choices--to medicate or not

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When I'm taking the doxy, I feel like crap! Night sweats, brain fog, fatigue

through the roof, stomach and intestinal problems like never before. I know

this is probably herx reaction, but still, it never goes away!

When I went off the doxy for a couple weeks, I still had the brain fog and

memory problems but I could function, I could get done in a day what needed to

be done. My LLMD started me back on a much smaller dose (25 mg vs. 400 mg a

day), to work up to a higher dose over months, but really, if I'm this sick on

such a tiny dose, I don't know why I'm doing this! I need to be able to

function during the days and sleep at night.

(One side note: my LLMD has prescribed cholestipol, a cholesterol drug, not a

statin, that is supposed to whisk toxins out of your bile before it processes

into your body, and that seems to help a little, but only for a few hours after

I take it, and I can't take it till lunch time. But for those of you not on a

slew of other meds who have herx really bad, this is an option. Bonus for me, I

have high cholesterol, so it should help that too.)

But back to my original issue, I know there are other antibiotics out there that

work, but I've heard doxy is the best. Has anyone opted to skip antibiotics

completely? And if so, how did you do?

Debbi