Antibiotics every other day...

My husband has babesia (newly diagnosed a month ago). He's been on a number of different antibiotics that have torn up his stomach. He is able to take them for about 5 days, and during that time, he can see and feel that they are working (Zithromax). But he can't take the stomach pain/diarrhea, etc... He is also taking Mepron 2x day, which his stomach tolerates.

Is anyone out there taking antibiotics every other day? Do you think this is effective? His stomach just can't tolerate 2x per day. He's also following Cowden and some of Buhner, so we're really hitting this from every angle. Thank you!

Our DK is also following the Dr. J method. He started with MWF for 2 weeks on, 1 week off, then eventually moved to 3 weeks on, 1 week off and started but had to stop and re-treat 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off. We are building back toward that. He has been on abx for 16 months though. We found it much more gentle on the system and effective as well.

I threw all sorts of herbs at DS at the beginning too when he started abx and it was too much for his system so I decided to cut those (except the detox ones: burbur pinella, cilantro and parsley extracts in lemon water) and DS did better. I hope to use herbs more on the back end of treatment as we start backing off the abx.

Are you using a good probiotic, taken at least 2 hours away from abx? For example, DS drinks about 1/3 c of kefir nightly when he takes his probiotic (highly recommend Primal Defense Ultra because it has s. boullardi which is critical if on long-term abx - his LLNP requires this one). We just do 1 capsule and a few times a week I add in a second probiotic that has other strains. I've also heard bone broth is super soothing to the stomach.

Good luck. You are sure to get other good ideas here as well.

Thank you so much for this insight!! Great to know we're not alone!!

I am taking Azithromycin only on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I took it two years ago while treating bartonella on the same schedule and had no stomach problems at all. This time it is really causing gastro problems with the babesia treatment.

My doctor says I could switch to Clindamycin or Clarithromycin but I worry about developing c-diff with Clindy and the metallic taste with the other one.