Doxycycline lyme disease
Common Questions and Answers about Doxycycline lyme disease
doryx
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Amoxicillin is NOT the treatment for Lyme Disease.......All Tick diseases are treated with Doxycycline or a Tetracycline...You need a second opinion & I'd do it tomorrow if possible.......
Welcome to MedHelp Lyme! Not exactly a party kind of event, but it has its own good aspects ... like getting rid of Lyme! Good for you for plowing ahead.
I'm not medically trained, but from what I read, doxycycline (doxy for short) can be quite effective against a Lyme infection ... BUT only if the infection is diagnosed fairly soon.
He also had shaking, muscle spasms. She took him to the vet and he was positive for lyme disease. He is on Doxycycline for 30 days, then will retest for the lyme.
She said he looks and seems to feel terrible.... vet gave her pain pills for him too.
Interesting..... people get brushed off, .....
At least the poor animals who have no voice get treated!!
Best wishes and healing to all!
I do not get classic migraine, but do get migraine auras and other pressure headaches from my Lyme disease.
4. There are alternative treatments, again, an LLMD could advise you. However, what comes to mind is that your antibiotic treatment could have been incomplete and/or too short. A hypothesis is that chronic Lyme patients are co-infected with other illnesses carried by ticks. These other infections may not respond to the same antibiotics that kill the Lyme bacteria.
Good Morning everyone. I am new to this forum and have a question to post.
I have currently been diagnosed with chronic lyme disease. I have been fighting this "monster" for over ten years. . Can anyone share what type of diet might help control symptoms in chronic lyme disease?
I was just diagnosed with lyme disease and will be taking Doxycycline for 30 days. Can anyone tell me if I must avoid dairy entirely or just avoid it a couple of hours before and after taking this antibiotics?
Thanks.
And what I meant by doing another western blot is that ive read sometimes doctor give you a trail run of antibiotics if they are not sure if you have Lyme Disease and it might produce a positive IgG if I did have lymes disease...
My mom also did lyme test right after the rash and fever, that came back negative. After just a few days doxycycline treatment, she does not have any symptom. Then in October, I want to make sure, she did a lyme test again although she does not have any symptom, but that came back positive.
Sounds like it's lyme related to me, lyme disease is known to cause skin sensations like "tingly" feelings although i've never read about one like you have. I don't want to scare you - but that sounds like it could also be related to a co-infection you received during the tick bite. However, symptoms can still develop while on doxycycline treatment as i've also had many new symptoms develop while on it.
m really concered about my diagnosis because 9 months ago I was diagnosed with Lyme disease. When I was diagnosed with Lyme it was considered late because 6 months after I saw the bull's eye rash is when I started feeling joint pain. After two false positve blood test I finally got a positive blood test and started on doxcycline but that treatment started after 8 months of seeing the initial bull's eye rash.
My dr seems to think I have Lyme disease and began treatment since Aug 2013 for Lyme disease first treatment was 3 months and I began to feel better. The fatigue never left though :((. About amonth later began having more symptoms some similar as before and new ones(very debilitating ones). I was put back on antibiotics for 2 months with dbl the dosage as first treatment. Did not feel better some symptoms were not as severe but still present.
If Lyme is caught very early in the infection (and many of us never knew when we were bitten), doxycycline can work, but only against Lyme: perhaps half of all 'Lyme' ticks also carry other diseases unrelated to Lyme which do NOT respond to doxycycline at all. These infections include bartonella, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis and others, and are often referred to as a group as 'co-infections'.
That approach can work on other bacteria, but more research and knowledge about Lyme indicates that Lyme is actually a tricky witch that is not as the original Lyme discoverers thought (note tho that doxycycline can be effective against Lyme IF it is a very recent infection, and many of us do not know when we were first bitten. Also, nonLLMDs may not look closely for co-infections, which are separate diseases from Lyme and often need different meds).
If someone has the classic POTS symptoms but also has joint and muscle pain you might want to get a Lyme Disease test cause Lyme Disease can cause Autonomic Dysfunction in late case "Cronic Lyme." I am currently reading in on it more as well. From what my doctor said it is a cureable form of Dysautonomia.
I am now diagnosed with Lyme disease, CDC positive, and 20 years ago I had three ticks embedded in my head when playing in a barn in the suburbs of Indianapolis! I had lumps on my scalp and was not treated - and here I am diagnosed. This is too close to my story to not take seriously. I'm not trying to scare anyone to death, but those are the facts about my case.
It is well recognized that some patients have various subjective complaints after treatment for Lyme disease [5–7]. In our experience as infectious disease clinicians, many (and perhaps most) patients with systemic infectious diseases complain of fatigue, musculoskeletal pain, and various body aches well after cure of their infection. However, such complaints are not an appropriate indication to continue or reinitiate therapy for an infection that is otherwise cured.
Better post this on the Lyme forum. I am not a doctor, but I have Lyme disease, and those were some of my symptoms and still are. It doesn't have to be Lyme, but I know the symptoms are similar. Any tick bites? Where do you live (not that it matters much).
I tested negative for Lyme by three conventional labs. I had to have my bloodwork sent to a specialty lab and I was clearly positive - after 3 years of searching for a diagnosis. Come on over to the Lyme forum if you like!
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