FDA Advises Restricting Fluoroquinolone Use
On May 12, 2016 the FDA released the announcement, Fluoroquinolone Antibacterial Drugs: Drug Safety Communication - FDA Advises Restricting Use for Certain Uncomplicated Infections. It stated: FDA is advising that the serious side effects associated with...
Comments From Doctors About Fluoroquinolone Toxicity
With every article about fluoroquinolone toxicity that is published (there are hundreds HERE), more and more people come forward and say, "that happened to me too," or, "those drugs hurt my family member," or some variation/elaboration of those sentiments. As...
NSAIDs and FQs Damage Mitochondria, Increase Oxidative Stress, and Cause Cell Death
As I noted in the post, Why NSAIDs Suck for Floxies (and Probably Everyone Else Too), NSAIDs often exacerbate fluoroquinolone toxicity symptoms, and there are several mechanisms through which NSAIDs can interact with fluoroquinolones. The results of a recent article...
Serious Psychiatric Reactions from Fluoroquinolones
Please read and share post, "Psychiatric Adverse Reactions to Pharmaceuticals Ignored" that was published on Hormones Matter. It highlights the tragic story of Shea McCarthy, a young man who lost his life after suffering from a severe psychiatric adverse reaction to...
Floatation Therapy for Fluoroquinolone Toxicity
From the ages of 12 through 18 (1992-1998) I lived in a big, somewhat ridiculous, but interesting, house. One of the ridiculous but interesting things about it was that there was a sensory deprivation tank in the attic above the master bedroom. We never used the...
A Full Recovery
Several of the recovery stories on floxiehope.com describe people who are mostly, but not fully, recovered. A lot of the recovery stories are from people who can see the light at the end of the fluoroquinolone toxicity tunnel, but they're not completely out of the...
Hyperparathyroidism
Several floxies have reported that they have been diagnosed with hyperparathyroidism. Though I think that fluoroquinolones can cause hyperparathyroidism, I am not going to go into that right now - I hope to explore the connections in future posts. For right now, I...
How to Stop Overprescribing Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics
Overprescription of Antibiotics I found this New York Times article, How to Stop Overprescribing Antibiotics, to be really interesting. Doctors know that antibiotic resistance is a serious problem--the word has gotten out sufficiently, but that knowledge hasn't done...
Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics and Oxalate Overload
According to the wikipedia entry for oxalobacter formigenes, “Quinolone, a broad-spectrum antibiotic, kills O. formigenes. If a person's gastrointestinal (GI) tract lacks this bacterium, and therefore lacks the primary source for the oxalyl-CoA decarboxylase enzyme,...
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