A warning about Doxycycline, taken after a tick bite

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This was posted on another list but considering the

seriousness of the warning I thought to forward this to the group.

Hanneke

 

WARNING: DOXYCYCLINE IS DANGEROUS

 

Carl F. Worden

August 22, 2009

 

 

I feel compelled to warn everyone I know about a very

serious side effect I suffered after taking Doxycycline to prevent Lyme

Disease from a suspicious tick bite. Please forward this to

everyone you know and care about.

 

I was prescribed Doxy on July 27, 2009. I was

prescribed 100mg 2x daily for 14 days in case I was infected by

Lyme.

 

At the end of the first day I felt a little odd, like I

wasn't quite as perceptive as usual or perhaps a little disconnected from

what was going on around me.

 

By the fifth day I went into a complete psychotic episode

to the extent that:

 

I had a severe headache from cranial hypertension.

I became violent and tore the two mahogany posts off my bed and threw

them on the floor. At one point I threw a cup of hot coffee at my

wife. I was overtaken by feelings of despair, depression, anxiety

and I was tempted time after time to commit suicide. I screamed

epithets at my wife. In the end, I ended up on my bedroom floor in

a fetal position, crying and begging God to take me out of this

world. Finally exhausted, I crawled off to bed. I stopped

taking the Doxy immediately and called my doctor who said he'd never

heard of such a reaction. Yeah, right.

 

For days afterward, my wife I've been happily married to

for 30 years, had to remind me what I did. She was terribly hurt

and I had to reassure her time after time that I still loved her. I

could not recall simple words to complete a sentence. Even today, I

still get that odd feeling that I felt the first day of the Doxy regimen,

so in spite of what the pharmacist told me, I know I am still affected by

it and I'm also concerned I have some permanent damage from it.

 

I began to research Doxycycline and this is what I

learned:

 

According to Injury.com, the FDA strongly advises against

prescribing Doxy for anything but exposure to Anthrax due to its

dangerous side effects and health risks -- I kid you not! According

to Medications.com

 

http://www.medications.com/se/doxycycline-hyclate#add, I learned that

900 other people had written in, reporting symptoms exactly like my own

in varying degrees. (Rare reaction, my fanny!)

 

At

 

http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN & cpsidt=15535437 I found a

research paper on anti-malarial drugs, including Doxy, that result in

psychotic episodes, some leading to suicide.

 

Fact: Physicians routinely prescribe Doxy for Acne

in young people. It is also prescribed to prevent infection after

dental work and to prevent Lyme Disease after possible exposure.

 

The pharmacist never advised me of the possibility of a

psychotic reaction, and what to do if I experienced one. But the

complete takeover of your mind would prevent you from doing anything to

help yourself anyway. I was completely out of control of

myself. Your loved ones should be advised to call an ambulance in

such a case, but no such warning is given.

 

What troubles me is that I have never had problems of any

kind with depression or mental instability or illegal drug use. I

am a happily married financial professional, 60 years of age going on a

well-preserved 48 and quite healthy. I have no money worries, no

business issues or social issues, and I am known for being well-grounded

and quite stable. To put it mildly, I am very well adjusted and

happy with my life and my health, so what the heck happened to me?

More importantly, what would have happened to a person with problems who

had the same reaction to the Doxycycline? Scary.

 

I have also learned that most pharmaceuticals are being

manufactured in China and India now, and I am wondering if the Doxy I got

at the Walmart Pharmacy in Eagle Point, Oregon was manufactured in China

with the same care those idiots used to manufacture the Heparin that

killed a bunch of people here. It scares me to think Doxy is being

prescribed for so many other problems than just Anthrax, and it is even

more frightening to think how many people may have committed crimes or

suicide while taking the medication, leaving a grieving family to wonder

why.

 

The bottom line is this: Doxycycline, a cousin of

Tetracycline, is a lot more dangerous than my physician or any of the

other physicians I have spoken to realize or are informed of, and that

needs correction right now. There is no possible way to see a bad

reaction coming, and because Doxycycline is so commonly prescribed as an

antibiotic, who would normally suspect it?

 

I hope you pass this information on to as many people as

you possibly can. It is still astonishing to me that 10 capsules of

that crap could make me that crazy and place me in that much agony and

danger, and I don't want anyone else to have to go through what I did --

and still am!

 

Carl F. Worden

 

 

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