Doxycycline OK ??? after being toxified by Leviquin/Cipro/Avelox

This is going to sound crazy but here goes....It depends on how newly floxed you are. If you have been severely floxed then your Cytochrome P450 pathways in your liver have been damaged, especially the CYP3A4 pathway, and the ability for your system, mainly your kidneys, to clear the drugs out of your system. Your basic blood tests will not show any damage to the liver or kidneys even though the flox damage is still there. Also your central nervous system will have damage also. Alot of time this CNS damage will not become evident for 18 mos or so. In my opinion it will depend on two things, First, how heavily the antibiotic uses the CYP3A4 pathway, and Second, how your CNS is currently acting. Certain antibiotics such as the tetracycline class can act as an irritant to the nervous system, thereby causing all kids of unpleasant side effects. If you are newly floxed and currently not experiencing too many CNS issues or side effects from other medicines that you could get by with doxycycline. If you have been severely floxed and are experiencing alot of side effects and CNS issues then to be brutally honest, there are no safe antibiotics for you to take because they all have serious risks associated with them and the chances are too high. Are you sure you have Lyme disease. Did you have a Lyme titer test for the antibodies? You are right floxing can mimic Lyme disease and has caused misdiagnosis before. I hope this will resolve for you.