picc line

I'm considering a picc line. The dr says it can speed up my healing process. It would probably be in for 6 months.

Anyone had one and how did it go?

What abx do they use?

Thanks

I had a picc line and they used rocephin (spell?). It is good if ABX upset your stomach. Sort of a pain in the shower, but seemed to help. I only had it for 6 weeks. Should have been longer.
Northlover

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That which doesn't kill us, makes us stronger. 

I had a picc lne that was put in at the hospital. Afterwards they took an Xray to make sure the placement was correct. It caused me no pain.... just a little hard to bathe, but you'll find ways to work around it (Saran Wrap - haha).

Hopefully your picc line will go as smoothly as mine did.

My wife was on Rocephin for 10 weeks. We wanted to go at least 12 weeks. She wanted to quit. She had no side effects. It seems a typical treatment time would be 5 months. Her daily headaches are gone but no improvement otherwise. She had pulled the picc line out once so when she wanted to quit, we did.

Merry Christmas

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Scooter-

I have had two picc lines. The 1st was rocephin for 3 months then claforan for 1 month. I had some improvement but I could tell we were still missing some bug and was getting worse in other areas. So we pulled it and I tried different orals.

5 months later I was really bad off and my doc had me do the picc again. This time 2 months doxy and zithromax. Then doxy and cipro. Then zithromax and oral doxy. Then zithromax, rocephin and oral doxy. I just had it pulled last week. This one was in 9 months. I am now on biaxin, plaquinil and doxy. I LIKE this combo. It seems to be working.

The shower thing is a pain. But we often sacrifice with this illness. No just jumping in and out of the shower. I used the press n seal wrap and taped the top around my arm. You aren't supposed to do heavy lifting but I did every once in awhile. I have 3 small kids. I did get a hole in both my piccs and had to have them pull it out a little and put a new end on it. For the most part I didn't notice it in my arm. And I kept it covered with a light weight long sleeve shirt all the time. This worked well for me since I was also on Doxy and I didn't want too much sun. I had in home care. So I didn't have to go anywhere to do my meds. They came in the mail and I did them. Then I had a nurse come once a week to change the dressing. IV drugs can be VERY helpful.