Energy boost from Rifampicin for Bartonella

We've started on Rifampicin yesterday and noticed this:

• no serious herx - probably thanks to 5 months of Buhner herbs (up to half dose)
  
• a massive energy boost starting an hour after the dose - almost to the point of being wired

I'm hoping the collective wisdom here on antibiotic use and effects might be able to tell me why this happens.

At the least, has anyone else experienced this energy boost or know why it happens?

Thank for a quick reply.

The dose is 300mg morning and again at night, before food.

We started azirthomycin last week, every second day. It was very challenging.

I'm hoping that the post-dose effect will be less severe as the the abx levels build up to a relatively constant level in his blood.

Then we have doxy to add in last. He's had that before and been fine. Hoping it'll be an easy on this time too.

We're also continuing the Buhner herbs. We're only at half dose (15 drops of everything), but it was so hard the first few months that we don't want to drop them out.

Sorry about that - I should have been clearer. My son has ME/CFS, and we're currently working on Bartonella for that, after two years on other things (gut parasites then methylation).

We'd let the intense detox efforts slide as the Buhner herbs became less challenging - we'd interpreted that as a lower bacterial load. Still clean living, lots of water etc, but let the chlorella, the high-dose vitamin C etc slide. The azithromycin reaction sort of brought us back to the routine again.

I'm also taking the Buhner herbs, but partly because I try everything on myself too that isn't prescription meds (mum and son solidarity), and then kept going because it got rid of stabby headaches and sore feet.

Blue - Rifampicin is Rifampin (right?)

(not Rifabutin)

bluelyme said...
Thanks girlie.i thought the dosing looked familiar ..rifabutin has the longer half life right?

Yes - a lot longer - 45 hours. I think it's expensive though. The dosage is half that of Rifampin.