Guest guest Posted March 26, 2001 Report Share Posted March 26, 2001 Dear , Bactrim has been around forever, when my daughter had a low immune system as a child, age 2, and now she is 18, they put her on a daily dosage so that she would quit getting ear infections. This was after tubes in her ears and gamma globulin shots for a while. Hugs from a Light-HouseKeeper in Florida (Anyone can clean the house, only you can catch up on your rest,) Michele E. Townsend, FMS/90,ME/CFS/94,LD/??(Dx01),SSDI/95 mailto:michtown@... and homepages: http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com/SupportSt/michtown/default.htm With a dream to become an Inn-House-Keeper in Penn.! Join at: TownsendVillage or by sending a blank email to TownsendVillage-subscribe ----- Original Message ----- From: " " Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 11:10 PM > Have any of you been on Bactrim before? This is a new antibiotic for me and > I don't recall seeing much talk about it on this list. Just curious if > anyone has had much success with it. I think I've been on everything else. > I am continuing on the Rocephin IV and Mepron. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 21, 2001 Report Share Posted June 21, 2001 Has anyone had any experience with bactrim? Nika Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 Bactrim is a sulfa drug -- the oldest class of antibiotics, and one of the safest. It's what they commonly give babies for ear infections. You can find sites all over the Internet with horror stories about any drug, because there will always be a small percentage of the population who don't tolerate it well. (This is the first things that improve huge when we start making everybody's full genomic analysis part of their medical file: doctors will know ahead of time how you're likely to react to something, and bad drug experiences will become almost a thing of the past.) You're hearing from a few dozen (or hundred) people who had a bad time. You're not hearing from the 20 million or so who take this drug every year -- and have for over 80 years -- and were just fine. The downside is that, according to Dr. Burrascano, sulfa is damned near useless against Lyme in any of its forms. If it were me, I'd want to know more about my doc's thinking on this. What have his experiences been with Bactrim against Lyme? Is he aware that other well-known Lyme docs don't consider it useful? What's his response to that? Sara On Nov 9, 2009, at 9:28 AM, darabeth2003 wrote: > Has bactrim been helpful for anyone? My doc just prescribed it and I > have been reading some horrible side effect stories about it that > has me scared. I had to stop taking doxy due to a bad reaction > (rash, extreme dryness and blisters on my face) after 3 months, and > the LLMD told me to start bactrim. > Thanks, > Dara > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 I took it for awhile and experienced what i thought was an allergic reaction. I know now that it was a herx reaction pertaining of a fever like reaction, but not registering as a fever. I had a worsened headache, body aches, kind of like a small flu. Good luck! Elaina From: darabeth2003 <dara.alewine@...> Subject: [ ] bactrim Date: Monday, November 9, 2009, 12:28 PM Â Has bactrim been helpful for anyone? My doc just prescribed it and I have been reading some horrible side effect stories about it that has me scared. I had to stop taking doxy due to a bad reaction (rash, extreme dryness and blisters on my face) after 3 months, and the LLMD told me to start bactrim. Thanks, Dara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 Thanks Sara Well, I will ask the LLMD those questions, though I believe he is using it for the babesia. He had prescribed it in addition to doxy which I took for 3 months, but stopped last week due to a skin rash and severe dryness on my face. He said to stop the doxy but to still take the bactrim. I waited to start though til today. Within about 3 days off of doxy, my face cleared. I'll have to see what he adds for the lyme. Dara > > > Has bactrim been helpful for anyone? My doc just prescribed it and I > > have been reading some horrible side effect stories about it that > > has me scared. I had to stop taking doxy due to a bad reaction > > (rash, extreme dryness and blisters on my face) after 3 months, and > > the LLMD told me to start bactrim. > > Thanks, > > Dara > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 Thanks Elaina I started it today, but am thinking I should wait a week, as I am going on vacation this Thursday for a long weekend and don't want to have a reaction while I am away. Dara > > I took it for awhile and experienced what i thought was an allergic reaction. I know now that it was a herx reaction pertaining of a fever like reaction, but not registering as a fever. I had a worsened headache, body aches, kind of like a small flu. Good luck! > > Elaina > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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