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Seeing through the Matrix

Seeing through the Matrix

Do you remember that scene in The Matrix where Neo (Keanu Reeves) is offered the pills by Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne)?  He has the choice, he can take the red pill and see the real world, or he can take the blue pill and remain in the façade world, the Matrix.  He...

Lessons Learned from Getting Floxed

I’m going to start this post with a disclaimer – when I say I “asked for” this, I don’t mean that I deserved to get sick.  It is not my fault that I got sick.  I have made plenty of mistakes in my life, and plenty of the mistakes that I’ve made have to do with taking...

Legal Compensation for Fluoroquinolone Toxicity

Legal Compensation for Fluoroquinolone Toxicity

I was floxed in the last months of 2011.  (I took the Cipro in November but didn’t react until December so my flox-iversary is debatable.)  For most of the time that I have been a “Floxie” the general word among fellow Floxies was that lawyers weren’t accepting...

Who Reads Drug Warning Labels?

Here is a post that I wrote for Hormones Matter. http://www.hormonesmatter.com/read-drug-warning-labels/ The information on the warning label for fluoroquinolones is woefully inadequate.  It's sad how inadequate it is.

The Silence Around Fluoroquinolone Toxicity

The Silence Around Fluoroquinolone Toxicity

I posted this - http://www.hormonesmatter.com/epidemic-silence-adverse-drug-reactions/ on Hormones Matter on October 17, 2013.  It was originally similar to the post below but I changed and edited it until it became what I submitted to Hormones Matter.  I still like...

Letter to Phil Blake, CEO of Bayer

Letter to Phil Blake, CEO of Bayer

The picture above was posted by Jeff of www.ciproispoison.com on some of the Fluoroquinolone Toxicity facebook groups.  It got me thinking, if I got on the phone with Phil Blake, CEO of Bayer, what would I say?  I know that I wouldn’t say the “right” things and that I...

Email to the FDA

Email to the FDA

For the record, this email was sent to stephen.king@fda.hhs.gov on 10/11/2013. Dear Mr. King, I am writing in regards to this article...