Yes you can definitly herx on 200mg of mino, as this is a treatment used for lyme disease by some doctors. I have heard and done for acne this drug and many start at 100mg and work up.

I herxed on this (but didn't know what was happening at the time as I didn't know I had lyme), and it was rough, mainly neuro symptoms.

Have heard good things about it and it is used for mycoplams infections too, those you have RA,etc and don't go the lyme route.

Hope you feel better soon.

Some folks only take 25 mg every other day... so that is a BIG dose.

Have you considered lowering the dose so you don't end up in the duck motel again?

Not to scare you.. but herxes CAN and HAVE killed folks. If the meds make you bad enough to end up in the duck motel...

Ya might want to do something different.

But you are NOT to listen to me or do anything I suggest without speaking to your doctor FIRST!

I am NOT a doctor.

I started with 100 mg everyother day/ Now finally at 200 per day and been herxing for better part of 3 weeks.

Mino brought up a lot of psychological and emotional stuff for me. I think it's clearing stuff out, but the ride has not been so fun. Still occasionally I get clearings... If they are a sign of things to come, I will seel much better someday.

I hope you do too!

So far the herxing has been a lot less severe than my Lyme symptoms. Mostly knee and hand/wrist pain and nausea(I've only been on Mino for about a month -- probably haven't hit my stride yet).

Earlier, in the first 3 years, I was completley unable to take 100mg. The headache I got was unbearable, and I also was so dizzy and disoriented that I felt almost psychotic. This year, I got a little dizzy but only briefly and it has helped a lot.

Six days after initial infection, the doc px'd about 250mg. of doxycycline, as a loading dose.

I had a severe herx(and increased intracranial pressure).

felt like I got hit in the head with a baseball bat, swelling down into neck to about the base of the neck.

felt like two "flourescent bulbs" in my brain stem/diencephalan) got "switched on."
I probably had a cerebellitis, as I moved about, arms and legs, whole body moved in the fashion as seeing people move in a room with a strob light on, but NOT as dramatically, but visually, probably visually imperceptibly, by others.

since,mino is supposed to be more potent in some respect(s)(?), i'd say 200mg. of minocycline would've sent me to the emergency room.

and i meant it.

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Took it again that evening. Woke up and could barely walk straight. Dummy me took it again and called into work sick. Took me until lunch time to realize the medicine was making me sick.

Could barely walk down the hall way to get my son off to school. Felt like I was drunk with the spins. Stopped taking it and was back to normal the next morning.

Called the doc and he put me on doxy with the ceftin I had already been taking.

I don't think I was herxing. I think I had a reaction to the minocycline. Now I know why he has said "if there's a problem with this call me and I'll give you somthing else."

And if I really was herxing I don't think I could handle more than a day. I was dizzy within 45 minutes. I've never herxed that quickly before.

I've had adverse reactions to drugs in the past and this definetly felt like that.

The doxy seems to be working well for me. My fatigue has almost gone away. No more naps for hours on the weekends.

Yes, the dizziness is a SIDE EFFECT (e.g., not "herx") per PDR of minocycline. Oftentimes (but not always), the dizziness abates after several days-2 weeks.

One would not take both doxy & mino together as they are part of the same antibiotic family and would therefore not confer any additional benefit by taking both.