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  • June 26, 2024 at 8:17 pm #467851
    Linda L
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    Do you still take Celecoxib twice a day? This medicine decreases your immune system and the wounds cannot heal.Biopsy is an invasive procedure. I am surprised that your doctor did it so quickly instead of treating the bruises first. You need to help your immune system.

    RA tried everything: Methotraxate, Arava, Humira. Pneumonia three times. Anemia. Very low iron. Hypothyroidism
    AP from April 2014 till August 2015. No luck.
    Current medications: Natural thyroid, Mobic, supplements,
    vitamins and minerals.
    MTHFR heterozygous

    June 28, 2024 at 10:56 pm #467853
    Linda L
    Participant

    Do you take good probiotics?

    RA tried everything: Methotraxate, Arava, Humira. Pneumonia three times. Anemia. Very low iron. Hypothyroidism
    AP from April 2014 till August 2015. No luck.
    Current medications: Natural thyroid, Mobic, supplements,
    vitamins and minerals.
    MTHFR heterozygous

    July 3, 2024 at 11:13 am #467857
    PhilC
    Participant

    whaleharbor,

    I noticed that you are taking 100 mg of minocycline every other day with food. Is that the highest dose of mino that you’ve ever taken?

    Phil

    "Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
    - Albert Einstein

    July 3, 2024 at 11:22 am #467858
    whaleharbor
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    PhilC wrote:

    whaleharbor,

    I noticed that you are taking 100 mg of minocycline every other day with food. Is that the highest dose of mino that you’ve ever taken?

    Phil

    Hi Phil!

    When I was first prescribed minocycline the doctor prescribed it twice per day every day – the Harvard Protocol. It made me very dizzy. My doctor worked with the Head of Rheumatology at Harvard (now retired) and we came up with what I’m taking now. There have been short burst of time (a week or so) where I’ve taken it daily…but for the past goodness…almost 16 years now, maybe more, I’ve lost count…the right amount for me seems to be every other day and with food. The amount has gotten me and kept me in remission for most of the time (other than when they switched generics on me and when I recovered from Covid).

    Minocycline 100mg every other day with food...lots of food: Zydus brand. Celecoxib 200mg twice per day: Greenstone brand.

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