Lyme bacteria symptoms and conditions

I took Doxy for 1 month to treat Lyme disease. It was awful. I can't imagine taking this long-term. I had many of the side-effects already mentioned but two I haven't seen are dandruff and metallic taste in my mouth which totally ruined drinking water. Both of these effects eventually went away after abx stopped. The fuzzy-thinking was dangerous. One evening, about an hour after taking it, when this symptom was the worst, I was climbing off my boat and somehow tripped myself and fell onto the dock. I still don't understand what I did to make myself fall. Just very spacey. I sprained some ribs. So be careful right after taking this drug. Now I'm trying a long-term use of the Peruvian herb Samento, as I believe the Lyme bacteria is gone but can't prove it. So this is my safeguard approach. Best wishes to all.

A general note for those who are having strong side effects: I've been taking doxycycline at a pretty high dose for months now for chronic Lyme disease. I have experienced many of the symptoms that others have listed here, but I have to say that I also experienced those symptoms directly from the Lyme. The thing is, if you have Lyme and take doxycycline, you get these symptoms strongly at first because it kills a bunch of Lyme bacteria, and the toxins in this bacteria flood your system and cause increased symptoms at first. Then, the symptoms fade (which they've done in my case). So, if you take doxycline and react with an increase in skin rashes, or joint pains, or anxiety attacks, or weakness, or extreme fatigue, or brain fog / spaciness, you might want to look into the possibility that you have Lyme disease. (Not so much the stomach symptoms -- those are common with any antibiotic, because they kill your good gut bacteria.) Anyway, it's something to consider.