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Posted 2/8/2013 4:25 AM (GMT 0)
I finished my first day of doxycycline. I've had moderate nausea and discomfort (hot flashes, headache, clammy palms, lightheadedness) with it so far. Is this typical? What has been other's experience with it?
Posted 2/8/2013 6:14 AM (GMT 0)
Doxy gave me headaches and made me light headed.
Posted 2/8/2013 11:07 AM (GMT 0)
After 3 days on it I became weak, light headed and very anxious. My doctor stopped it but everyone is different.
Posted 2/8/2013 8:47 PM (GMT 0)
With me the side effects usually subside within a few weeks. Make sure you eat something before you take the doxy..it can really tear up your stomach. Alka Seltzer Gold was a real help with the nausea but I think you have to take it a couple of hours away from the antibiotic. But I had all the symptoms you listed too.
Posted 2/8/2013 9:18 PM (GMT 0)
As Flowergal has said, you need to eat something just before taking the Doxy or it will tear up your stomach and you won't be able to continue treatment. We have a great link in the "New to Lyme?" thread all about the "Do's and dont's of taking Doxy". Very useful info in there!!
Posted 2/8/2013 9:34 PM (GMT 0)
Some of the symptoms could be from herxing, buy if this is just now your first day on it, it may be side effects. Definitely take it WITH food.
Posted 2/9/2013 3:58 AM (GMT 0)
Doxy really tore up Heather's stomach as well. She switched to minocycline in the springtime, and it was far less irritating to her stomach. Minocycline also caused far less photo sensitivity than the doxy.

Don
Posted 2/9/2013 11:52 AM (GMT 0)
What I find interesting is that so many say that when they were on Mino that their photo sensitivity was less severe than when they were on Doxy, while I was on Mino, I had all kinds of issues with photo sensitivity and sunburning! Heck! Even the backs of my hands and my knuckles would sunburn driving to my appts and the sun always made my eyes even more photo sensitive!

Sooo strange some times!! turn LOL! I guess someone has to be the odd ball!!! Giggle!
Posted 2/9/2013 12:20 PM (GMT 0)
The reaction that you describe to doxy is what used to happen to me if I didn't eat enough with it. I didn't get that reaction if I made sure to eat enough food before and after the pill.

Doxy was horrible for sun sensitivity for me last summer. I was also very nauseous on it if I didn't eat a lot of food with it. Then, all of a sudden without any changes to anything, I had no sun sensitivity from it. I didn't even have to wear sunscreen anymore while taking it and I wasn't getting nausea at all. That was a few months in. I don't know what happened there. I tend to think it stopped being absorbed properly at that point.

I'm on mino now. Since it's winter, I can't tell about sun sensitivity. I didn't have any of the vestibular effects that are supposed to be pretty common from minocycline.
Posted 2/10/2013 1:55 AM (GMT 0)
My LLMD put me on mino. She said it's less irritating on the stomach, less sun sensitivity, and crosses the blood brain barrier much better. Mino. can cause dizziness though, especially when first starting it. It didn't for me, but my LLMD warned me of that side-effect. She did say that it goes away after about a week for most people though.
Posted 12/5/2013 3:00 AM (GMT 0)
Four days of doxy has created an internal fire in my GI tract. I am taking Prilosec, aloe Vera juice, and Maalox to put out the fire.

Of course, I stopped the doxy am starting back on biaxin.

I am also on multi vit, b complex, magnesium, & curcumin.

What else do I need to be on to help my GI tract ? It feels like an ulcer in there. Ugh!

I'm not having constipation or nausea/vomiting at this time.
Thank you
Posted 12/5/2013 3:38 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Shelly,
Did you eat just before you took the Doxy? Some people only need a small snack, where others needed to eat a full meal in order to avoid stomach/intestinal issues. Remember, these are a lot higher doses than most people will ever take.

Have you tried ginger? You can nibble on candied ginger once in a while if you have that, or make a cup of ginger tea (instructions below if you don't have tea bags), or take ginger in capsules.

I use both the ginger root capsules and ginger tea for most of my digestive issues. For the tea all you have to do is take one cup of hot water, add 1-2 teaspoons of ginger root powder (even just out of your spice cabinet), sweeten a touch with stevia or other natural sweetener and drink.

For the capsules, I take 3 - 500 mg caps, three times a day. For me this also helps with pain, as I take turmeric and Bromelain with it.

Something to keep in mind - Prilosec is for those with too much acid in their stomach. Many here have discovered that they have the opposite problem - too little stomach acid. They symptoms are almost identical, so I would suggest that if you don't know for sure which side you are on, find out, otherwise you could be complicating your issues.
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