Posted by bleauberry on March 29, 2009, at 9:10:17
In reply to Do antibiotics and AD's hinder each other?, posted by myco on March 28, 2009, at 11:59:00
This is a good question I should ask my LLMD, though I pretty sure I already know the answer.
I believe ADs are either neutral or enhancing for antibiotics. He did say some of his patients thought they were well, feeling good, they were on Zoloft or Gabapentin or something, and he said no it has only been a couple months on antibiotics and you need a year to get the Lyme under control. They were feeling well because of their meds, not because they had conquered Lyme. In telling me that, it showed that he does prescribe ADs and antibiotics at the same time. He would not do that if they counteracted each other.
My own personal observations are that antidepressants can be pro-immune, and thus boost antibiotics. Lexapro or Wellbutrin in particular caused rapid improvement of some skin infections I had that were not responding much to antibiotics. Unfortunately both of those ADs made me feel so bad I was on my knees wishing for death, so obviously I had to stop. Now looking back, I can't help but wonder if maybe it wasn't the ADs themselves that had me feeling so bad, but rather a Herxheimer die-off reaction? Hhhmmm. Something to ponder.
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