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Posted 10/18/2017 5:38 PM (GMT 0)
If I start taking doxy today, 200 mg, when exactly will I herx, the same day, a week later, a month? Can someone take doxy with lyme and not have herxing for weeks or months?

I know I read some with lyme don't herx at all, though that is rare.
Posted 10/18/2017 6:01 PM (GMT 0)
Herxing doesn't follow a schedule.

It will happen when the toxins from the die-off overload your system and you're body can't keep up with the detoxing.

My first herx happened on Day 4 (doxycycline)


Are you taking 200 mg twice daily?

...and yes some people can take doxy (or other abx) and not herx for weeks...or even months.

I'd say that most people will herx within several weeks

Are you on probiotics? And something for your liver?

It's best you start detoxing...if you aren't already.
Posted 10/18/2017 6:11 PM (GMT 0)
to me symptoms and herxing are not the exact same thing. It hard to describe but you can tell the difference.

Symptoms are great annoyance and herxing is on a different level. You just know.

I didn't have a major herx on doxy, just mild herxing at worse. But then when I started pulsing flagyl then a couple weeks later a real legit herx.

So that gives you some idea how it can vary from person to person.
Posted 10/18/2017 6:47 PM (GMT 0)
Maybe you will be a lucky person who dosent herx, wouldn't that be nice...my llmd tried to tell me only 5% of people herx. I just bit my lip to keep from laughing...

If that were true than I guess all of us herxers are on here!

As far as the doxy goes;

I have had some major herxing with samento, artemisinin, and now, with co-q-10, but ( besides some possible neuro stuff -which I'm not able to figure out which Lyme killer has brought on) ...

No major herxing with doxy yet. I've only been on it at full dose about 4 days, but began at half dose over a week ago.

I'm not saying it isn't coming, just that everybody's different.

Personally, I feel that the natural stuff hits me a lot harder, or hits Lyme a lot harder- that's what I mean!

But I promised my father I'd take 1-2 months of doxy to make him stop stressing me out about it. So I am.

Wishing you all the best, hope you never herx!
Posted 10/18/2017 7:36 PM (GMT 0)
Actually, I need to herx, then I'd be sure I have lyme. My wb came back negative, but these I can't rely 100% on it, so I need to take abx to test it for sure. Wish me that I herx!

Also, highly interested to know what natural stuff hits you a lot harder.
Posted 10/18/2017 7:44 PM (GMT 0)
Traneboy - are you taking 200 mg TWICE daily?
Posted 10/18/2017 9:33 PM (GMT 0)
I started treatment back in August. Ceftin then Zithromax then Flagyl. I don't think I have herxed yet. Nothing major anyway. I get tired after Flagyl doses. I am not sure if it is a herx though.
Posted 10/21/2017 9:42 PM (GMT 0)
I had my first herx at a month and a half into antibiotic treatment. I think it all depends on the person, how long you've had the disease and the type and amount of drugs you are on.
Posted 10/21/2017 10:38 PM (GMT 0)
I must be very lucky. I haven't herxed on anything. When I first found this forum after getting diagnosed, I kept waiting and waiting and waiting for all the terrible herxing people talked about. It never came. It made me doubt my Lyme dx, but I now have band 23 popping up sad.

I did have a terrible, itchy rash like symptom on my back, almost like flea bites, when I first started taking acyclovir for EBV. I thought it was a reaction to the meds, but it went away after a month. So maybe that was a herx for me.

You may never herx. Be happy smile
Posted 10/22/2017 2:49 AM (GMT 0)
Traneboy, sorry I missed your question about the natural stuff that makes me herx more... samento, artimisinin, cumunda,co-q-10... probably oil of oregano too, but I've been on it for so long now I don't remember & wouldn't have recognized a herx back then-just knew I felt varying degrees of awful all the time.

I do think it's different for everyone though. Just because I've had some major herxing with particular things doesn't mean your body will react the same... Maybe I herxed so hard with those things because they were the first real Lyme killers I took... I don't know...

And actually, to update, The doxy was definitely doing something- not sure yet if it was a herx or just a reaction to the medication. It made me feel so awful I took 2 days off just to try and figure things out.

My anxiety was WAY worse than it's been & just some other weird mental stuff going on. Saw a return of some balance/ gait issues that had been better lately-& I just felt like absolute crap. ( sorry if I'm not allowed to say that on here....) and I looked even sicker than usual ( which is already pretty bad). I was far more useless than usual & really unable tolerate the state my body & mind were in.

After quitting (temporarily) the doxy , I do believe that some of the balance issues and increased pain were part of a herx from increasing amounts of my natural regimen .guess the rest was the doxy...

Not looking forward to restarting doxy tomorrow!

So , enough about me...did you herx ?

Post Edited (Casa11) : 10/21/2017 9:08:27 PM (GMT-6)

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