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Re: which antibiotic to choose?

Posted by bleauberry on January 17, 2014, at 6:12:46

In reply to Re: which antibiotic to choose? » bleauberry, posted by Brot on January 16, 2014, at 16:33:15

The "ring" you spoke of happens estimated 40%-60%. Often no ring at all. Sometimes a different kind of rash....lots of red spots, or something that looks like a plain ole simple rash.

What I have learned in my journeys is the this stuff is not diagnosable by blood tests. It is a clinical diagnosis....history and symptoms and ruling out other things.

If we take Mino and give it to some perfectly healthy people, is it going to do that crazy anxiety stuff to them? Not likely. Have I felt that crazy stuff myself? Yes. While anything could happen, the likelihood of your reactions being related to mino itself is very low in my opinion. Everything you felt was infection related. I could be wrong but that's what it "looks" like from an outsider point of view.

The "side effects" and the "allergic reactions" to antibiotics....I have come to believe simply because my eyes have seen over and over...these are usually not actual side effects or allergies, but rather, lots of death happening! Did someone actually think we could kill millions of bugs inside our own bodies and think that would somehow feel good? Body parts, debris, corpses, foreign tissues, enzymes, toxins, poop, pee....all their stuff circulating in our blood stream and brain....that's where the supposed side effects and allergic reactions come from. Not the med. Those reactions simply say, "Good job, you are hitting a bullseye!" MD should determine if there is something more serious going on like a liver problem or something. Routine blood tests for monitoring every few months is good.

True side effects might include constipation, diarrhea, heartburn, gastro symptoms. A good doctor helps, because things can look confusing. What is doing what?

I'm not sure but I think Mino has a broader spectrum than Doxy.

It's a tough game to play. But worse sickness and death is what happens if I don't play. I'm humbly improved, haven't needed psych meds in several years. But to achieve that, I am on 2 or 3 antibiotics pretty much all the time, 2 years now, as well as a handful of herbs and supps specific to inflammation and antimicrobial. Adrenal support and immune support are important in this scenario.

Your history is consistent with Lyme disease. That is, you do recall living in a tick area and you do recall at least one tick bite. Some people have no recollection at all, because the first stage ticks (nymphs) are so small you can hardly see them.

The symptoms, broadly speaking from this reader's point of view, with limited information, generally looks quite consistent with lyme or lyme-like.

I mention the word lyme-like because that was part of my diagnosis and was the first time I became aware that this whole thing isn't as black n white as we would like. There are so many mutations of the lyme bacteria, other bacteria we don't know much about, other bacteria that become harmful when we become weakened, on and on....a moldy house can cause symptoms that look like lyme disease.....often misdiagnosed as Fibro, CFS, psychiatric.

An MD shared this story with. It was from earlier in his career when he didn't know any more about Lyme than is taught by CDC that he noticed his pain/fatigue patients improved significantly with antibiotics. That was a mystery at the time. Why was this happening? This scenario has played out in watchful MD offices all across the country, people got better, people are getting better, and the hidden epidemic is more visible and more understood now. But still cloaked in much mystery. There is so much we don't know. Heck, we can't even get an accurate blood test because there aren't any! But we can send a man to the moon.

The story. Patient had mysterious symptoms of pain and fatigue and slow healing wounds. Patient had never had depression before, but now did have it. No history of ticks. The only event the patient could remember, was swimming in the ocean a few months earlier and got a scratch from a barnacle. With nothing else to go on except intuition guided by experience, the MD hypothesized the possibility it could be some sort of mysterious bacteria and that while it was not Lyme Disease, it looked like Lyme Disease, and thus was "Lyme-like". That is how little we know.

The intuition was correct. Patient was placed on antibiotics. Three months of that and the patient was completely better.

But notice....3 months! MDs usually look at antibiotics in terms of days or weeks but not usually months. In the "lyme-like" world, that was actually pretty fast. Time periods of 9 months to 3 years are not uncommon for longstanding infections. I am at this moment in the 2-3 year range.

I guess my overall point is this. In psychiatric, we are dealing with mystery. We don't really know why the patient feels bad. When a prescription is written, it is basically a guess.

By stepping one foot outside of psychiatric and asking what else can be done, the mystery part remains. The guessing remains. The difference is that the healing potential skyrockets.

imo. patients should do their own research for validation.

> generally said, i highly appreciate your posts here. they are, well, quite inspirational. thank you.
>
> i had numerous tic bites when i was younger. but never got this "ring", but this seems to say very little.
> herxheimer due to minocycline. yes, maybe. i dunno... ok, might restart it. or reconsidering it. is minocycline as powerful and has the same broad spectrum agains bacteria like doxycycline? (do you even say that in english? xD )
>
> minocycline would also be easier to obtain for long term treatment (bigger package size), well at least here..


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