Have now been off prednisone for about 1 week. My shin rash is slowly diminishing. I started taking 500mg of Taurine at night before bed and it seems to have helped my muscle pain significantly.
Stopped by the community health center last week for an ophthalmologist appointment. Eye dryness is minor said the doc after using the yellow dye. So that's good news.
Continuing to take Zithromax though only about once a week because it does quite a number on my stomach. It has a long half-life, though, so dosing every other day shouldn't really be necessary.
Lyme test results came back as "equivocal", so am now supposed to be getting tested for band 31 kDa. The journey continues...
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Sunday, July 8, 2012
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Cannot tolerate 200mg minocin, reduce again
Since my stomach has been having issues, I have reduced the minocin again to 100mg once a day. I continue to take a probiotic supplement, Jarrow Formulas AF with 10 billion strains.
Had bloodwork drawn yesterday, and now I am going to start Zithromax Tues./Thursday 250mg once per day.
Bloodwork didn't show any major changes, though sed rate and CRP are still low, which is great. Neutrophil count is way up. Usually it's around 53% for me, and this bloodwork showed neutrophils at 69%. I've read that an increase in neutrophils can indicate a bacterial infection. So maybe it is the strep that is just taking up residence? I suppose we'll see after starting the zithromax. MCV and MCH are still elevated slightly. Platelets still at low end of normal at 206.
Sed rate = 2, CRP <0.3 mg/L.
RBC count still low at 3.8.
TSH at 1.44, Free T3 at 2.4 pg/ml (range:2.0-4.4), Free T4 at 1.04 ng/dL (range: 0.82-1.77).
RA elevated slightly at 15.4. ANA is still positive, no big surprise there only wish I could have afforded to get the titer for the ANA.
Had bloodwork drawn yesterday, and now I am going to start Zithromax Tues./Thursday 250mg once per day.
Bloodwork didn't show any major changes, though sed rate and CRP are still low, which is great. Neutrophil count is way up. Usually it's around 53% for me, and this bloodwork showed neutrophils at 69%. I've read that an increase in neutrophils can indicate a bacterial infection. So maybe it is the strep that is just taking up residence? I suppose we'll see after starting the zithromax. MCV and MCH are still elevated slightly. Platelets still at low end of normal at 206.
Sed rate = 2, CRP <0.3 mg/L.
RBC count still low at 3.8.
TSH at 1.44, Free T3 at 2.4 pg/ml (range:2.0-4.4), Free T4 at 1.04 ng/dL (range: 0.82-1.77).
RA elevated slightly at 15.4. ANA is still positive, no big surprise there only wish I could have afforded to get the titer for the ANA.
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