Re: follow-up new tindamax treatment

March 9, 2010

Sorry, I meant Doxy + Plaquenil killed spirochetes, but increased

cyst formatiion...

On Mar 9, 2010, at 10:13 AM, Aviva Gerson wrote:

> le,

> I think My daughter's doctor was referring to research Eva Sapi

> presented at the ILADS Conference 2009. You're right that it's not

> totally new- tindamax is all over the internet for cysts. Maybe it's

> the research part of it. Anyway, the research was done in test tubes,

> not patients. It showed that tindamax + a tetracycline killed all

> spirochetes and cysts. Doxy killed spirochetes,but increased cyst

> formation. Tindamax/flagyl alone reduced cysts, but did not eliminate

> them.

>

> Here's the link I found...

> see: " An in vitro evaluation of antibiotic susceptibility of different

> morphological forms of Borrelia burgdorferi "

>

>

March 10, 2010

When our LLMD started my son (12) on Tindamax, she said it was to see whether he

has any cyst forms (we knew we were treating Bartonella for him but were

somewhat unsure about Lyme). This is when he got the bulls-eye rash 3-4 days

later. This confirmed, in my mind anyway, that he has Lyme.

Elaine

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