[SpamCop-Social] Re: FINALLY HAVE A DIAGNOSIS! Crap....I have a diagnosis......

[Heidi]

"indigo" <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote in message
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>
> As far as them being harsh, so far I've had a bit of Herxheimer reaction
> (symptoms getting worse, mostly my chronic fatigue) but aside from one
other
> side affect it's not bad. And the one side affect, while potentially
> embarrassing, isn't painful. Tetracycline kills bacteria. Do you know what
> happens when you kill bacteria? You produce prodigious amounts of
> gas....luckily it doesn't smell bad! ;-) Same thing happened when I was on
> flagyl, the first 2 days I farted up a storm, after the bad bacteria were
> gone (temporarily from my gut, I mean) the gas went away. So I'm wondering
> whether this other drug will work the same way, gas being used like a
canary
> in a coal mine, as it were.....the ortho guy already told me to keep a lid
> on the perc consumption as well as I can because feeling the pain go away
is
> a key to knowing that the treatment is working.

Hehheh....thanks for sharing.  I hope you're taking probiotics at opposite
times you take the doxy, you're going to be in deep doo doo if you don't
replace what the antibiotics are killing.  The gas is from the imbalance of
your gut flora, you don't want a candida infection on top of what you
already have.