I wanted to share my story of cipro poisoning & recovery.
As an athletic and healthy 22 year old mom of a toddler, I went to an urgent care with UTI symptoms mid July and was prescribed cipro. I stopped taking it after only 2 pills when I noticed all of my joints were extremely sore and my feet and hands were VERY swollen. I was then prescribed Macrobid. Over the next 8 weeks I suffered tremendously with a total of 5 trips to the ER where they did nothing for me And denied that cipro could be causing my issues. It was incredibly frustrating and scary. I was scared that I was never going to be able to care for my daughter again or return to my hobbies such as running and weight lifting. It was so bad in the beginning my mother had to help me shower.
After following a regimin that worked for me I have become 80 percent healed in the last few weeks and have been able to return to all of my normal activities except for weight lifting which I’m giving myself more time to recover.
My symptoms:
-constant dizziness for 6 weeks with no alleviation (gone)
-migraines (gone)
-tachycardia and arrythmia: 130 bpm at rest (sent me to the ER) gone
-Low blood pressure (gone)
-extreme fatigue (gone)
-brain fog/confusion (80 percent better)
-anxiety (gone)
-eyes: visual snow which is actually neurological, floaters, poor color vision,I now need glasses for being near sighted (I still have these)
-joint pain and tingling (gone except for in weather changes)
What helped me:
-multivitamin with iron daily
-megared triple strength omega 3 oil capsules daily
-probiotics daily
-ginger tea (ginger is anti inflammatory!)
-exercise
-positive attitude VERY IMPORTANT
-challenging my brain: reading even when difficult, lumosity brain games
-getting plenty of water & sleep
What did NOT help
-Motrin, Tylenol, dramamine, Claritin, Sudafed (WORSENED … I will never again take another NSAID or any other pharmaceutical unless absolutely necessary. I am in favor of natural remedies)
God bless and good luck to all those still healing. I know how difficult it is to feel like you have no control and that doctors can’t help you. It is so important to be positive and believe you will get better.
Cipro changed my life and I have become a much more grateful and positive person after realizing how important the little things are.
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Elisabeth-
Thank you for your story! I am sorry that you experienced this like the rest of us on here. How long ago was this for you? I, too, have a lot of visual issues from the fallout. I’m a year out. Can you tell me which eye issues you have and which resolved? I have the visual snow, floaters, poor color perception/blurry vision, etc. With the prism glasses, it’s like everything is in “high def” or like I’m in a 3D movie. I now have to wear prism glasses because my eyes do not work together. It’s the only way that I can function to work and take care of my children. I think you were fortunate to stop at 2 pills. I took a weeks worth along with Flagyl, which can be toxic as well… Even though I wanted to stop after having these scary symptoms, I trusted the doctors/pharmacists when they said to keep taking them, the side-effects will go away and that I would be OK since I was not over 65! I’m still holding out hope that they will all go away and that my vision will return to normal! I can’t believe how all these doctors across the work are naive to the dangers of these medications when all you have to do is google it! Best wishes for continued healing!
You are lucky to have improved so much so quickly. And yes, do not EVER take NSAIDs (or steroids) again. Also, macrobid is very toxic as well. If you get another UTI find a female ND. There is a protocol for getting rid of it without pharmaceuticals. (and the floaters are from damage to the vitreous gel. cipro can destory any kind of connective tissue.)
Hello Elisabeth. What a wonderful recovery!
I too am struggling and although many symptoms subsided, the visual snow is still there.
Any improvement on that?
Elizabeth Did you try magnesium?
May I ask what multivitamin you took?
It was so good to actually hear about someone having success at recovering. So many horror stories out there. I’m 6 months out from being floxed by Cipro, and some other things have improved. Good days, bad days. I totally agree with you about keeping a good attitude. May you have continued healing.
Dear Elizabeth, Please consider sending your story to 60 CBS 60 Minutes. 60m@cbs.news.com Our stories need to be heard, Dan
sorry, but “positive attitude” is not a cure for fluoroquinolone poisoning, and it’s not inspring; it’s just super belittling to those of us actually still desperately searching for real interventions.
Thanks for sharing and thank goodness you only had 2 tablets. More than likely you will be back to 95% + in about 12 months.
A lot of us have taken 60-120 tablets and are permanently disabled.
I am just glad you had hardly any of this poison and are on the road to complete recovery.
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