Re: Re: Herbs and/or antibiotics e

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Dear e,

How long do you think you were infected before starting treatment. I went 5 1/2

yrs before diagnosis and my MD (20 years experience treating tick-borne

illnesses) thought I would need IV antibiotics. I have noticed improvement on

Biaxin (combined with Ceftin) after feeling worse on 2 months of Zithromax

(after initial 3 months on Amoxicillin). I think I'll ask the

doctor (who also does research) about Diflucan. What does plaquenil do?

Is there much awareness in France about the dangers of tick-borne diseases--or

are they still rare? I live in a very endemic area of the U.S., but most

doctors have no experience treating beyond the acute phase. Is it easier to get

appropriate treatment in Europe?

Kim in western Massachusetts

[ ] Re: Herbs and/or antibiotics

Dear y093666,

The Diflucan treatement has been suggested by a german physician as a very

effective treatment against Borrelia. He, Dr. Schardt, claimed curing a lot of

people with this protocole. He suggested cycling bewteen :

i) Diflucan (fluconazole) 200mg : 20 to 50 days

ii) and then an abx, typically Biaxin (500mgx2 plus plaquenil 200x2)

In my French hospital they gave me the protocol. It is really effective in

eradicating borrelia, but you have to cycle a lot. After two years of that

treatment, I almost recover. Be sure that under Diflucan (fluconazole) I had

terrible herxheimer reactions. Unfortunatelly, during the summer I had a major

herx on diflucan, and then was put amoxy+griseofuline, which also an (old)

antifungal drug, and now biaxin+plaquenil, because too many bacteria were

released. My physician said that Diflucan had attacked a main reservoir of the

bactery. I'm to start again diflucan in few weeks. So, I think that if you react

so strong it is just because it's working. Honestly, at the beginning, I wasn't

able to have dose more than 50mg.

Here are two references:

the article :

http://www.neuroborreliose.net/veroeffentlichungenpublications/index.html

and the protocol :

http://www.neuroborreliose.net/informationen/therapievorschlaege/index.html

It's in german but you can translate with google.

Honestly, this is the best protocole I had, hard to tolerate. By far best than

cyclines and macrolides, even IV ceftriaxone. Moreover, fluconazole crosses the

brain blood barrier. I don't know what diflucan real does, but it does

something, I can ensure you.

Philippe

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immune system. I have been treated with many antibiotics over the past four

years, both oral and IV. My immune system was in such a bad state that without

the antibiotics, I could have never managed to come back from Lyme and the four

co-infections I had.

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> > I have had no colds and only one virus in all of this time so as long as

your doctor is supplementing your immune system with the proper supplementation,

there is a decent chance that you will eventually be fine. I am also using

Buhner's protocol along with some other herbs my doctor uses and for me, neither

is a panacea. However I have come along way and I could have never come this

far without the antibiotics.

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