Cpnhelp.org - Chlamydia Pneumoniae Treatment

Thanks for the nice compliments and all your efforts Jim.   Thanks also to everyone in the cpnhelp community for all your help and support.   I'm very thankful for and proud of this community as well...

At this point, although I still have a ways to go in treatment, I just can't explain how glad I am that I stumbled across the study linking Cpn and rosaceai and then this site, where I have found such positive, supportive people who, even while treating their own illnesses, have always taken the time to cheer me along and answer my questions along the way.  If I were still feeling like I did last year or even worse, I'm not sure how I would have handled it.

I put the rosaceai chronicles together hoping to help other rosaceans in treatment in the future, particularly to help them (and those with other illnesses) get through the initial worsening of symptoms. As you can see in my chronicles (although sometimes you have to read between the lines or follow the tone), I often felt like total crap in early treatment, and even @ 5 months in I was still talking about worsening symptoms, depression and doubts during flagy pulses.

CAPi treatment is tough, and it's certainly not like traditional anti-inflammatory therapies where you often just start feeling better due to the anti-inflammatory effects, even while possibly allowing the infection to get worse by suppressing the immunei reaction with these anti-inflammatories. With CAP treatment, you are killing off the Cpn, not just suppressing your immune reaction to it, and you will feel at your worst if not actually worse before you feel better.  You may even recognize a few odd symptoms during treatment that you had not even associated with Cpn infection initially.

Obviously the faster you go in treatment, the more Cpn you kill, the more endotoxinsi you release into your system, and the worse you will feel.   The answer to why during treatment you feel worse, then better, then worse, then better in a sometimes not all that apparent uphill climb to eventual good health, to use the popular phrase, is simply, "it's the endotoxins, stupid".   

So IMHOi, you really want to take your time and manage your reactions during slow and steady treatment.     When you start feeling a little better in early treatment, the natural tendency is to rush.   Hear me now and believe me later, resist this urge at all costs, and give yourself time to heal during  slow and steady treatment.   And when times are tough, reach out to the cpnhelp community for some support and reassurance and continue on in treatment, knowing that you will get better with time as others have done before you...

Thanks again all.   Now as Jim says, let's get 'er done!

On Combined Antibiotic Protocol for Cpn in Rosacea since 01/06

Thanks for such a great report.  I had been noticing the improvement in my rosaceai since starting treatment, it is the first thing everyone notices they all comment on how great I look, which translates to you are now CURED I am trying to learn to smile and take the complement with out explaining that I feel like crap more than look like crap.  Oh well.  But thanks again it is helpful to follow your progress.  My roaseaca is only one of my symptoms FMSi, CFSi being the original ones.  But at least its an improvement.