Advocate2021
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Hello fellow forum members. I have been studying the threads diligently here on many issues, including utilizing antibiotics to balance the gut and body. I suspect that I would benefit from them utilized properly and coincidentally, I have been nursing a sinus/ear issue for the last couple of months and upon a routine physical today, the practitioner when looking in my ear said I need an antibiotic. This was fortuitous since I have wanted to explore antibiotics for improved intestinal and overall health so thought, wow, here is my chance. And I suspect the ear/sinus infection is related to the gut in the first place which still shows signs of imbalance despite improvement with sporebiotics and Peat integrations.
She was initially going to give me amoxicillin; but she changed it to doxycycline because I had a severe allergic reaction to augmentin (which contains amoxicillin) 6 years ago (although I believe my reaction was to the other component of augmentin-clavulanate- and not to the amoxcillin since I have taken amoxicillin in the past with no allergic reaction to it). I thought to explain that and get her to prescribe amoxicillin; but after reading the threads here, it seems there is much to be said for doxycycline. Plus, I really want to get rid of the acute infection in my sinus and ear and amoxicillin in the past has not worked for this type of infection for me and perhaps the doxycycline will work better and faster for the acute issue as well as confer benefits for gut health etc.? I believe the prescription would be 100 mg twice daily for 7 days which I know is higher than the low dose regimen discussed here as beneficial; but with an acute infection, wondering if the higher dose for the week is needed or if others have had experience with adjusting dose successfully even if taking for an acute infection and eradicating the infection as well as reaping the benefits of better intestinal health?
Would be grateful for your input on all this and opinion regarding choice of antibiotic under these circumstances as my practitioner is very amenable and will work with me and give me my preferred antibiotic - amoxicillin or doxycycline. Thank You.
She was initially going to give me amoxicillin; but she changed it to doxycycline because I had a severe allergic reaction to augmentin (which contains amoxicillin) 6 years ago (although I believe my reaction was to the other component of augmentin-clavulanate- and not to the amoxcillin since I have taken amoxicillin in the past with no allergic reaction to it). I thought to explain that and get her to prescribe amoxicillin; but after reading the threads here, it seems there is much to be said for doxycycline. Plus, I really want to get rid of the acute infection in my sinus and ear and amoxicillin in the past has not worked for this type of infection for me and perhaps the doxycycline will work better and faster for the acute issue as well as confer benefits for gut health etc.? I believe the prescription would be 100 mg twice daily for 7 days which I know is higher than the low dose regimen discussed here as beneficial; but with an acute infection, wondering if the higher dose for the week is needed or if others have had experience with adjusting dose successfully even if taking for an acute infection and eradicating the infection as well as reaping the benefits of better intestinal health?
Would be grateful for your input on all this and opinion regarding choice of antibiotic under these circumstances as my practitioner is very amenable and will work with me and give me my preferred antibiotic - amoxicillin or doxycycline. Thank You.