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@Iquitos - It's good that you didn't just stop the acyclovir. Where did you get the idea to use it for the symptoms that you described, which sound "off label". You obviously know what you're doing since you've found something that has worked so well for you. You must be tempted to go off them from time to time to see if....?
I didn't know doxy was used prophylactically for malaria.
Did you have any problem getting prescriptions for either or do you buy without?
I have been getting bad reactions to dental surgeries that escalate over time and involve a combination of drugs, none of which by themselves are known to cause the kind of symptoms and progression of neuropathy that I've been experiencing following each one. Amoxacillin and dental anesthetic without epinephrine are the usual drugs, plus a pain killer. For the last two it was Aleve but others have been different. I had also been eating more probiotics and probiotic foods after the surgeries, the latter of which is high in glutamic acid, a substance I have found to be excitotoxic and neuropathically toxic.
However it seems that something to do with the surgeries has been sensitizing me and I am still experiencing increased symptoms months after having removed potentially offending foods and drugs. I am never fully recovering from them and to the extent I have in the past, it took nearly a year. The nerve damage has been progressive and irreversible, and I will be needing more surgeries to complete work, so it isn't a matter of simply waiting to heal.
I am trying to get a sense of whether I should be looking at a delayed allergy or drug toxicity because my experience is much like the pattern of symptoms some people have developed post- fluoroquinolone use, even though that is a whole different class of drug and involves fluoride, so there doesn't seem to be any direct take-away to be applied to my situation.
I did recently come across something interesting - that amoxicillin, and maybe all of that class, should not be prescribed to anyone with mono: I have chronically elevated and rising titers (last checked a few years ago) to EBV decades after acute EBV/mono.
I didn't know doxy was used prophylactically for malaria.
Did you have any problem getting prescriptions for either or do you buy without?
I have been getting bad reactions to dental surgeries that escalate over time and involve a combination of drugs, none of which by themselves are known to cause the kind of symptoms and progression of neuropathy that I've been experiencing following each one. Amoxacillin and dental anesthetic without epinephrine are the usual drugs, plus a pain killer. For the last two it was Aleve but others have been different. I had also been eating more probiotics and probiotic foods after the surgeries, the latter of which is high in glutamic acid, a substance I have found to be excitotoxic and neuropathically toxic.
However it seems that something to do with the surgeries has been sensitizing me and I am still experiencing increased symptoms months after having removed potentially offending foods and drugs. I am never fully recovering from them and to the extent I have in the past, it took nearly a year. The nerve damage has been progressive and irreversible, and I will be needing more surgeries to complete work, so it isn't a matter of simply waiting to heal.
I am trying to get a sense of whether I should be looking at a delayed allergy or drug toxicity because my experience is much like the pattern of symptoms some people have developed post- fluoroquinolone use, even though that is a whole different class of drug and involves fluoride, so there doesn't seem to be any direct take-away to be applied to my situation.
I did recently come across something interesting - that amoxicillin, and maybe all of that class, should not be prescribed to anyone with mono: I have chronically elevated and rising titers (last checked a few years ago) to EBV decades after acute EBV/mono.