Benefits from Abx treatment???

[SarahLonglands]

I'll write to you to expain choices!

Sarah

[stazmatic]

I am allergic to penicillin (but not Zithromax). Will this allergy contradict any of the Abx used for the CAP?

[SarahLonglands]

No, except maybe amoxicillin: you had better check if you want to take that, but it isn't something you need: I never took it.

Sarah

[stazmatic]

Thanks Sarah!

[hopeforA]

I'm also allergic to penicillin and reacted badly to amoxicillin. However I had no problem with any of the Wheldon and Sriram abx.

[hopeforA]

Thanks Sarah and MacKintosh,
I am going to use your links to order. Currently, I am taking Doxycycline and Azithromycin. Is it a good combination or should I change azithromycin to Roxithromycin? I should start Metronidazole or tinidazole soon? Which one is better? I am on abx for three months now.

I won't comment on the abx as Sarah probably knows more than anybody.

However, I urge anybody on abx to look into the helpfulness of adding systemic enzymes. There are endless studies on how they enhance the antimicrobial activity of abx.

I'm not sure I completely understand how this works but one thing they do is to open up circulation and increase blood flow around the body including the brain, which can be an issue, i.e. ccsvi, excess fibrin etc. Increased blood flow means abx are carried deeper into the tissues, therefore hitting bacteria in hard to reach places.

My experience. I started with Serrapeptase as it was the most referenced systemic enzyme in studies. However, after a while I developed a cough. On digging deeper I learnt that it could cause inflammation in the lungs in some individuals, so I stopped that (however I was taking a dosage higher than usually recommended).
Then I tried the popular Wobenzym but it didn't seem to do anything for me.

I then learnt of Boluoke from a Lyme site. Within a month of using it, colour was back in my face. I also started to herx again. Until then abx seemed to have exhausted their power and for a long time I seemed to make no progress at all. Couple of months in I had my biggest improvement.
Currently I am on Resveratrol. It also boost blood circulation quite a lot, it helps with energy and I experience much less inflammation. I also continue pulse (due to its cost) Boluoke.

[SarahLonglands]

Lib, David prescribed roxithromycin for me because it gets into body tissue like no other. Here is one of the first trials done in London, for arterial disease: http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/106/25/e226.full
Azithromycin might be as good but it didn't show at the time: 1993. The main advantage that I found for roxithromycin was that it was taken every day, so I just took it at the same time as doxycycline. Also azithromycin gave me a headache the one time I tried it.

Tinidazole tends to be gentler than metronidazole so I definitely preferred that Some people prefer metronidazole because they think it is going to work better because it makes them feel worse. It definitely makes you more depressed!

hopeforA, I can't talk about digestive enzymes because the only one I was taking was the smallish amount of resveratrol in red wine!

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[SarahLonglands]

Lib, you can switch to roxithromycin whenever you like : no problem. Most people who do that find that it is preferable. I think there is more research on it, but I might be out of date. Of course the research covers different illnesses, not MS.

Tini and metro are equivalent but tini tends to make you less depressed: some people think that unless something makes you feel bad, it isn't working, but I don't think that way!

Sarah

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[SarahLonglands]

Just keep up with your supplements, especially Vitamin D. If you had been sick, you wouldn't want to take abx and just sis=ck them up, so no problem.

I use a visa card: accepted everywhere!

Sarah

[Liberation]

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[SarahLonglands]

I'll email you another place that does accept mastercard!

Sarah

[Liberation]

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[SarahLonglands]

Lib, you don't take antibiotics for a cold of 'flu because they are caused by a virus. What you are taking as the Vanderbilt treatment is the correct dose for an adult, not a small dose.

Roxithromycin is taken every day because the half life is shorter than with azithromycin. Because of this, you don't need to take azith every day, but it a cause headaches and suchlike with some people: it did with me when I tried it. Since 2003 I have not had a full blown cold: sometimes I seem like I am developing one, but nothing comes of it. You might find that this happens to you!

Sarah