Guest guest Posted May 6, 1999 Report Share Posted May 6, 1999 I've appreciated all the answers I 've received from everyone. I had an interesting conversation this evening with an ER doctor who was hiking the Appalachian Trail and for whom I gave a shuttle to a nearby town. We were discussing RA and he was surprised to hear about minocycline treatment for RA. He seemed quite familiar with mycoplasmas, having grown up near Norwalk, Ohio where apparently they did a lot of research on mycoplasmas. He was a bit puzzled as to why the tetracyclines would be used. He thought that drugs of the macrolide family such as Zithromax and Biaxin would be used and suggested that I look into them. He was quite interested in the minocycline approach. We also discussed IV clindamyacin and also the problems of C-diff with this approach (one of the reasons that the NIH was doing a study on IV doxycycline, which didn't have the bacterial overgrowth problems that IV clindamyacin apparently does). If you want a lot of info on Zithromax, check out http://www.pfizer.com/hml/pi%27s/zithromaxmacpi.html Again thanks everyone - I'm reading all of your replies with great interest. I'll keep you posted. Mark http://members.tripod.com/~Mark_Holmes RA 4/98 AP 7/98 Minocycline (Lederle generic) 100mg 2x/day; Lodine 400mg 3x/day RA Chat - http://members.tripod.com/~Mark_Holmes/RA/ra.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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