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> I have really bad chronic Lyme disease & all my Lyme friends told me that w/ certain antibiotics, you MUST cover up COMPLETELY (incl. gloves, baseball cap w/ veil, sun umbrella, sneakers, etc.) when taking certain antibiotics, or you can make yourself permanently sun-sensitive. I had to go to the ER yesterday, & was way too sick to even think about this. As of last nite, I'm taking two 500 mg pills of Cipro (an antimicrobial) per day, & also got a week-long course of Doxycycline & Bactrum. All the bottles say "AVOID PROLONGED OR EXCESSIVE EXPOSURE TO DIRECT AND/OR ARTIFICIAL SUNLIGHT WHILE TAKING THIS MEDICINE." I took 2 Cipro (ciprofloxacin) so far, 1 yesterday at the ER, & 1 this morning, when I filled the prescription. How do I know if I've already become sun sensitive? (As of this afternoon, my skin seems to be reactig to cold water as though it's hot, & my skin burns a lot, everywhere, which I initially thought was a rxn to Lyme die-off). Is there
>  anything I can do at this point, that's worth doing, in response to some direct prolonged exposure to sunlight today (45 min.) & yesterday, that would prevent my being permanently sun sensitive? Please let me know ASAP. I'm already so sick from Lyme, bug bites etc., & the ER doc didn't tell me about this when he gave me the Cipro. I also got a really bad ocular migraine this morning, perhaps because I stayed in the car in the very sunny parking lot for 45 min. while wating for my ER Rx to be filled (the rest of the ciprofloxacin). Thought it was a reaction to yesterday's cipro pill, which the doc gave me without telling me anything about it, & I was too sick to ask questions. Since all my antibiotic bottles say that warning, I'm not sure if ciprofloxacin is one of the ones that could make me permanently sun sensitive, if that's what caused the ocular migraine(?) & if I'm already permanently sun-sensitive. Thanks. Love to all of you handling all this
>  crap that is more than 1 single human being can handle. :)
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> -Elysia 
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