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Is that the one which makes you laconic / home sick / bit nutty?
My experience is that all antibiotics in that category mess with your head to some extent. I found that minocycline was the worst, though, and gave me horrible dizziness.
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Maybe. But severe/cystic acne and the like are rarely solved so simply by dietary intervention. If the acne was so bad as to warrant an Accutane prescription, then my guess is that diet would not have helped much. Accutane can take a large toll on the body but is often one of the most effective tools in eradicating acne long term for those so strongly impacted.
Cystic acne is often, but not always, caused by a reaction to a dietary ingredient. Fasting a full day between meals can also often resolve cases. I will not reach for drugs until I have done everything I can in good faith with food and meal timing (24 hours between meals).
As another anecdote - I got rid of my acne when I discovered benzoyl peroxide creams via an XKCD comic.
It's easy for some of us to forget that Lyme disease is an ongoing danger parts of the world. I used to have to keep it in mind when I lived in Tennessee, but that's one thing I don't think about much now that I'm in San Francisco. Of course, I have a lot of other problems instead, just not ticks!
When I lived in So. Cal, and even when I spent time in the Sequoia NP and NF, I never found a tick on me. I think I only found one on the entire 15 years I lived there, and I spent a lot of time bushwhacking around in those parks and the Tehachapis.
Most years, I've had no issues with ticks. But after a rainy winter (like 2010/2011, or 2018/2019), I've been hiking with people who have gotten ticks in the Santa Monicas and even in the San Gabriels.
Spring of 2011 was the worst. After a hike at the Circle-X Ranch, one of my companions had two ticks, and two of us had one apiece.
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> the scrip ran out. Assuming that was written intentionally, I had no idea that this was a word, and that this was a usage. I’ve learned something.
It should be "script" I believe, short for "prescription". Scrip is a word, but its meaning is different and it's close to archaic.
FWIW, Wiktionary lists both: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scrip#Etymology_4
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Maybe. But severe/cystic acne and the like are rarely solved so simply by dietary intervention. If the acne was so bad as to warrant an Accutane prescription, then my guess is that diet would not have helped much. Accutane can take a large toll on the body but is often one of the most effective tools in eradicating acne long term for those so strongly impacted.
Cystic acne is often, but not always, caused by a reaction to a dietary ingredient. Fasting a full day between meals can also often resolve cases. I will not reach for drugs until I have done everything I can in good faith with food and meal timing (24 hours between meals).
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I am right there with you. Took one week Doxy after being bit and got a rash anyway. About two years later mental fog and all our hell took over, tested positive but doc wouldn't give me antibiotics because I took the initial one week "and it's not possible that I have Lyme". Years later I have lost a business I founded and countless months where I couldn't even think let alone function. One day IS ABSOLUTELY not eno…
My Wife has long term Lyme and the cost for us aren't quite that much but close and can also confirm that insurance will cover very little of it.
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Maybe. But severe/cystic acne and the like are rarely solved so simply by dietary intervention. If the acne was so bad as to warrant an Accutane prescription, then my guess is that diet would not have helped much. Accutane can take a large toll on the body but is often one of the most effective tools in eradicating acne long term for those so strongly impacted.
Cystic acne is often, but not always, caused by a reaction to a dietary ingredient. Fasting a full day between meals can also often resolve cases. I will not reach for drugs until I have done everything I can in good faith with food and meal timing (24 hours between meals).
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I am right there with you. Took one week Doxy after being bit and got a rash anyway. About two years later mental fog and all our hell took over, tested positive but doc wouldn't give me antibiotics because I took the initial one week "and it's not possible that I have Lyme". Years later I have lost a business I founded and countless months where I couldn't even think let alone function. One day IS ABSOLUTELY not eno…
> As further reference your insurance won't cover your treatment once it gets bad Wait, what? Based on what reasoning? Was this before or after the Affordable Care Act?
With a small patient population, there is no incentive for for-profit companies to fund a study. And because few can afford the treatment, you can't get real world data to use in place of a study.
Not accurate. If you read the original research study this recommendation is based on, it prevents the bullseye rash, which they used as a proxy measure. It's unclear whether or not it actually prevents lyme. I personally got bitten by a tick, did the prophylaxis dose, and then developed joint pain which continued until I did a full 21 day course. Yeah it sucks not being able to go in the sun for an entire month and…
I am right there with you. Took one week Doxy after being bit and got a rash anyway. About two years later mental fog and all our hell took over, tested positive but doc wouldn't give me antibiotics because I took the initial one week "and it's not possible that I have Lyme". Years later I have lost a business I founded and countless months where I couldn't even think let alone function. One day IS ABSOLUTELY not eno…
Why would you accept that response from a doc if you were confident you had symptoms of lyme? Get a second opinion, or straight up fire your doctor.
Is there an app that can alert me when I'm in a tick-infested area? I don't think about ticks living in CA and I'm deadly afraid of being on a vacation and going on a hike and getting bit.