Guest guest Posted May 9, 2006 Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 Tony, Is there anything besides Vancomycin (with penicillin) that doesn't create more gram-positive infection then? It seems like we are just doomed to lose.... , I am so sorry to hear about your condition, and especially that you don't know for sure what's going on. - Kate On May 8, 2006, at 8:25 PM, dumbaussie2000 wrote: > My gut feeling > tells me I would want to try VAncomycin looking for a major relief- > yet not expecting this drug to win out on it's own.The problem when > doing drugs is that you can create a bigger infection if your not > doing them right.Antibiotics are capable of switching bacteria on > and off as far as there toxin factories go.Doing ceftriaxone would > see relief in high dosage area's hence the easing encephalitis- but > is not the drug to attack gram positives- the job is never going to > be done IMO. > So again try the vancomycin and if you start having a turn around > improvement support it with high dose penicillin 20 plus grams a day > to help clear the heart muscle not the easy dosing bicillin shots > once a week or whatever they did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 10, 2006 Report Share Posted May 10, 2006 No Tony, I don't think I misunderstood exactly. I was a little down (feeling negative) and also still trying to figure out a best-guess treatment scenario when I can't figure out how to get anything cultured. I have the Lyme diagnosis you don't like. I have access to things like Biaxin, Ketek, the cyclines, and Tinidizole or Flagyl. Nobody is going to give me Vancomycin, although I know one person who got it out of a Lyme doc and I know which doc it is . I can maybe talk my way into a penicillin or cephalosporin, although I'm guessing my current prescribing doc may not like them since he is into the cyst theory. Some of those latter drugs can be otherwise obtained.... You told agent scha that all the many drugs he's taken wouldn't have killed off a serious bacterial infection. So what you said here about Rocephin is the kind of helpful explanatory comment I am looking for from you in trying to avoid mistakes : > The docs that treat serious bone infection NEVER EVER > use this drug.I actually told people on NUMEROUS OCCASIONS TRY A > FIRST GENERATION (10 times cheaper) cephalasporin for a couple of > days CEFAZOLIN- CEFAZOLIN- CEFAZOLIN... But I do understand that there may be reasons that Rocephin helps chronic neuro-lyme symptoms that may not have to do with its antibiotic properties. I just checked Burrascano's Lyme guidlines and he says first generation cephalasporins aren't effective in Lyme and third generation are the best because of the low MBCs. So who knows? He also says amoxicillan is more effective than oral pen V for gram negatives like Lyme. I guess you are talking about gram positives all the time though. - Kate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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