My significant other took Doxycylene, 100 mg, twice a day for two...

Hey,

I am experiencing similar symptoms as a side effect to taking doxyclcline hyclate mg for three months to treat acne. Now i have started to feel constant chest pain. I would like to know what was the result in your spouses case. It would be helpful to know since i am out of the US at the moment and cannot rush back to avail better medical facitlities and you seem like a similar case.

It would help to share your experience.

Thanks!!
Bob.

My applogies for not responding to replies and private emails. I'm just now starting to get my life back together. My significant other passed away this past November (2007). Around March/April of 2007 he finally started recovering from the "cholestasis". The doctors (and we had *many*) never found the definative cause and it was left as caused by an "idiosyncratic reaction" to the Doxycyclene. The jaundice started to fade and he was able to start eating small amounts of food. But the lump under his arm also came back (this was the reason for taking Doxycyclene in the first place) and we had it biopsied. Turned out to be Hodgkin's Lymphoma. We were told he was in the 95% curable range. He immediately started chemo but in his extremely weakened state, it was just too much for him. He developed a lung infection from the chemo, so more anti-biotics (not Doxycyclene) and the jaundice and high bilirubin came back. His lungs got much worse and we were back in the hospitals by Sept/Oct and finally ended up in the Mayo clinic in Jacksonville. But it was too late, in his weakended state he developed a host of other conditions and asked to be taken off life support in November. This past year was an absolute nightmare and its hard for me even to write this down. If it hadn't been for the cholestasis, I truly believe he'd be still here.