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Toast may not be enough. Some of us have found a little more, a small breakfast works better. Stay on your feet or if sitting - get up and move around for the first 30-40 minutes. As someone else here pointed out - if you lay down - you will get a stomach ache and heartburn. You didn't mention probiotics. Very important you take a probiotic 2-3 hours inbetween the antibiotic to replace the "good bacteria" necessary. You might double-up on the probiotic until your stomach feels better. Be sure to let your LLMD office know about your stomach issues. Good Luck and get well soon. -p
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Definitely sounds like you need to speak with your doctor. My doc prefers tablets vs capsules in assisting with the digestion of doxy and also says not to take it on an empty stomach. Hope you get a handle on this.. when I tried taking the capsules on an empty stomach, I was curled up in pain for 2 to 3 hours afterward... food and switching to the tablets made a huge difference for me. Again, everyone is different.
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Doxy is definitely not the easiest abx on the stomach, but it sounds like you have some intestinal issues that need to be addressed apart from Lyme. Your MD thinks that 400mg of doxy is too toxic, but you are taking 1400mg of Tylenol a day? How often do you get ALT/AST liver function tests done?
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agree with tcw have you ever had an endoscopy done to check for H.Pylori? can only suggest you can try to eat according to your blood type as outlined by the book "Eat for Your Type" and see if avoiding certain foods will help. My daughter and I are both doing this and it has helped us a great deal.
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One time when I started doxy I had severe stomach pain. I felt like my whole digestive tract was burned. After 4 or 5 days I couldn;t take any more. I stopped it for a few weeks.
I started the doxy again a few weeks later and it was just fine. It was hard to beleive it was the same drug that made me feel like I was dying a few weeks before.
When on antibiotics I can't eat any sugar, fruit, grain. I need to take lots of probiotics and need to eat when I take the antibiotics. It works best to eat 1/2 a meal and then take the pills. I ate lts of nuts & vegetables.
I need to eat many small meals a day and need to eat when my stomach hurts. I gained weight as a result but I did get better.
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Try taking the doxy with your meals and plenty of water. I don't think it's really advisable to take it with Tylenol, however. You know that too much Tylenol can cause liver damage, don't you?
What are butterscotch krimpets?
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Switch to a different medication because 200 mg per day is not enough. It's got to be 400 mg/day. You are supposed to eat a full meal with each Doxy dose and drink lots of water and then do not lie down for 3 hours afterward. if you do not eat when you take it you will wreck your tummy.
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LOL HEALTH FOOD RIGHT ??? I have a weakness for those two marshmellow mounds, sometimes pink or white with the coconut sprinkled all over. Chocolate cake inside and white frosting like filling. Ooooooh soooo Bad!!! LOL Seriously - we've got to stop this stuff!!!
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You should definitely be tested for C.Diff if you are having "fish smelling diarrhea"... I Hope you feel better soon.
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I've been having GI issues myself incorporating doxy to my regiment recently. I stopped it a couple days ago after I bumped it up to 300 mg/day for a few days (trying to get to 400) as I was being cautious that I may have had a c diff. infection. But my bowel movements and stools returned to normal the next day and have been fine the past few days even while continuing other ABX/anti-infectives.
I've started up the doxy again, hoping that I can end up adjusting to it as I feel it was doing something in regards to the lyme. And in hindsight I think the mino I had taken previously was effective, albeit rough (general symptom-wise, not on my stomach) for me while on it.
Anyone else have experiences to add of doxy being quite rough for you on the stomach/GI at first but ending up tolerating it fine even at higher dosages? I eat a full meal when I take it so that's not an issue though I may look into tablets vs capsules if I can't adjust to the capsules okay.
And hatsnscarfs, I'm assuming the doxy you started back up and was fine on was the same generic/form that you had issues with initially, right?
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