Hi Joe - welcome to our community!
Regarding your lyme bands that were positive. Was it 41 and 23 (not 43 and 21)?
What is the dosage of doxy? Is it 100 mg twice daily? It really should be 200 mg twice daily to be effective.
Also, it can take awhile before treatment works...especially if you've had lyme for almost 2 years.
When it works, and kills off the bacteria...you may not feel better...you may actually feel worse.
When the bacteria dies off - it produces endotoxins ...these flood your system and create inflammation - resulting in an increase in your current symptoms...and sometime new symptoms will appear.
(this is called a herxheimer reaction)
To help lessen the severity of herxes...or even prevent them..you can get on an effective detox regimen.
Detoxing will flush out the toxins that have been flooding your system.
You might want to edit your title of the thread to: "New here and looking for LLME in Knoxville Tn area"
The enable your email option (through "My Profile") - so members can send you names privately. We don't post the names of the LLMD's here - for privacy reasons.
You can also contac ILADS for names:
ilads.org/ilads_media/physician-referral/..and you can email me - and i will check my list of LLMD"s and send you names I have in your area.
For some detoxing ideas:
www.tiredoflyme.com/detox-methods.htmlYou can start right away with making sure you are drinking at least 8 glasses of water daily.
Add in some fresh lemon juice into some of the glasses.
Make sure you are taking probiotics daily.
Take something for liver support.
Every few days, you can add in a new detox method.
My favorite is taking warm epsom salt baths.