Antibiotics for Lyme - how much??

Hi, I went and saw a LLND in Richmond on Wednesday and he put me on 3000 mg of Amoxicillin daily for 2 months (I am allergic to pretty much every other antibiotic). He also prescribed high doses of probiotics. I had only 10 days of antibiotics when I discovered a bullseye rash back in May 2017, and then 2 weeks of Amoxiclav five months later when a biopsy came back positive for EM. Both my doctor and the ID doctor think I need to wait without any treatment til a ton of tests the ID Doctor ordered come back. ID doctor has told me I can't have Lyme despite all evidence to the contrary, because he does not believe there are ticks in our area. I thought my GP would follow suit, but he disagrees and said he knows for a fact there are ticks in our area and that he is convinced I have Lyme BUT he doesn't think it needs any treatment yet. He wants to send me to someone else who is supposed to specialize in Lyme at the University of BC, he didn't say who though. But he also wants to wait to see what all the other tests say. I did not want to wait anymore. Anyways, I was glad to see the LLND, he seemed very knowledgeable and said I had been left without any treatment for too long and that required the high antibiotic dosage. I am just curious if this high amount is a normal prescription for those who have been treated by a doctor who actually believes they have Lyme and that it should be treated!

Good to know, thanks - it sounded so high it unnerved me a bit. Yes three doses, but with 2 Florastor probiotics and another probiotic - 50 billion units x 2 a day for that one. The latter has to be refrigerated and I am heading to Thailand in a week, so am looking for something equivalent that doesn't need a fridge. He also wants me to order some herbal tinctures and start those as well, can't think of the name of them at the moment.

Cariboogirl said...
Good to know, thanks - it sounded so high it unnerved me a bit. Yes three doses, but with 2 Florastor probiotics and another probiotic - 50 billion units x 2 a day for that one. The latter has to be refrigerated and I am heading to Thailand in a week, so am looking for something equivalent that doesn't need a fridge. He also wants me to order some herbal tinctures and start those as well, can't think of the name of them at the moment.

Is your refrigerated one HMF Forte? by Genestre? or something like that?

That's what he used to mail me...but I now buy it from the local health food store.
Interesting - he never told me to take Florastor probiotics...lol.

Was one of the tinctures from Researched Nutritionals?
I know he likes that brand - also likes Beyond Balance.

Hi Girlie,

The refrigerated one is called Ultimate Flora by New Life - he suggested Innate or Flora, couldn't get either one of those up here so the health food store suggested the one I got. It was also the only one I could find here that was 50 billion units - I live in a town with 2 drugstores and 1 health food store though, so perhaps not a big surprise.

What he wrote out for me to take was:
Amoxicillin 1000 mg 3X a day
Florastor - 2 pills once a day
Probiotic by Innate or Flora or similar brand - 50 billion units of probiotics per capsule - 2 caps once a day
Order from monteagleherbs.com - houtynnia and japanese knotweed tincture - 1/4 teaspoon of each 3x a day with meals, increased to 1/2 tsp if no gut irritation occurs