*The following is an individual’s story of surviving fluoroquinolone toxicity. It is not medical advice. Please see the disclaimer at the bottom of the story. Thank you, and please be cautious with all treatments.
The Prescription
I took a 6 week course of Cipro 1000mg once/day in early 2015 to treat prostatitis.
First Signs of trouble
The first signs of anything unusual were a low B12 level about four weeks in.
A few weeks later, while on vacation, I started to notice unusual bruising near my joints, in the elbows and ankles after engaging in sports.
I also started to notice pain in my ankles, near where the achilles tendon wraps under the heel. It felt as if the tendon was tearing away.
Further complications
Symptoms began to worsen on my return to work. My ankles would ache if I had to stand for any length of time.
Navigating stairs became difficult because of pain in my Achilles tendons. I used to be able to hike all day, mountain bike and surf all day, but now I could hardly walk around the block.
Walking on hard floors caused stabbing pains in my heels.
My eyes started to give me problems, especially when transitioning from bright light to a darker interior.
A bit later I discovered that one of my front teeth was loose.
We had a very harsh winter this year, and I was extremely sensitive to the cold. It felt as if I could never warm up. I was so cold on the subway, I started to have to wear the warmest boots I could find and my toes would still turn white.
I also had ‘brain fog’ and difficulty thinking (and my job is very analytical, so I started having difficulty getting through my workday.)
Forums scared me to death
I went online and started reading the forums and after that I became very anxious about what I had done to myself.
This information also made me hyper vigilant about every little change in my body.
All of these symptoms I was experiencing were very stressful, and also after reading the forums, I now worried about all the other symptoms I might get.
I started to be very anxious. Every new symptom or worsening of an existing symptom caused pangs of anxiety that were difficult to control.
Doctor’s Responses
My own doctor is wonderful and felt very badly that the medication she prescribed caused this terrible reaction. The only problem was she didn’t know much about fluoroquinolone toxicity or how to treat it.
A urologist I consulted had heard about the reaction but only advised me not to worry, and that summer was around the corner and things would get better.
Treatment Programme
I mainly followed the programme in the The ‘Fluoroquinolone Toxicity Solution’ (affiliate link)(https://floxiehope.com/2014/11/25/the-fluoroquinolone-toxicity-solution-ebook/).
I also started seeing a naturopathic doctor who suggested taking contrast showers to help my body better deal with the cold, and who helped me consolidate all of the supplements I was taking into a more balanced and more manageable number of pills.
First signs of recovery
I felt that things started to improve about 10 weeks into my recovery.
I started to have good days.
The tendon problems in my upper body were the first symptom that substantially improved, then my Achilles tendon on the right went back almost to normal, my left Achilles was not symptom free, but started to improve.
Around this time, I quit my job which was a long commute by subway after a friend offered me a job where I could work from home.
I found a nature trail near my home and I started to ride my mountain bike on it gently, this improved my mood and also seemed to help my joints and tendons recover. On days where I didn’t exercise, everything seemed to tighten up and become more painful.
My List of supplements
Epsom salt baths, Mg Glycinante/ Mg Threonate
COQ10
Vitamin E
A good multivitamin (Ortho Core: http://www.aor.ca/products-page/advanced/ortho-core/)
My message to you
This is the part I’m excited to tell you about.
All the text above is just for context, and honestly if you are on this forum, the story will perhaps seem very familiar already.
What I really want to tell you is that despite what has happened, some of the happiest days of my life have been during this difficult recovery.
It is possible to be be in pain and be happy at the same time, it is possible to be uncertain about the future and be happy at the same time, it is possible to be scared and be happy at the same time.
I have been practicing meditation for about 10 years before this happened. Maybe that’s has something to do with my outlook. If you haven’t started already, it’s not too late to start now. (https://floxiehope.com/2015/05/15/meditation-and-mindfulness-to-get-through-fq-toxicity/) Don’t worry, meditation is a secular practice that anyone can try.
I aslo noticed that during some of my most difficult days, when I just couldn’t take it anymore, I got what I call little signs.
One of those signs was this little flower graffiti I kept seeing on the subway. Sometimes the sign would be a song in a passing car. And one time a usually elusive squirrel in the woods behind the office seemed lead me on a chase through the woods, chattering at me to follow it like a playful child.
I am a very rational thinker and am skeptical of new age Woo, but these experiences made me question those certainties.
My grandmother, who was the strongest person I ever knew, always told us that if it was possible after her death to come and visit us that she would. I never saw a sign of her after she passed away, or did I?
Thoughts and advice
-Don’t call yourself a ‘Floxie’. This happened to you, but don’t make an identity out of it, you are much much larger, more beautiful, stronger and more magnificent than that.
-Drop every onerous or stressful thing in your life that you can. This is your year. Tell everyone you love that you are concentrating on you this year, and that you need their help. Those that love you will understand. Bonus: you will learn who really loves you!
-Trust in your ability to recover.
-Don’t over-think. My rule: thoughts should inform action. If thoughts are leading you in circles and are not helping you decide what action to take right now, drop them.
-Stay away from most internet forums. Follow a good plan, like the ‘The Fluoroquinolone Toxicity Solution Ebook‘ (affiliate link) and stick to it. If you have online discussions about FQ toxicity, keep them focused on problems and specific solutions. Don’t seek commiseration and other psychological support.
-Find an affordable source of joy. For me it has been Hawaiian Reggae music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGl_d4QWors), for you it may be something else. Find something that brings out your joy and drink it in.
-Stay as active as you can. Find an enjoyable physical activity you can tolerate. For me this was swimming and cycling, both of which are not too hard on the joints. By trial and error, find out how much exercise you can tolerate. I found that no exercise was worse than a bit too much exercise. You need to get the blood flowing to promote healing.
-You will get better. Give yourself a year. You won’t believe the difference 10-12 weeks will make even. What doesn’t get better after a year, you can live with!
-Let go of anger and resentment: those are truly toxic.
Conclusion
I believe that Cipro has and the adverse reaction I had to it has given me a great gift.
My life after Cipro and my life before Cipro really aren’t that different. Cipro just brought it into sharper view.
It reminded me that life is precious fleeting and fragile, and that every day, good or bad, is a gift.
I am now determined to not waste a single day more being angry, not to miss one more opportunity to hug my wife and tell her that I love her, not to waste one more sunny day preoccupied about nonsense.
May you all be happy and well!
On 2/29/16 I got the following message from Daniel:
I took a monthlong trip to Victoria BC to avoid a big chunk of the winter.
I walked all over, sometimes all day, and climbed a small mountain.
Here are some pictures from that trip:
The park across the street from where I was staying was all in bloom.
Mt. Douglas Park, where I climbed the first ‘mountain’ since my FQ reaction.
A chalk mural by the beach seemed to speak directly to me.
Another chalk mural by the beach seemed to speak directly to me.
** The story above is truthful, accurate and told to the best of the ability of the writer. It is not intended as medical advice. No person who submits his or her story, nor the people associated with Floxie Hope, diagnoses or treats any illness. The story above should not be substituted for professionally provided medical advice. Please consult your doctor before trying anything that has been mentioned in this story, or in any other story on this site. Please also note that people have varying responses to the treatments mentioned in each story. What helps one person may not help, and may even hurt, another person. It is important that you understand that supplements, IVs, essential oils, and all other treatments, effect people differently depending on the millions of variables that make each of us unique. Please use appropriate caution and prudence, and get professional medical advice.
Here’s a quick status report, about 14 months in.
I just surfed a short session on Friday and I just got back from mountain biking a trail near my house.
I had few exercise options during the winter, so I’m a bit out of shape. I do feel like I am getting a little more stamina, though.
I was able to keep up a resistance training program through the winter, including pull-ups which are brutal on the tendons of the fore-arms and on the rotator cuff. I sustained no injury from any of this.
The rest gets a bit more nuanced, because I ran into a recurrence of problems I’ve always been susceptible to, even before Cipro.
I often run myself down and fall into bouts of adrenal fatigue, or HPA axis dysregulation, depending on how you want to call it.
In the fall my TSH shot up to high normal leading me to worry about autoimmune issues and other problems. It was all a big scare for nothing. My TSH came back down on its own a few months later.
Every fall and spring I find it really hard to adjust to the change of seasons, and it’s been the same last fall and this spring. I bet if you looked into my TSH over the years, a similar pattern would emerge.
I have become a bit disillusioned with what I’ve started to call ‘internet rabbit holes’. We can all fall into them: the gluten rabbit hole, the oxalate rabbit hole, the paleo diet rabbit hole, the MTHFR rabbithole. There are 100s of sites listing the same series of non-specific symptoms and then giving you a different explanation and solution for them.
Speaking for myself only, I found I improved a lot once I stopped going online to look for solutions based on these websites.
Cipro toxicity is undoubtedly real, but for me, after a certain point, I found that I had to just put it behind me and deal with the small remaining issues with a good diet and a much reduced list of supplements.
Some notes on symptoms.
– What I thought was neuropathy in my lower legs turned out to only be flushing from B vitamins. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
– My teeth tightened up and have stayed fine, even my dentist who is very picky about teeth says that the remaining amount of movement is normal.
– My eye problems have resolved, I have no more floaters. I do still have some trouble transitioning to dim light sometimes, but I hear that can be caused by adrenal issues.
– My left calf and achilles tendon are fine. It can still hurt, and surprisingly so but also recover quickly. This waxing and waning tells me that the remaining symptoms are psychogenic.
I still have some very hard days, and I _may_ have to treat my borderline hypothyroidism, that I have always had mind you, but overall I am recovered and I am fine.
I would encourage you to look at the psychogenic side of our condition, because it was a real key to finally finishing off my recovery.
I can also say that when symptoms come back, I am way past being bothered, and I just grin and bear it until they pass. This to me is complete recovery.
May we all be well and happy.
I’m going to tell you guys a story about my grandmother that has become semi legendary in our family.
Many cultures have stories about a race of giants that lived even before the gods.
When I think of my ancestors, my grandmother and her parents, who turned wooded lots into working farms, often with the help of a single horse. Some didn’t even have the horse and had to wring a living out of the earth with their bare hands.
Many lost children in early childhood, or older children to farm accidents. These were hard hard times.
Although my grandmother’s father was a farmer, she ended up running the general store in the village.
They bought the store form a previous owner and worked at getting it ready for the reopening. They cleaned and painted night and day for weeks.
She ignored a pain she had in her side until an ovary burst. She got peritonitis from it and they had to remove parts of her intestine and she ended up with a colostomy bag.
She said that the doctors weren’t sure she would survive, so that they stitched her up with big wide stitches in her abdomen. No point in doing a beautiful job sewing up a patient that wouldn’t make it. They were so wide apart that visitors would claim that they saw here insides from between the stitches!
But she did survive and returned to the store where she would serve the needs of her community. This was a very demanding job, and she was always on the go.
She told me stories of having to deal with that colostomy bag. When there was an accident she would just laugh it off, like it was a source of grim humour.
My grandmother had a very strong faith, and she prayed everyday.
She noticed after a while that the colostomy bag was not filling up as much and then a few days later she went to the bathroom as normal.
Over the next few weeks the hole in her side closed up, and everything went back to normal.
Le me be clear, her colostomy spontaneously closed up and her intestines somehow reconnected inside her, so that everything worked as normal again. The doctors couldn’t figure it out.
The only permanent ‘disability’ she had from that was that she couldn’t eat too many nuts because there was a pice of wire still in there, and the doctors feared obstructions (she add them anyway, just in moderation).
It wasn’t easy as this healed. As you can imagine, it was like a red hot poker in her guts, but it did heal.
Never ever lose faith, and don’t settle for a partial recovery. Hold out for a miracle! I know I am!
It was such an honour to have known her that I often don’t feel myself worthy.
Giants did indeed walk the earth, but they are also us, and we are so much taller than we imagine!
This morning I’m thanking God for giving me a sickness to learn from that I still have the strength to overcome.
A song that brightened my day. It plays over the credits of the movie “Soul Surfer” where promising pro surfer Bethany Hamilton relearns to surf after having her entire left arm bitten off in a shark attack. (It’s available on Netflix for those who have it.)
Lift your head up
Untie the knot
My little sunshine
Hope is never light-years away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RylQXfLm4LI
Good-Morning ray of sunshine! So love the music you send out!!! I had not seen your update until this morning. Have been having a bit of floxie internet over kill! ( :
I loved the story of your grandmother. What a strong woman & a testament of faith. God does work in mysterious ways! As others have said on this site I have found healing in other ways while going through this challenge. Funny how so many have said this, mental & physical healings of other problems that have been in our life. Some real wow….. moments!
I did have my 2 year old grandson last Friday & was given a good day. He even took me to the sofa & told me to sit down while he would bring me puzzles & play lego on the floor in front of me. It was as if he knew what was going on inside me. Funny how children can see things that maybe we forget to see or lose somewhere along the way.
This was my 12 weeks from passing out from pain after one cipro & being rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Unfortunately was just left in the hallway for 5 hours without even a nurse seeing me even though my husband told them I had a small heart attack years ago. Too busy to care I guess. Oh Canada! When I finally saw a dr he just said the cipro gave me a stomach ache & gave me Avelox 24 hour pill on top of just taking the cipro I passed out from 5 hours before and told me to take 1 a day for 10 days. ( never passed out from a tummy ache before!!! )The next day my eyes were yellow & I was very ill. After two 5 hour trips to emerg. the day before my husband just told me to go back to bed. By the 3rd day my eyes were not as yellow but I knew something was really wrong. I was not going back to my local emerg. so told my husband to please drop me off at VGH on his way to work. They ran blood work and my liver enzines were off the chart. I was ask questions about drinking & tylenol use. I had a glass of wine with dinner on occasion & maybe a tylenol every 4 months!? My mind was so fogged I could not remember the yellow eyes & the upper right side & back pain that I passed out from. This drug does make you nuts! ( : I was told to stay on the Avelox & have a blood test every 3 days. Since I was nuts I would take a taxi to the blood clinic & my enzines were going down so I was to still stay on Avelox as it must have just been the cipro in my drs mind even though he did say it gave me acute hepatitis and my liver is very damaged. Thought that would be the worst of it then 6 weeks later boom! 1st the shoulder tendon pain then just went through out the whole body. My feet make me the most nervous because of walking. Cannot find a pair of shoes that work because never know which foot tendon is going to hurt today!!! ( : Anyway after dr just tried to give me steroids & pain meds I found Floxie Hope that day! I have been using most of the program from the book except for Q-Mito. Do have a young Natroupath who is doing what is suggested & not her own program as she has agreed with the program. I have good days which do give you a lot of hope then you fall back and depression sits in but I work my way out of it as quick as I can. I know if you can have those good days you can soon have more & more of them! Now if only I could find those shoes!!!!!
By the way my husband grew up on Georgian Bay. He still dreams of it. We lived in Midland & Horseshoe ( Barrie ) before moving out west.
I guess I have made this a pretty long update.
Thanks so much for the playtime ideas & your uplifting grandmother’s story. I had a grandmother like that as well & through it all lived to 94!!!
Go catch some waves young man!!!~~~~~~~~
More music from Maui, this time from “Inna vision”.
Very positive and wise lyrics from such a young band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8ZODOal7ro
Lyrics:
Dry your eyes and wipe your tears
Count your blessings not your fears
About 20 years ago I had just started mountain biking and was really obsessed.
I was riding every chance I got, even at night and in the snow. I bought a cycle trainer to ride at home in the basement.
I worked as a programmer, meaning I had to put in a lot of chair time and biking was a great outlet.
About that time a major death in the family sidelined me with depression, and unrelenting fatigue. I had such bad brain fog I could barely do my job, and I was so fatigue I couldn’t ride anymore. It was really hard to lose my outlet.
But I figured if I cant ride, I’ll work on my balance. So I would get on my bike and practice balancing next to a handrail for hours at a time.
Believe it or not you can learn to balance at a complete standstill on a bike. It took me 2-3 months to learn but it’s been as skill that has served me well when I later recovered and could start biking again.
Now I can balance on a bike anywhere I want. I even did it while riding along a log suspended in the air.
Nowadays it’s flat calm in the lake, and there is no surfing, but I do have a balance trainer called a goofboard (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R28HMozivk).
So when I take work breaks, I work on my balance on that.
So if you have some activity you enjoy and you find you can’t do it with the same intensity as before, there might be subset of it you still _can_ do.
Hey guys,
Just a quick not about something I’ve been noticing in myself more and more lately.
This is going to sound weird, but found I am not very good at identifying the nature of sensations and feelings. I also think this may happen to other people.
Here’s an example.
The other day in the kitchen I got a sharp pain in my heel, just at the same spot that my tendon used to hurt from Cipro (where it connects to the heel). Immediately I thought, damn it don’t tell me it’s back again, and then I realized I had stepped on a tiny grain of rice on the hard floor.
Let me be clear it felt exactly the same as the Cipro damage used to feel. Not sort of like, exactly the same!
I’ve studied a bit of psychology, and they taught us that there are two streams in the brain that become active when interpreting a sensation: bottom up processes, and top down processes.
When a sensory nerve registers a sensation, it send it to the brain and it enters via the bottom up process. Until now it is just a raw sensation, not yet a perception.
The brain’s job is to assign the sensation a meaning. Basically (a sensation + a meaning = a perception).
While the raw sense data is coming up into the mind via the bottom up channel, the “higher” centres of the brain, that have access to all our memories starts a process called the “top down” process that attempts to assign a meaning to the sense data. To do this it relies on our memories, and also our “state” (how we are feeling right now, our mood, which emotions are in play at the moment, etc…).
The two processes meet in the middle so to speak and finally assign a meaning to the sense data.
This wonderful machine can get it wrong sometimes, sort of like your perceptions can be tricked by an optical illusion.
Now in this example case, the cause was easy to identify, a grain of rice. But in other cases, it’s not as clear.
Just wanted to point out that not all sensations of ‘damage’ indicate actual damage. Also note that our mood and our expectations can strongly affect how we perceive sense data. After struggling with FQ damage, we can become hypervigilant to sensations in the affected body parts, also our mood can be affected, and we become fearful and start to expect the worst.
I’ve learned to look out for these kind of ‘perceptual illusions’ in my recovery.
Sometimes it’s best not to over-interpret every little (or even big) ache or pain that we get. Especially later in our recovery.
A big clue that you may be experiencing this, is if your mood state causes dramatic changes in you pain levels.
Also, a good way to get better at sorting out your sense data is to meditate.
Something to ponder:
“The problem isn’t really solved until it doesn’t matter if the problem comes back.”
I believe this is the biggest lesson that Cipro has taught me.
Hi Daniel,
I’ve loved reading through your posts, your positive attitude is amazing! I took 4 cipro tablets 2 weeks ago and have had achilles tendon pain in my right ankle and pain in my calf since the second day of my course. I stopped the cipro the day after the pain started on the second night. It’s funny, because I had some sort of anxiety attack in bed on the first night (racing heart, panic), but I didn’t think too much of it, just did some meditation and calmed myself down, but in hindsight, I’m starting to think it was my body somehow trying to tell me not to take the cipro.
Anyway, I’ve been able to walk, thankfully, but was in a lot of pain at the start of this week, so have been trying to stay off my feet as much as I can the past few days, I’ve had lots of swelling too. I tried a 10 minute walk today, which wasn’t overly painful, but my ankles in both feet are aching quite a bit now.
I’m taking a lot of supplements, all the usual things mentioned in many of the posts on this site (MitoQ, PPQ, vit E, B12, mag gly, zinc, iron, evening primrose and NAC) and I’m also making my own bone broth which I’ve read can be helpful with rebuilding collegen. I’m also thinking of trying Biosil, but was wondering if the gelatin/collegen in the bone broth would do the job just as well and more cheaply?!
I’ve been wondering about exercise, I know it’s early days for me, but until a couple of weeks ago, I used to take ballet class twice a week, just as a hobby, I’m not a professional dancer or anything like that, but ballet is so hard on the achilles tendons, I’m wondering if I’ll ever be able to dance again. How long do you think I’ll have to wait to be healed enough to try ballet again? Six months or a year at least I’m thinking. To be honest, I’m not even sure I’ll ever be able to trust my achilles not to rupture, even if I wait years 🙁 I’m intending to build up my exercise slowly, a ten minute walk for now, then longer walks, some gentle stretching, but I’m way to scared to try this just yet, then maybe eventually a pilates class. I used to snowboard a lot too, but again, I don’t know if I’ll ever have enough confidence in my achilles to do this again, like surfing, the movement is all based in the ankles and the knees. What was your exercise regimen, and how did you manage to build up to being able to surf again? Where you nervous the first time you got back on your board?
I’m just taking things one day at a time at the moment, trying to stay positive and concentrating on the good things in life that I can still do, like reading, knitting, cuddling my puppy, listening to music and learning to meditate. I know I WILL recover from this, I just don’t know WHEN.
BTW, have you managed to treat your SIBO? I also have this too and have tried many things to eradicate it over the years, it’s very difficult to deal with though, so for now I’m trying to manage it with the FODMAPS diet and occasional courses of supplements. Ironically, I took the cipro to treat my SIBO.
Most of the time I pray to God to ask him for what I want.
When I’m really brave though, I ask him to give me what I _need_.
The west Coast of Vancouver Island has it’s very own surf town: Tofino.
I’ve been there a few times, and starting to get that feeling again…
https://vimeo.com/99942047
My son, his family & a group of their friends are going for the long weekend on Thursday. I get to keep the dog. (: Feel so lucky that I can at least look out my window & see the inlet, mountains and the downtown Vancouver skyline! God I love BC!!!!!!!
The minute you get your energy back Mr. Daniel, I say go for it!!!! (:
PS. My family dr told me to warn my son about these antibotics as the reaction to it can run in families he thinks. He’s turning a death ear to me & he is a daily mountain biker like you!!!!!
Thanks for sharing this Daniel, I will show this to Jon as he will know where that is. He is not a pro biker as well but he & his wife, Jess, were pro skiers, X-Games & all. He does bike with the pro bikers in Whistler. They are 33 now & my thoughts of how this would change his life & with young kids is scary. But the fact he has lost quite I few friends in skiing accidents I guess he does not have the fear maybe he should!
I just loved seeing you and makes you more real to me. Like one of my kids. I know you keep saying you are getting older but I am sure I could still be your mom. I have a 45 year old daughter!
Remember what you said about the mind last week putting us in a scary place we really are not in, the same mind can take you biking & out on the board!
I feel so much more for you young ones who were out doing so much, I just need to get back to cleaning my house, babysitting & walking the seawall! (:
I live in a condo at the base of the road up to Cypress & my son is in upper Lonsdale.
Know the Lululemon mansion well. My husband builds these over priced boxes for a investment company and we just lease our condo for the privilege of living in West Vancouver! When my son & his wife were house hunting on the north shore a year & a half ago they were getting bid out every time. They decided to just over spend & go for it! If that house had not gone through they were going to give up for a year. It did & are they glad as a tear down in Edgemont & upper Lonsdale can be hitting near 2 mill. now!!!!! Crazy place here now! Can’t stop those money people from coming and sure not does hurt our business! My husband said to tell you that all those people who own little run down homes in East Vancouver are millonaires now!
Yes the biking is safer than the skiing. Sadly most of their were lost to avalanches.
That is very sad that he lost friends to avalanches.
It is also impressive that he was pr, I never got even close to X-Games caliber that’s for sure, but I had my own thing I could do well.
In the end you do it for yourself, I have very few videos and pictures to show for all that biking, but I did enjoy spending time int he woods.
That was the best part, probably, the solitude in the woods, and I can still do that whether what I’m riding is extreme or not.
Actually there was another reason I did all that I think, but that would be a longer post that I can maybe post one day.
Your business must be doing well indeed. Good for you.
And as for the Lululemon house, I think it’s horrid, but the sun shines for everyone, and if that makes that guy happy and he can afford it, good for him.
Believe or not there is a worse house being built in lower West Van. I think 25,000sft. on a city lot! Of course the neighbours fought it but went nowhere.
Like you I just enjoy the woods & nature.
The risks they take at that level of skiing is crazy. Lost 5 close friends, 3 in avalanches & 2 in ski accidents. My son retired at 22 and went back to UBC & works in the the tech industry. His wife skied until she was was 29 & was on the USA team for halfpipe then a young woman who was the worlds top womens skier who had been my sons friend since grade school was killed in a training accident that turned just about everyones life upside down so his wife retired the next day. A lot of their friends are still in the ski industry but for them it was time for a family & a different life. The mountain biking still gives him enough rush.
Well our business is good for the investors at least but keeps the old man working!(:
Waiting for your other story someday!
Giving 300%.
Two different people told me today that I have been giving 300% for years.
I let out a deep breath. It felt so good to acknowledge that.
For many of us, just living a ‘normal life’ after being jacked up by Cipro or whatever other health challenges we may have is going way way beyond.
So take time to acknowledge that in your life, we are all giving all we got here.
If anybody isn’t happy with that, then they can just … {this space intentionally left blank}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHGbgh0UFLI
A touching video about a rare ‘Blossom Bat’ and Louise Saunders from Bat Conservation & Rescue who nursed her back to health after a suspected cat attack.
Click on “Show More” to read her story.
I wanted to point out this post on freetheanimal.com that discuses test results from ubiome and American Gut. (https://freetheanimal.com/2015/11/ubiome-results-function.html)
The short version is that the author was testing to see what the effect was of taking a course of the probiotic ‘Elixa'[1] and that there is likely testing error since the results made no sense.
You can read the entire post to see what specifically didn’t make sense.
Just pointing it out so that people don’t over interpret these tests if it reports a strain or metabolic pathway is missing. Lack of sample homogeneity means it could have been detected somewhere else in the ‘sample’.
[1] Elixa is the best probiotic I have ever used. Highly recommended. (http://www.elixa-probiotic.com/)