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OK I have taken only 2 pills of Doxycycline, but I am already having really bad crapping in my stomach. Is this going to be normal? Posts: 51 | From Des Moines, Iowa | Registered: Jul 2006
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Doxy is known for causing nausea/stomach upset unless you eat something. I wouldn't eat dairy with it, the calcium in dairy has a possibility of interfering with the doxy.
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I don't mean to sound dumb but this is all new. I begain to also feel really hot, and got pain pain. Could this be the doxy ro somthing else? I am on alot of heart meds, I am not sure also if the are not mixing, but the doctor, new all the meds I was on as he asked. Any ideas??
Thanks for all you support! Posts: 51 | From Des Moines, Iowa | Registered: Jul 2006
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Looking-- Hey--you aren't dumb for asking questions!
Have you taken your temp? You say you feel really hot...as in flushed or tenperature wise? Cramping and stomach problems can sometimes cause flushing and chills.
Either way, please call your doctor right away, and let him/her know what's going on with you.....let us know please!
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doxy can make you REALLY sick if you don't take it with some food. Even if the bottle says to take on an empty stomach take with a least a piece of bread and a full drink of soemthing...
I get extremely sick on doxy on an empty stomach...cannot move just tlike you describe...
hope this helps
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Amy, sorry to read this; glad you are feeling better.
If you get worse, call ER & talk to them since your heart is involved in so many illnesses!
Sounded like a herx to me; but you BE SAFE VS. SORRY OK! Bettyg
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Ok many be I am dumb, but I am new to this. What is Herx? Today I am aliitle better I am 4 pills into it now. I am still having more pain then normal. So I pulled out the pain pills today the doctor gave me to help get thought with the pain.
Any ideas to help?
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5dana8
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I am sorry to hear about your pain and hope you can feel better soon.
Not a stupid question at all. A herx is when you have an increase in your lyme symptoms when the bacteria start to die off.
It's little like a war. The enemy is dying and it can make you feel worse before you feel better.
It helps to remember that a herx is only temporary and will pass in time. Here is a post that explains better than I can about a herx:
Make sure to keep in contact with your LLMD and let him know how you are feeling
Hang in there
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It could be that you have a bacterial infection in your stomach that the doxy is killing. This would cause a herx including stomach cramps.
Do you know if you were tested for h. pylori? It's a common gut bacteria.
For stomach pain, I find following the diarhea diet always helps the most. Very bland foods like saltines and keep yourself hydrated. This gets difficult if you are staying off carbs to prevent yeast growth. But sometimes you need to just get through today.
For the other pain, you are doing just right. The pain meds are there for you to take when you have pain. I hope they are helping.
Where is the pain, besides your stomach? And what kind of pain is it? Sharp, dull, ache, burning? Does it feel like joint, muscle, tendon? Different pain requires different ways to help reduce it.
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Make sure to drink at least 2 glasses of water with doxy stay out of the sunlight when on doxy sunburn real easy and bad. The upset stomach took me about a week to get use to it then it subsided totally by the end of second week lotasa water.
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Thanks for the rpleys. I am drinking more water, and making sure I am eating with the doxy, and it is helping some. As for the pain it a strong aching feeling. Like when I go to bed my legs hurt so bad I keep getting back up and moving around to get comfortable. My back and neck hurt also. I have been having alot of chest pain. But O have had heart problems for the last 3 years, and I am not too worried as I have pacemaker. They are begain to think all my hreat problems are due to the lymes? Who knows??? Posts: 51 | From Des Moines, Iowa | Registered: Jul 2006
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