Monday, June 29, 2009

A trip to Urgent Care disrupts my treatment

I am too sick to blog these days but I want you to know what Lyme treatment is like. My recipe for healing is:

Doxycycline 3 time a day for 6 month
Biaxin 2 times a day for 6 months
1 gram C 3 times a day
1500 mcg B12 three times a day
Magox

total cost out of pocket is about 2500 dollars.

I started my Lyme treatment just after a treatment for a bladder infection. The urinary track infection treatment consisted of 5 days of Cipro and then 5 days of Macrobid. Once that was completed I started the above Lyme treatment. After 3 days of the Lyme treatment I began to Herx. So when the bladder pain returned I first thought it was Herx and then realized Sunday morning that the symptom where a return of the bladder infection. It went to my kidneys. I got a shot of Rocephin and a new antibiotic for my bladder infection for the next 10 days. Luckily my kidneys are in great shape and should flush this infection out in 10 days. The I will start my Lyme treatment again. I also took a Difulucan for yeast which helped the itchy scratchy but my Lyme Doc encouraged me to only use this when I have to. Be sparing.

I just slept a lot this weekend. I am back at work this morning. I feel rather bad but I want to keep working for as long as I can.

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