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This is from Wikipedia: In March 2010, Roche announced the suspension of clinical trials in rheumatoid arthritis and lupus erythematosus. This step followed excess deaths due to opportunistic infections. Development for multiple sclerosis continues.[6] So, the trial was stopped due to too many death...

Anunymouse, if you mean the treatment page on David's site, it is referring to people who have only just started treatment. You build up to the full dose of the bacteristatics, then build up to a five day pulse on metronidazole. Some people choose to do metro gull time eventually but I never did: I ...

I haven't checked until today either but it certainly sounds as though you had an xmas to remember! I am glad that you missed a pulse. Pulses were designed so that you could take them when they suit, but too many people think they have to be done like clockwork.

Chenman, interest in the CAP treatment is nearly as low as interest in minocycline, and not just because I have encouraged people to move over to use the site formed specifically for people suffering from a chlamydia pneumoniae infection, but since Luanne Metz' trial has now been published why don't...

I don't suggest anything to anybody: I just wrote about what happened to me and what was eventually done about it. My qualifications are many but they are in art rather than medicine so I am not qualified to suggest anything. People can read what I write and decide for themselves what to do. The poi...

Look, do whatever you want to do but I was not infected with burgdorferi at all, I had tests to prove it, but I had progressive MS and since being treated for a year full time and three years intermittently with doxy, roxi and a nitroimidazole, not only have I had any new MS symptoms but most have g...

Hello Sarah, October 10th, 2005 in "Combined Avonex and Doxycycline...": "...The first year of my treatment cost me about £4000, for private prescriptions and supplements. After that with intermittent therapy, about half that or less. So it seems absolutely stupid not to trial these ...

I have only just seen this: how do you feel now? I had a similar thing happen to me in my early MS days: I was going up to Edinburgh on the train with half a dozen violins at the time and it lasted all day and into the next: a cold winter's day at that! The thing is, it never happened again and I ha...

Chenman, £4000? Where did I say that? Roxithromycin was the most expensive of the three drugs I took, but that only cost about two pounds a day. The other two are much cheaper. Also, I have not taken any antibiotic since 2007 apart from a five day course of roxi for an infected insect bite: I haven'...

Same here!

Oh!! Good luck with that, you poor old thing!

Well, there are plenty of broad based abx he could have been given instead: I hope he wasn't damaged by it.

What do most people take Levaquin for? There is surely an alternative. Sarah

Ken, what good news! And a very happy birthday to Kim for the eighteenth! Sarah

There is no reason why not to stay on rebif and many people do: it helps avoid falling out with your neuro!
Sarah