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What is Doxycycline?

Doxycycline is a tetracycline antibiotic used to treat a variety of infections; Lyme disease; inflammatory lesions associated with rosacea; intestinal amebiasis; severe acne. Off label it is used as a sclerosing agent for pleural effusion and vancomycin-resistant enterococci.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Lyme Disease 24 9 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_slight Efficacy_cant_tell
Other 18 4 Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_cant_tell
Lyme Disease 15 4 Efficacy_major Efficacy_cant_tell
Acne 13 6 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_none
Rosacea 6 2 Efficacy_moderate
MS (Multiple Sclerosis) 5 2 Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_slight

See all 52 patients currently taking Doxycycline

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 6
Moderate
 6
Mild
 11
None
 18

Commonly reported side effects, conditions, and hospitalizations associated with Doxycycline

Nausea 5
Nausea and vomiting 3
Stomach pain 3
Sunburn 2
Diarrhea 1
Abdominal bloating 1
See all 24 reported side effects ▼ See top 6 reported side effects ▲

Reported Dosages

  20 mg daily 40 mg daily 50 mg daily 100 mg daily 150 mg daily 200 mg daily 300 mg daily 400 mg daily
  1 Number of Patients: 1 12 Number of Patients: 12 2 Number of Patients: 2 14 Number of Patients: 14 1 Number of Patients: 1 19 Number of Patients: 19 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking Doxycycline (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Course of treatment ended 41   Course of treatment ended: 54%
Doctor's advice 21   Doctor's advice: 28%
Side effects too severe 10   Side effects too severe: 13%
Did not seem to work 7   Did not seem to work: 9%
Other 6   Other: 8%
Personal research 3   Personal research: 4%

See all 73 patients who’ve stopped taking Doxycycline

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Taking Doxycycline

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more

Stopped Taking Doxycycline

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Doxycycline

Always
 34 83%
Usually
 4 10%
Sometimes
 1 2%
Never
 2 5%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Doxycycline

Very
 4 10%
Somewhat
 6 15%
A little
 6 15%
Not at all
 25 61%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Doxycycline

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 1 4%
$25-49
 3 13%
< $25
 19 83%

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Report created on February 09, 2012.