My son was just prescribed Doxycyclin for seven days due to elevated WBC found at routine check-up. After taking for a few days he said he did not feel as happy. After 6 days he was irritable and reading wrong meanings into my words. It was a back set from his normal state. He takes Zyprexa, Prozac and lithium. When I looked on-line I found irritability as a possible side effect and several documented accounts on NIH website of people who committed suicide after going on Doxy. My pharmacist found no flags for interactions, but my mom saw in old “pill book” that tetracyclines can lower or raise blood levels of lithium. My son stopped taking Doxy and is fine again. Really drives home the importance of listening to loved ones about their reactions to meds, and that everything put in our mouths effects up mentally. Has anyone else had similar experiences with meds prescribed for reasons that had nothing to do with mental illness?
I think both myself and another user here had trouble with antibiotics too. I, myself, felt really bad mentally on them, while I was on them. We were both on them for longer than 7 Days though. Just got unlucky I guess. Everybody reacts differently to different combos of meds.
I had severe pannick attacks, tachardia, almost near death experience, hallucinations on minocycline.
almost died, it lasted several days,
but this cures all my schizophrenia, so i wanted to try it for that reason
after 3 days all psychosis gone… also got IBS from it
supposed to treat negative symptoms
I had trouble with antibiotics as well. After being stable (and without meds) for a long while, I had a psychotic relapse from Ciprofloxacin which I received for a suspected UTI. I had terror, depression and delusions as a response to it. There also seemed to be an interaction with the psychiatric meds (benzo, haldol) that I received to treat this. Cipro is said to cause psychosis and anxiety, increase benzo withdrawal symptoms and raise the serum level of antipsychotics in the blood so that a normal dosis leads to overdose… which is exactly what seemed to have happened to me. Ever since I have suffered from psychosis (now treated with haldol) and a major fear of all meds.
I have also heard from a bipolar girl in the ward that she had a psychotic relapse (after being stable for 10 years) from an antibiotic.
Something to be careful about…
I was hospitalised when the metronidazole I was taking interacted with my respiradone. Had a dystonic crisis. Couldn’t walk properly for 4 months.