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How I Recovered from Chronic Fatigue

acer2000

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Metronidazole treats more than Giardia. Its quite broad spectrum, making it hard to know exactly what was treated in your case. But its very encouraging!
 

Art Vandelay

Senior Member
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I've taken Metronidazole (flagyl) a few times and it didn't help me. It does have some pretty awful side-effects, so be careful if you take it.

I did have a similar experience to the original poster in that I took a 2 week combination of bactrim and tinidazole to treat a persistent blastocystis infection. Over the course of the treatment, I passed some very bright green stools and started to feel a lot better. At the end of the two weeks, virtually all my IBS and ME/CFS symptoms had gone and I was able to work full-time for the first time since I had gotten ill. To feel normal and healthy again after all those years of illness was amazing.

Unfortunately it didn't last. After about a month, all my symptoms gradually returned and I was just as ill as I'd ever been. Another course of the same antibiotics made no difference.
 
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