Never took probiotics before, always thought of it as some new-age hokum but after this round of doxycycline caused me a lot of digestive grief, I took them for the first time yesterday and almost instant relief.  Last night I got to sleep without being in pain all night for the first time in a month.  Didn’t feel like I was on the verge of becoming Hindenburg II.

     Boil re-inflated again this morning but squeezed it out and only got a lot of blood, no visible pus, so I think that’s a good thing.  Maybe these antibiotics, Clindamycin, are working better than the Doxycycline.  And while they told me these would be harder on my stomach, actually they seem to cause a lot less acid and general discomfort than the Doxycycline Hyclate did.

     Still waiting on the lab work to determine exactly what I’m infected with and what will best kill it, hopefully without killing me.