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Dear Sarah, Sterner stuff than you Brits? I think not. I haven't mentioned much of this because I was afraid I'd get branded a kook, but in Canada there is provision for legal medical use of marijuana and I've been medicating fairly regularly for years. I've always found it useful for calming my bod...

How dare you all speak so unkindly about my good friend Flagyl (metronidazole). (':lol:') In my nine months on the Wheldon regime using rifampin and doxycycline, I've had a dozen or so courses of flagyl and have experienced definite sharpening of all my motor functions about the second day after I s...

I have now been on my version of the Wheldon antibiotic regime for the elimination of chlamydia pneumoniae and multiple sclerosis for over eight months, currently taking rifampin, doxycycline and metronidazole. Despite some problems. I feel I am progressing very well. If my walking, strength and end...

Thanks for the post, Daunted. I experienced several episodes of vertigo, often resulting in a fall, during the five months I used minocycline alone. This continued during the first six months, or so, since I started the Canadian Wheldon antibiotic regime (doxy, rifampin, metro/flagyl). I collected m...

Hi Katie, Great news and congratulations on your recovery. As we've discussed, we're both at about the same point in treatment, so it is reassuring to know that I'm not imagining things. It is no longer a question of "Will we get better?" but is now one of "How much better will we get...

Following is an update that I wrote for a local MS Society publication. I've since started metronidazole again and am feeling even stronger: The antibiotic regime that I have been following for the past six months is based on the premise that MS is not an auto immune disorder, but is caused by a bac...

Hi Kathryn, Sorry your post has gone largely ignored. You see, our favourite subject on this board is antibiotics and you didn't mention them. I have 20 plus years MS experience, but have never done steroids. My understanding is that they can shorten the length of an exacerbation, but do not affect ...

Hi LJM,
I didn't order any, but when I asked at Canada Safeway pharmacy if they carried Acetyl L-Carnitine, the pharmacist said she could order it. Did you try them?

Colin

I concur with Sarah. View the good days as signs of things to come.
Colin

Thanks Debbie and Jeff for your kind words. I think it's important to stay positive about this thing. Can you tell I once wrote advertising copy? No false claims here, though. Debbie, I've been limping quite a bit lately, too, but everything else is going well, so I will work a little harder in the ...

Hi All, It's now been six months that I've been following David Wheldon's antibiotic regime and I took minocycline for five months previous to that. I haven't posted for a while because I've been keeping my nose out of the book, so to speak. Also, I've been recovering from colds and injuries in the ...

Hi Sunnydelilah, I'll leave it to some of the others to answer your question, but I suspect it is the infection, not the antibiotics, that has caused a flare up. Ropingheeler, I've sent you an email, but I'll post the site here for others. It's http://www.davidwheldon.co.uk/ms_treatment.html Colin :)

I've now been on David Wheldon's antibiotic regime for about four months and I started taking 200mg Minocycline, daily, five months previous to that. I am curently in the middle of my fifth pulse of metronidazole. I am finding that the metronidazole is really the straw that stirs the drink as far as...

Great post Daunted, I've finished my fourth pulse of metro. A few weeks ago, I was feeling like I someone had been pulling on my arm and partially dislocated it. I hadn't done anything to hurt it. It healed up over the next two weeks much like a pulled muscle would. I thought maybe it was because I ...

Thanks for correcting me. I wonder if 500mg is available here, too? I just finished a seven day course of metronidazole and will post in my thread again soon.

Colin