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Regina
8 years ago
Hi Leigh,
Hope you feel better soon! 🙂 I to would say stay away from FQ’s also. And especially LEVAQUIN!!!!!! It’s pure POISON in my opinion. I hope you feel better soon.
Gina
Regina
8 years ago
Hi Linda,
I am looking into ND’s. I have had a few people tell me it’s worth checking them out. Unfortunately I never have tried anything that has been spoken of on this site 🙁 Do you think it’s to late for me now….since I’m six year’s out? Just looking for opinions….
Gina
Regina
8 years ago
Thank’s Linda your awesome! I am going to set up appt soon and really look into the nutrient IVs. 🙂
Jo O'Keefe
8 years ago
Hi. I just found this site and I’m wondering if this could explain my lifelong health issues. I was severely burned when I was 2 and I’ve always wondered if the antibiotics and medication I was given played a part in my odd and chronic symptoms. I have no idea what I was given, but suspect sulfa drugs as I almost died from a reaction to sulfa when it was prescribed in my early 20’s, and it was the first time I had ever taken it, to my knowledge. I was diagnosed with RA as a teenager, then Hashimoto’s, Raynaud’s, Sjogren’s, neurocardiogenic syncope, etc. I became unable to work at 50, and now at 55, my symptoms continue to limit me more and more. Most recently, I have been dealing with c diff that I can’t get over. I’m on my third round of vancomycin. I’m interested in learning more to see if there is anything I could be trying that I haven’t tried yet.
Linda,
Did you feel the hydrogen peroxide iv (h202) helped you?? I don’t have the breathing issues as you did, but just reading about h202 it seems like it would really benefit all of us. The naturopath who does iv’s in my city does those too, although he is advocating the glutathione push much more than h202.
John
8 years ago
Hi all,
I was floxed in December of 2011. I feel ok. I don’t have noticeable damage that has limited my “basic” daily activities, for that I am grateful, as I have read many heartbreaking stories about debilitating injuries caused by cipro. However, hit the hardest is my collagen: tendons, joints, skin, skin sensitivity, eye sight, muscle (thickness) wasting, and overall just look and feel older. I’m 37 but I feel 57. My energy levels are super low and I feel like I’m breaking down at a faster rate than the normal person. I don’t have the physical strength I had 4 years ago. Gone are my gym days, softball leagues, helping out with my son’s sports teams. I don’t play like I used to with my children. I’m a high school math teacher and stopped working with an after school club I was in charge of and helping out with extra curricular activities, which I did for 10 years prior to my floxing, and my marriage has suffered because quite frankly I’m a different person now, I really can’t blame my wife for getting frustrated with me at times.
My question to the forum is and by the way, I am extremely grateful for this forum, all you guys have helped me cope through this like you don’t know – I take iodine, multivitamin, vitamin C, drink lots of water, and of course, magnesium, almost daily. Despite all these supplements, after all this time of being floxed, at times I still feel like I took those fq pills yesterday. How can this stuff be in our system all this time? Does this stuff really change our DNA, another words changes the fabric of who we are biologically? I’m lost for, well hope, even after 4 years of ingesting this stuff, I’m still experiencing the effects of the fq’s. Anyway, I will stop being doom and gloom, I know I myself like reading stuff that is constructive and helpful. Anyway, if anyone has any information on the long term effects and this stuff leaving our system, I would love to read any such post. Thanks in advance.
Cindy Jones
8 years ago
Just thought that this may be of interest to those seeking info on oxalates and low oxalate diets.
OMG! This clip is so perfect. Someone just shared this on facebook. Many of you are too young to remember the Golden Girls, but damn, I could have used someone like this on my doctor visits!!! https://www.facebook.com/cmedlyn/videos/10205484180891376/
Sam
8 years ago
I’m 35, male, weight about 145lbs at 5’11”. I was prescribed Cipro for a UTI 3 weeks ago and had peripheral neuropathy symptoms after the 1st dose. I stopped and the doctor gave me another antibiotic that cleared my UTI in 2 weeks. My peripheral neuropathy symptoms last for a couple of days and subsided. Now I have this issue and I’m wondering if it’s Cipro related or anyone has any idea what it is; since the doctor doesn’t seem to know and it’s spreading fast.
Over this weekend, I noticed a lot of evenly distributed lumps in the fatty layer of my inner thighs that I know weren’t there a few days before (I take baths because of my UTI and massaged the area). The lumps are from rice to pea size and a few mm below the skin, and they feel like rice grains (you can’t see the lumps; only feel them). A day later, it spread a little further down under my thighs. On the second day, it reaches behind my knee by forming lumps along that big ligament under the thighs. On the third day, it reaches the back of my knees and now it passes the back of my knees a little bit and form lumps at the beginning of my calf muscles. I also notice some lumps forming on my arm as well, but not as much as the thighs. They affect both side of my body evenly (e.g. the left and right thighs has the same area and distance affected). My thigh muscles don’t seem to develop lumps, just the patch of fatty tissues on the inside and under — though in the past day, my muscles seems to be uneven now.
I generally know when they lumps are going to form as well because I will feel the area slightly tingling and slight pain. Six hours later I will feel the lumps there. After the lumps form, the mild pain disappears unless I put pressure on them.
Any ideas? My doctor order some blood tests I just did, but in the mean time it’s spreading to all my body parts. Right now, my head, neck, main body, and feet are clear of them, but I’m not sure it will be true in the next few days.
Paul
8 years ago
Is there anyone from Western MA that has found a good naturopath that has experience with our situation? Every naturopath or alternative medical centers I contact seem to have no clue about how FQ or how to treat FQ toxicity but are more then willing to take my money to figure it out. I see an acupuncturist that is giving me some herbs & supplement but he is not totally familiar with FQ toxicity . You would think these places would have had some experience with this by now. It feels like I’m the only one going though this in my area.
Mark S
8 years ago
A low oxalate diet is essential for floxies as out guts are ravaged and we do not have the bacteria to handle it. But, you must be careful about it. Going completely cold turkey can lead to a terrible detox. Better to just step down slowly over the course of a couple months.
jwinn
8 years ago
Bruce, you just gave me a smile for today! 🙂 Thank you! I’m not much of a ‘drinker’, but what to eat/and not to eat makes me want to pick up a bottle of Crown myself! LOL. I completely understand about changing directions! I don’t know which diet is supposed to help me. I have adjusted my diet for Candida, which is far different from the LO diet. I have been “O-D-ing” on Spinach and Almonds… I’m so confused! As soon as I think I have cleaned up my diet, I find out that even spinach might not be good for me. YIKES! I would never have known about any of this had it not been for this site. Thanks, folks, for the wealth of knowledge that you share here. Time for me to figure out how I’m going to adjust to a new menu and cut back on the Vitamin C….and praying for better days to come!
Linda
8 years ago
Well here is an interesting study that makes it sound like pecans and cashews might be a better option, even though they say all nuts have oxalates. (Bad news is along with almonds they list Brazil nuts, which I take everyday for the selenium, in case I ingest any fluoride). I don’t have the tendon issues so probably not as important for me, but I have read that it can also lead to kidney stones (high oxalate). http://www.nuthealth.org/nutrition-research/soluble-and-insoluble-oxalate-content-of-nuts/
Paul
8 years ago
I hear you Bruce!
joanneg
8 years ago
Hi Everyone,
I just got off the phone with the parathyroid doctor in Florida, and he said according to my labs, (the fluctuating calcium between high 9’s and 10.4 and the inappropriately high parathyroid hormone at 51 which is in the normal range, but not if your calcium is high) he thinks I definitely have hyperparathyroid that requires surgery.
So, I’m very scared and very excited at the same time, thinking that hopefully, prayerfully this will be the end of all this misery
I have to call Monday after the holiday weekend to schedule my surgery.
I just wanted to let you all know what was going on.
Dr Norman. I wanted to thank you for making me feel so much better! All my symptoms are almost completely gone. The panic attacks ended the day after the surgery. The tremors took a little longer, but are now gone after about 3 weeks. My memory is improving, though slowly. An interesting piece of information came to light in the course of my Master’s program: hyperparathyroidism is listed as a medical condition which can lead to panic disorder, schizophrenia, dementia and psychosis…Scary huh? Thanks for your excellent surgery, I am so glad my wife found you!
Hi Dr. Norman & Dr. Politz: I just wanted to thank you. It has been only 3 weeks since my MIRP Surgery, and exactly as you said I already feel like my old self. My severe muscle and joint pains are gone, and I now have my energy back. I only wish it was diagnosed sooner. If I did not find your fantastic web site, I can only guess how many more years I would have suffered. I have been in the Minimal Invasive Surgery field for many yearsas a manufacturer of MIS imaging products. I have not seen such skill , knowledge and professionalism, asyou and your staff show. I can’t thank you enough and greatly appreciate all you have done for me. I am sure glad I didn’t have the old fashioned surgery up here in Boston!
Patient: C.W. Gainesville, Florida. Professor at University of Florida
Drs. Norman and Politz, One month ago today you completed my mini-parathyroid surgery. While I must tell you that I am the world’s biggest skeptic, I hoped to maybe feel a little better… But, what I now feel is nothing short of amazing. I stay awake all day now! No longer need 10 hours of sleep –or more. My aching bones don’t ache. And, most importantly, the fog has lifted. I tell people that I feel like the Clariton Clear commercial where they peel back the film to a bright sunny picture. You said that my husband and I both would ‘love you’…and we do. I feel like I’m starting all over again. I had given up any hope of being promoted to full professor –but now I know that I have the energy and clarity to start writing again. I know that this is getting long, but I want to share one other thing with you both. As you know, my struggle has been enormous and at times totally immobilizing. Many times I felt like I didn’t have what I needed inside of me to make the adaptations needed –in fact I didn’t know if I could keep living at all. Doctors, you truly did save my life. We can’t thank you both enough. We’d name our next child after you but, as you remember, that ship has long ago sailed!
Patient: NM. Cleveland, Ohio. Registered Nurse
Dear Dr. Norman: I am so excited and have been since awakening from my parathyroid surgery and realizing that all of theHORRIBLE symptoms that I had suffered over the past 20 months, that had literally debilitated me,are—GONE!! The generalized bone pain, the relentless nausea, the tired to the bone feeling, and most of all,the the Horrible dizziness and vertigo,are gone!!! You, with the gifted surgeons hands, and the intelligent brain, did what 11 other Drs. could not, you knew immediately that it was the high calcium causing all of my problems and you were absolutely right!! You have given me back my life and I plan to return to my nursing job and career in two weeks. I could never put into words my praise and thanks to you. I will be forever grateful.
Sorry I posted so many, but I really wanted to post more! because there are so many of them that sound like the same symptoms we floxies suffer from.
For example:
dry eyes
blurry vision
insomnia
anxiety, depression, brain fog, memory loss, cognitive issues
heart palpitations, high blood pressure, other heart issues
muscle and joint pain
not being able to walk without severe pain,
not being able to pass a dish across the dinner table without your wrist feeling like its gonna snap
feeling 10-20 years older
skin less plump more wrinkly
dizziness, vertigo
no dreams
nightmares
heavy feelings of doom
burning, swollen joints
stomach issues
having to quit their jobs and/or other activities
total body pain
not understanding what’s happening to them
can;t get a diagnosis !!!
When you read all these symptoms, it sure sounds like they were floxed!
Anyhow, I’ll keep you all posted throughout the surgery and the recovery.
joanneg
8 years ago
Linda, jwinn, and Bruce,
Thank you for your encouragement and prayers. I REALLY appreciate it.
As you all know, this is a LONG and LONELY road (that I’m sick of traveling!) and it’s nice to have people who understand.
This is WAAY too much to handle on our own.
I pray God will help us ALL find our healing and SOON !!!
I’ll definitely keep you all posted.
Angie A.
8 years ago
Aha! I found it! So Vit D facilitates the ABSORPTION of oxalates. But you don’t want your body to absorb them, you want them to bind in your gut and the gut flora to eat them up.
Then if your gut flora is compromised (which is what the antibiotics cause) using the VSL #3 can step up and take the place of the gut flora until you are able to rebuild it through time. : )
Kevin
8 years ago
Hi, new here – not sure if this is how to ask a question but here goes……
Had Cipro twice before no problems for Porstatitis, took one table last week and immediately had endocrine symptoms related to suppression of CYP1A2 – high male oestrogen causing an oestrogen rash and sore chest + burning in the arms related to the change in hormone levels.
Had bloods done and all normal range but E2 higher than it was prior to Cipro – tried caffeine today but had a swimming head so obvious that CYP1A2 is still suppressed – no other symptoms so far which I am thankful for.
There is no specific info on the broader web so does anyone have a perspective on how long it will take for the liver enzymes to normalise again?
Hi Leigh,
Hope you feel better soon! 🙂 I to would say stay away from FQ’s also. And especially LEVAQUIN!!!!!! It’s pure POISON in my opinion. I hope you feel better soon.
Gina
Hi Linda,
I am looking into ND’s. I have had a few people tell me it’s worth checking them out. Unfortunately I never have tried anything that has been spoken of on this site 🙁 Do you think it’s to late for me now….since I’m six year’s out? Just looking for opinions….
Gina
Thank’s Linda your awesome! I am going to set up appt soon and really look into the nutrient IVs. 🙂
Hi. I just found this site and I’m wondering if this could explain my lifelong health issues. I was severely burned when I was 2 and I’ve always wondered if the antibiotics and medication I was given played a part in my odd and chronic symptoms. I have no idea what I was given, but suspect sulfa drugs as I almost died from a reaction to sulfa when it was prescribed in my early 20’s, and it was the first time I had ever taken it, to my knowledge. I was diagnosed with RA as a teenager, then Hashimoto’s, Raynaud’s, Sjogren’s, neurocardiogenic syncope, etc. I became unable to work at 50, and now at 55, my symptoms continue to limit me more and more. Most recently, I have been dealing with c diff that I can’t get over. I’m on my third round of vancomycin. I’m interested in learning more to see if there is anything I could be trying that I haven’t tried yet.
WOW! I also have bad reaction to sulfa drugs
Does anybody know of an N.D familiar w FQ toxicity in the southern Wisconsin /Chicago area??
Linda,
Did you feel the hydrogen peroxide iv (h202) helped you?? I don’t have the breathing issues as you did, but just reading about h202 it seems like it would really benefit all of us. The naturopath who does iv’s in my city does those too, although he is advocating the glutathione push much more than h202.
Hi all,
I was floxed in December of 2011. I feel ok. I don’t have noticeable damage that has limited my “basic” daily activities, for that I am grateful, as I have read many heartbreaking stories about debilitating injuries caused by cipro. However, hit the hardest is my collagen: tendons, joints, skin, skin sensitivity, eye sight, muscle (thickness) wasting, and overall just look and feel older. I’m 37 but I feel 57. My energy levels are super low and I feel like I’m breaking down at a faster rate than the normal person. I don’t have the physical strength I had 4 years ago. Gone are my gym days, softball leagues, helping out with my son’s sports teams. I don’t play like I used to with my children. I’m a high school math teacher and stopped working with an after school club I was in charge of and helping out with extra curricular activities, which I did for 10 years prior to my floxing, and my marriage has suffered because quite frankly I’m a different person now, I really can’t blame my wife for getting frustrated with me at times.
My question to the forum is and by the way, I am extremely grateful for this forum, all you guys have helped me cope through this like you don’t know – I take iodine, multivitamin, vitamin C, drink lots of water, and of course, magnesium, almost daily. Despite all these supplements, after all this time of being floxed, at times I still feel like I took those fq pills yesterday. How can this stuff be in our system all this time? Does this stuff really change our DNA, another words changes the fabric of who we are biologically? I’m lost for, well hope, even after 4 years of ingesting this stuff, I’m still experiencing the effects of the fq’s. Anyway, I will stop being doom and gloom, I know I myself like reading stuff that is constructive and helpful. Anyway, if anyone has any information on the long term effects and this stuff leaving our system, I would love to read any such post. Thanks in advance.
Just thought that this may be of interest to those seeking info on oxalates and low oxalate diets.
https://www.facebook.com/NorthsideFibroDublin/posts/521576951212832
OMG! This clip is so perfect. Someone just shared this on facebook. Many of you are too young to remember the Golden Girls, but damn, I could have used someone like this on my doctor visits!!! https://www.facebook.com/cmedlyn/videos/10205484180891376/
I’m 35, male, weight about 145lbs at 5’11”. I was prescribed Cipro for a UTI 3 weeks ago and had peripheral neuropathy symptoms after the 1st dose. I stopped and the doctor gave me another antibiotic that cleared my UTI in 2 weeks. My peripheral neuropathy symptoms last for a couple of days and subsided. Now I have this issue and I’m wondering if it’s Cipro related or anyone has any idea what it is; since the doctor doesn’t seem to know and it’s spreading fast.
Over this weekend, I noticed a lot of evenly distributed lumps in the fatty layer of my inner thighs that I know weren’t there a few days before (I take baths because of my UTI and massaged the area). The lumps are from rice to pea size and a few mm below the skin, and they feel like rice grains (you can’t see the lumps; only feel them). A day later, it spread a little further down under my thighs. On the second day, it reaches behind my knee by forming lumps along that big ligament under the thighs. On the third day, it reaches the back of my knees and now it passes the back of my knees a little bit and form lumps at the beginning of my calf muscles. I also notice some lumps forming on my arm as well, but not as much as the thighs. They affect both side of my body evenly (e.g. the left and right thighs has the same area and distance affected). My thigh muscles don’t seem to develop lumps, just the patch of fatty tissues on the inside and under — though in the past day, my muscles seems to be uneven now.
I generally know when they lumps are going to form as well because I will feel the area slightly tingling and slight pain. Six hours later I will feel the lumps there. After the lumps form, the mild pain disappears unless I put pressure on them.
Any ideas? My doctor order some blood tests I just did, but in the mean time it’s spreading to all my body parts. Right now, my head, neck, main body, and feet are clear of them, but I’m not sure it will be true in the next few days.
Is there anyone from Western MA that has found a good naturopath that has experience with our situation? Every naturopath or alternative medical centers I contact seem to have no clue about how FQ or how to treat FQ toxicity but are more then willing to take my money to figure it out. I see an acupuncturist that is giving me some herbs & supplement but he is not totally familiar with FQ toxicity . You would think these places would have had some experience with this by now. It feels like I’m the only one going though this in my area.
A low oxalate diet is essential for floxies as out guts are ravaged and we do not have the bacteria to handle it. But, you must be careful about it. Going completely cold turkey can lead to a terrible detox. Better to just step down slowly over the course of a couple months.
Bruce, you just gave me a smile for today! 🙂 Thank you! I’m not much of a ‘drinker’, but what to eat/and not to eat makes me want to pick up a bottle of Crown myself! LOL. I completely understand about changing directions! I don’t know which diet is supposed to help me. I have adjusted my diet for Candida, which is far different from the LO diet. I have been “O-D-ing” on Spinach and Almonds… I’m so confused! As soon as I think I have cleaned up my diet, I find out that even spinach might not be good for me. YIKES! I would never have known about any of this had it not been for this site. Thanks, folks, for the wealth of knowledge that you share here. Time for me to figure out how I’m going to adjust to a new menu and cut back on the Vitamin C….and praying for better days to come!
Well here is an interesting study that makes it sound like pecans and cashews might be a better option, even though they say all nuts have oxalates. (Bad news is along with almonds they list Brazil nuts, which I take everyday for the selenium, in case I ingest any fluoride). I don’t have the tendon issues so probably not as important for me, but I have read that it can also lead to kidney stones (high oxalate). http://www.nuthealth.org/nutrition-research/soluble-and-insoluble-oxalate-content-of-nuts/
I hear you Bruce!
Hi Everyone,
I just got off the phone with the parathyroid doctor in Florida, and he said according to my labs, (the fluctuating calcium between high 9’s and 10.4 and the inappropriately high parathyroid hormone at 51 which is in the normal range, but not if your calcium is high) he thinks I definitely have hyperparathyroid that requires surgery.
So, I’m very scared and very excited at the same time, thinking that hopefully, prayerfully this will be the end of all this misery
I have to call Monday after the holiday weekend to schedule my surgery.
I just wanted to let you all know what was going on.
Here’s a couple testimonies from patients:
Patient: D.S. Boston, Massachusetts. Electrical Engineer.
Dr Norman. I wanted to thank you for making me feel so much better! All my symptoms are almost completely gone. The panic attacks ended the day after the surgery. The tremors took a little longer, but are now gone after about 3 weeks. My memory is improving, though slowly. An interesting piece of information came to light in the course of my Master’s program: hyperparathyroidism is listed as a medical condition which can lead to panic disorder, schizophrenia, dementia and psychosis…Scary huh? Thanks for your excellent surgery, I am so glad my wife found you!
Patient: R.C.Boston, Mass.Medical Device Manufacturer
Hi Dr. Norman & Dr. Politz: I just wanted to thank you. It has been only 3 weeks since my MIRP Surgery, and exactly as you said I already feel like my old self. My severe muscle and joint pains are gone, and I now have my energy back. I only wish it was diagnosed sooner. If I did not find your fantastic web site, I can only guess how many more years I would have suffered. I have been in the Minimal Invasive Surgery field for many yearsas a manufacturer of MIS imaging products. I have not seen such skill , knowledge and professionalism, asyou and your staff show. I can’t thank you enough and greatly appreciate all you have done for me. I am sure glad I didn’t have the old fashioned surgery up here in Boston!
Patient: C.W. Gainesville, Florida. Professor at University of Florida
Drs. Norman and Politz, One month ago today you completed my mini-parathyroid surgery. While I must tell you that I am the world’s biggest skeptic, I hoped to maybe feel a little better… But, what I now feel is nothing short of amazing. I stay awake all day now! No longer need 10 hours of sleep –or more. My aching bones don’t ache. And, most importantly, the fog has lifted. I tell people that I feel like the Clariton Clear commercial where they peel back the film to a bright sunny picture. You said that my husband and I both would ‘love you’…and we do. I feel like I’m starting all over again. I had given up any hope of being promoted to full professor –but now I know that I have the energy and clarity to start writing again. I know that this is getting long, but I want to share one other thing with you both. As you know, my struggle has been enormous and at times totally immobilizing. Many times I felt like I didn’t have what I needed inside of me to make the adaptations needed –in fact I didn’t know if I could keep living at all. Doctors, you truly did save my life. We can’t thank you both enough. We’d name our next child after you but, as you remember, that ship has long ago sailed!
Patient: NM. Cleveland, Ohio. Registered Nurse
Dear Dr. Norman: I am so excited and have been since awakening from my parathyroid surgery and realizing that all of theHORRIBLE symptoms that I had suffered over the past 20 months, that had literally debilitated me,are—GONE!! The generalized bone pain, the relentless nausea, the tired to the bone feeling, and most of all,the the Horrible dizziness and vertigo,are gone!!! You, with the gifted surgeons hands, and the intelligent brain, did what 11 other Drs. could not, you knew immediately that it was the high calcium causing all of my problems and you were absolutely right!! You have given me back my life and I plan to return to my nursing job and career in two weeks. I could never put into words my praise and thanks to you. I will be forever grateful.
Sorry I posted so many, but I really wanted to post more! because there are so many of them that sound like the same symptoms we floxies suffer from.
For example:
dry eyes
blurry vision
insomnia
anxiety, depression, brain fog, memory loss, cognitive issues
heart palpitations, high blood pressure, other heart issues
muscle and joint pain
not being able to walk without severe pain,
not being able to pass a dish across the dinner table without your wrist feeling like its gonna snap
feeling 10-20 years older
skin less plump more wrinkly
dizziness, vertigo
no dreams
nightmares
heavy feelings of doom
burning, swollen joints
stomach issues
having to quit their jobs and/or other activities
total body pain
not understanding what’s happening to them
can;t get a diagnosis !!!
When you read all these symptoms, it sure sounds like they were floxed!
Anyhow, I’ll keep you all posted throughout the surgery and the recovery.
Linda, jwinn, and Bruce,
Thank you for your encouragement and prayers. I REALLY appreciate it.
As you all know, this is a LONG and LONELY road (that I’m sick of traveling!) and it’s nice to have people who understand.
This is WAAY too much to handle on our own.
I pray God will help us ALL find our healing and SOON !!!
I’ll definitely keep you all posted.
Aha! I found it! So Vit D facilitates the ABSORPTION of oxalates. But you don’t want your body to absorb them, you want them to bind in your gut and the gut flora to eat them up.
Then if your gut flora is compromised (which is what the antibiotics cause) using the VSL #3 can step up and take the place of the gut flora until you are able to rebuild it through time. : )
Hi, new here – not sure if this is how to ask a question but here goes……
Had Cipro twice before no problems for Porstatitis, took one table last week and immediately had endocrine symptoms related to suppression of CYP1A2 – high male oestrogen causing an oestrogen rash and sore chest + burning in the arms related to the change in hormone levels.
Had bloods done and all normal range but E2 higher than it was prior to Cipro – tried caffeine today but had a swimming head so obvious that CYP1A2 is still suppressed – no other symptoms so far which I am thankful for.
There is no specific info on the broader web so does anyone have a perspective on how long it will take for the liver enzymes to normalise again?
Thanks,
K