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Doxycycline is my favorite antibiotic and the most effective against chronic sinusitis and chronic prostatitis for me. I only take it maybe once a year, but it
by y-c-o-m-b 1y ago
Doxycycline is my favorite antibiotic and the most effective against chronic sinusitis and chronic prostatitis for me. I only take it maybe once a year, but it does wonders for a good long time.
It also cured my nearly lifelong IBS-D about a decade ago. I had a small re-occurrence of IBS-D last year after so many years without it. I was able to convince the doc that it fixed it for me in the past, so he prescribed me doxycycline again. Boom! All fixed just like before.
I have no idea why that particular antibiotic does the trick, but I've taken so many others from amoxicillin line, bactrim, even cipro, flagyl (gross) etc. and only doxy is the silver bullet for me it seems.
- Klonoar 1y agoThat’s wild that it had that effect for you with any form of IBS. I know two people with Crohns where it set off and irritated their systemd for months.
- speed_spread 1y ago> irritated their systemd Ouch
- Klonoar 1y agoHa! I blame autocorrect, but I'm keeping it.
- fuzzfactor 1y agoThat's gotta hurt. Then again if it irritates you, maybe it deserves a little disruption itself.
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- junto 1y agoDoxy turned my IBD into UC. Horrible disease that vastly increases your chances of bowel cancer. Wiping out your gut bacteria richness should not be done lightly.
- raducu 1y agoStupid question, not a doctor, just for my anecdotal knowledge: did you also take something like a yeast (enterol which would not be affected by doxy) or probiotics?