Jordana
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Started taking doxycycline four days ago.
Foggy, spacy, sleepy. Had an ocular migraine and a bad case of the shakes, including lhermittes sign that seems to be gone today. I straightened my legs up in the kitchen and my head went bobbing all over; then I tried to do it again and couldn't reproduce what happened.
I feel feverish but have no fever, double vision. No short term memory at all, forgetting things like the names of streets I should know.
So tired, I just want to go to bed and stay there.
Blood pressure is ok, appetite is ok, a little hypoglycemia.
Is this a normal reaction to doxy, or a herx?
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It sounds like a herx and I had a similar reaction to doxy in the beginning when I was on it. My reaction was so bad that I had to take pain relievers. It felt like I was going crazy, too, with a strange feeling I'd never had before or since, hard to describe. That lasted for about all night, and most of the next day I tried to just sleep it off. I started to feel better with each consecutive day. It'll hopefully get better for you! Doxy was a great antibiotic for me in the beginning stages of Lyme disease.
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It is classic to have your first herx on Day Four!
So yes, very likely. Be sure to do what you can to detox.
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Jordana
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It's weird how this works. Even while I was feeling one thing get worse I could feel *something else* get better, like something I can't put my finger on.
I see why people stick with it.
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