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Posted 9/10/2017 5:37 PM (GMT 0)
Please, If you could, List the different antibiotic combinations that you have tried and their dosages.

By combinations I mean antibiotics taken at the same time, together. not one this week and one the next week but in the same day or within a day or two (maybe) as a pulse protocol.

also please list any side effects that you had if they were significant.

I will be starting a new combination soon of at least 4 antibiotics and would like to see what has already been done. I have also obtained a new biofilm inhibitor, that I had created by a Bio-company through my university, that is not available to public yet. I will post results later this year.

Thank you for your help
Posted 9/10/2017 5:43 PM (GMT 0)
also please list the amount of time you had taken them
Posted 9/10/2017 5:44 PM (GMT 0)
I will list a few of mine:

One thing I don't recommend is treating lyme only for an extended period...which is what my LLND had me do. It was over a year into treatment before I treated bartonella.
Reason I say that is you are still treating lyme when you treat bartonella ...so why not start sooner?


Lyme:

Amoxicillin (1000 mg 3X daily plus Probenecid and biaxin (I think it was 500 mg twice daily?)
Ceftin (500 mg twice daily) and biaxin (500 mg twice daily?) plus pulsing Tinidazole (500 mg twice daily)


Bartonella:

Rifampin ( 300 mg twice daily then switched to 600 mg once daily) and minocycline (100 mg twice daily)
Rifampin (see above for dosage) and biaxin (see above for dosage)

Babesia:

Artemisinin (when treating Bartonella and when treating Babesia) (ramped up to 500 mg 3X daily)

Mepron (1 tsp - 750 mg?) plus minocycline and Biaxin plus Artemisinin
Mepron plus minocycline and bactrim plus Artemisinin or Artesunate

Mepron plus Ceftin and Azithromycin (500 mg once daily) plus Artemisinin or Artesunate.

I started out treating daily - then part way through my Bart treatment I started pulsing...and am still pulsing now that I'm on Babesia treatment.
Posted 9/10/2017 6:00 PM (GMT 0)

Girlie said...
I will list a few of mine:

One thing I don't recommend is treating lyme only for an extended period...which is what my LLND had me do. It was over a year into treatment before I treated bartonella.
Reason I say that is you are still treating lyme when you treat bartonella ...so why not start sooner?


Lyme:

Amoxicillin (1000 mg 3X daily plus Probenecid and biaxin (I think it was 500 mg twice daily?)
Ceftin (500 mg twice daily) and biaxin (500 mg twice daily?) plus pulsing Tinidazole (500 mg twice daily)


Bartonella:

Rifampin ( 300 mg twice daily then switched to 600 mg once daily) and minocycline (100 mg twice daily)
Rifampin (see above for dosage) and biaxin (see above for dosage)

Babesia:

Artemisinin (when treating Bartonella and when treating Babesia) (ramped up to 500 mg 3X daily)

Mepron (1 tsp - 750 mg?) plus minocycline and Biaxin plus Artemisinin
Mepron plus minocycline and bactrim plus Artemisinin or Artesunate

Mepron plus Ceftin and Azithromycin (500 mg once daily) plus Artemisinin or Artesunate.

I started out treating daily - then part way through my Bart treatment I started pulsing...and am still pulsing now that I'm on Babesia treatment.


The only thing I was thinking different would be to add flagyl and take maybe 4 in a day. if problems occur I could lower the dose of each and try to hold out there or a while.

Thank you, I have another question for you Girlie, I will email you later.
Posted 9/10/2017 6:24 PM (GMT 0)
Flagyl will replace the Tinidazole that I used. I should have used it sooner I think.


4 a day? What is the dosage?
Posted 9/10/2017 6:41 PM (GMT 0)

Girlie said...
Flagyl will replace the Tinidazole that I used. I should have used it sooner I think.


4 a day? What is the dosage?

I am not sure what doses I will use but I will have

Minocycline, rifampicin, ceftin, amoxycillin, tinidazole, and flagyl that I can work with.

and I know that flagyl(metronidazole) and tinidazole have some subtle differences. I believe one is better at crossing the blood brain barrier and that is what I am focusing on. my CNS symptoms are what bother me still. my aches are still there but not like they were before antibiotics. its msotly brain fog and eye issues

this is one study that I have based my choices off of... unfortunately I am allergic to sulfonamides so I cannot take dapsone. it has alot of side effects anyways.



danielcameronmd.com/culture-novel-combinations-antibiotics-prove-effective-lyme-disease/
Posted 9/10/2017 9:17 PM (GMT 0)
Here's a few of the combos I can remember:

LYME:
biaxin/plaquenil/flagyl (pulse), diflucan (pulse)
doxy/ceftin/flagyl (pulse)
azithromycin/plaquenil - side effect: azithromycin makes my hearing strange

LYME/BART:
mino/plaquenil/rifampin/bactrim

LYME (trialing babesia):
omnicef/azith (pulse m-th)/plaquenil/malarone - current protocol minus the azith because it effected my hearing again.
Posted 9/11/2017 3:22 AM (GMT 0)
My current LLMD has prescribed:

1) doxy (at a somewhat surprising low dose of 100 mg 2x a day)

2) Rifampin at 300 mgs 2x a day

and

3) Tinidazloe at 500 mg 2x per day


I have not yet begun this regimen, so I cannot comment on it's effectiveness. Doc says that rifampin and doxy work well together and have complementary properties against stationary forms. I have read that tinidazole can decrease absorbtion of doxy. This seems to be a pretty common 3 part formula.

In the past I had done 400mgs doxy per day along with ceftin at 1000 gs per day and 1000 mgs tinidazole only 5 days out of every month. I did this for about 3 months with no sign of improvement.

I am hoping the addition of rifampin and more frequent dosing of tinidazole will work for me. I really just dont feel like I have the patience or the time to delve into all the different herbal and complementary treatment methods. I eat a clean diet overall but dont obsess over gluten free and other extremes. I want to avoid IV as much as possible and m hoping this relatively simple oral ABX regimen will work for me within the course of a few months. We'll have to see what happens and go from there.
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