Re: Do antibiotics ever eradicate Borrelia burgdoferi?


a_weisman@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > In both cases: what if the spirochetes do not divide or have
changed
> > into cyst-forms? Couldn't they survive the treatment?
>
> Perhaps.
>
> > Maybe a bacteriocidal antibiotic is needed? After 4 weeks of
> doxycycline
> > you could take 2 weeks amoxicilline, for example.
>
> I think the best idea might be to treat with some combo right from
the
> start, probably to include tinidazole which appears to erradicate
BOTH
> spirochetes and cyst forms.

by personal anecdote... when i first became ill, or a couple of months
after initial flu-like onset (and more than a year before it was
diagnosed as lyme disease) an ENT put me on flagyl and i became
horridly sick. most likely a herx.

i had had 2 weeks of amoxy and then 2 weeks of avelox prior but
symptoms were persisting.

we then followed up the flagyl with two months of biaxin (it was
thought to be a sinus infection).

i was doing quite well at that time with the biaxin.

if i had continued abx treatment and not opted for sinus surgery (and
then went a year without any abx but increasing symptoms) i wonder if i
might have had a good chance of beating the buggers then?

allora...

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