Re: Clarithromycin and the MP - correction.

[Guest guest]

Wait a minute. I'm getting my abx mixed up. Is it Clarithromycin or

Clindamycin that's being recommended on the MP now?

Errr, disregard what I've said about Clarithromycin. I was thinking

Clindamycin. I'm not that familiar with Clarithromycin.

Geez, this is the second abx I've done this with. Cephalosporin and

Chephazolin, and now Clarithromycin and Clindamycin. Totally

different drugs.

Seems they could at least get more inventive with the names, but I

think maybe they like keeping us confused. :-).

penny

> >

> > I wonder if anybody can comment on whether my taking 500 mg

twice

> > daily of Clarithromycin should be beneficial.

>

> Everybody's different and so are their bugs, but I don't know

anyone

> who's found clarithromycin to be all that powerful. Maybe helpful

> for a little while. But like I said, everybody's different. I

don't

> know anyone who's had the kind of results Steve is having with B12

> either (except true anemics), and B12 is one of the first things

> almost every PWC I know, including myself, has tried.

>

> This question reminds me of how surprised I was to see

> Clarithromycin as an option on the MP now as I don't know anyone

> who's found it to have any kind of staying power.

>

> With all the trial and error going on with the MP antibiotics,

IMO,

> the only consistency it has now, that makes it stand apart from

> other abx treatments, is the Benicar and living in the dark.

>

> I'm still finding the Benicar beneficial. Can't live without it

> (unfortunately). But living in the dark for months at a time? No

> way, and amazingly, the Benicar is still effective anyway. Too bad

> the official protocol is so dogmatic. IMO, there wouldn't be

nearly

> so many people shunning the entire protocol, and especially the

> Benicar, if the attitudes weren't so dictatorial and inflexible.

> Especially ironic as we watch the protocol continue to evolve

> despite the admonitions against varying it.

>

> I'm also surprised if so many doctors are really signing on as

> claimed, especially with so little evidence of recovery so far.

The

> MP literally has people living in the dark for long periods of

time.

> I don't care what the rationalization is, I think such extreme sun

> avoidance could be harmful long term.

>

> Vitamin D is already a big area of reasearch. So I really hope

that

> Sankyo and other researchers come out soon with more studies on

ARBs

> as anti-inflammatories. We really need to understand better what's

> going on here, how safe the drugs truly are, etc., in tightly

> controlled studies.

>

> penny

[Guest guest]

lol

>

> Wait a minute. I'm getting my abx mixed up. Is it Clarithromycin or

> Clindamycin that's being recommended on the MP now?

>

> Errr, disregard what I've said about Clarithromycin. I was thinking

> Clindamycin. I'm not that familiar with Clarithromycin.

>

> Geez, this is the second abx I've done this with. Cephalosporin and

> Chephazolin, and now Clarithromycin and Clindamycin. Totally

> different drugs.

>

> Seems they could at least get more inventive with the names, but I

> think maybe they like keeping us confused. :-).

>

> penny

>

>

>

>

>

> > >

> > > I wonder if anybody can comment on whether my taking 500 mg

> twice

> > > daily of Clarithromycin should be beneficial. 

> >

> > Everybody's different and so are their bugs, but I don't know

> anyone

> > who's found clarithromycin to be all that powerful. Maybe helpful

> > for a little while. But like I said, everybody's different. I

> don't

> > know anyone who's had the kind of results Steve is having with B12

> > either (except true anemics), and B12 is one of the first things

> > almost every PWC I know, including myself, has tried.

> >

> > This question reminds me of how surprised I was to see

> > Clarithromycin as an option on the MP now as I don't know anyone

> > who's found it to have any kind of staying power.

> >

> > With all the trial and error going on with the MP antibiotics,

> IMO,

> > the only consistency it has now, that makes it stand apart from

> > other abx treatments, is the Benicar and living in the dark.

> >

> > I'm still finding the Benicar beneficial. Can't live without it

> > (unfortunately). But living in the dark for months at a time? No

> > way, and amazingly, the Benicar is still effective anyway. Too bad

> > the official protocol is so dogmatic. IMO, there wouldn't be

> nearly

> > so many people shunning the entire protocol, and especially the

> > Benicar, if the attitudes weren't so dictatorial and inflexible.

> > Especially ironic as we watch the protocol continue to evolve

> > despite the admonitions against varying it.

> >

> > I'm also surprised if so many doctors are really signing on as

> > claimed, especially with so little evidence of recovery so far.

> The

> > MP literally has people living in the dark for long periods of

> time.

> > I don't care what the rationalization is, I think such extreme sun

> > avoidance could be harmful long term.

> >

> > Vitamin D is already a big area of reasearch. So I really hope

> that

> > Sankyo and other researchers come out soon with more studies on

> ARBs

> > as anti-inflammatories. We really need to understand better what's

> > going on here, how safe the drugs truly are, etc., in tightly

> > controlled studies.

> >

> > penny

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Penny, I was getting these two mixed up as well. Maybe it was even me

that mixed you up. Sorry! It's hard to keep the two names for each drug

straight too. Biaxin is clarithromycin. Does clindamycin have another

name or only generic?

As for your other mixup, aren't many drugs cephalosporins?

- Kate D.

On Tuesday, March 15, 2005, at 04:41 PM, penny wrote:

>

> Wait a minute. I'm getting my abx mixed up. Is it Clarithromycin or

> Clindamycin that's being recommended on the MP now?

[Guest guest]

>> Wait a minute. I'm getting my abx mixed up. Is it Clarithromycin or

>> Clindamycin that's being recommended on the MP now?

I forgot to answer the question! It's Clindamycin that's being used on

the MP.

- Kate D.

[Guest guest]

Oh! So then I stand by what I said before.

penny

> >> Wait a minute. I'm getting my abx mixed up. Is it

Clarithromycin or

> >> Clindamycin that's being recommended on the MP now?

>

> I forgot to answer the question! It's Clindamycin that's being

used on

> the MP.

>

> - Kate D.

[Guest guest]

Yes, I think cephalosporins cover a number of sub drugs. Whereas

cephazolin is one of a kind.

penny

>

> >

> > Wait a minute. I'm getting my abx mixed up. Is it Clarithromycin

or

> > Clindamycin that's being recommended on the MP now?