Ross Douthat
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first heard Mar 2022
last heard Mar 2022
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Switched to the Maverick and started taking his combinations of antibiotics.
Did that for four to six months, maybe saw a tiny bit of improvement, but not much.
And so by this point, I've been sick for a year, more than a year.
We've just had our third child.
We're living in this rural splendor that had become this essentially nightmarish existence where.
Where we felt like we were characters in some sort of Stephen King novel.
And so I basically said, Well, I I need to try what's the most extreme thing you've got?
Right.
Chronic Lyme is intravenous antibiotics.
And the doctor I saw didn't recommend IV antibiotics.
He thought oral antibiotics worked just as well and were safer.
But he let me go to this third doctor, who I called the grinder, who basically just would give you intravenous antibiotics every day for as long as you were willing to pay.
So I did that for several months.
Through all this, the pattern that was established in that first experiment with doxycycline repeated itself, which is that when I would try a new antibiotic or try a stronger dose, I would have an intensification of symptoms.
And in the theories of chronic Lyme, this is called the Herxheimer effect, which is named for these 19th-century Austrian doctors who observed it in patients.
Treated with penicillin for syphilis, where the theory is that if your body is full of bacteria and you kill a bunch of them, your immune system goes nuts for a little while and then calms down once they're flushed out of your system.
So, like everything with chronic Lyme, this is highly contested, but this was certainly the experience I had.
I had it very strongly, seemingly, with the IV drug, but I didn't actually make progress.
Progress.
And eventually I went back to the Maverick, back to the doctor with his combinations, and found a combination that actually seemed to give me some control over my symptoms.
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