During November I got sick and went through two rounds of ab's. The first was the 5 pack azithro I think? The second, after the crud came back with a vengence, was amoxicillin (sp) for ten days. That worked very well and strangely when I was finally better I felt really good. I mean really, really good as in energy all day, happy and just feel all around sharper. Better than I've felt in the two years since this ride started.

Has anybody else experienced something like this? I know you can't take ab's all the time but I'm thinking if it really was something related to an infection then maybe a couple times a year is in order. I also think back the thread about the chlamidia bacteria (NOT the nasty kind for those who missed that thread) and that maybe there's some relationship. I'm enjoing the heck out of it but I'm a little worried my old tired, slow self will be back. I don't want him!

Antibiotics almost always make my sypmtoms flare. I'll get numbness in my feet or hands, or I'll have vision problems like photosensitivity.

You may just have something there, Keith, for your type of MS! I do believe that different MSs have diffrent causes or triggers.

I know a few PwMS, who respond well to ABs and AntiVirals. Research it for yourself and let us know what you find out.

I have been on antibiotics since Friday and am really feeling the side effects. Each time I am on them I am a mess.

I feel like my legs are on backwards, I am dizzy (more than usual) and I am "grounded" till Monday when I take the last ones and see my GP.

Will be glad to get done with it but still not as bad as steroids.

There are PwMS who take antibiotics all the time, and swear by them. My neuro was going to put me on minocycline full time as infections are KILLER for me, but I am allergic to that family of drugs.

The U of Calgary, in Alberta, Canada, is doing a trial on minocycline and MS, and I know there has already been one with Copaxone that proved it was more effective then Copaxone alone:

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...ity+of+Calgary

http://www.abstracts2view.com/aan200...l/S02.003.html

There are other antibiotic regimes that are also being used for PwMS. . . but they are much more complex to follow.

Are your troublesome lesions mostly spinal by chance, Keith?

Cherie

The pro and con AB responses to this thread, just goes to show, how one therapy can be good for one MSer and bad for another.

No, none in the spinal chord (at least that the MRI showed) all brain. I'm still fully mobile though my right leg gets numb and feels weird.

Thanks everyone for the replies. To clarify it wasn't necessarily while I was on the ab's that I felt great but afterward when they'd done their job. I already approached my pcp about the monociline (sp) and gave him an article about their use in MS treatment. I go to my neuro on the 19th and I'm going to see what he thinks.

I understand that it could be completely unrelated but it seemed worthy looking into.