Doxycycline Hyclate and incredibly

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.

The first few times taking this drug I had extreme nausea even though I had tolerated most previous antibiotics and pills pretty well up to this point.
I thought it was a little odd, but that it would pass.

The nausea finally did pass, but for the past two weeks I have been taking it I've been doing almost nothing but sleeping, and having extreme spells of tiredness.

Gradually every day has just gotten worse and worse than the next while on these pills. I don't want to get out of bed and lately have looked at the clock to see that I've been in bed for twelve hours at a time.

Now, I'm also in very advanced college courses. I initially attributed my sudden inaccuracy and inability to focus on the fact that I was just nervous about the courses, the material, but each day my concentration got worse, and worse and worse. It feels like I have ADD or something, which I've never had.
I felt like I was going insane when I could not even get through a page of material without wanting to jump up and shake myself around (also because of the numbness I got in my legs and arms). Not like me at all.

I have been dizzy, weak, incredibly tired and cold all the time, and entirely unable to focus all since I've started taken these pills. Unlike many of the other people's symtoms posted here, I've experienced severe chills and cold/ numbness in my whole body rather than heat? Except when I go in the sun, which then feels like I'm burning up.

Today was the last straw when I couldn't even get up out of bed, drive normally I was so dizzy, could not normally read one page of material, and the sun felt like it was burning my eyes out.

And reading some of the even worse symptoms others have had, this drug is not worth all the pain and possible permanent damage just to kill a few of these pimples.

I started to take this for my acne about two weeks ago and so far i dont like it. I know it takes a while to see results with acne medicine and at the beginning, it can actually look worse, but that is not my problem. This medication seems to have more side effects that the acutane i took (and that required monthly blood tests). I've noticed these side effects:
-gas
-stomach pain
-nasuea
-slight energy loss

The whole stomach pain and nasuea is the worse part. I was told i have to take it in the morning and that I cant eat 2hrs before or after taking it... so i have to skip breakfast everyday. And if i do happen to eat, i get incredibly sick feeling. However, i have noticed that the more water i drink with it, the less sick feeling i get. I've been drinking about 3 full glasses of water.

I took 100mg of Doxycycline twice daily for suspected Epididymitis. The first few days I followed the instuctions and didn't notice any side effects. One night though I woke up with incredibly painful heartburn. I think I may have taken the pill without enough water right before bed. After that I continued to take the pills and the side effects started to become worse. I had headaches, dizziness, loss of appeitite, and painful heartburn. My advice to anyone taking this medicine would be to follow the instructions and not take the pill right before sleeping. It has been two days since I stopped taking Doxycycline and the side effects still have not subsided.

I have been prescribed Doxycycline 100mg twice daily for suspected Lyme disease. I have never experienced such strong side effects from taking an antibiotic before! The morning dose is the worst by far for me. It makes me feel incredibly nauseous and it makes me feel hot with stomach pains. I feel like being sick all the time for about 3-4 hours after taking it - I have tried lots of water and food but I still feel like crap! After about 4 hours I start to feel a little better then I feel like eating lots and lots!!! My body just seems to be swinging from feeling like I am dying to being very hungry hours later... I take the last pill about 10pm and stay downstairs for about a hour before I go to bed - strangely enough though I have never felt ill like I do in the morning and go to sleep ok. All very weird and I cant wait until I have finished taking this drug (14 day course and I am half way through)

I started taking doxycycline 3 days ago, 100 mg. 2x/day for Lyme disease. I seem to be sleeping an awful lot, but the chief side effect is the nausea. This morning I vomited about 35 minutes after taking the pool. I'd eaten a little breakfast, but still felt incredibly nauseous. I just ate a large dinner and took the pill immediately after. I hope to keep it down.

I take doxycycline as an anti-acne medication. I've been on it for two years now, with an increase in dosage from 50 mg 2 x a day to 100 mg 2 x a day.

If I take it without food, I feel incredibly nauseous, so I'm careful to take it always immediately after meals. My prescription says do not take within 2 hours of eating dairy products, but sometimes I can't avoid that, since I have to take it with meals... I am also a lot more prone to sunburn since I started taking this, including one really horrible sunburn I got in FEBRUARY last year! ugh!

Does anyone know if there is a limit on the number of years one should take this medication for? Having been taking it for two years now, I began wondering if there could be negative consequences to the drug being in my system for such a long time without break. I am going to ask my doctor the next time I go in for a visit, but wanted to try to find out on the 'net first.

I've been on doxycycline for two months now for adult acne. My acne got pretty severe, but has calmed down a lot due to the medication. Originally my doctor prescribed me minocycline, which is in the same family (tetracyclines), because of my hunger with the doxycycline. The minocycline gave me an incredibly bad migraine, the worst in my life. I was unstable, and dizzy. After doing research on the net and talking with the pharmacists I work with ( no, i'm not a pharmacist, i am just a tech) we agreed it was intracranial hypertension and that I needed to stop right away. Being on the doxycycline doesn't give me nearly the headache I had being on the minocycline. I found that when I take the doxycycline before bed OR if I am not upright at least at a 90 degree angle, my esophogus will begin to burn.. I usually fix that with drinking A LOT of cool water and it goes away. My doctor told me to take the doxy twice daily, but I find that taking it once daily does the trick for my acne, it just takes a little longer for it to clear up. I guess I'd rather my acne take longer to clear then to have all the side effects everyone else is having.... which I have experianced. But like I said I take it two hours before bed staying in an upright position with lot's of water at hand... and I'm completely fine.

i was put on it for 3rd stage lymes's disease. The doctors dont even know if I have 3rd stage lyme's disease but they're "assuming" because of all of my symptoms. I have never done well with medications and yet again this one didnt work well. Ive been on it for 2 weeks now out of 4 and I have been very sick to my stomach, headaches, my vision has changed, i bruise easier. I also have had horrible stomach problems, cramping and I have not been able to have a bowl movement for 2 weeks. I also have been sleeping up to 17-20 hours a day missing classes and work. I can barely function I'm more like a zombie. And all my doctor back home said (i'm in college) was that "these are side effects it will happen." However the doctor up here took me off it immediately. I need this med to take my pain away w/the "lymes disease" however these side effects are incredibly painful and causing a problem in my daily life. Not a good medication i feel

Started taking doxy for sinus infection,

first couple of days were fine..thenn my stomach started hurting, had diarhera, REALLY dizzy, burning eyes, and tingling sensations in hands and feet..which are incredibly ANNOYING.

i hate this drug. i feel like my skin is burning...and i'm not even in the sun for long periods of time. UGH.

incredibly nauseous when taken on an empty stomach.