Doxycycline (Antibiotic) Reviews

The med worked realy good for the first week, but then all of a sudden during the second week i had side effects. The "rare" but happens "side effect" my face got swollen and my eyes looked looked like golf balls. They say the side effects are rare but they lie. i am the type of person were my body can handle any med fine. it realy is not worth taking. also after reading other peoples comments i realized that also my face has gotten the worst it has ever gotten. my acne broke out bad. i thought it was me but i realized that it is because of the meds. warning do not be fooled and take the med its bad.

I had acne as a teenager, but not too bad. A few scares. Then as an adult I got bad cyst like acne. I finalyy went to a dermatologist after trying all over the counter meds. that never worked. the dermatologist put me on doxy and duac and retin A. so i have been using since dec. 04 for 2 months then went off for 2 months now back on it does help. i dont have any side effects this time on it, i havent tried being in the sun for very long, so i dont know how i would tolerate that, i use dove soap and oil of olay face lotion i have no drying, and i am clearing up, now i need to fix the scaring. but i do like this medicine because i didnt want to try accutan, the side effects of it scared me.

Ok, I got my Doxycycline one month ago and I love it! I would first like to start off by saying that I am using this in conjunction with two other acne treatments: Sodium Sulfacetamide lotion, and the Noxzema moisturizing facial wash.

I started noticing my acne back in the 7th grade. It was the occasional zit here and there, you know nothing serious. Then about the beginning of my freshman year in high school it started to get worse and worse. So, to combat this problem I used "Acne Free," a competitor to Proactiv. I'll be honest folks, that s*** made my skin worse than it already was! That, I believe is the reason why I have bad acne now.

To make a long story short, I got some Doxycycline to help clean up my face after being teased and made fun of. Yeah, it sucked. A friend of mine told me about Minocycline (sp?) and how well it had worked for him. I did some research on Acne.org (duh) and I came to the conclusion that Doxycycline was the best oral anti-biotic I could get. From what my doctor said, it was safe, gentle, and most of all effective. I would now like to say this very important thing: don't under any circumstances let your doctor with a prescription fetish over prescribe you! They only do it for the perks the drug companies offer them.

Alright, lets talk about the pill itself. As far as the side effects go, I did notice some yet they were very minimal. I noticed stomach pains from taking the Doxycycline when I didn't eat a good meal with it or drink enough water with it. The solution: drink about two to three cups of water and take the pill after you eat a decent meal. After I started taking Doxycycline, I noticed superb results. The redness on my face gradually started to dissipate and the cysts on my cheeks are almost non-existant now.

I would recommend Doxycycline to anyone and I cant wait to see what results will come in the next few months!

VIVA LA NATION!

Worst product Ive ever taken. combined with benzol peroxide it did nothing for me.

After never having had ANY problems with my skin, I developed moderate/severe acne a year ago (a couple of months after I turned 24). Nothing seemed to work. I used BP from the regimen, but it just destroyed my face (dry, peeling, lots of deep, cystic breakouts). My doctor put me on a doxycycline/brevoxyl combo a week ago and my skin is already dramatically improved. Brevoxyl doesn't dry my skin out and I haven't developed a new cyst yet (whereas I was averaging about 4 on a continual basis). The doxycycline is a bit rough, but my choices are either to feel like I've got cramps or to feel like my face has been beaten (the cysts were very painful). I guess I'd rather have a little discomfort without the big red bumps.

I've been taking doryx (doxycline) for a year and a half. It took the drug two months at 200 mgs. to clear my skin. It stayed relatively clear for four months after the dosage was lowered to 100 mg. About five months I started breaking out again. The dosage was upped to 200 mgs. again and my skin is breaking out every day. This is the worst antibiodic I've been on. Minocin was MUCH better for short term use.

I highly don't recommend Doxycycline, especially if you ever plan on being in the sun more than five minutes. I was on it for about a month, when it started to sink in and my acne began to clear up. However when I was sitting in the sun of a stadium one day, i could feel the skin on my face, chest, and hands start to burn. And it wasn't a normal hot sun, it felt like an actual sun-burn. The areas became really red instantly, and as week past, my hands swelled up and became purple from a horrible rash by the sun. I finally figured the only thing that could cause it was the doxy, so I went to my dermatologist and he said Doxycycline is the acne drug most prone to sun allergic reactions. I was taken off the drug, and am glad, because it also caused horrible upset stomach pains every time I took it.

i went on Doxy twice a day for a mounth it worked great i dident have a any bad break outs and the pimples that i did get were a lot smaller and less noticable.
while on doxy I got a sunburn and developed a horrible skin irritaion /rash on a hands. my hands beacome painful and a red rash developed, my skin peeled blistered. i was told to go of of the doxy becuase of the sun interaction. becarful in the sun use a alot of sun screen doxy is the most sun sensitive.

i used it and noticed nothn,i have used orotane which did help but acne came back and now using stieva - a

I took this last year with Duac gel and cleared me up in about 3 months...derm took me off of the DOXY and gave me BP to use and told me to come back if ne thing came up...well it has been a year after that and i am back to where i was with moderate ACNE. now i am on 100mg of DOXY and take Tretinoin. i take the pill in the morning and at night and since i was on DOXY for 3 months last year i have no side-effects at all. my skin but red as hell and broke out the first couple days of using the Tretinoin but on my second week with the DOXY and Tretinoin i am seeing less reddness and smoother skin...i also dont have any peeling at all with the Tretinoin which so many people complain of; i think my skin is use to harsh treatment because of all the things i have put on it to get rid of the acne: creams, washes you name it. i hope that this clears up around july like the last treatment...wish me luck!