This is the news:  In England, possible antibioticsi to be sold over the counter, to treat CHLAMYDIA!

This is the story form http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/aug/06/health

Oral antibiotics are to be made available for the first time without doctor's prescription under guidelines approved yesterday by the medicines regulator.

A pill to treat chlamydia, the most commonly diagnosed sexually transmitted infection, will become available for purchase in pharmacies across England later this year.

Luivac, Bronchovaxom, Imunor, Imudon, Biostim, Isoprinosine a Wobenzym but without success.

It was only three weeks ago that I wrote about my 30th pulse and how easy and 'pleasant' it had been, so easy in fact that I was able to carry on taking Flagyli for 14 days.   Well it just goes to show that one good pulse does not a pattern make... Day two post pulse 31 and my mouth is still full of bitters, my maxilla still aches, my eyes are itchy, my ankles are swollen, my ears are throbbing and my urine is still dark.   But MIRACLE OF MIRACLES the pain in my gut is hardly there and I have regularly been sleeping 7 or 8 hours a night.

I think that my experience is an example of that Tipping Point that Jim and others talk about.   Enough Cpni cells have died in the cell for apoptosisi to take place... 

Another milestone has been reached, I've just finsihed my 30th pulse, and I have a few observations which I think are worth recording and communicating.

From the beginning I have been taking 200mg Doxycycline daily and 250mg Azithromycin MWF continuously and done a 5 day flagyli pulse every three weeks, so I would take 1200mg flagyl on MTWTF of one week and take the following week-end and the next two complete weeks off.

In that time the alopeciai recovered to so such an extent that I need to go to the hairdresser once more. The hair still goes through phases of falling out, but the balance is on regrowth.

Nothing spectacular to report, but I have not written a blog for a while so thought I would update.

Pulse 21 done and dusted... I had high hopes that they would get easier to cope with the longer they went on, but maybe this is not long enough. I think I have heard other say that the treatment seems to cycle round the body over and over until all is cleared up (we hope). This is what seems to be happening to me.

Maximouse, with her pink ear tag indicative of sustained flagyl, has had to switch places with Minimouse wearing a blue one indicative of fall back to less flagylation.

I'm feeling a bit sheepish (or maybe mouseish) after high hopes of improving the rate of die off and speed the recovery a bit along the way, but after taking 400mg of metronidazolei daily for 6 weeks (with a 5 day pulse of 1200mg in the middle) I have had to give my poor liver a break for the past week.

Pulse update:

Michele: pulse 14 went well, some relief from IBSi pain during pulse, feet felt practically normal, two nights in a row with 7 hours sleep. Post pulse very painful IBS cramps and upset tummy, taking extra acidophillus and anti fungals, gradually improving. Strange things is that when there is little pain in my gut my feet feel much better too...