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A single prophylactic 200mg dose of Doxycyline prevents Lyme disease

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Re: A single prophylactic 200mg dose of Doxycyline prevents Lyme disease

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Had to take doxycycline for 2 weeks after a tick bite. Man does that stuff destroy your digestive system. 7 years ago was on a date, just casually walking down the street. Coughed a couple times for no particular reason but my doxycycline lined stomach didn’t like that and boom projectile vomiting. Luckily he thought it was funny/ felt bad for me.

it sucks. I've done the full courses a few times for tick bites. it is just very very hard to tolerate.

Re: A single prophylactic 200mg dose of Doxycyline prevents Lyme disease

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Had to take doxycycline for 2 weeks after a tick bite. Man does that stuff destroy your digestive system. 7 years ago was on a date, just casually walking down the street. Coughed a couple times for no particular reason but my doxycycline lined stomach didn’t like that and boom projectile vomiting. Luckily he thought it was funny/ felt bad for me.

it sucks. I've done the full courses a few times for tick bites. it is just very very hard to tolerate.

I guess that depends on the person susceptibility to side effect. I had 3 weeks of doxycycline for unidentifiable bug bite and I didn't notice any side effects.

Re: A single prophylactic 200mg dose of Doxycyline prevents Lyme disease

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The article is about prophylactic use in persons who have had a tick removed that was attached for more than 36 hours. It would have no impact on levels in the tick population (as it's given after the tick is removed) and should have no impact in the human population (considering how low the proportion of people with ticks attached for more than 36 hours is)

I'm not worried about tick-borne diseases in this context (completely agreed with your point there), but rather all the other things that doxycycline and similar drugs are used against. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetracycline_antibiotics

Well I think the point is that using it for tick bites isn't going to materially increase rates of prescription / usage.

Re: A single prophylactic 200mg dose of Doxycyline prevents Lyme disease

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Had to take doxycycline for 2 weeks after a tick bite. Man does that stuff destroy your digestive system. 7 years ago was on a date, just casually walking down the street. Coughed a couple times for no particular reason but my doxycycline lined stomach didn’t like that and boom projectile vomiting. Luckily he thought it was funny/ felt bad for me.

That's awful. I did a two week course but had no adverse effects.

Re: A single prophylactic 200mg dose of Doxycyline prevents Lyme disease

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Had to take doxycycline for 2 weeks after a tick bite. Man does that stuff destroy your digestive system. 7 years ago was on a date, just casually walking down the street. Coughed a couple times for no particular reason but my doxycycline lined stomach didn’t like that and boom projectile vomiting. Luckily he thought it was funny/ felt bad for me.

I had treatment 100 mg 21 days BID for borreliosis and was careful to always take with a full glass of water, as directed. Only noticeable side effect was affect changes. 9/7 would take that drug again.

Re: A single prophylactic 200mg dose of Doxycyline prevents Lyme disease

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Had to take doxycycline for 2 weeks after a tick bite. Man does that stuff destroy your digestive system. 7 years ago was on a date, just casually walking down the street. Coughed a couple times for no particular reason but my doxycycline lined stomach didn’t like that and boom projectile vomiting. Luckily he thought it was funny/ felt bad for me.

I feel you man. I took it for acne for like 3 or so months, and every morning it was a daily battle not to puke my guts out.

It didn’t work btw, and I ended up needing accutane, which left my lips ravaged and bleeding for a year.

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