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06-08-2017, 08:20 AM | #1 | |||
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Chronic use of the tetracycline family (minocycline and doxycyline) can trigger pseudotumor cerebri (intracranial hypertension) which can damage the optic nerves. So if you have not had evaluation for this, now is the time to do so.
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06-08-2017, 11:20 AM | #2 | ||
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06-10-2017, 11:22 AM | #3 | ||
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At the rate my PD progression is going, in a year or so I may be dead or in a nursing home for indigent patients, wheel chair bound, stuck in a corner, heavily drugged and drooling. As we know, there aren't many drug options on the table that can potentially slow or stop this progression. I am willing to take a chance on doxycycline. I believe my primary care doc will prescribe it for me. At this stage of the game there's not much for me to lose.
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06-10-2017, 09:41 PM | #4 | ||
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Sorry not up on Doxycycline so won't comment on it. Blackfeather, maybe you have a bit of depression? Do you see a movement disorder specialist for management of P.D.? If not it might be worthwhile. As far as Drs in general practice go which I think a primary care physician is I'd be more inclined to hear what an MDS who lives and breathes P.D. would come up with plus other medical staff like a speech therapist, physiotherapist, occupational therapist who specialise in P.D. |
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"Thanks for this!" says: | johnt (06-11-2017) |
06-20-2017, 12:43 PM | #5 | ||
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Still taking 20 mg/day of doxy, no ill effects observable.
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09-27-2017, 09:50 AM | #6 | ||
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Three more months on doxy, still no observable results.
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