herxing or allergic to the antibiotic treatment?

Ok....so last Tuesday my doc increased my mino pills from Mond, Wed, and Friday to everyday. And day before yesterday, 8 days after the increase I developed severe itching, swelling and pain. The on-call doc that night said to stop the antibiotic and take benadryl which I did and it did not help!!! Yesterday I went to see my doctor and was going out of my mind!!! The itching was so bad I was in tears and my blood pressure was 187/81!!! Doc said I had to calm down. I said ummmmm you deal with this. I had not slept in 2 days due to the itching. My family doc said he didn't think it was a allergic reaction, but instead herxing. He gave me to scripts. Zantac which yes is for stomach issues but he said it has a good antihistamine (spelling bad) in it and a nerve pill call atarax which also helps with itching. I took the pills at 1:30 yesterday afternoon and slept till 5am today. I did however manage to talk to a few people on the phone but do not remember it, also went to pick the hubby up from work at 5, don't remember doing that either.

I am still not back on the antibiotic and if this is a herxing thing I do not know how long I can deal with that. I am still itching today but not as bad. I have the swelling and pain to the touch. I call my doc and left a message telling him still having same problems just not as bad and asked if I will be starting back on the AP or not. Waiting for a call back still.

I have done alot of reading on AP and I don't recall seeing people having the itching and swelling as a herx symptoms.

Terri