Azithromycin still works
Hey all. I found this page almost 2 years ago when I had to battle this infection and I’m not going to lie, this page scared me so much when I came across the word “Moxifloxacin”.
As someone with bad health anxiety, long story short, I was going to try whatever it took to not take Moxi. Prior to knowing I had Mgen, I had taken azithromycin for another reason and reading about resistance I was convinced my choice of treatment of doxycycline and azithromycin wouldn’t work as I had taken azithromycin and then I tested positive 2 months later when I did a routine test and no I was not infected after I took that azithromycin as I was celibate at that point.
I went through my treatment plan fearing it didn’t work because so many people on this sub says it’s resistant to azi and knowing I took azi and it clearly didn’t wipe it out, I started to spiral.
I avoided doing a test of cure for 6 weeks but finally got the courage and it was negative. I was feeling pretty good and then a few days later I started feeling itching and irritation down there. I then started to doubt that my result was accurate. I started reading treatment failures on this sub as well.
Long story short, I was convinced I had Mgen and the treatment failed and I avoided doing another test for fear of being positive because I couldn’t handle that given what was going on in my life at the time.
I was like could this be residuals? Could it be BV? So I addressed all that and I guess I did have BV after all those antibiotics but I still felt symptoms. For a whole year.
I was tormenting myself by thinking I had it and i was like I can’t keep living like this. It took some time but with research and reading people’s experiences, I became comfortable with the idea of having to take Moxi because I rather take that and risk whatever than live like this.
I got the courage and did other tests and they all came back negative. Strangely enough, when I accepted the fact I might have to take Moxi and was at peace with it, my symptoms actually died down pretty quickly.
So I just wanted to share my story for those spiraling like I was
- I know some people took it and it failed but azithromycin can definitely still work for some even if you suspect there might be some resistance.
- residuals are amplified by stress! If you have to take 2 or more pcr tests for your peace of mind, just do it and not wait a whole year like me and live in torment. They will fade away in time.
For all those fighting this infection, you will get through this!