Penicillin and Meningitis

[PIK]

I was put on penicillin for extremely high ASO titers and was not feeling well. I though I had meningitis and scheduled a lumbar puncture. While waiting for it, I decided to stop the penicillin because I've read about drug-induced meningitides, and I feel so much better. No joke. I'm praying this isn't just a coincidence, as the meningitis symptoms subside sometimes, but I feel a lot better today.

[3bmom]

Hope it continues!

[rowingmom]

Herx?

[sf_mom]

I have dealt with many headaches throughout Lyme treatment but the kind that lingered the longest was pain at the base of my skull. Often it would make it difficult to hold my head up and fatigue would follow requiring me to sleep it off. Extremely debilitating at the time because it was daily occurrence and I could imagine it also being menigittis. These type of headaches are often associated with Babesia and would always intensify with antibiotic/anti-marial treatment. The headaches have almost disappeared. Sometimes they crop up a day or two after my weekly ozone treatment but I no longer have the fatigue that follows. I am only on diflucan for antibiotics that is addressing my yeast/fungus issue. Due to the headaches specifically cropping up after ozone I am attributing the symptom to treatment... perhaps die-off.