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Posted 5/7/2011 6:42 PM (GMT -5)
Hi Everyone -- Can anyone tell me if they know if the medicine Doxycicline (heavy duty antibiotic used to treat things like Lymes disease, Malaria) can cause IBS?

I was misdiagnosed with Lymes and was on the drug for 5 days, twice daily 100mg. Like clockwork on the day I stopped the medication ... that night I developed severe nausea / diarrhea and ever since then (been over a month) I wake up every morning with severe nausea .... my stomach is VERY loud like the sounds when you haven't eaten or hungry and bowels very irregular along with loss of appetite.

My doctor ran lots of bloodwork including a stool sample and told me it was IBS. Please help!
Posted 5/7/2011 6:59 PM (GMT -5)
Antibiotics are known for wiping out the good flora that live in our intestines. These good guys help with good functioning bowels. Did your doctor recommend eating yogurt or taking a probiotic to help get your gut flora back to normal? I always eat yogurt during the times I need to be on antibiotics. It helps keep the diarrhea away too.

Many yogurts only contain L.Acidophilus as the live culture. That's better than nothing. In my reading after a serious intestinal infection, I learned that other live cultures are extremely important. The yogurt I eat contains the following Live Yogurt Cultures: L.Bulgaricus, S.Thermophilus, L.Acidophilus, B.Bifidus.

I hope your doctor prescribed something for the nausea. Did he prescribe anything else for you?
Posted 5/7/2011 7:11 PM (GMT -5)
Hi! Yes my doctor did tell me to eat yogurt!! She did not mention probiotics BUT my friend told me to! I have just finally started eating yogurt and my doctor gave me medicine for the nausea and for the diarrhea *which I haven't taken since I am so afraid of meds now, seeing how the doxy did a number on my belly :( Thank you so much for this information!!!!
Posted 5/9/2011 5:54 AM (GMT -5)
Try choosing the yoghurt that has probiotic live cultures as this will replace the 'good bacteria' in your gut that the antibiotics destroy.
Posted 5/9/2011 10:57 AM (GMT -5)
There isn't research showing antibiotics cause IBS. Sometimes the condition you might be taking them for could cause Post Infectious IBS.

What kind of doctor was it?

They test for C-diff?

Your were misdiagnosed with Lyme disease? What was the actual diagnoses?
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