Omnicef for lyme
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I was only on two antibiotics at the same time, and didn't have the kind of discomfort you report.
Ask your doc what can be done, whether other treatments would be less problematic, etc.
Also I would NOT take any herbals or medicinals or anything in that frame of reference UNLESS your Lyme doc okays it as to what meds/supplements you take at what doses for how long. Herbs and pharmaceuticals are all just chemicals, and mixing them without a doc's okay is just asking for trouble.
I had it for about a week and they were looking for everything but Lyme in the ER. The Lyme panel even came back negative (as early cases often do). The next day after about 12 hours of head scratching at negative tests for respiratory issues in the ER. With a fever that would spike and drop. The infection disease doctor found the bite right behind my right knee where the soft tissue fold is.
Two out of three urine samples were positive for the Lyme bacteria. My doc prescribed omnicef about two weeks ago and as of yesterday, I started feeling awful again. He thinks its a herx. I've been on multiple abx for about 9 months. Anyway, he also started me on Flagyl today along with the omnicef. He said to start the Flagyl once the herx is over. He said if the Flagyl doesn't work then he will start IV abx. I'm a wreck.
I realize this post is several years old, but in June of this year 2011 my 13 year old had virtually the same thing happen with the headache and ear infection, but instead of having the seizures he starting having stroke-like symptoms where his arm and one side of the face went numb. He was not able to form words. He had three of these episodes within a 6 hour period it the ER. He was admitted to Children's Hopsital and the MRI showed around 10 whtie spots on the brain.
Mepron/atovaquone and Zithromax/azithromycin for Babesiosis first, then when that was extinct, Biaxin/clarithromycin and Omnicef/cefidnir for Lyme. Took 15 months, start to finish. Overt symptoms had been few, mainly tiredness but not the crushing fatigue others of us have had. Tests were initially run on the family only at my stubborn insistence, and I was dead-dog sick with the same things, Lyme and Babesiosis. Go figure.
The answer is that my Lyme was in control of my brain for a while. There have been many other situations where I was left asking that same question. The thing I wanted to warn you about is that Lyme can also cause severe depression and can progress quickly to suicidal thoughts because of the irrational thinking. Please watch your symptoms and tell your Dr. if you notice these kinds of mental changes. You think it could never happen to you but so did I until it did.
Hello my 12 year old was taking
Hi guys, I have been taking doxy and omnicef for about 3 months. After about a month I developed a bad sore throat that continued to worsen until I could barely talk. I had constant post nasal drip, the feeling of a lump in my throat and a constructing feeling. I fear I have developed bad GERD/LPR.
I think my stomach flora is messed up from the antibiotics. I started taking a better probiotic after my throat worsened but it continued to worsen.
Please help me as I'm supposed to start a new regimen of meds for lyme. Currently on biaxin, omnicef and about to add plaquenil.
I've read good things about it but also bad side effects.
Can anyone please help me with this. I don't want to take anything that has really bad side effects.
I'm doing well with my progress and back to work and the four week flares are starting to get better but still there.
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.
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I was given a prescription for Omnicef 300 Mg twice per day for 10 days and am to start it pending my test results. I am actually planning to start it tonight without waiting for results. My questions are does this sound like Lyme? What are the chances the blood test will be positive? Since I am breastfeeding, I cant use doxycycline but is Omnicef effective in its place?
My LLMD is changing my antibiotic treatment to Omnicef and Biaxin for 3 more months. Mainly because he believes Flagyl was responsible for my hormone imbalance and I wasn't able to keep it down since I got the flu. Has anyone been treated with this combination? It's the first time I have hear about it, but I have taken these before for other infections and did just fine. I am hopeful since my CD57 has gone up from 23 to 56. However, my IgM results show more Lyme.
I have not lab tests supporting Babs, but my LLMD has suspected it (or something else) in addition to Bart and Lyme, each for which I had some (though weak) laboratory evidence.
I'm wary of posting too much treatment detail (color me paranoid), but I've been pusling antibiotic therapy using mino, zith, and factive (with detours using bactrim or plaquenil).
others, their results from their Western Blot(s) and ELISA.
I have had 4 negative Lyme Serology, 1 IND for a co-infection and then 4 positive bands on my western blot. I am curious to see how many people have had negative tests for the ELISA and how many bands came back positive on the WB and which bands were positive.
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