I am in the same boat... it appears that I have been living with Lyme for 5 years, and finally just got D'xd a month ago. I was prescribed doxi 200mg/day - then I found this website, and began to freak out.

I just had a follow up meeting with my Doc on Wednesday, and I voiced the same concerns.

"Is this treatment aggressive enough?"

"Well, how do you feel?"

"I feel like I get out of bed in the morning and I'm walking through knee-high sludge"

He upped my dosage to 300mg/day, and told me to give it a month and see how my symptoms are. He also suggested alot of herbs, supplements and enzymes. I also have weekly acupuncture sessions.

I am choosing to trust him for now. Luckily, my symptoms really aren't as bad as alot of folks, and it seems that is what really counts... your symptoms. Otherwise you don't know what the little buggers are doing in your body.

Anyway, everyone responds differently. I would suggest that you take the first course of Ax and see how you feel?

Personally, when I found this website, I spent a week reading post after post, and I started to obsess about Lyme disease, and then I associated every little ache, pain, or forgotten item at the grocery store to LYME DISEASE.

Just about talked myself into a terminal illness.

I found that this (Lyme Disease) is a great tool for living in the present, living and accepting what IS, doing the best you can do every day for your health, and not getting carried away with what COULD be. I don't mean any disrespect to those that are really suffering from this. I'm just saying that I had to put it all into perspective for my self.

Good luck in your journey with this.

Peace,

Since I just started treating the co-infections, I'm not sure whether my previous experiences with doxy were a matter of dosage. But I'm on 400mg/day right now, while also taking levaquin for bartonella, and will switch as soon as possible to stronger abx. I always found doxy to be great at holding the Lyme in check, but not for clobbering it.

Two weeks after the appt with the infectious disease doc, I saw an LLMD. He added zithromax, 500 mg once a day.

Now 20 months later, I would have to say that for me, even 4 weeks of a high doxy dose did not do it for me. The 20 months of zithromax, ceftin, and others mixed in (Augmentin, plaquenil, minocycline, and flagyl) have slowly worn down the Bb.

Five months ago I retested for Babesia microti and WA-1 because, while I was making progress, it was slow. I came up positive for Babs m. so now I am treating that with mepron and artimisin.

Make sure you get tested for co-infections! They seem to interfere with the battle with Bb.

Gear up for a long haul, read up on all this stuff. Pretty soon you will know so much more, and be better able to be involved in your own treatment.