Day 1 of Treatment - help

It's only been an hour since I took my first 5 pills and I'm extremely dizzy and in and out sleepy/annoyed/sick. My hands are feeling cold. I took Doxy, Ceftin and septra. I don't even think they dissolved yet because I'm still burping the taste...

Any advice for relief would be great.

Thanks, actually I had a small bowl of kashi with some almond milk and I actually feel better. It was an intense, acute response I guess.

Also, for anyone taking Gabapentin, would an hour separation be ok? I'm supposed to take that also in AM, but was not sure about timing.

Thanks!

Thanks PeteZa...I received a written schedule and it just says starting 4/3: AM - all three meds / PM - all three meds.

I was wondering about spacing...oh well I got through that bit!

Are you starting on a low dose of gabapentin...and slowly increasing until you get a response?

Girlie -

I started Gaba about two months ago at 100mg 2x/day. I've slowly titrated up to 300mg in AM and 400mg in PM. (RX is for 300mg - 600mg in PM but I like to move slow.)

As far as response, it's hard to say, it almost feels like some of my neuro symptoms heighten for the first little bit, and then subside a little. With the Gaba, I'm not really sure what to look for.

Rikky -
I typically do space Gaba by about an hour from anything. I am seeing Dr. J in DC.

To be honest, she may have explained everything to me, but my brain was seriously not functioning that day and I was overwhelmed and barely remember the conversation. Since she was writing everything while speaking I thought I would have a guide...but now I think her guide might have been a summary of what she was speaking.

Oh, my. I would slow waaaaaaaaay down. My doc wants me on 3 different abx too. Two are 4 pills a day, one is two pills a day. If I tried to start them all at once, it would probably kill me.

I literally started with one pill a day of the first abx. I did that or a week. Then I added the second. Did that for a week. Rinse and repeat until I got to the full dose. Now I'm adding the second. Going to start with one pill, wait a week, add the second, etc. Eventually I will get to the full dose of all of them. I always herx a little bit when I add a pill, but it's manageable.

When I first started, I was very gung ho and tried to go faster. Sickest I'd been since this whole mess started. Almost ended up in the ER.

Girlie said...

mm57553 said...
Oh, my. I would slow waaaaaaaaay down. My doc wants me on 3 different abx too. Two are 4 pills a day, one is two pills a day. If I tried to start them all at once, it would probably kill me.

I literally started with one pill a day of the first abx. I did that or a week. Then I added the second. Did that for a week. Rinse and repeat until I got to the full dose. Now I'm adding the second. Going to start with one pill, wait a week, add the second, etc. Eventually I will get to the full dose of all of them. I always herx a little bit when I add a pill, but it's manageable.

When I first started, I was very gung ho and tried to go faster. Sickest I'd been since this whole mess started. Almost ended up in the ER.

The OP is seeing Dr. J. which means it won't be daily dosing. And..he usually has a schedule something like two weeks on and one week off. That makes a big difference.

But, definitely starting one at a time to make sure there's no reactions is something you should do.
And if you're not handling the one antibiotic...you can hold off until you are before adding in the second one...etc.

Gotcha. One of mine is going to be pulsed (3 days on, 4 days off). It's also the other one that has a max dose of 4 pills/day. I think this will be the next one he wants me to add (I see him Wednesday). Still going to only do one pill for the first round (3 days). Depending on how I feel with that, I may do one pill again for the next round or add a second. We'll just have to see. This is the one that kind of scares me.

Girlie said...

mm57553 said...
Oh, my. I would slow waaaaaaaaay down. My doc wants me on 3 different abx too. Two are 4 pills a day, one is two pills a day. If I tried to start them all at once, it would probably kill me.

I literally started with one pill a day of the first abx. I did that or a week. Then I added the second. Did that for a week. Rinse and repeat until I got to the full dose. Now I'm adding the second. Going to start with one pill, wait a week, add the second, etc. Eventually I will get to the full dose of all of them. I always herx a little bit when I add a pill, but it's manageable.

When I first started, I was very gung ho and tried to go faster. Sickest I'd been since this whole mess started. Almost ended up in the ER.

The OP is seeing Dr. J. which means it won't be daily dosing. And..he usually has a schedule something like two weeks on and one week off. That makes a big difference.

But, definitely starting one at a time to make sure there's no reactions is something you should do.
And if you're not handling the one antibiotic...you can hold off until you are before adding in the second one...etc.

Thank you. When you say one at a time, do you mean on the same day or working up to the dose? So far tonight I've only taken the second doxy (200). Should I stick with that or add in one of the other since I seemed to get through it pretty quickly.

Girlie, I have a lot of nerve pain also, she started me with the gaba only in evening and on the third week I added 100mg in am. After two weeks I increased the evening dose to 200. After another two weeks the am dose went to 200 also. I believe that it was so not to crush me during the day, even though I do have daytime issues with it some days. Now, my rx is for gaba 300 in am and 300-600 in pm. Next week is 300-600 in am and pm.

Thanks. I had been taking doxy 200mg/day for several months and had a few weeks off. So I thought I would handle it ok. I won't be taking anything tomorrow as I'm on the mwf