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I was prescribed doxycycline for an infection in my testicles. A...

Posted at 7:10 AM on Oct 06, 2007 by ctlakin, #24146
I was prescribed doxycycline for an infection in my testicles. After 5 days of taking 2 pills a day, the pain was diminishing and I was feeling better. However, I never took the pills with food, always took on an empty stomach. Everything was OK for those first 5 days. It was the 10th pill I took that I felt bad pain in my stomach and lower esophagus, a burning pain just below my rib cage. I could not hardly eat as the pain was so bad as food reached the end of my esophagus. I have stopped taking the pill and 4 days later each time I eat food as it passes through my esophagus and enters my stomach, I still experience bad pain. Its funny because there is no pain until food has traveled a good ways down.. It feels like doxycline has burned that connection of the esophagus with the stomach. I
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Reply 11 months ago on Oct 08, 2007 by erinclarkdesign, #2291

I too, have experienced side effects with this medication. I thought I was loosing my mind, but after reading about shared experiences, I now know that I am sane!! (sort of). I've been taking it for a severe lung infection, for 7 days...I am on my last day. I've been an exhausted, skin-tingling, sweaty, hot, moody verging on nasty, insufferable human being. My doc. only told me about staying out of the sun and that it could cause diarhea. So, I stayed out of the sun and took pro-biotic for my stomach. But, it still has wreaked havoc on my body. The pro-biotic puts back all of the good bacteria in your digestive tract that the doxy kills. And, today found out that it may take a few months to regain a healthy tract and that I must continue to take the pro-biotic to insure the "regrowth of a healthy colony"!!

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