is working my blood levels just aren't improving. These were my latest results. Neutrophils 0.

The importance of getting all four tests--RPR, FTA-ABS, Lyme IFA IgG and IgM, and Lyme ELISA--in all patients suspected of spirochetal disease is emphasized. PMID: 2150843 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] ================================================ Gerald Zaidman MD: There is an ophthalmologist in or around Valhalla NY, Gerald Zaidman, who seems to have been writing on Lyme disease for many years and seems to be pretty well known in the field from what I see online.

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