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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 Email
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