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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 29 12 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_slight Efficacy_cant_tell
Other 22 4 Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_cant_tell
Lyme Disease 15 4 Efficacy_major Efficacy_cant_tell
Acne breakout 13 6 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_none
Rosacea 6 2 Efficacy_moderate
Acne 6 1 Efficacy_major

See all 58 patients currently taking Doxycycline

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 9
Moderate
 7
Mild
 11
None
 20

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

Nausea 7
Nausea and vomiting 3
Stomach pain 3
Yeast Infection (candida) 2
Sunburn 2
Hospitalization 2
See all 27 reported side effects ▼ See top 6 reported side effects ▲

Reported Dosages

  8 monohydrate100mg as needed 20 mg daily 40 mg daily 50 mg daily 100 mg daily 150 mg daily 200 mg daily 4 x 50 mg/5 mL daily 300 mg daily 400 mg daily
  1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 15 Number of Patients: 15 2 Number of Patients: 2 14 Number of Patients: 14 1 Number of Patients: 1 20 Number of Patients: 20 1 Number of Patients: 1 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 53   Course of treatment ended: 59%
Doctor's advice 25   Doctor's advice: 28%
Side effects too severe 11   Side effects too severe: 12%
Did not seem to work 8   Did not seem to work: 9%
Other 6   Other: 7%
Personal research 3   Personal research: 3%
Not indicated 1   Not indicated: 1%

See all 87 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
 40 85%
Usually
 4 9%
Sometimes
 1 2%
Never
 2 4%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Doxycycline

Very
 4 9%
Somewhat
 9 19%
A little
 6 13%
Not at all
 28 60%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Doxycycline

$200+
 1 4%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 1 4%
$25-49
 4 15%
< $25
 20 77%

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Report created on May 25, 2012.