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Re: day 2: minocyline (48 hours) 50 mg

Posted by bleauberry on January 6, 2014, at 12:17:44

In reply to day 2: minocyline (48 hours) 50 mg, posted by Jeroen on January 2, 2014, at 12:50:28

Perfectly consistent with successful treatment:

> side effects
>
> still tiredness
> akathasia
> worsening of mood
>
> should i go to day 3, today was a hell? i think i cannot be cured from this illness

What, did you think having millions of dead body parts floating around inside you was going to feel good?

The good comes when you kill more of those. Which means, yes, you have to feel that crap more. Months of it. I have described it like peeling layers of onions....take the med, Herx, back off, take it again, Herx, back off, repeat, repeat....and over time the Herx becomes much milder, bad days not as bad, good days actually happen and become more frequent. One layer at a time, because that is basically the way the bugs are being killed. With each new layer, you are a little bit better than you were before.

It's sort of like wanting to be on the other side of a mountain....are you going to take the steep trail right up and over it?....or are you going to take the long winding trail around it?....either way, it's a tough trip, and it is the only way to get to your desired destination. We want a helicopter, right? There isn't one, so forget it. We have to commit to getting to the other side no matter what. That is not going to happen with a short sprint of an antibiotic.

Those side effects can be lessened considerably. You don't need to suffer like that.

The absolute worst thing you could do at this point is give up on the med.

I noticed you were counting days. Lyme doctors use the first few days to help rule in or rule out their suspected diagnosis. A reaction like yours pretty much confirms the suspicion of hidden infection. Otherwise you wouldn't be feeling all that crap.

Anyway, back to the counting days thing.....you want to be counting months, not days and not weeks. Your enemy is fierce, deceptive, hiding, and cunning....unless you are in a long term war to win, loss is almost guaranteed. You can't count days anymore. Count months. 6 to 9 months would be realistic, but 12-24 months would not surprise me, considering how long you have been ill and how deeply entrenched it is.

The rules of the antibiotic treatment of psychiatry are very different than the rules of antidepressant treatment. Not comparable. Do not think in the terms of psych meds. Antibiotics is a whole different game. But it is one you can actually win! I cannot with a straight face say that with such conviction about psychiatry.


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