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I was just prescribed doxycycline twice a day for tooth infection by one of your doctors it is causing some side effects that are very hard to deal with can i please get a different antibiotic?
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You need to get in touch with the doctor who prescribed it.
Answered 5/16/2021
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Doxycycline is not the drug of choice for a tooth infection. i would request a change to either amoxicillin or clindamycin
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