Guest guest Posted December 30, 2001 Report Share Posted December 30, 2001 Hi Everyone My specialist states that research has shown 70-80% of people with CFS have positive test results detecting rickettsia. Treatment is with doxycycline for about 6 months. Anyone had success with this? Regards Jan H __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 30, 2001 Report Share Posted December 30, 2001 I have a rickettsial infection and was on doxycycline some years ago for over a year without success. I suspect that it developed a resistance to it because of taking it continuously. I've heard that you need to pulse the doses, or cycle through taking different abx's. However, there is the possibility that it didn't work for me because my spouse didn't take abx's too. I probably just reinfected myself through him. Apparently his immune system is resilient enough to keep it from becoming a problem but he remains infected, and mine isn't resilient enough to control it. Now I've developed an allergy to all the tetracycline's, so I haven't figured out what I could use to treat it. However, I did have some improvement while on doxycycline, but slowly lost it after the treatment stopped, and eventually developed FM along with my CFS. lindaj@... Re: Rickettsia treatment > Hi Everyone > > My specialist states that research has shown 70-80% of > people with CFS have positive test results detecting > rickettsia. Treatment is with doxycycline for about 6 > months. Anyone had success with this? > > Regards > > Jan H > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 31, 2001 Report Share Posted December 31, 2001 Hi Jan. There is a newsgroup devoted to antibiotic treatment of CFIDS: CFSFM_ANTIBIOTICS It was started by Ken Lassensen who is also moderator of this group. Ken feels that his CFIDS was put into remission in large part by antibiotics. He also has a web page at: http://lassesen.com/cfids/ I think it is still being put back together, but it had a lot of information on rickettsia and antibiotic treatment. Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 31, 2001 Report Share Posted December 31, 2001 Thanks Tom, Much appreciated, Regards, Jan __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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