Medicine, Much Medicine

I'm in the second month cycle of a three month cycle of a pulse antibiotic treatment. I never imagined having to take so many pills. I never even took an antibiotic before age 46. I turned 50 last month. When I started taking antibiotics in May 09, man did I get sick. Doxycycline knocked me down and almost out. It nearly made me blind. My ears were ringing at volume 10. I could hardly turn my head, my neck hurt so much. The pain in my feet was intense, like someone had stuck a knife into them. Just when I start functioning again, I switch to Minocycline and the whole process repeated itself. In September 09 I started the current medications. I was bracing myself for the worse, but never really started to herx until the second cycle. One of the drugs (Flagyl)seems to really set me off. My head is pounding, and I feel dumb as a rock. Work is getting tough to manage. Maybe the real struggle is keeping my mind right, not the medicine. I'm in for a long haul.