Single dose doxycycline for lyme

Common Questions and Answers about Single dose doxycycline for lyme

doryx

Avatar f tn Below is copied from Dr Burrascano's treatment guidelines for Lyme (posted on the ILADS website), including an entry on doxycycline [aka doxy] dosage: "Adults: 200 mg bid [meaning twice a day] with food; doses of up to 600 mg daily are often needed, as doxycycline is only effective at high blood levels." So perhaps your doc's doses are on the light side -- I'd ask him, but sometimes docs get huffy. I'd ask him anyway. It's your health we're talking about.
Avatar f tn I wonder how many people's Doxycycline treatment for an EM rash failed because they didn't know about avoiding dairy and calcium when taking each dose?!
Avatar f tn t do any research at the moment but if you are being treated first for a coinfection, perhaps it takes a lower dose than lyme itself needs. Just a thought. But if the answer is 'no coinfectionsn, then yeah, I'd be asking the same question you are.
Avatar f tn I was just officially diagnosed with positive Lyme yesterday. My doctor put me on dixy 100 mg for 21 days and I don't feel like this is a high enough dose. I have asthma and it has been a lot worse since I got this Lyme, I have had confusion, lethargy, weakness, fatigue, cough, nausea/vomiting, neck stiffness and cracking, joints hurt, diarrhea.
Avatar m tn Hi- brief follow up question-- the day I posted this, I was bitten by a deer tick, and the Doctor prescribed a single 100mg dose of doxycycline... Would that have any effect on a test for gonorrhea- like a false negitive? I assume that in the off chance I DID have it, that the onetime dose is too low to clear it up? Thanks!
Avatar n tn It has no effect against chlamydia or the other bacteria that cause cervicitis in women and NGU in men, and borderline efficacy at best against gonorrhea and syphilis. The alternative to doxycycline is azithromycin 1.0 g orally in a single dose, which is safe and effective in pregnancy. If gonorrhea is a concern, then it's azithromycin plus a cephalosporin antibiotic, such cefixime or cefpodoxime; or a 2.0 g dose of azithromycin.
Avatar f tn An 11-year-old boy treated with doxycycline for brucellosis was evaluated for painless brown nail discoloration. Doxycycline was initiated for brucellosis but stopped when the boy developed photo sensitivity, but 15 days after the initiation of therapy brown nail discoloration developed . Other than the brown discoloration, the boy's physical condition was normal and the discoloration disappeared within one month.
Avatar n tn I took single dose of doxycycline everyday for 6 weeks during the summer. Would that have cleared a chamydia infection.
984138 tn?1359813073 doxycycline is what they treat you with for lyme right? Odd thing but my gyno called me in that medicine for a common thing probaly yeast infection... i just talked to the recpetionist not the actual doctor because it was very minor she said. But anywho should i take it? Obviously i should but should i take it when im a positive for lyme but have no LLMD yet and my ID just got back to work today so shes catching up with everyhting and havent looked at my results yet.
Avatar f tn LLMD added Doxy and it has made all my symptoms come back worse than before. I want to quit the doxy but im told to just ride it out. I am wondering what exactly Doxy helps with? I kno biaxin helps with Bartonella for example. But what does Doxy do exactly for someone with late stage chronic lyme?
Avatar n tn Two weeks later a large infected rash appeared. I got myself tested for Lyme and it came out negative. I was given a day of Doxycycline and then it was changed to Amoxicillan. I took it for two weeks. The doctor told me to stop the medication and get retested. Two weeks later, I got my positive results. I had, at this point, two weeks on, two weeks off the antibiotics. When I returned to the doctor with positive results, he put me back on Doxycycline for another two weeks.
Avatar f tn I was diagnosed with ureaplasma parvum. I was prescribed doxycycline for 2 weeks but the symptoms persisted. The doctor gave me 1 gr of Azythromicin as a single dose. I repeated the test 3 days after I took the antibiotic and it came negative but I still feel the infection is not gone. Is it possible to get false negative result because of the antibiotic? The doctor told me that PCR is a very accurate but I have my doubts.
9258519 tn?1404468525 guidelines here say 2-3 weeks (usually 3) for early Lyme and 4 weeks for late Lyme. ILADS guidelines say to take it a bare minimum of 4 weeks as Lyme bacteria have a 4 week cycle. Many will treat even longer as there are treatment failures even at 4 weeks. For late stage Lyme, a patient usually needs months or even years of treatment. Twelve days is probably just enough to stir up the bugs and make them mad.
Avatar f tn I was going to a Fibro and Fatigue Center and the doctor there would treat me for Lyme, but the visits are so expensive. At least I finally got some doctors to take me seriously as I knew this wasn't only Fibro. I just want to get better which I am sure everyone relates to.
Avatar f tn I was recently diagnosed with anal chlamydia, and was issued a single dose of azithromycin. I read the following on medscape.com: Results: 11 patients (26.2%) had a positive TOC following treatment with stat azithromycin. The risk of re-infection was excluded in two, identifying nine of the 11 (81.8%) as treatment failures. Two patients had a positive TOC following treatment with 1 week of doxycycline, both were found to have a risk of re-infection.
Avatar m tn Yes, I would take my child to be treated further. The problem is that your current doc certainly believes that s/he has done what is appropriate, and getting them to prescribe something you read about online is difficult at best. Amoxicillin may or may not be the right medication against Lyme, and there is also the concern that maybe half of ticks carrying Lyme also carry other diseases that are not treatable by the same meds that Lyme is.
Avatar f tn Thanks, JackieCalifornia, for responding, but I really don't think my Lyme doctor would have the answer to my questions. See, my Lyme doc does not have Lyme and has not had to grapple with the social issues I mention - it would be outside her competency. My questions involve a social, rather than a medical, issue. If anyone here with Lyme has any ideas on this, please let me know what works for you.
10908547 tn?1413744813 the reason for speed in getting started on the meds is because the Lyme bacteria (assuming you have Lyme) will, at a fairly early point after biting you, begin to find their way into areas of the body, such as cartilage, where the antibiotics can't easily reach. At that point, whenever it occurs, the simplest treatment, with doxycycline, then isn't able to penetrate the areas where the bacteria are hiding, and longer treatment with different meds is then needed.
Avatar n tn The IDSA (well, actually just Gary Wormser) recommends a single dose of Doxy for a very recent tick bite. Unfortunately, this is primarily his opinion and no proper studies have been done to know if this is a reliable way to prevent Lyme. Since you had an embedded tick for three days a week ago, the single (or in your case, double) dose is probably useless if you indeed have Lyme.
Avatar f tn i had lyme disease and was treated for 14 days with doxcylone. I was never retested to see if it was gone and now I have pain in left side of my head with some numbness running into my cheek and forehead---should I have been retested?