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Posted at 2: 2 PM on Feb 03, 2008 by carolynw, #26873
I was prescribed Doxycycline 100mg tablets twice a day, for 3 to 4 months, for a skin condition (perioral dermatitis) which causes small sores to form around my mouth. After my experience with this antibiotic, I'd rather have the sores! I took the Doxycycline twice a day for the first week with no side effects. Antibiotics always cause yeast infection, so I took Diflucan before I started treatment and didn't have that problem. On the tenth day of the Doxycycline, (two days ago) I took a tablet with a little water and went right to bed. As I have read in previous posts on here, BIG MISTAKE! It felt like a giant gas bubble just below my breastbone, in my stomach area. Not too painful, but annoying. Every time I woke up during the night, that feeling was still there. The next day, the pressure was still in that area of my stomach, and it began to feel like heartburn. This feeling persisted all day, no matter what I ate or drank, which is very unusual for me as I don't usually have stomach problems. That's when I searched the web for side effects of Doxycycline, and found this website. After reading many posts on this site, I decided it was indeed the Doxycycline, so didn't take them yesterday. However, the bloated, burning feeling was still present last night, a full 24 hours after the last capsule had been taken. I had read someone's post about drinking apple juice, and thought it couldn't hurt...and I'll be darned if within 15 minutes that bloated, burning feeling went away, and hasn't returned. I don't understand WHY that works - unless maybe there is residual medicine sitting in the stomach which can't be digested, and the acid in the apple juice neutralizes it, but it WORKS! I will NOT take any more Doxycycline, and will just keep the perioral dermatitis! I didn't have the depression or fatigue I see others have had, but since I was only on the meds 10 days, maybe those symptoms didn't have time to develop.
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Reply about 1 year ago on Sep 16, 2008 by carolynw, #12403

As an update to this post - My perioral dermatitis persisted, and got so bad that I went back to my dermatologist on September 5, 2008 and had him prescribe something OTHER than Doxycycline. He prescribed Minocycline, which he said was tolerated much better by most people. The "cycline" part of the name still concerned me after my bout of stomach trouble with the Doxy, but I tried it. I am on day 12 of the treatment of 100mg twice a day, and so far no problems to speak of. Of course I still avoid taking a capsule and laying down right away, and I have my apple juice handy in case one does get stuck in my throat...but so far so good. And, the best part is my perioral dermatitis has gotten MUCH better! I still get an occasional blister, but at least I don't have a whole unsightly crop of them! I'll post back here after I've been on Minocycline longer.

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