Slightly Nervous

An extract from the web page of the doctor we are seeing soon:

Treatment Options

When considering antibiotic treatment, do we use Oral, IM or IV? There are many choices to be made and combination therapy is needed. There is no single wonder drug, and treatments need to be cycled every 6-12 weeks depending on response.

If a patient has had long standing symptoms and is debilitated orals will not work so well and possibly not at all. The same applies to any patient over 60 and also those who have ever had cortisone by oral or parenteral routes since the onset of Lyme disease. Indeed some proponents advocate this latter group must have parenteral antibiotics.

*Parenteral

Not in or through the digestive system. Parenteral nutrition is given through the veins of the circulatory system, rather than through the digestive system.

I was given prednisolone - heaps of it.

For around 12 - 18 months until I realised it wasn't helping me and stopped taking it.

Thank GOD I refused steroids for Small Man.

G

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p.s. Ear is still ringing :/