Posted by bleauberry on August 14, 2012, at 16:06:32
In reply to Starting minocycline., posted by SLS on August 14, 2012, at 9:23:51
Hey that's cool Scott. That's a whole new avenue. Doxy has most of the same attributes as mino and I was on it for several months. It was sort of nasty at first, but after a couple weeks it was easy to take. I started mino a few years ago and couldn't tolerate it. I know now that was not what happened. It was a herxheimer reaction. It was before I even knew I had Lyme. I thought I had depression. That was just a symptom.
Mino is intracellular, so over time it can eradicate bacteria that live inside cells and cause illness. That is important because it covers a wide span of possibilities, many we know and many we don't I'm sure. They all have depression as a common denominator.
If you get feeling really bad beginning about 3 to 7 days in, flu like, much worse depression, really tired, achy, butterflies in the stomach type anxiety, bizarreness....most likely a herxheimer reaction. People can have violent herxes from mino even at doses as low as 25mg once every two days. If anything resembling a herx happens, our choice is to tolerate it and deal with it, or back off on the dose, stop it temporarily, repeat when you feel recovered from in it, in my experience that's about 2 days. Repeat over and over until it becomes easy to handle, which it will. It's sort of like peeling layers of onion. The problem with toughing it and just tolerating it is that real neurological damage can be done by the severe inflammation response happening at that time. Overall mino is one of the easiest to tolerate, after the initial break in period, and effective on a wide range of health issues. The risks are low enough that it and doxy are commonly prescribed for months to treat acne.
If in the first day or two you feel better than you've felt in a long time, and then in another week you feel worse than before, that is diagnostic.
Hopefully none of this will matter, because you'll find it easy to tolerate with no bad reactions.
Anyway, mino, I like that idea.
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