For the first half of this year my husband was getting sicker and sicker. They ran numerous tests on him to no avail. Everything came back negative except that he has inflamation in his body. He spent his whole day dealing with muscle aches and pains,sharp shooting pains in his wrists and ankles. And to top it off every couple days he would run a fever. Sometimes this fever would be bad enough that he would be in bed and need my help to get him up. It was very scary. I was worried that he had lupus or MS or any number of things.This started in January and went through June when I happened to stumble upon some info on the Web.We came back from a 3 day vacation where I was hoping the xtra rest might make him feel better. Instead we spent much of the vacation with him having to sit or lie down becouse he had no energy and felt so achey and weak.
When we got back in town I was more determined than ever to find out what was wrong with him.Our next step was to take him to U of M on our own dollar. Our Insurance would not cover him up there.I went on a serious web search and really just stumbled across some referances to this Acne Medication that could cause all the symptoms he was experiencing!!! I was startled and ran quickly upstairs to see what he had been taking for the cystic acne that he had been getting on his back. Low and behold it was the same medication!! OH MY GOD!! it was possibly this all along? 6 months and no doctor had thought this may have been the issue? He stopped taking it that day and withen 3 days he started feeling better. Inside of a month and a half most all his symptoms were GONE!!
The following is more information on what this medication can do to you. Be careful with medications of all types. You never know if you could be the one in a thousand or a million that has that side effect. Read your inserts!! Know what your putting in your mouth!
Minocycline induced arthritis associated with fever, livedo reticularis, and pANCA
The potential for medications to cause lupus-like illness has been recognised since 1945, when sulphadiazine was reported to cause a lupus-like syndrome.1 More than 70 drugs have since been reported as causing a lupus-like syndrome.2 The more notorious of these drugs, such as procainamide and hydralazine, are no longer in common use, but others such as anticonvulsants, isoniazid, and chlorpromazine are still widely prescribed.
Minocycline is a semisynthetic tetracycline commonly prescribed for the treatment of acne vulgaris, and occasionally prescribed as a disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD) for rheumatoid arthritis. Since 1992, minocycline has increasingly been recognised as a cause of several autoimmune conditions, the most commonly reported of which are a lupus-like syndrome and hepatitis.3 Serum sickness and ANCA-positive vasculitis have also been described.
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