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Treats bacterial infections.
Vibramycin (doxycycline) is good for treating many bacterial infections, but can increase your skin's sensitivity to sunlight and make you more likely to get a sunburn or rash.
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3.2/ 5 average rating with 112 reviewsfordoxycycline
Treats bacterial vaginal infections with a single dose.
Clindesse (clindamycin) treats vaginal infections and is very easy to use.
Upsides
- Vibramycin (doxycycline) is a good alternative for some types of bacterial infections for people who are allergic to penicillin.
- Available in generic.
- Available as a liquid for those who have trouble swallowing.
- Vibramycin (doxycycline) is safe for people age 65 or older and those who have kidney problems.
- Very easy to use and works within a few days.
- Generic available, so cost is lower.
- Doesn't have many side effects.
- You can stand up and walk around right after you use it, so you can use it at any time of day.
Downsides
- Vibramycin (doxycycline) makes your skin more sensitive to the sun.
- Vibramycin (doxycycline) can make some birth control less effective, so you may have to use barrier methods (like condoms) while on it.
- Vitamins, iron supplements, or antacids can't be taken at the same time as Vibramycin (doxycycline).
- Vibramycin (doxycycline) can cause severe diarrhea that is usually watery and bloody, as late as up to 2 months after finishing the medicine.
- Can cause yeast infections in some women.
- After using Clindesse (clindamycin), must avoid sex and using tampons for 7 days.
- Can very rarely cause severe diarrhea.
- Cannot be used if you have bowel diseases like Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis.
Used for
- Acne
- Rosacea
- Skin infections
- Urinary tract infection
- Gonorrhea
- Syphilis
- Respiratory tract infection
- Postexposure prevention for anthrax inhalation
- Plague
- Acinetobacter infection
- Actinomycosis
- Amebiasis
- Anthrax
- Bartonella infection
- Brucellosis
- Chancroid
- Chlamydia
- Cholera
- Clostridial infection
- Listeriosis
- Malaria prevention
- Urethritis
- Psittacosis
- Q fever
- Relapsing fever
- Rocky Mountain spotted fever
- Shigellosis
- Spotted fevers
- Tularemia postexposure
- Typhus group rickettsial disease
- Vincent's infection
- Yaws
- Typhoid fever
- Granuloma inguinale
- Campylobacter infection
- Lyme disease
- Malaria
Dosage forms
- Pill
- Delayed release pill
- Liquid
- Cream
Price
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Reviews
112 reviews so far
49%
saidit'sworth it
36%
saiditworked well
24%
saidit'sa big hassle
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Side effects
The Vibramycin (doxycycline) FDA package insert doesn’t have numbers about how common side effects are.
5possible side effects
- Yeast infection14%
- Headache7%
- Back pain5%
- Constipation2%
- Bladder infection2%
Risks and risk factors
- Color changes in teeth of young children and unborn babies
- Age 8 or younger
- Women in their last half of pregnancy
- Infants
- Severe diarrhea
- Using Vibramycin (doxycycline) for a long period of time
- Sunburn or rash
- Being in the sun for a long period of time
- Using tanning salons
- Harm to fetus (unborn baby)
- Women who can potentially or want to become pregnant
- Pregnant women
- Allergy alert
- Known allergy to clindamycin
- Known allergy to lincosamides
- Severe diarrhea
- History of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea
- Crohn's disease
- Ulcerative colitis
- Regional enteritis
- Weakened condoms and vaginal diaphragms
- Safety in girls who haven't started puberty