Anybody else have muscle wasting?

Bluelyme:
Here's the pulsing protocol I use:

M/W/F - Rifampin and biaxin (I may be switching back to minocycline in a few weeks)
Th/F - Ceftin
S/S - nothing

The schedule is two weeks on and one week off. I have not been doing the one week off because I take 4 days off of the Rif and Biaxin when I do the Artemisinin (4 days on, 10 days off) instead.

The protocol I read about, included Artemisinin in the M/W/F with the rest of the abx, but it was with Mepron, Omnicef and minocycline.
I'm not sure if Art should be taken with the rifampin and Biaxin (per a thread I read on here) - so I decided on the 4 days on, 10 off instead for that.

bluelyme said...
Girlie i am thinking of the jemsek pulse with mino ,rifampin, rocephin ,zith , and bvt ..diflucan ....i just dont know schedule...i am so lost and confused.
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Post Edited (bluelyme) : 9/29/2016 11:47:54 PM (GMT-6)

dacarte - so you continue to lose more muscle and collagen - or is it that you just haven't been able to rebuild it yet?

If it's the latter...that can take quite a bit of time.

I was going to ask you if that was where your first symptoms were...

For me my upper left side of back (thoracic area) plus left arm/hand are still not good.
They were my first symptoms to appear...so wondering if they are the last to go.

Well I am jumping into this tale of woe since I just found it and no idea how I missed it the past 2 months? I am still down 2 1/2 inches lost of both calved. The oddest part is I was only down that on my right leg.The left leg joined it in the time of just 3 WEEKS! The oddest thing of all was weight loss was 52 pounds in just a 5 weeks period when in bed doing nothing after major surgeries so at this point I am too weak to use the Total Gym. Plus it is in the garage and these 100 plus degree days have me to much a sissy boy to try. Having now fully lost ability to walk, I have also lost ability to even stand on my own. Scary or at least to me, the most scary part is using either one of my 2 walkers doesn't much help since my legs simply have nothing left to hold me UP when trying to walk. I can't face that it seems to be time to go to my wheelchair. A time I swore would never come for me....

I went to school with Chuck Norris and used to pick on him. NOW every time I go by that darned Total Gym I feel it "mocking me". I guess payback really is a *****? I will be glued to this thread in hopes of finding any way to help with this. I really have nothing left to lose short of complete emaciation? I am getting fat back on my belly though but now that Girlie & Traveler took my beer away I guess I'll even lose that too. Sigh.... Nothing left to do but make fart noises with my hand underneath my armpit I guess?

Post Edited (lucynethel (OR Just Mike)) : 10/22/2016 3:41:05 PM (GMT-6)

Mike - are you able to exercise your legs in a sitting position...that way you'd be safe from falling.

I have an elliptical machine that I am using for my lower body...but I also have these light weights I strap on to my legs...and I do kick backs from a standing position.

maybe if you sat in a chair...and had something to wrap around your lower legs and you could do exercises. Nothing heavy, though...

Im try to get all my leg / glute muscles to fire correctly again, its part of the reason I recently messed up some hip/pelvis muscles / tendons. Fixing tendons takes forever. Fixing glutes is a bit#$ too. I cant work out again right now, just real light stuff and repair.

I improved my upper body after failed attempts at the lower body.

Gained 8 lbs in the last 6 months , up to 182, mostly upper body strength, cloths fit the same, better actually.

I moved dirt today, that was enough of a test.

Muscles have more grain, less adhessions, less lumpy trigger point knots.

Pathways leading to muscle wasting are intimately tied into the trauma response. Without getting too nitty gritty your body shifts metabolism to support inflammatory processes and the consequence of this can sometimes be the need to break down peripheral muscle stores to access those proteins. I don't know how this translates to treatment as i'm sure there are a billion complications, but if it were me I would not overdo the exercise. Keep it light, nothing strenuous or you start depleting your glucose stores. I also would probably recommend against taking anything that artificially lowers insulin resistance and maybe eat some starchy foods? Really dont know. But since it was asked why... That's the jist of it but again like everything in health and disease there are a million layers to peel back...