Antibiotics/Naomi

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Naomi, look for brief replies ***below:

a Carnes

2) I was infused with a whole armamentarium of I.V. antibiotics, and

this is what diminished my CFIDS symptoms. The antibiotics they

gave me were:

Azactan

Ampicillin

Flagyl

Cipro

Diflukan

***Cipro most certainly would be effective, but risky. Flagyl is also

effective. Diflukan is for yeast and probably not needed IF YOU DO A LOW

CARB DIET. You can take powdered nystatin to avoid yeast growing in the gut

while on antibiotics. I do not recognize Axactin. The short list of

effective antibiotics would be doxycycline, minocycline, cipro, Zithromax,

Biaxin. Any penicillins would be USELESS.

So I think I should go on antibiotics, at least to test hypothesis 2,

above. But here are my questions:

(1) Are any of these antibiotics known to be effective in relieving

CFIDS symptoms?

***see above

(2) Has anybody been on any of the above antibiotics, and if so, what

was the outcome?

***I remain stable and relatively normal and healthy on Zithromax for 5 yrs.

I am not cured and relapse off antibiotics. I tested positive for mycoplasma

7 years ago, and responded to antibiotics (Zithromax) in 8 weeks. I was NOT

RECOVERED in 8 weeks, just noticed major improvement. I would say I was

recovered to 90% functional level in 2 years.

(3) Would I have noticed a marked diminishing of my CFIDS sypmtoms

within one week (as I did) if it were the antibiotics that were responsible

for the decrease in myCFIDS symptoms?

***Yes, it is possible.

(5) The second week I was in the hospital I developed a rash with a

killer itch, so they discontinued the antibiotics. Has anybody else on

antibiotics come down with a rash?

***Certainly this could be a side effect of any of the drugs they had you

on. I would suspect the Ampicillin as MUCH AS ANY ON THE LIST, and it is the

very one you do not need to take. Hope this helps. Check out Ken Lassenen's

site and Garth Nicolson.

http://www.immed.org

PS: Living in Buffalo, have you been tested for Lyme?

a Carnes

Thanks so much.

Warmly,

Naomi

Naomi Weisstein, Ph.D

Professor of Psychology

and Neuroscience

SUNY at Buffalo (on leave)

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New York, NY 10025

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