Anxiety equals herx?

I will have been doing antibiotics for 3 weeks this Friday. I started on Doxycycline 100 mg three times a day and Plaquenil 200 mg twice a day. Within a few days was running a slight temperature off and on and I was having very vivid dreams, some of them very horrible nightmares. Then I started waking up feeling anxious and that has pretty much gotten worse and worse till it's pretty much all day. I am having horrible thoughts about bad things happening and am feeling very isolated and alone, which I am because I work from home and I live in an area where I have no friends closer than an hour away. I'm crying about everything. I am better when my family is around me and I can see my grandkids. I started developing sun sensitivity to the Doxy and couldn't face being stuck in my apartment all summer and also wondered if it was causing my anxiety as a side effect, so Monday I was switched from the Doxy to Biaxin, still with the Plaquenil. The anxiety was still super bad yesterday, and I thought a little better today, but tonight I feel horrible. Crying my eyes out again. Also sort of radiating heat and feeling like I'm vibrating, but no temperature right now. I'm going to call the doctor tomorrow because he said if the anxiety was still present to call. Is this a herx? How do I control the anxiety? Does anyone know how long this will last? I'm kind of going crazy here. Going to bed now to try to sleep.

Tom, are you in treatment? I have a tendency towards depression and anxiety, especially when my thyroid isn't right, but this is ridiculous and just since treatment started. I got some Benadryl drugged sort of sleep for about 5-1/2 hours and then was awake. Of course today is garbage day and mowing day at the apartment complex. We moved from a dead end road in the country to a large town near Albany, NY last fall. We lost our house and needed to be closer to my hubby's work anyway. Long story. I miss the country. I can't seem to figure out how to make friends here and most of the time don't seem to care, but when I get like this I crave human contact, distraction, something. I am closer to my daughter and grandkids here though, so I get to see them just about every weekend. My son just left for South Carolina to check it out. He is single and carefree. I miss him terribly right now. He has gone away before and I was okay with it, but right now I wish he was here. Okay, enough pity party. I'm going to work now since I'm awake and try to nap later. Wish me luck.

Hi Elsie.

I,m taking lots of herbs. I did the whole doxy and IV's and 50 doctors. I saw some improvements over a two year time span, but ran out of bank account.

I've learned stress is the enemy, I stress and lose sleep and take ambien and get sicker. Must break circle of doom!

As far as frinds in the city goes......I've never had true ones either, just a lot of people that need something (I'm an auto mechanic)

Get a small calm dog, you'll be better off.

TOM.