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I have absolutely no idea. Could be your body is lacking something that's in the PB. Be thankful you have a craving for that. My cousin got cravings for coal when she was pregnant. She'd sit there eating chunks of it. These days I'd recommend charcoal tabs.

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Berkshire, UK. Diagnosed RRMSi Feb 4th 2008.

NACi 2400mg. All supps. Doxyi 200mg. Zithi 250mg. Metroi 400mg.
No GP/Neuroi support. Self medicating with help from David Wheldoni.
Started CAPi 20th April 2008. First pulse June 2008

Same here with the peanut butter.   I think there is something about the taste and the thickness of the paste that help me cope with the awful taste of Flagyli, but there could well be a need for some of its constituents:

 lysine, threonine, methionine, cystine, arginine, tryptophan, tyrosine, protein, oil, fiber, mineral elements,  aspartic acid, serine, glutamic acid, proline and phenylalanine.

I know that porphyrins bind with fatty substances so there may be some of that going on too.   Just guessing really, because I'm definately not a scientist...

 

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Michèle (UK) GFAi: Wheldon CAPi 1st May 2006. Daily Doxyi, Azi MWF, metroi pulse. Zoo keeper for Ella, RRMSi, At worse EDSSi 9, 3 months later 7 now 6.5 Wheldon CAP 16th March 2006

I experience no bitter taste because of Flagyli. Also the tablets are very lightly coated and taking them is easy. Easier than NACi! I also have cravings during a pulse, well, actually most of the time. Specially for sweet high carb stuff including peanut butter. I try not to give in but.......

 Daniela

 CPn, on monotherapy since Feb08, on Wheldon protocol since April 08. Only the most necessary supplementsi.

The crucial question: crunchy or smooth? Does flagyli make you feel a littly nutty? No idea really, but figured there had to be a joke or two in there somewhere.

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CAPi for Cpni 11/04. Dx: 25yrs CFSi & FMSi. Currently: 150mg BID Roxithromycin, Doxycycline 100mg BID, Tinii 1000mg/day pulses; Vit D2000 units, T4 & T3

Because it's a wonderful comfort food, and a pulse is a time when you need comforting.  I'm one of those people who won't keep it around the house, because it disappears too quickly (I'm a PB addict).  Even now, I'm imagining how good it is.

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Joyce~caregiver-advocate in Dallas for Steve J (SPMSi).  CAPi since August 06, Cpni, Mpn, B. burgdorferi, systemic candidiasis, EBVi, CMV & other herpes family viral infectionsi, elevated heavy metals, gluten+casein sensitivity. 

Coal?  Peanut Butter?  Hmmm... how 'bout cheese and pasta with alfredo sauce? 

I try to watch my PB intake mainly because it's tough on the liver, or so I thought from something I read once, a long time ago. 

But I do now know that the fats definitely help me feel better when I get enough in my diet and I always thought it was because it slowed down the digestion of the carbs in the stomach which is only partly right.  Now I know the fat content is also vital for helping absorb those porphyrins. 

I have noticed that I do feel better with less red meat although I can definitely eat fat like olive oil, butter and cheese... oh, and peanut butter.  I think I'll go have some lunch now. 

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NACi 2.4g, Zithi 250mg/MWF, minoi 200mg, Tinii 5day/1g/5 pulses, Valcyte
Iodoral 12.5mg, Supps, CFIDSi/FMSi, Hashimoto's, Psoriasis, PA, IBSi, Sec Addisons

Don't believe everything you think!  

I am reading this thread as I am waiting for my toast with PB & peach jam, mmmmmmmm.  I love PB, always have.  This pulse I have horrific nausea which doesn't seem to abate with anything.

I need comfort.  JimK, it is smoooth!!

When I was younger I ate the chunky!

 

peace

r

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CFIDSi/ME 32 yrs, FMSi, IBSi, EBVi, CMV, Cpni, H1, chronic insomnia, Lymes, HME, Natural HRT peri-M, NAC 3 gm, Full CAP 6-2-08, all supplementsi +Sea Kelp, Chitosan Pulse 16 1-4-09 1gm Flagyli/day-3 days

Crunchy. 

And until Sunnivara mentioned it, I didn't think about the fact that I eat a lot more peanut butter around the time of a pulse than I do the rest of the month.  I finished a pulse last week and I remember making Peanut Butter and Honey sandwiches on hot dog buns because there wasn't any other kind of bread in the house.   

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CAPi for M.S. since 8/2007. Currently: 100 mg Dox. (2 x day), 250 mg Zithi (3 x week).  Sixteenth pulse metronidazolei + INHi completed 12/20/2008.

And I have benefitted from Louise's advice on how to take abxi, including flagyli: Eat the first half of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, take all my pills (doxyi, azith if is is that day, and flagyi if pulsing), then eat the other half. Today it was my special cereal: Multi-grain cereal, banana, raisins, strawberries, honey, pecans, and (thanks to Raven) - blueberries with abxi halfway through.

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Rica PPMSi EDSSi 6.7 at beginning - now 2. Began CAPi Sept, 2004 with Rifampin 150 mg 2xd, Doxyi 100 mg 2xd, added regular pulses Jan 2005. Jan 2006 switched to Doxy, Azith, cont. flagyli total 55 pulses LDNi Rifampin 8/08 again NC USA

Yeah, my flagyli pills taste horrid too. Maybe the coat the name brand but I get the generic and they're too cheap to coat it.

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GFAi - asthmai, sinusitis/rhinitis, tendonitis, low back pain, hypothyroid. Started azi 1000mg/week Jan 9, '08. Increased azi to 250mg/day, added 20mg Benicar daily Mar 13, '08. First Flagyli pulse started June 30, '08. Added Doxyi 200mg/day Aug 16.

The flagyli taste does not come solely from the taste of the pill as you swallow it, for some of us it has to do with cpni infection in the mouth, tongue, sinuses etc....   At one time when I first started the taste was coming out of my skin.   I was uncertain at the time whether it my imagination or not so I had someone not doing a pulse lick my arm, and they tasted it too...

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Michèle (UK) GFAi: Wheldon CAPi 1st May 2006. Daily Doxyi, Azi MWF, metroi pulse. Zoo keeper for Ella, RRMSi, At worse EDSSi 9, 3 months later 7 now 6.5 Wheldon CAP 16th March 2006