Posted by bleauberry on January 26, 2019, at 11:18:39
In reply to Re: Bleauberry omg friend i need to tell you something, posted by Jeroen on January 24, 2019, at 13:39:22
> Does rifampin works like minocycline? Bleauberry?
Rifampin works BETTER with Minocycline than with Doxycycline.
I saw my doctor yesterday and she switched me to that combination - Mino + Rifampin. That's what I am on right now. The diff is that I will be taking double the maximum dose of Rifampin. Regular doses work just fine for the vast majority of patients. My case is particularly difficult and challenging.
Rifampin has some significant drug-drug reactions in which it can lower the blood levels of some meds - anything metabolized by CYP-3A4. As an example, Viagra is CYP-3A4, and I found out that for my regular dose to work while on Rifampin I have to double it. Double Viagra to get the same effect, while on Rifampin.
Well that same scenario applies to Doxycycline. It lowers the blood levels of Doxy.
The beauty of Minocycline is that it does NOT have drug-drug reactions with Rifampin. And it can do a better job of intra-cellular antibiotic work than Doxy. Rifampin does not lower the blood levels of Minocycline.
My doctor who prescribed these also had Lyme with Depression and Anxiety. She suffered badly. That's how she got to be an expert on all this psychiatry and Lyme stuff - it seems many of the experts traveled that same path. People here don't believe me, but if they could ask any of these clinicians who have had lyme themselves, you would discover that psychiatric involvement is almost universal. And that most cases of psychiatry out there are actually treatable as infections.
It's amazing how the quality of a doctor's knowledge and care can increase substantially when it becomes personal to their own lives.
Anyway, she got better but it required 9 months of constant Rifampin with another antibiotic. So if you can get it, plan on long term, don't even think short term.
They say that once you feel better, you need another 3 months of antibiotics after that! Just to be sure. That happened during my last remission which lasted 2 good years.
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