Friends Don’t Let Friends Take Fluoroquinolones
I’ve been writing about the dangers of fluoroquinolone antibiotics(cipro/ciprofloxacin, levaquin/levofloxacin, avelox/moxifloxacin, floxin/ofloxacin and a few others) for a little over a year. As my friends, family, and associates have read what I’ve written,...
UCSD Fluoroquinolone Effects Study
Have you taken the UCSD Fluoroquinolone Effects Study survey yet? If so, THANK YOU!!!! If not, please do. Here’s the link to it – http://www.fqstudy.info/Fluoroquinolone_Effects_Study/Welcome.html This study is important on so many levels. Your participation in...
Fluoroquinolones Surpass Vioxx and Thalidomide in Harm Done
In a May, 2014 letter to the U.S. Senate, Doctor Jay S. Cohen said of fluoroquinolones, “In my 40+ years in pharmacovigilance, FQs (fluoroquinolones) surpass Vioxx and Thalidomide in the degree of permanent harm done.” Let that sink in for a bit. Fluoroquinolones –...
Adverse Drug Reactions are Like Earthquakes
Here is a post about how adverse drug reactions are like Earthquakes - http://www.hormonesmatter.com/adverse-drug-reactions-like-earthquakes/ Drugs, just like earthquakes, can shake your world and cause damage and destruction.
Anthrax Exposure
Per NBC News, "More than 80 people may have been exposed to airborne anthrax bacteria in an embarrassing mishap at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and the numbers may go even higher, officials said Friday. “Right now we have an excess of 80...
Happy Anniversary Floxie Hope!
I started www.floxiehope.com one year ago today – on June 20, 2013. It’s my floxiehopeiversary / blogiversary / siteiversary. A drink will be had to celebrate. In the year that it has been up, Floxie Hope has had 177,547 page views from, I dunno, a somewhat smaller...
Lisa’s Update
I wrote my recovery story about a year ago. A lot changes in a year, so I thought I'd write an update. I was pretty well recovered when I wrote my story. In most areas, I was about 95% of my pre-flox capacity. I could do most of the physical and mental things that I...
Can Antibiotics Induce Psychiatric Reactions?
Fluoroquinolones cause mitochondrial damage and oxidative stress. Mitochondrial damage and oxidative stress have been causally linked to all sorts of psychiatric disorders, including, but not limited to bipolar disorder, depression, attention deficit...
Epigenetics and Fluoroquinolones: Now What?
Per Dr. Chandler Marrs (who runs www.hormonesmatter.com), "Above and around genetic codes reside the on/off switches to many processes (the switching of genes on and off is epigenetics). If common medications, including fluoroquinolones, up or downregulate these...
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