minocycline lyme

Hi! I was diagnosed with Lyme based on a positive Western Blot test and a Sunnybrook test that was indicative on the 93 band (I think that was the band) I am on Minocycline and was wondering if others out there were also on it and if it worked for them. I seem to be getting better. There are ups and downs but I am able to move much better than anytime in the past 7 and a half years. Just wondering how long one has to be on the drug and if it really makes you better.

t getting better my doctor recently decided to put me on an antibiotic called minocycline. I was wondering if say Lyme presented itself when i was 12-13 would it still be treatable by such a drug? I take 50mg two times a day.

I have acne all over the back of my head and on my back it hurts to touch in some spots and to dry my hair.

Hi all. So the lyme docs have diagnosed Lyme, Bartonella, and Mycoplasma. It has just been over 3 months now since I have been infected. Does anyone have any ideas on what the best possible early treatment should be? I was literally taking minocycline 3 days after being infected 200 mg a day. I am still taking 100 mg twice a day to this point. One month in I started banderol/samento which helped. I cranked up to 30 drops of each twice per day.

Any thoughts on my choices of treating Lyme over MS is appreciated, especially if anyone has been misdiagnosed like myself. I choose to treat Lyme because Lyme can be tested by dna whereas MS is only diagnosed by a series of tests. Also, I believe MS is caused by an "infection" such as Lyme, EBV, etc... If interested, please read my blog for my exact story and history at www.learnlyme.

I have Neuro Lyme and from an MRI found I had lesions on my brain from a co-infection of Lyme called Bartonella. You may have that infection and minocycline is often used for Bart's. Do you know if the tests were taken at IgeneX labs? Things do improve with treatment so I am glad you will be on your way soon.

I was tested +ve for lyme in july. Went to an LLMD in September who put me on Samento then after 6 weeks ie from October 21st I started using Minocycline 1tab every other day then after a week I had to increase my dosage to 2 tab every other day. Since 2 days I had severe itching and when I scratch it is turning into rash. The itching starts midnight which is causing me to wake up. I have the itching in by back, my joints. Did any experienced this.

Started Minocycline 100mg 2x per day for suspected neuro Lyme and feel horrible. I know herx is possible, but feel more like I'm experiencing side effects, and wondering if I should switch abx. How long should I stick with this? Anyone have success with Minocycline? Do the side effects lessen with time?

All my friends with Lyme are going to him and he treats them. I had either a herx or an allergic reaction to minocycline, so he stopped treating me since then. He won't even throw me a bone and give me some doxy. Tomorrow is D-Day for me, I am going to tell him that I want to be treated, or I'm not coming back until he decides to. There is nowhere else to go from here - the only abnormal tests I have are Lyme tests, so duh.

Here is a great article about food interactions with drugs sometimes used to treat Lyme and coinfections. I have been on a few of the meds listed in the artIcle, and I was unaware of these conflicts, especially dairy / calcium with the tetracyclines (Doxycycline, Minocycline) & fluroquinolones (Cipro, Avelox, Levaquin). It also mentions that caffeine, and therefore chocolate, can interfere with some antibiotics, but then doesn't say which ones. http://health.yahoo.

It is with the PA, as my doc will be out of the office for two months (!). I am kinda bummed as while the PA knows Lyme really well, I am not sure how much she knows about kidneys. i am really hoping we won't have to find a nephrologist to help me through this. It might be hard to find one who will cooperate with long term abx for Lyme. My eGFR was somewhere between 59 and 55 when I started treatment, so I am not convinced it will get any higher than that at as long as I still have Lyme.

I have been on 2 wk trials of doxy probably 4-5x in the past 15 yrs. and I don't recall any herxing. But, I can't remember past this morning - Lyme fog! LOL. So, I don't recall anything major, though, so I was so miserable on minocycline that I would rather be not miserable if possible on doxy. One could argue that I'm not killing off the bacteria apparently if not herxing, so I should go back on mino.

I have severe pain from spine and joint inflammation, and severe arthritis. As well.as much vertebrae damage.I have been taking minocycline orally, but can't afford I.v.therapy right now.I have been on minocycline for two years, but have also been on prednisone, I recently read prednisone will keep antibiotic from working like it should.please, if anyone has gotten any pain relief and is as damaged as I am, please let me know.

t know it this helps you at all but in my lyme brain opinion, my foot problems are due to lyme, and minocycline make me somewhat dizzy, anxious and depressed. Hope you feel better soon!

• My symptoms seemed to get much worse after taking minocycline antibiotics for acne and never really got better. • Before I was chronically sick I spent about 10 days in the hospital with some extreme form of illness that had flu like symptoms including me fainting, puking and diarrhea. I did seem to make a full recovery from whatever caused this illness so I’m not sure if it is related or not. • I have some minor digestive issues but nothing to bad.

However, I had been on schedule to start Lyme disease treatment (Benemicin/rifampicine150mg and Minocycline 50mg - twice daily for both), and as I did not put any thought to an STD, I started the treatment. Some kind of yeast infection/thrush appeared on head of penis and foreskin few days later and went away only after I started applying canesten on the area. A week later my testicles started to hurt a bit.

How can I protect young children from developing chronic Lyme’s in a Lyme endemic area when they normally don’t get the rash and Lyme’s hides behind other symptoms? And is the upcoming Lyme’s vaccine recommended in being effective to prevent Lyme’s? My case: My rash was a smaller faint rash, just under 2 cm on my foot, which didn’t appear to expand. I woke up with a bite which was itchy. I remember thinking I am bit by a spider or mosquito.

Not medically trained but before my igeneX tests came back I followed Burrascano protocol of doxy, then Flagyl, then off a week, it was a rotation but you can't drink with the Flagyl. If you think you have Bart's I would stay on meds because a month will not cure anything. My igeneX results came back positive for Bart's the first time. I went on levaquin with minocycline but had to stop the levaquin because I got tendinitis. Most people dont get it.

You have tested positive for Lyme and Babesia. Lyme is famous for producing varying antibodies over time. You could test different every time. If your LLMD only treated you with Doxy in the past, then that's not a very well informed LLMD. Doxy does not cure Lyme once it's past the early stages. Dr. Eva Sapi has shown in lab tests that Doxy triggers many of the spirochetes to curl up into ring forms and to form cysts to hide from the immune system.

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