5 Sep 2021
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tgferg67
Title

Getting hyperpigmentation from doxy - not sure about how to go forward.

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Hi, I am getting some slight hyperpigmentation from doxy in my neck face area. Opinions needed - not sure if I should stop or continue and and make adjustments taking doxy twice a day instead of all at once for less concentration. Taking tetracylines  with vitamin c  is also supposed to lessen the effect.

Make these changed and re-evaluate after a month or stop?

Tom F

 

Comments

Sarah

5 Sep 2021 10:53 am

Tom, this must depend on several things. To start with, what are you taking the treatment for?

Splitting the treatment back into two should help but if it doesn't and you are treating for something serious, I am afraid that you will just have to put up with it.

Sarah

Completed Stratton/Wheldon regime for aggressive secondary progressive MS in June 2007, after four years, three of which intermittent.   Still improving bit by bit and no relapses since finishing treatment.

tgferg67

5 Sep 2021 01:00 pm

Hi Sarah, I'm treating for cpn causing chronic fatigue syndrome and I am using David's protocol. It's been 2 1/2 years but I continue to make improvement. 

 

TomF - 50 yrs old, diagnosed CFS Jan.2000, CPN IGA 1:32 IGG 1:128 feb 2017

Cap since Dec 2018

Sarah

6 Sep 2021 05:16 am

Tom, I have just noticed what you said about vitamin c. I think that if you take as much vitamin c as you can before you get the runs you might then find that you can continue to take doxycycline in one dose. Try it and see what happens.

Sarah

Completed Stratton/Wheldon regime for aggressive secondary progressive MS in June 2007, after four years, three of which intermittent.   Still improving bit by bit and no relapses since finishing treatment.

boadicea

6 Sep 2021 09:02 am

Tom - I’m not sure what you mean about hyperpigmentation. You don’t mean anything to do with sun sensitivity caused by doxy, do you?  That can effect some even on just a bright day and often affects face and neck - and hands - as those areas are often most exposed.

Neuro symptoms & many health problems from 1989. NAC+all supps(04/11) CAP(05/11-10/17)

Jesper

8 Sep 2021 11:01 am

This might depend on the brand you use as well. I got hyperpigmentation on my cheeks from minocycline that I bought from a pharmacy in India. I now use a local brand of mino, and have no issues anymore. So what they put in the drug matters as well, the indian mino had a shelf life of 1 year, but the one I use now has 3 years. 

The hyperpigmentation has gotten a bit better with time, but seems pretty permanent, but apparently you can get laser treatment for it.

Treating PPMS with Azithromycin, Minocycline, Rifampin.

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