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[Gaby]

@Gaby It was doxy that made me feel better! I checked my old forum post in private forum and I said that I felt better on two antibiotics (doxycycline and roxytromicin) and not the third one. And roxytromicin appears to also have anti-inflammatory properties:

Great combo. It's part of the macrolide antibiotics: azithromycin et al. Its anti-inflammatory properties has been noted many years before COVID-19, both in the literature and in the clinical practice. Practitioners were fond of prescribing it in viral respiratory infections, because it shortened the disease. In Spain, we were told (unofficially) to prescribe it to reduce sick leave days in the population.

Then mainstream guidelines said: "don't prescribe antibiotics in viral infections, because bad!" Then all this research of how good it is became common knowledge in the alternative community (anti COVID Vax peeps), and how those who had early treatment did better. We always knew it had immunomodulatory effects, though. You went to a medical practice to the remotest village long before COVID-19, and this was already known and normal for daily practice.

 

[Persej]

Then mainstream guidelines said: "don't prescribe antibiotics in viral infections, because bad!" Then all this research of how good it is became common knowledge in the alternative community (anti COVID Vax peeps), and how those who had early treatment did better. We always knew it had immunomodulatory effects, though. You went to a medical practice to the remotest village long before COVID-19, and this was already known and normal for daily practice.

Yes, it was fun watching the TV during COVID where all kinds of experts were warning people to not take antibiotics for this viral disease, while at the same time all the doctors were giving COVID infected people the antibiotics! It was such an obvious gaslighting of the people.

But even before COVID, like you say, antibiotics were part of the cultural heritage in my country because everybody knew that they work, even for things like flu. But somehow that common knowledge never became part of the official mainstream medical knowledge. It's like, everybody knows it works and uses it, you just can't put it on paper that it works.