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Mick. all I can say is that the two antibiotics Trish is taking are not generally speaking dangerous to the liver. If she has raised liver enzymes that sees likely to be die-off symptoms. If she is taking plenty of NAC and alpha lipoic acid that should help with liver problems.


If the doctor thinks she should pause, take plenty of these and have her tested again.


Sarah

Hi Sarah Thanks for the information and she has already had a pause first for two days but went into big relapse could not even hold her head up . I added the doxycycline 100mg and within 2hrs Tricia was back in the land of the living, it scared me that relapse, that was two days ago and i have continue to give her 100mg doxycycline every 12hrs and she has regained her speech and some of the strength in her arms and hands, everything is coming back but will not added theroxithromycin till after blood test today and Dr tomorrow. One nasty side effect, Tricia has broken out in a itchy rash all over her which we are controlling with a Antihistamne. So Sarah thats were are and i will keep you posted Tricia & Mick

Mick, I am intrigued as to what you mean by Trish's general demeanour. Someone else over here is writing the same thing about his wife!

Dehydration is a problem with MS. The best thing I found in my bad days was to drink a small amount of glucose water very reguarly. Consequently although I am only as my name suggests, an anecdote, I have never had a uti either before or after treatment.

Sarah

Ah, crankiness is very common in the case of people with bad MS. I was cranky myself for a time and someone who was a nursing home carer for a while said the same thing about residents with MS. Get rid of the infection and it goes: I can't believe some of the things I used to say!

Sarah

I'm having a bit of trouble visualising you attacking a barn wall with a whisk broom, partly because I'm not sure what a whisk broom is! I'm guessing that it is a flattened out version of a witches' broom?

My most dangerous thing that I did when I was MS nuts, was stand a litre of matt varnish on the top of my lit woodburner in order to clear it. Luckily David came in before it ignited and I got annoyed with him because I thought it was a safe thing to do!

Off for Christmas diner now because we had a big power cut yesterday.

Sarah

Being not as tired during the day is a good start!

Sarah

Neurological manifestation of metronidazole toxicity include neuropathy and encephalopathy. We report a 67-year-old man with progressive painful paresthesias involving all the four limbs of 3 weeks' duration before admission. He had been treated with metronidazole and cephalosporin for 10 weeks for a hepatic abscess. Five weeks after the symptom onset, he complained of dysarthria and limb ataxia. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed signal abnormalities in the splenium of the corpus callosum and bilateral dentate nuclei. A few hours after brain imaging, the patient exhibited excessive diaphoresis and fluctuation in blood pressure, which resolved within several hours after discontinuation of metronidazole. Whereas his speech returned to near normal within approximately 1 week, a burning sensation was not completely relieved, even 6 months after discharge.