thank you, barb
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feelfit
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Barb,
I did IV doxy for a short while. I was rx'ed 200mg w/ an IV run time of one hour. I think that the IV is more potent than the 200mg oral form.
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lightfoot
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Hi Barb
I started with 100 mg IV twice a day and then graduated to 200 mg IV twice a day with a one hour run time.
I never decided which of the severe symptoms were a herx or side effects but after about three months I emerged with positive benefits.
About midway through the doxy.....I went to pulsing as a means to better tolerate the effects. I finally had to give it up.
Since I tried oral doxy several times and could not tolerate it, I thought the IV route would be a breeze. It didn't turn out that way......I had some of the same side effects.
BUT I am very glad I did persevered as it did help.
Good luck!!!
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My daughter is on IV Doxy 200mg once a day. It infuses over 2 hours. She has had dramatic improvements with this.
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My wife was treated with I.V. doxycyline for Lyme meningitis.
During the course of the therapy the medication caused severe burns and inflammation in some of the veins in her body.
The highly experienced LLMD, that prescribed the medication, refused to admit that the I.V. doxycyline caused the problem.
We knew better.
The hospital ran an ultrasound scan and that scan did show major inflammation in her veins, but only near where the I.V. was flowing into her body.
The pain from this injury looked like a major heart attack and that is how she was treated when the ambulance came to the house.
In addition she developed a blood clot that necessitated she stop therapy and start a blood thining medicine called coumadin.
For many weeks thereafter we were fearful that the blood clot could break loose and cause sudden death.
The coumadin did eventually clear the blood clot.
All of this was roughly one year ago this month.
The I.V. doxycycline medication did suppress the disease for a time but the meningitis symptoms are coming back now.
This is the kind of dangerous side effects that the infectious disease ducks talk about with long term antibiotic use, and why they do not want to treat in this way.
However, when you've got a serious life threatening disease like Lyme or any of its co-infections, you have no easy options.
You have to take a chance to save your life.
Godspeed.
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