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		pfdietz on Aug 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Website to Sign Up for the Lyme Disease Vaccine Ph... It's so common where I live that my doctor gave me prophylactic doxycycline to take whenever I have a tick bite. I took some last week.

devwastaken on Aug 15, 2022 [–]

Iirc you have to use the full cycle, and even that isn't guaranteed to work.

pfdietz on Aug 15, 2022 | [–]

The prescription explicitly says to take just two 100mg pills upon noticing a tick bite, and then don't do that again for another week.

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