diflucan and lyme disease

yeast and wrote me out 60 days worth of Diflucan one kept giving me one dose at a time (my internist) and my Lyme dr. Says to take more probiotics, none tested! You are fortunate to know what you are dealing with.

No, I'm not taking anything now. I took 2 bottles of nystatin with no improvement. I have had this for 5 months. Yes, I had blood work that showed me positive for RMSF. Also tested for lyme by infectious disease doctor and GP. Both negative. I remember last May having a very bad bite on my upper hip. I showed it to my doctor and he said it looked inflamed and I needed some antibiotics, but then said I had just been on some for sinus infection.

m starting my 2nd phase of treatment getting off some of my current medicines and adding some new ones. My LLMD started treating me first for Babs, and Lyme but we are starting treatment for Bart. I'm little neverous reading the side effects some of the medicine.. Levofloxacian the waring that scares me is the increase risk of tendon problems that included pain, swelling, inflamation and possible breakage..Did many of you experience any of these side effects???

It also has some anti-candida effect, and it says when combined with fluconazole (Diflucan), it works well on Diflucan strains of the yeast. I hadn't heard of taking Xylitol, although I have taken Stevia in the past. I felt a bit crummier for the first month of taking Stevia. Later I read that Eva Sapi had seen it kill some spirochetes and cysts in the lab. I figured the extra fatigue and brain fog I had was the die off. After that eased up, it didn't seem to benefit me anymore.

The tests are not very good, so I'm glad your doc is not blowing you off and is instead plowing ahead. False negatives are sadly common on the tests. The doc may re-run the tests after you've been on meds for a while, bec. that can cause your immune system to ramp up and make antibodies against the Lyme bacteria, and it's the antibodies that the ELISA and W blot tests measure. So yes, you can have a huge case of Lyme and have the tests be negative.

Starting large long doses of antibiotic's tomorrow for my lyme disease and wondering if it is going to cause me a problem with my thyroid meds?

It is very difficult to precisely confirm a diagnosis without examination and investigations and the answer is based on the medical information provided. For exact diagnosis, you are requested to consult your doctor. I sincerely hope that helps. Take care and please do keep me posted on how you are doing.

If you search 'ketoconazole' online, the first link that popped up for me is from the NIH (National Institutes of Health in DC) and the second one is from the website 'rxlist', which is pretty good imo at explaining medical/scientific/pharmaceutical stuff at a high level but not completely over my head. Rxlist seems pretty well balanced, and I usually go there when curious about some medication I'm supposed to take.

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.

Stephen Harrod Buhner's book "Healing Lyme" is a popular herbal approach to treating Lyme disease. I look to this and other options in the future if/when my body can no longer handle antibiotics. I also have used "cat's claw." also called "Samento," in liquid form. I don't think it could cure me, but it did help while I waiting to start antibiotics.

Your normal bacterial flora in your intestines are getting unbalanced and/or you are losing some organisms due to the antibiotics. You should start taking probiotics. This will help get your normal bacteria back. But I would ask Metametrix if it will cause any problems with their test just to be sure. Also, you can take an oral antifungal but I wouldn't recommend it because they have bad side effects.

, it really helped me understand the controversy surrounding lyme disease and talks about research and also patient's stories. I am sure your OB really believes what she is telling you...Just like my doctors who were telling me that I didn't have lyme even when I had 10 positive bands come back on Western Blot. If I had listened to them, I would probably be laying in bed everyday and unemployed!!

It is crucial to educate yourself and search out a Lyme-literate doc. Most W. docs are in denial of the disease and also don't know how to treat it. It is not uncommon for the person w. Lymes to be told it is all in their head. You also need to use labs who specialize in this disease. Do your research online. I rec. the Buhner's bks, Dr. R. Horowitz bk, and some online groups.

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.

but it sure had a lot of similarities to Lyme etc. I took Diflucan/fluconazole for the yeast and it was amazing how much better I felt within days. Besides that, I also was depressed and feeling hopeless for a long time before and during abx treatment ... but it stopped later on, and I seldom feel any level of that these days. Tired yes; depressed no. But the tired I understand, since I'm SO far behind on everything after being SO sick for SO long.

Hi -- Congratulations (?!) on getting a diagnosis -- sometimes that's harder than being sick. Well, only sort of.... but points to your doc for figuring it out, and big points to you for sticking with the quest. I'm not medically trained, but here's what I'd do: -- Talk to the doc about your thyroid function generally and with regard to Lyme. In ways I don't understand, Lyme mucks with the whole endocrine system, and that includes thyroid.

So am on diflucan. I want to try and keep the lyme at bay. I read that you used Cats claw to help with the lyme. Did it help you? Did you herx from it? Janice PS: You do an awesome job answering everyones questions here.

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.

Similar observations have been made in Lyme Disease and other chronic diseases where multiple infections occur. Finally, we have always stressed that patients should get off antibiotics as soon as they can and go to more natural treatments using herbs and natural supplements.

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.

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..........

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.

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