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To: Jill who wrote (43851)	8/19/2004 12:29:36 PM
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OT I did take antibiotics right away (not sure why you think I didn't)--and took another course later in the summer. As you know, you must take 30 days of it, promptly, however unpleasant that month is. If you take lots of acidophilus with it, most who can't tolerate antibiotics (I'm among them) are able to get through the 30 days pretty comfortably. I imagine the comment below that you can't "tolerate" antibiotics are what made me think you hadn't taken taken them. I see you did, but stopped taking them after two weeks when the disease was in its early, highly treatable stage. I can understand how that can happen, being made very ill by them myself unless I take the acidophilus between the antibiotic doses. From this link: "and I did not have lyme but knew that it could be quite serious and require high amounts of antibiotics which I can't tolerate..." Message 18669168 and "By the way, I did take the antibiotics, which were horrible, for 2 weeks, and then 4 weeks." from this link. Message 18759915 It's good to remind people that if they are anyplace where there are Lyme ticks around, they must take serious precautions, and if they become ill (the target rash is not there in a majority of cases) they must take antibiotics for 30 days, beginning immediately. If they postpone adequate treatment with antibiotics as you did, they may fall into the minority category Newsweek mentions of those who did not take antibiotics early, sometimes not for years, and then later didn't respond to the standard treatments. I do know how serious a disease Lyme is. I think the Newsweek article is very informative, and should persuade everyone to take antibiotics immediately for the requisite 30 days or risk becoming as ill as you or the ill-treated patients they discuss in the article did. For a while, the FDA was recommending three weeks. It wasn't enough. I knew after my first case that it wasn't cured after the three weeks. The doctor I mentioned who was the mother of the boy who'd gone undiagnosed until he had serious, scary neurological symptoms told me to start over immediately (though it had only been a week or two since I'd taken the three weeks' course) and this time do a full 30 days. That did it. Now all doctors know it's 30 days and not 3 weeks. BTW, I didn't say I'd had Lyme five times. I said that between my husband and me, we'd had it five times. On this little road, we've had dozens of cases. I'd suggest that as you continue to educate people about Lyme disease, you tell them about acidophilus, which can make the 30 days tolerable, and prevent many of them from discontinuing the treatment prematurely as you unfortunately did.