EDIT September 19: well it seems I celebrated too early, pain in my fingers and feet had came back to his levels before I started the AP treatment, so it seems it might be a trend of good days and bad days. I am still very optimistic but guess this will take a while.

Hey all

this is an update of this post where you can also see the background story:
https://www.roadback.org/forums/topic/need-help-in-course-of-action/

so I started to take doxycycline 100 mg twice daily. I had some kind of herx I believe on the 4 day. it was pretty minor but I had some mild fever and feeling unwell and the joint pain got somewhat stronger. it left me after 24 hours and I felt somewhat better. then until day 6 the joint pain was mild and still there, perhaps less then before though.

on day 6 I received some joint supplement I ordered from iherb with Glucosamine , Chondroitin and MSM, I started to take it and then on day 7 I woke up and had about 90% improvement! and so it stayed on the last 4 days, I am basically more or less pain free, I do still feel my joints a few times a day, but its much much better.

I can’t tell for sure what aspect of my treatment is responsible for the major improvement, the AP? the supplement I started taking? or both. I do suspect the supplement is playing a huge part as the major pain relief was around the time I started taking it. but who knows.

I am not sure how long to keep going with the doxycycline 100 mg twice daily. I might lower it to once daily in a few days and take it from there. any thoughts?

Thanks for reading!