Doxycycline Hyclate and bronchitis

I was given the medication to prevent a tooth infection. I tried taking it several times for it but every time I take it I get pain between my shoulder blades and it hurts to swallow. It is worse trying to swallow liquids. I am done. I don't know for sure if it's the med or if I am having a heart attack.
J.

I have been on it for 9 days for Bronchitis. I only have a couple more to go. From what I read here, it's a good thing. cause for the past 3 days, it's just been this large wave of depression. None of the other stuff, unless I take it without eating, then I feel really sick. But I was just floored, cause I proposed to my girlfriend the day before my depression hit. This stuff is dangerous, and shouldn't be taken if there's another way.

Taking doxycycline 100mg for almost 1 week now due to bronchitis and noticed an immediate tingling in my lips and hands. My hands are extremely sensitive to tap water (cold), putting them in the refridgerator to take out something and heat. At night when I'm laying around cuddled up in a blanket my hands are on fire and red. I thought it was the blanket. It's the strangest feeling and uncomfortable. It lasts all day but gets worse at night. I hate pills.

I was prescribed doxycycline for bronchitis/pneumonia and an ear infection. I've been taking 100mg twice a day for four days now. The heartburn started last night, and though I've had mild cases before, this is unbearable. I cough and feel like I'm going to throw up. I drink water, I feel like I'm going to gag. I can stand, I can sit, I can lay down, doesn't matter... feels like I have a rock lodged at the back of my throat and my throat feels scratchy all the way to my sternum. The headaches come and go all day and I feel like I'm in a constant fog. I was told it was not an allergic reaction, but it is a "normal" reaction. I won't take this med again. It isn't worth it.

I was prescribed Doxycycline by the Student Health Center at my college for alleged Bronchitis. I've been taking 100mg twice daily, and I definitely noticed the intense nausea immediately. I've always had a strong stomach, so I was a bit surprised by how I reacted to it. Luckily no vomiting. But within 2 days, I noticed that my vaginal area was incredibly irritated, itchy, and red. I thought it was just random irritation, but it has persisted for three days, and I finally realized it wasn't a temporary thing. I've never had a yeast infection before, so I spent an afternoon researching them, and was terrified that it was a symptom of an STD (even though I'm well educated on the subject).

In my research, I somehow stumbled upon the name of this drug, and immediately searched for further side effects (since my doctor only told me to take water and food with it, avoid sunlight, and not to lie down within 1/2 an hour of taking it). What do you know, but yay yeast infections.

Basically, I'm furious with my practitioner for not warning me about all of the things I've read on this site. I've stopped taking the medicine and have no problem with dealing with a cough if it means the yeast infection goes away. I'm never taking this drug again.

Sever stomach cramps,nausea and vomiting from day one of treatment. I keep taking it as nothing else helps my severe bronchitis in the winter. None of the drugs which have an infinity for the lungs. bactrim,cipro, etc. help at all. Question i have to decide with each bronchial illness is, which is worse, the disease or the treatment?

It has been two months since my ten day prescription of doxy was finished and I just came home from the er ( for the seventh time) having to be given morphine for the pain. I have never felt this bad in my life. It was prescribed for bronchitis. I am still vomiting and unable to eat. I have lost over twenty pounds in this time. I have lost my job and unable to take care of my kids. I have to go to the doctor every seven days for complete lab tests to make sure it has not started effecting my liver. After a internet search, I found out this drug should not have past to the public, and there are lawsuits out from liver failure to death. NEVER take this drug, my family and I are praying that I recover.

Nausea, vomiting, headache, dizziness, acid stomach, dry mouth, dry throat, tight breathing.

I'm taking 200 mg doxycycline, twice a day. I'm 6 weeks into a 9 week regimen for suspected but unconfirmed lyme disease (no memory of tick bite and no positive tests), and in conjunction with permanent Ceftin 500 mg twice daily as a prophylactic against strep which triggered an apparent and ongoing Rheumatic Fever. (I think my doctor is more confused than I am.)

I've gotten nausea and acid stomach, but both of these are lessened if I drink a large glass of water with the doxycycline. 200 mg can be hard to keep down.

I vomited once but only after taking it with other medicines which my doctor assured me wouldn't interfere. So I spaced them apart by 2 hours and started eating some food prior to the doxycycline, and the result was no more nausea or vomiting, and a much easier time.

Headache & dizziness are reduced when I take the doxycycline with food, and then it seems not to hit me as fast or as hard, and so I tolerate it much better.

At first I thought the doxycylline was helping relieve some kind of bronchial infection, but it was actually just drying out my mucus membranes. Now I wake up early with dry mouth, dry throat, and even my lungs get dry which is causing mild difficulty breathing. The bronchitis I thought it was helping was actually not an infection but an autoimmune symptom of the Rheumatic Fever, and it wasn't really helping with that, it just made it drier. Now instead of coughing up fluid, I get this unproductive dry pain when I cough, and my cough sometimes tastes like blood. I feel the dry pain in my lungs all the time now. I'd rather have the fluid.

3 weeks left on this regimen, which seems like an eternity, but I'll try to stay the course since I want to rule out lyme disease. All these high-dose powerful antibiotics and doctors don't even know what I have. They don't seem to be helping me much.

Is there a Doctor in the house? My friend is taking these for bronchitis. Would that be the correct drug? She was very irritable the last couple days like a few others mentioned above. But, she has never had acne. Just started taking this. She never had bronchitis if you asked me, shes a smoker, and had a cold for a couple days. I had bronchitis when i used to smoke and know what its like. She was very combative when i asked her simple questions, like she didnt want to tell me anyything. thinking she was hiding the real reason she was prescribed this medication. Anyhow, I cant find an answer. Anybody know?

Precribed Doxy for bronchitis and flu like symptons. Within hours of initial dose 2 x 100 mg caps, experienced nausea and vomitting, but worst of all was the pain in oesophagus. This felt like it had been scoured with coarse grade sandpaper and allowed me to swallow tepid water only. After three days stopped taking the Doxy. Nausea and vomitting have stopped but still unable to take solid foods due to pain in windpipe.
Am hoping this will subside now I am not taking the Doxy.
Horrendous stuff.

Hello everyone,
First of all, let me tell you how happy I am to have found this website.
I have been prescribed Doxy for a Bronchitis and the very next day I started experiencing the temperature swings, the drowsiness, the sleeplessness, the sore throat, the mild nausea, the sound and light sensitivity, the weird pasty feeling in my leggs, the loss of appetite and most of all : the chest pressure right between the lungs that varies in severity, to the point where the doctor thought I was having an anxiety/panic attack !!!
Believe me, I am not prone to anxiety or panic attacks, I have faced very stressfull situations in the past with no such thing, yet it really felt like one.
I took this med for 6 days, the 7th day I stopped it. Almost right away most of the side effects are gone, but the chest pressure, which is persisting.
If anyone experienced this before or knows of it, how long will it take to clear up ? And is there anything to help it go away faster ? as I am getting ready to take finals and it is really distracting.

Thank you for reading and I hope you all feel better soon.

Cheers-

I was prescribed DOXY for bronchitis. I'm on day 3 of the meds, 2x100mg per day. Within hours of taking a pill, the left side of my torso experiences sharp pains, I get a cold feeling all over and begin to sweat. I have felt somewhat disconnected and have a hard time concentrating on anything for a long period of time. I feel tired and dizzy a lot of the time. I'm really concerned about the pains in my left side, lower ribcage. I will contact my physician tomorrow if this continues.

I'm taking this for bronchitis, I have COPD and have frequent bouts with bronchitis. I was told no dairy products with this medication and to only take with a meal ... my only problem has been urinary leakage while sleeping. It's like I took a very strong water pill and every move in my sleep causes some wetness. I've had to wear pads since I started taking the medication, most uncomfortable. No nausea, no problems in the sun, but I was told it will make skin more sensitive to the sun's rays. It's possible that my pharmacist was more thorough and so I followed his suggestions, because the only unpleasant side effect has been the urinary problem.

I also was prescribed doxycycline for bronchitis; starting with the 1st dose (have taken 2 doses now) it feels like something is caught in my throat for lack of a better way to put it, and upon taking my second dose a few hours ago, within an hour, my face got extremely flushed and it still hasn't subsided (i have not been in the sun at all); THAT reaction is what made me look up the side effects

Taking Doxycycline for sinus/bronchitis infection. Still have a bad deep dry cough.. wondering if its not from the medication... also have what looks like bug bites on my lower cheeks.. but thinking it might be a rash. Definitley have the headache and disconnected feeling.. can't concentrate or handle reading/light. Heading for Jamaica in 4 days.. I'm gonna stop taking it now.. (only have a few days left).

One hell of a constant headache, I am taking this for bronchitis. Why is there alot of sexual infections and I get it prescribed for bronchitis ?