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Hi. I also take the big three. I take them after I’ve eaten. Azithromycin by 8:30am after breakfast. Have a late morning probiotic yogurt snack (helps any nausea immediately). Then Rifampin after lunch at least four hours after the first med. late afternoon snack then dinner by 6:30pm and the ethambutol after dinner. My pharmacist recommended spacing the meds at least four hours apart. It works for me so far. I’ve only just begun so 🙏🏻

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This is very similar to the schedule I used. 8 for Azithromycin with a light breakfast like toast. Noon for lunch and my probiotic, 3 for Rifuabutin along with crackers or a snack and 6 for ethambutol with dinner. Any other maintenance or short term meds (synthroid, Pepcid, cresemba etc were then spaced out around this schedule). I followed this daily as I wasn’t given the 3x per week option.