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I have just been diagnosted with lyme and my doctor put me on 200 mg of minocycline per day for the first 2 months. From what i read on another forums, there are people taking 1500 mg or even more of anibiotics per day. So my question is is my dosage of 200 mg doing anything to help cure the disease or is this dosage too little to do anything, or is this how the begining of the treatment looks like???
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It depends on the individual antibiotic how it's dosed.
Tetracycline is often given at 1500 mg/day or more while zithromax is often 250 mg/day.
Somebody will come along with the usual daily dose of mino...I'm not familiar with it.
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200 mg of minocycline is very strong. Many people have to work up to 200 mg a day.
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My Minocycline dose was 100mg bid or 200 mg per day. What you are being prescribed is pretty standard.
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I was on mino 100mg twice daily. You're probably okay. Just be careful - my tongue turned black and my teeth stained on mino. I had been on this one for acne years ago with no problem.
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I am positive with erhlichiosis, and bartonella is borderline. The reason I'm asking about minocycline dosage is I'm reading polish lyme webforum also and I've read some people are taking even 1500 mg tetrocycline per day plus other abx . Is tetracycline and minocycline the same?
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I just started 200 mg a day minocycline. I would also suggest 1000 mg a day vitamine c I have read it will keep you from staining your tongue and teeth.
I am sure your llmd told you to take lots of probiotics.
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That is a good dose of minocycline but usually Doxycycline is used for Ehrlichiosis!!! Mino CAN be- but usually it's Doxy!!!
Different antibiotics are different in terms of being powerful- they do not equal one another-
I am on 4500 amoxicillin a day but amoxi is a WEAK antibiotic compared to minocycline-
But if you need more, if you are not having any changes or action, let your doctor know-!!
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I was so glad to see this post. I just started taking 300 mg of mino and cholestyramine 3 x day. I started Mon. night. Sat. am woke up nauseated and so sick. I took all the mino yesterday but only 1 dose of the chol. I can call the nurse tomorrow. After reading how 300mg is alot I'm wondering if I should just take 200. I have to work. The only thing that I feel like eating are starchy foods and I know that isn't good but had to have something in my stomach. Any ideas for nausea? Why did it seem to go well for 4 days then I got sick? Is this the herx that you talk about?
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Thank u for advices:) I will tell my llmd about doxy next time. He put me on mino becouse I have rheumatoid arthritis, and mino is drug for lyme and RA as well, but i will ask him about that anyway.
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300 mg of mino daily to start with really is alot!
If you cannot tolerate this high starting dosage (I was started on 50 mg of mino every 3 days!), then speak with your doctor. From the medical literature and on lymenet, it seems that the generally used therapeutic dosage for neurolyme treatment is 200mg/day, 100mg in the morning and 100 in the evening.
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p.s. to LymeToo, I looked this up on pubmed and was extremely surprised to learn that minocycline IS USED in some places (like Romania!) as a treatment for Ehrlichiosis- mino and tetracycline are both, like Doxy, in the tetracycline family which all have action re Ehrlichiosis. I had thought myself that ONLY Doxy & Rifampin were used- but in Europe they also use Mino for it!!! (weird*)!
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