This should give you a little laugh

Use the strongest sun screen possible whenever you go outside when on doxycycline and probably a few weeks after. My husband was on it for 3 weeks due to lyme disease which had caused his knee to swell very painfully. Feeling better, he went kayaking and felt almost paralyzed by the sun burn on his hands - which made it difficult for him to even hold his paddle - and then to drive home. His recovery from the sun damage caused by the doxycycline was much longer and painful than anything he felt due to the lyme disease. He had failed to note the warning on the bottle!

well I went screaming into the pharmacy saying they should have warned him, they plaster so many useless warnings on our prescription bottles, why not something actually useful, about staying out of the sun?? well wouldn't you know that my husband later sheepishly showed me the bottle and there the warning was, plain as day. This is the guy who precisely timed taking the meds - whatever the rules were about 2 hours before eating/3 hours after - yet never read that particular direction. Hope you heal and your ruby red nose is the biggest bump in your road to recovery.

Don't forget about sunscreen while driving or riding in a car!!! I was on long term doxycycline a few years back and went on a cross country car trip. After a couple of days, I had big dark scaly patches on my exposed arms.

good for you, take this seriously - protect yourself from the sun like you never have before. I thought of something else with my husband's experience on doxycycline - it made him constipated!!! not something we would normally discuss, he was obviously quite upset about it. I knew I only had one shot at a suggestion (he hates doctors/medicine etc) and I said probiotics!! sent him to our food coop to get the $$ stuff kept in the refrigerator - he said he was back to normal after the first pill!! fast forward 2 years and he is having leg cramps at night and I had just been discussing this with friends who swore by ginger ale - but only the good kind - Schweppes! so he began drinking a 6 oz glass of that a day but wouldn't you know it worked but after a few months he was constipated again - and it turns out that is a known, but not common side effect of quinine - so no more Schweppes! that is it, you have emptied my brain of anything I know directly or indirectly related to doxycycline.

Schweppes tonic water, not ginger ale, my mistake!! - had to check his last, unopened bottle!!