Abx combinations

What abx combos have you been on? I started on doxy only. Now I'm alternating doxy one week, tindamax the next week, doxy, tindamax, and so on. My doc added the tindamax bc I've been feeling worse and thought it would help as a cyst buster.

What combos have you been on or specific meds that you found to have worked?

Kate - is it normal to take one abx at a time, or is it common to take all at once?

I've heard of different reasons for both methods.

I did doxy and a few weeks later added zithro. I would take the doxy, wait and hour and take the zithro.

Girlie... why did not take the doxy and zithro together? You said you take the zithro an hour after the doxy? I was just curious maybe there are drug interactions? Because I take clarithromycin, minocycline, septra DS, plaquenil, and nystatin all at the same time. I try to take it after a meal though so my food can kind of blanket the pills and not make me feel nauseus from taking the medications.

So LymePickle I will be starting my new mix of abx either tomorrow or Tues. I saw my dr and he prescribed the same ones you listed--minocycline, tinidazole & septraDS (but I w/t
a subs for this since I am allerg to sulfa drugs)

I am wondering if you had any stomach issues with these, I do take a probiotic?

I started on Rifampin (150mg twice a day) and Zithromax (500mg once a day) for about 3 months. After about 3 months, I began taking Rifampin on/off (2 days on, 1 day off). I requested to be put on Minocycline, so I am taking 100mg twice a day. I started all this October 12, 2013 and had great improvement, but I am also on LDN as well.

Revive - you take a whole week off of all abx after three weeks on?
Don't the lyme critters flourish during that week...and set you back?
You only take Flagyl for three days in a row on the third week?

I was on minocycline and plaquenil for the first month. Plaquenil is similar to malarone and both are antimalarials.
After a month I added rifampin and continue to do all three at the same time. (minocycline twice a day, plaquenil was twice a day and rifampin once a day in the afternoon)
After a few months I switched from plaquenil to malrone, and kept with the minocycline and rifampin.
In the last few weeks I am switched to doxyxycline from minocycline because I was getting dizzy and doc said sometimes mino causes dizzy.
So now I take doxy twice a day and malarone once a day (some take it twice depending on what doctor says- twice is a higher dose of it) and rifampin once a day.

Girlie, it was at least 3 months before I felt noticeably better, and then it continued to improve at that point, slowly.
So when I first started treatment I felt a little better after a few weeks but only a little. After I added the rifampin I felt worse for a week or so from the herx, and then started to notice more improvement than before.
But it took at least three months to notice big improvement.
So I have been treating for almost 5 months now.
Its been up and down but getting better.
for the last two weeks I have been feeling the best yet. But I still don't feel 100% and am still not sure of how things are.
I have been feeling much better mentally than I have since this all began.
I feel notably more normal and functional again.
So, hang in there. Keep at it, it takes a long time to feel better but it can happen.
And I think the antibiotics combo I had works pretty well. Plus I am on other supplements.

If anyone doesn't know- there is a new test from Germany from infectolab that can tell people the status of their lyme in the moment- it can tell if you have an infection and how active it is (low or high.)

Post Edited (Katebirch) : 9/8/2014 9:42:40 PM (GMT-6)