Can you please give more detail? I'm in the same boat as you and this is the first time in six years that I have come across anyone who has said they were cured or reversed their fat loss, so this is a big deal for me.
What were your symptoms beforehand?
How long were you sick?
How long did you take these two antibiotics?
How long did it take for your fat to come back and other symptoms to disappear?
What symptoms remain now?
Thank you.
Symptoms started off with me losing 10 lbs of water weight over the course of a week or two, some joint pain, emotional liability. Slowly I began losing muscle and noticing I was getting weaker despite working out just as hard and eating as much. Then I noticed losing fat on my shoulders, hands. Next I noticed my muscles were getting soft instead of solid as they were before. Next came the cognitive problems. Soon I was losing weight pretty quickly, and I lost fat on my calves, face, and arms. Had joint pain on and off affecting different joints.
Finally, I looked like a skeleton and decided I had enough. It had been three years since symptoms began. Took a month of azithromycin, didn't seem to be doing much then I did a month of doxy and cefdinir. I gained weight very very quickly on the doxy and cefdinir. Felt my muscular strength come back. Felt vital, athletic again. Looked normal. Brain fog gone, personality back to normal.
Then I stopped and symptoms slowly returned. Its now been 5 years since symptoms started.
All my symptoms are back, and I got some new symptoms. I started feeling inflammation / cracking in my neck bones, then having fasciculations in my inner neck muscles. Soon after, I felt like I actually lost muscles on my neck and started having neck pain. It's like whatever I had spread to my neck.
As soon as I get the resources I plan on getting an aperiomics test for synovial fluid and possibly CSF. Plus some other testing.
Doxy has some interesting properties, including being an MMP inhibitor, anti-inflammatory, and is also effective against some RNA viruses.
I'm hoping that it's instead some known bacterial infection.