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Posted 6/12/2015 3:43 PM (GMT 0)
As you may have seen on my previous thread, I've been off abx for about 3 weeks, but am now experiencing stiff neck & headaches constantly . . . following advice from the lovely people on here, I've been in touch with my lyme doc, and she's putting me on 6 weeks of cefuroxime. It wont be here till next week though, so meanwhile I'm going to take some doxy that I already have here. It's all a bit of a rush, and tbh I can't remember how I should take the doxy :-/ . . . is it best up take it with food, without food, an hour before food . . . I just can't remember. I didn't have any problems tolerating it before. Can anyone advise the optimum time to tak it? Thanks so much xx
Posted 6/12/2015 3:47 PM (GMT 0)
Hey Flossie, was wondering how you were. Sorry to hear you're feeling pants again.

Take doxy with food. And plenty of water. I took mine with breakfast and then with my dinner. You're advised not to lie down for an hour after taking it.
Posted 6/12/2015 3:53 PM (GMT 0)
Yes, what silly sheep said - make sure you take it with food and lots of water.

Do not have a lot of sun exposure - in fact 10 minutes was all it took for the backs of my hands to get burned. (I am most likely an extreme case).

Also, don't take calcium supplements (including antacids) within two hours (before and after doxy).
Posted 6/12/2015 3:56 PM (GMT 0)
Hi sillysheep! Thanks for your thoughts . . . I keep meaning to email you too :-/. It just seems to have been one thing after another recently, and I'm not getting round to things :-(

Thanks for the doxy advice - the not lying down thing does sound familiar but can't remember if I took it with food or not - it was well over 12 months ago that I took it before. And the leaflet in the box doesn't seem to specify . . . :-/

Anyway, how are things with you? I hope things are looking up for you a bit now and you're feeling better & getting treatment ok? I must email you! ;-) xx
Posted 6/12/2015 3:56 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Flossie,

I'm sorry your struggling. As Silly Sheep says, definitely take it will substantial food. I try not to lay down for at least 30-60 minutes after taking it. I learned that the hard way! :)

Also, don't take magnesium or calcium within 2 hours on both sides (before and after). It interferes with absorption.

It is summer. So, be careful with sun exposure. I can burn from Doxy even if I am not red. I'm more sensitive to the sun and always wear sunscreen on doxy.

Try not to miss doses with doxy.

Let us know if you have any questions! Wishing you healing!
Posted 6/12/2015 4:00 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks girlie & lymegirl - I've taken so many different types of abx that I can't remember when/how I took what! Do you take the doxy after your meal then, or during, or before? Sorry . . . xx
Posted 6/12/2015 4:05 PM (GMT 0)
I was sensitive in the beginning. So I would eat half of my meal, take my doxy and finish. Now, I just take it after-but always with a meal, not a light snack.
Posted 6/12/2015 4:11 PM (GMT 0)
Emails are secondary to you feeling OK (or OKish, or erring towards better??) just glad to see you around :)

I took doxy immediately after eating - on a full stomach.

It's all a bit up and down this end, but you know how that goes, lol. My mum is over at tbe mo, she's here for another few days. It's nice to have her around and she's great at helping out. But I am trying my best not to be a complete invalid, ha ha, and thus err toward the 'I think I may have overdone it' state.

Chat with doc suggests Bart too, which can only be fun, can't it?

I hope the doxy helps and that your next round of abx sees you toward better days. Onward and upward :) x
Posted 6/12/2015 7:54 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks for your help - have taken my first dose tonight, after my meal. Here's hoping it helps :-/

Sillysheep, I'm glad you've got your mum over to help out for a bit. Try & have a rest! Sorry about the Bart thing . . . so many of us seem to have it in addition to lyme . . . I suspect I have Bart too - hence rifampicin and minocycline recently, but I'm disappointed that I seem to have slid backwArds so soon after coming off the abx :-(. I can only assume this stiff neck, causing headaches too, for the last 12 days, is a sign that the bugs are coming out of hiding. Still, I guess I should try and see the positive in that, since I still constantly doubt and question my diagnosis, as I think we all do, so this is maybe a sign that it definitely IS lyme :-/.

As you say, onward and upward! ;-) Take care xx
Posted 6/13/2015 10:21 AM (GMT 0)
Lol, diagnosis doubt - I hear you!!

Sending big ol hugs to you x
Posted 6/13/2015 12:49 PM (GMT 0)
Flossie - I've been worrying about you, so I'm very relieved that you are able to go back onto the abx. I was concerned that you didn't seem to be symptom free when you stopped them, and didn't seem to have a herbal alternative in place either. Yes, I know what you mean, it does seem completely crazy that it should take so long to rid ourselves of these bacteria. That's the way it is for me as well though. We'll get there in the end! x
Posted 6/13/2015 6:33 PM (GMT 0)
Sillysheep - thanks so much for the hugs - I really need them at the mo. Sending some back your way too :-) xx

Celeste - thanks so much, I am actually really touched by your concern. I think that I just seemed to have plateaued for several months . . . had recently tried rifampicin and minocycline to try & shift this horrible head thing - dizziness/wooziness etc - but still no real success . . . so I think maybe my doc just felt we should have a break from abx and see what happened, with a plan to review in a month . . . I was fine got the first week or so off abx - no change really, except, if anything, feeling slightly less tingly and dizzy off the rifampicin - but then I got this strange stiff neck and headache. Didn't worry too much for the first couple of days, then it just continued . . . after a week, I started to realise this could be lyme-connected, a kind of relapse, with lots of people reporting stiff neck as a lyme symptom . . . became more convinced that it could indeed be the bugs coming out to play again :-( . . . and after 12 days with no change, I contacted my lyme doc, and she has put me straight back on 6 weeks of cefuroxime, although I'm filling in with doxy for a couple of days until the new abx arrive. I guess this must be some kind of proof that I really do have lyme?? :-/ I keep thinking these things could just be coincidence, maybe I just randomly strained my neck somehow, and it's just unrelated to stopping the abx, but when I think rationally, I know that this is highly unlikely, and that it really MUST be a result of stopping the abx :-/. But yes, it's so hard to believe that any bugs can still be living inside me after 18 months of abx! :-(

I'm sorry that you're in the same position, but I truly hope that we will both come through this and that we will indeed get there in the end! :-). Thanks again, so much, for your support xx
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