Oral antibiotics to IV antibiotics...How do you know its time to switch?

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It may seem like an obvious answer but I don't know the symptoms for not

tolerating oral antibiotics well. I don't know what warrants ramping up to IV

from oral and I'm curious what others here have experienced. I can't tolerate

all the antibiotics the Doc gives me to take at once. For example: 200 mg of

Doxycycline taken twice a day makes my stomach so nauseous that I feel like I

have morning sickness! That's JUST the doxy...then to add Valtrex, Rifampin and

the other supplements makes me so sick that I can hardly tolerate anything else

on my stomach without vomiting. So to avoid this, I break up the doxy (100mg ea)

to just one at a time and spread it out to 4 times a day and I feel a bit better

and far less nauseous but then my whole dosing schedule is screwed up between

other herbs and supplements I take that either can't be combined together or

only taken with food/without food, blah blah blah.

SO I guess I'm just wondering what the level of intolerance I have to achieve

before IV antibiotics are prescribed?? I'm so confused by my doctor and what

he's prescribing because everything else he gives me to take makes me feel

prisoner to my own home and nearly impossible to maintain. Other nurses in his

practice said that if I was a patient of a different doctor, they would have put

me on IV antibiotics long ago considering the state I'm in right now.

I DON'T want IV antibiotics because of the expense and hassle but I don't want

to prolong the inevitable by wasting time and money on other things that make me

sick and give no progress.

Any suggestions?

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