how long before improvement?

[momofgirls]

Maybe some of you experienced lyme people can tell me how long it takes to see a baseline adjustment with lyme. Dr J added bactrim to my daughter's zyth back in June. We added Tindamax weekends only a month ago. With the bactrim she herxed a lot and it took a couple of months for things to calm but not really better than where she was prior to starting it. We had a few super days but they didn't last. Now she has had the tindamax for a month and again I felt I saw a building of herx after two weekends of on it. Once again things have settled but back to where we were before we started it all. I'm beginning to get worried. Should I assume it just takes time or talk to the doctor about trying a different antibiotic? With all the herxing I keep thinking it must get better but am getting impatient. What do you guys think?

[lyme_mom]

Maybe some of you experienced lyme people can tell me how long it takes to see a baseline adjustment with lyme. Dr J added bactrim to my daughter's zyth back in June. We added Tindamax weekends only a month ago. With the bactrim she herxed a lot and it took a couple of months for things to calm but not really better than where she was prior to starting it. We had a few super days but they didn't last. Now she has had the tindamax for a month and again I felt I saw a building of herx after two weekends of on it. Once again things have settled but back to where we were before we started it all. I'm beginning to get worried. Should I assume it just takes time or talk to the doctor about trying a different antibiotic? With all the herxing I keep thinking it must get better but am getting impatient. What do you guys think?

It takes a while to treat lyme but I would have expected for you to see some improvement since June. You may see something after a few more weekends on tindamax. It caused pretty bad herxes for my son. There is no harm in calling dr j's office and talking to his staff. Thats what they are there for. They will run it by him and get back to you quickly.

[momofgirls]

Thanks for the response lyme mom. I put a call into Dr J's office and will see what he says. Can I ask how long did it take for things to settle for your son after starting the tindamax?

[lyme_mom]

Thanks for the response lyme mom. I put a call into Dr J's office and will see what he says. Can I ask how long did it take for things to settle for your son after starting the tindamax?

He would start to feel better the day after he stopped taking the tindamax. The tindamax caused him to be in so much pain though. The real improvements seemed to come about a month after stopping tindamax. We also switched to augmentinxr (a once a day pill) around the same time b/c he was having trouble taking so many pills before school. So I don't know how much was because of tindamax or because of the augmentin xr.around the same time.