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I just want to give you a hints on certain combination helpful for joints and tendons (I) and fasting (II).
I.
That’s what I’m using to speed up healing process for almost 6months and I can say that I’m seeing positive correlation with symptoms improvement (minor tendons pain, minor ulnaris neuropathy):
1. Tendoactive (mucopolysaccharides+collagen) > https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21751149 – (…) These results indicate that Tendoactive® has nutraceutical potential as an anti-inflammatory agent for treating tendinopathy through suppression of NF-κB mediated IL-1β catabolic signalling pathways in tenocytes (…).
2.Animal Flex 44 – this is a solid boost for soft tissues. – I do cycles: take 40 days, than don’t for some time, and again the cycle. Please read more on your own, no affiliation.
3. Hydrolyzed Collagen pulver (proteins, amino acids) – I take every other day 1TBS – good quality is important. Great substitute for meat!
II. Fasting.
However, I need to say that together with this the one single strongest positive influencer to help my soft tissues was fasting: different length, different types. Nevertheless, that was always real fasting, which means endogenous nutrition. Speaking in other words: to get energy human body consumes slowly less needed and sick cells. Together with additional energy coming from excluded heavy digestion process, this is a real miracle of cleanse and detox. I experiencing this every few months.
6 days fasting (with everyday calories intake) can really clean up stiffness in the knees – that’s my recent experience. When I made a 17 days fasting (200 kcal day for vitamins and minerals), my overall energy came back to amazing level.
I have a mild prostatitis also, and this is my main goal for fasting, to get rid off prostatitis. I had another significant improvement after fasting.
Weight change: when your brain already know this state is clever enough and we don’t lose so much weight. After 17 days i lost around 3,5 kg all together, but I’m pretty light. Recent 6 days fasting was minus 1,5 kg only.
My next fast will be 14-20 days on water only > take a holidays for this time, spend whole days in the parks walking.
I need to mention that when you do fasting Enema every 2-3 days is necessary.
I learned how to do this in the German clinic , which has 90 years experience in fasting. Lot of medical research on to of it. I spent 21 days in the clinic.
Please do your own research, read who can ,and who shouldn’t do fasting.
I’m happy to answer your questions and maybe some of you have experience to share?
Wish you all the best!
Jeremy
JIM
7 years ago
Hi All,
Just wanted to update my situation and ask for some feed back. Also, want to give others hope that it does get better. Im a little over a year out. I was on Cipro for 5 weeks for a suspected prostate infection. That was in February of 2016. Within a few weeks of taking the medication I had a cluster of symptoms that started to appear.
1. Tingling in face, forearms and feet
2. Buzzing in my feet
3. Insomnia that lasted months
4. Ringing in my ears
5. carpal tunnel in my hand
6. Dizziness, light headedness
7. Strange aches in my abdomen
8. involuntary kicking of left leg when trying to rest
9. stress headaches
10. twitching that started in calves moving all over my body.
11. strange aches in my legs, around my shins.
My Dr. refused to connect the dots and attribute these symptoms to a 5 week course of cipro. I kept asking her “what are the chances that all of these symptoms just happen to show up just by coincidence after taking cipro”… A subsequent visit to a urologist resulted in the urologist telling me that the Cipro was unnecessary to treat my prostatitis. That made me even more frustrated.
As the weeks went on and the symptoms started to appear I developed health anxiety. I started to worry that i had Multiple Sclerosis. I visited a Neurologist who basically ruled out MS, and he said it is possible that my symptoms were caused by being on Cipro for so long. Basically he told me that I have anxiety and I needed to get the anxiety under control.
After being assured that i didnt have MS, I relaxed, and my symptoms started to lessen in their degree of severity. This was about 5 months after taking Cipro.
Recently, I have noticed that the symptoms seem to come in waves. Ill have a few good weeks with few symptoms, and if I end up getting stressed the symptoms come back.
Right now, a little over a year out, my main symptoms are burning in my legs and lots of twitching, mostly in my legs, but the twitches happen all over.
As soon as I get a little stressed at work or home, the symptoms come back in waves. I know that Cipro triggered all of this. I find it hard to believe its a coincidence.
I feel better today than I did in month one post Cipro, but I was wondering if anybody else has considered the Cipro-anxiety relationship. Could Cipro have triggered serious anxiety which is causing all of these issues? Or is anxiety just a byproduct of the Cipro.
Also, has anyone experienced twitching that goes on and off for months? Burning in the legs too?
I would also like to add my own advice, I’m recently acutely floxed (6 weeks out from the A-A-bomb which exploded) but I didnt realise I had been getting progressively floxed over the last couple of rounds of cipro that I had in the last 1.5 years. Take care in buying your supplements, research them properly and educate yourself to why you are taking it and whether it is good quality and a good investment of your money. I went a bit trigger happy, and bought a whole spectrum. Not all that I need to take right now, and a couple that were errors and realised I bought an inferior quality or not quite the right one. And still with my research I am finding things that probably are better suited for my symptoms. Sometimes it’s hard because you cant tell what you really need until your symptoms begin manifesting over time. And the more you research the more you become educated. There will be some trial and error.
I have two other bits of advice
1. Have hope. I really found that no two stories are the same. The flox report horrified me because it states that I am in the severe category and it seems I am doomed for a long painful death. And I am only 26 years old. But with Diego’s story and recovery I feel hope for my case. And remember in Stu’s story the stockdale paradox, so have hope that you will eventually get through this but realise the reality of what you are facing.
2. Now that you are more educated, try to prevent further illnesses. We all took these medicines because we became ill. My story might not be the same as yours, but all my illnesses that resulted in taking Cipro could have been prevented. I just couldn’t see it. In normal life we don’t expect to get ill and then end up in this situation. But we can now take better measures to take care of our health. For me that means reducing stress, taking more rest, eating a better diet, limiting toxins and using natural treatments and listening to the signs of my body..
Thanks
Steff
Ann
7 years ago
Hi everybody
Has anyone had problems with high heart rate and high and low bloodpressure? Its definitly my autonomic nervous system that do not work. I did a tilt test today, almost passed out. The lowest bloodpressure was 65/35. Really bad. And sometimes very high. Im going to my doctor on friday and Will call The cardiologist tomorrow. But has any one has such serve bloodpressure problems? And what to do? Its up and down like an elevator. this nightmare never ends.
Ryan L
7 years ago
Hey all,
For those who’ve been around a while, I could use some help. I believe I have a staph infection on my lower left leg/foot, and it may be at the point where I need to get an antibiotic (WHICH I DON’T WANT). I’ve been doing tea tree oil, coconut oil, oregano oil, and even used emuaid to try to prevent this next step, but I may be out of options. If you know of antibiotics that are safe for floxie, please let me know. I’ll be visiting the ER in the next two hours, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am allergic to wasps and bees. Nearly every season I end up in the hospital and they give me epinephrine, Benadryl, and prednisone. I understand I cannot have prednisone anymore. But is epinephrine and Benadryl ok after floxing?
Hello, I am a 28 yr old female from central MN. I recently took Cipro for 3 days -500mg, 2 times a day for traveler’s gut in Jan 2017 upon returning from a trip overseas. I had a bout of diarrhea on Feb 26th and my body went out of wack (I believe strong side effects from Cipro). I was struggling to breathe and got put on a 5 day dose of Prednisone (this was a very bad decision on my part I have learned).
I am still dealing with heart palpitations, fever, loose stools, hand/face tremors, restless sleep, gas, burping, ear ringing, dry lips, acid reflux and muscle spasms in April now. I have been seeing my Chiropractor and getting acupuncture done once a week, which is helping some of these issues. I have completely cleaned up my diet, not eating anything processed. However, I am losing weight frequently, was 117 in 03/15 and now 112 on 04/06.. which I’m not sure is from the clean foods or the GI issues..
My question is broad – wondering if any Floxies know what steps I should take to work on these issues? Or on the GI issues..? loose stools, burping/gas, acid reflux. I have been doing tons of research for the past 6 weeks and am going to start taking magnesium and a probiotic (does anyone have any recommendations the best probiotic?).. If you have any advice, please help. Very glad I found this website. Thank you!
holly
7 years ago
Hi everyone- I am over a month out from being floxed and my muscle weakness is progressively getting worse. I’m trying to stay calm but wanted to ask the group if there was anything that helped for the weakness. I have also cleaned up my diet. I really appreciate the help.
Laura
7 years ago
I was blessed to run into a woman who gave me a card with information on cipro , levaquin and Avelox. I have all the symptoms.!!! I took cipro for a urinary tract infection five years ago. There isn’t a day that goes by that I feel good. I actually think some days I’m dying.I was moving at the time doing a lot of lifting so much brain fog and weakness and then took more antibiotics for a month for h- pylori . I was able to get social security disability . I think they based it on thinking I was insane , and a hypochondriac ! Although Im diagnosed with fibromyalgia osteoarthritis adhd depression and ibs If it weren’t for my leaky gut , I probably wouldn’t be here . It keeps me on track eating a diet of mostly organic food. Lots of greens.!
We all need to take trace minerals. !!!pro and prebiotics!!
And get our guts in the right shape first if we want to survive this !!!!!. I need to talk with someone else who suffers . Because family and friends think I’m crazy . ????Oh Lord ….
If they only knew ! One more thing . If it weren’t for my faith … prayer and meditation time , I definitely wouldn’t be here !!!
Mine´s a long, long story, as would be the case with all of you. We all suffer in our similar yet unique ways. This website´s just awesome! I hope God rewards everyone of. I´ve been a reader since three weeks now, finally decided to post to get advice on something.
I was Ciprofloxed in January 2016, most of my symptoms are mental and emotions (insomnia, heart palpitations tremors, concentration issues and memory loss etc.) but all that is somehow 100% connected to what I eat. I´ve removed all foods that cause me trouble, but it´s now water that´s causing me issues. Mineral as well as tap water… Would it be any wise on my part to try out distilled water to see how it goes with me? Would distilled water be any more damaging to my health?
I hope to see the day where I´ll recover enough to post a recovery story here, but right now I´m still far away from that!
Warmest regards and hugs to you all,
Rawal Afzal.
Kurt
7 years ago
Hi all,
I’ve had this strange metallic? taste and slight burning in my mouth for the past couple months. Does this ever go away? Wondering if anyone else has had this? Thanks for any info.
Richard
7 years ago
I’ve taken 10,000. 500mg pills of Cipro in the past 25 years. And now I’m here.
Jane
7 years ago
For Goodness sake please do not take lyrica/pregabelin without first reading the terrible side effects. I know that sometimes when one is desperate one may in a moment of weakness take anything to try to feel better.
I have felt that way myself!!
However please be very wary of these drugs, they are very nasty and one wonders why they are even produced let alone prescribed ! Silly question as we all know why, for money.
In conclusion when I reported a side effect of a drug for epilepsy the hospital pharmacist said to me ‘you can always find a reason if you look hard enough to stop any drug’. I said well take the drug yourself , suffer the side effects like I have then come back and say the same.
People like that make me feel sick-literally.
End of rant.
Paulina
7 years ago
I took cipro jan 2016 for uti for 5 days where afterwards i experienced major chest pain, chest tightness, ear ringing or buzzing (wet ears in the morning?) tremors, heart palpitations, vibrations in the body, muscle twitching, dizziness, mid back pain, eye floaters, brain frog, anxiety, insomnia. I was on a leave because i couldnt work. I saw soo many specialists…my results were coming back perfectly fine and no one was able to help me. In fact one dr wanted me to see a psychiatrist becuse he thought its something in my head or maybe i was depressed.. and yes u can get depressed if you feel that something is wrong with your body but no one can figure out…i have seen naturalpaths and took over 40 different ivs…like vitamin c mayers coctail, amino acids, ala….and few f
Hydrogen peroxide ivs….As of today which is a year and 4 months later most of the symptomps are almost gone but some still persists like chest tightness, ear ringing which is on and off (the worst is at night or when its quiet), light dizziness and light eye floaters….i went back to work a year later and over all im doing much much better. I think i will try the ozone therapy iv as well and bowen therapy that was suggested by my naturalpath. Anyone tried that??? Im so worried about my chest tightness and throat tightness. Im taking probiotics, magnesium and shitake mushrooms to boost up my immune. Will this go away with time??? L. You mentioned you had that? I had the consistent chest pain which went away after 11 months but im left with chest tightness, its hard for me to take a full breath…feels like somethings is blocked inside my chest…i did mri for chest and xray and nothing showed but still…could this be tendonitis or some kind of muscle disfunction? Someone please help me. Im still short of breath….
joanneg
7 years ago
Hi Everyone,
I just wanted to let you all know what’s been going on with me.
I was doing really good with the magnesium and Omega patches, but eventually I started to flare and they weren’t helping. All my brain issues, the shaking, vibrating, dizziness got worse. Then I broke out with the shingles again on my back (this is the 3rd time since being floxed).
So I decided to treat this flare as though it was a virus. I took a bunch of natural antiviral supplements and they all helped, but the olive leaf extract worked the best at calming everything down which now leads me to believe my flares are definitely from a virus.
But it was just taking too long and I feel my immune system is in the gutter, so I ordered LDN which is supposed to help boost your immune system, and help with CFS/ME, MS, Fibromyalgia and a lot of other things.
Anyhow, today is only the 2nd day, and it is definitely helping with all my symptoms like joint pain, brain issues the stinging and itching, fatigue ect. I feel overall very good just some very light stinging, but my brain is great! I have NO pain and I have good energy.
I like to let you all know when I’m trying something different in case someone was thinking about trying it themselves. I know it’s too early to know whether or not this is going to continue to help which is always the problem I have. Throughout this whole ordeal I have found tremendous help from various supplements, but the help never cures or even lasts more than a few months or sometimes only days. So, we’ll have to wait and see.
In the meantime, it would be great if anyone who has been floxed and has taken LDN to try and help with their symptoms, if they would post some details and let us know if it helped them or not.
Thank you, and I hope everyone is at least better 🙂
P.S. Ryan, I was wondering how you were coming along with your infection, and how you reacted to the antibiotic??
Hi Barbara – hope you had a good trip to Cuba. Have you had the results of your thyroid tests and heart ultrasound yet? Glad to hear you are doing well. What’s your secret for the weight -loss? Initially after the hospital iv Cipro I lost a lot of weight without trying. I was happy about it as I have struggled for years with my weight. But then I put it all back plus a bit more. I find exercising is making my tendonitis worse so don’t do much other than work in the garden 2/3 hours a day. Even this knackers me but I have been a keen gardener for years and would be utterly miserable if I could not do it. I have had to modify what I do though to avoid tendon tears. I suspect my thyroid meds need to go up.
Stephanie
7 years ago
So I am continuing to have to wait to get eeg and more waiting because of me bad insurance I guess they are worried more and more what’s going on in my brain. My dr just looked at me and smile when I guess I had checked out of a conversation I don’t remember. I just took shower and had trouble keeping me eyes open. I been quite because it’s all a lot I’m constantly loosing communication ability based on me tired. I can’t try cbd oil because expensive and would mean I couldn’t do the once month IV treatment I get. No place will let you sample it first and that stuff impact everyone different.
Jane
7 years ago
Stephanie have u been checked for Vit b12, D, deficiencies or had your thyroid screening including thyroid antibodies checked?
Dear All,
I just want to give you a hints on certain combination helpful for joints and tendons (I) and fasting (II).
I.
That’s what I’m using to speed up healing process for almost 6months and I can say that I’m seeing positive correlation with symptoms improvement (minor tendons pain, minor ulnaris neuropathy):
1. Tendoactive (mucopolysaccharides+collagen) > https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21751149 – (…) These results indicate that Tendoactive® has nutraceutical potential as an anti-inflammatory agent for treating tendinopathy through suppression of NF-κB mediated IL-1β catabolic signalling pathways in tenocytes (…).
2.Animal Flex 44 – this is a solid boost for soft tissues. – I do cycles: take 40 days, than don’t for some time, and again the cycle. Please read more on your own, no affiliation.
3. Hydrolyzed Collagen pulver (proteins, amino acids) – I take every other day 1TBS – good quality is important. Great substitute for meat!
All this together works for me.
Continue….
II. Fasting.
However, I need to say that together with this the one single strongest positive influencer to help my soft tissues was fasting: different length, different types. Nevertheless, that was always real fasting, which means endogenous nutrition. Speaking in other words: to get energy human body consumes slowly less needed and sick cells. Together with additional energy coming from excluded heavy digestion process, this is a real miracle of cleanse and detox. I experiencing this every few months.
Please find below good reads about fasting, based on studies:
https://news.usc.edu/63669/fasting-triggers-stem-cell-regeneration-of-damaged-old-immune-system/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4102383/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25072352
6 days fasting (with everyday calories intake) can really clean up stiffness in the knees – that’s my recent experience. When I made a 17 days fasting (200 kcal day for vitamins and minerals), my overall energy came back to amazing level.
I have a mild prostatitis also, and this is my main goal for fasting, to get rid off prostatitis. I had another significant improvement after fasting.
Weight change: when your brain already know this state is clever enough and we don’t lose so much weight. After 17 days i lost around 3,5 kg all together, but I’m pretty light. Recent 6 days fasting was minus 1,5 kg only.
My next fast will be 14-20 days on water only > take a holidays for this time, spend whole days in the parks walking.
I need to mention that when you do fasting Enema every 2-3 days is necessary.
I learned how to do this in the German clinic , which has 90 years experience in fasting. Lot of medical research on to of it. I spent 21 days in the clinic.
Please do your own research, read who can ,and who shouldn’t do fasting.
I’m happy to answer your questions and maybe some of you have experience to share?
Wish you all the best!
Jeremy
Hi All,
Just wanted to update my situation and ask for some feed back. Also, want to give others hope that it does get better. Im a little over a year out. I was on Cipro for 5 weeks for a suspected prostate infection. That was in February of 2016. Within a few weeks of taking the medication I had a cluster of symptoms that started to appear.
1. Tingling in face, forearms and feet
2. Buzzing in my feet
3. Insomnia that lasted months
4. Ringing in my ears
5. carpal tunnel in my hand
6. Dizziness, light headedness
7. Strange aches in my abdomen
8. involuntary kicking of left leg when trying to rest
9. stress headaches
10. twitching that started in calves moving all over my body.
11. strange aches in my legs, around my shins.
My Dr. refused to connect the dots and attribute these symptoms to a 5 week course of cipro. I kept asking her “what are the chances that all of these symptoms just happen to show up just by coincidence after taking cipro”… A subsequent visit to a urologist resulted in the urologist telling me that the Cipro was unnecessary to treat my prostatitis. That made me even more frustrated.
As the weeks went on and the symptoms started to appear I developed health anxiety. I started to worry that i had Multiple Sclerosis. I visited a Neurologist who basically ruled out MS, and he said it is possible that my symptoms were caused by being on Cipro for so long. Basically he told me that I have anxiety and I needed to get the anxiety under control.
After being assured that i didnt have MS, I relaxed, and my symptoms started to lessen in their degree of severity. This was about 5 months after taking Cipro.
Recently, I have noticed that the symptoms seem to come in waves. Ill have a few good weeks with few symptoms, and if I end up getting stressed the symptoms come back.
Right now, a little over a year out, my main symptoms are burning in my legs and lots of twitching, mostly in my legs, but the twitches happen all over.
As soon as I get a little stressed at work or home, the symptoms come back in waves. I know that Cipro triggered all of this. I find it hard to believe its a coincidence.
I feel better today than I did in month one post Cipro, but I was wondering if anybody else has considered the Cipro-anxiety relationship. Could Cipro have triggered serious anxiety which is causing all of these issues? Or is anxiety just a byproduct of the Cipro.
Also, has anyone experienced twitching that goes on and off for months? Burning in the legs too?
Thanks Rene for your advice it is great to read!
I would also like to add my own advice, I’m recently acutely floxed (6 weeks out from the A-A-bomb which exploded) but I didnt realise I had been getting progressively floxed over the last couple of rounds of cipro that I had in the last 1.5 years. Take care in buying your supplements, research them properly and educate yourself to why you are taking it and whether it is good quality and a good investment of your money. I went a bit trigger happy, and bought a whole spectrum. Not all that I need to take right now, and a couple that were errors and realised I bought an inferior quality or not quite the right one. And still with my research I am finding things that probably are better suited for my symptoms. Sometimes it’s hard because you cant tell what you really need until your symptoms begin manifesting over time. And the more you research the more you become educated. There will be some trial and error.
I have two other bits of advice
1. Have hope. I really found that no two stories are the same. The flox report horrified me because it states that I am in the severe category and it seems I am doomed for a long painful death. And I am only 26 years old. But with Diego’s story and recovery I feel hope for my case. And remember in Stu’s story the stockdale paradox, so have hope that you will eventually get through this but realise the reality of what you are facing.
2. Now that you are more educated, try to prevent further illnesses. We all took these medicines because we became ill. My story might not be the same as yours, but all my illnesses that resulted in taking Cipro could have been prevented. I just couldn’t see it. In normal life we don’t expect to get ill and then end up in this situation. But we can now take better measures to take care of our health. For me that means reducing stress, taking more rest, eating a better diet, limiting toxins and using natural treatments and listening to the signs of my body..
Thanks
Steff
Hi everybody
Has anyone had problems with high heart rate and high and low bloodpressure? Its definitly my autonomic nervous system that do not work. I did a tilt test today, almost passed out. The lowest bloodpressure was 65/35. Really bad. And sometimes very high. Im going to my doctor on friday and Will call The cardiologist tomorrow. But has any one has such serve bloodpressure problems? And what to do? Its up and down like an elevator. this nightmare never ends.
Hey all,
For those who’ve been around a while, I could use some help. I believe I have a staph infection on my lower left leg/foot, and it may be at the point where I need to get an antibiotic (WHICH I DON’T WANT). I’ve been doing tea tree oil, coconut oil, oregano oil, and even used emuaid to try to prevent this next step, but I may be out of options. If you know of antibiotics that are safe for floxie, please let me know. I’ll be visiting the ER in the next two hours, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am allergic to wasps and bees. Nearly every season I end up in the hospital and they give me epinephrine, Benadryl, and prednisone. I understand I cannot have prednisone anymore. But is epinephrine and Benadryl ok after floxing?
Hello, I am a 28 yr old female from central MN. I recently took Cipro for 3 days -500mg, 2 times a day for traveler’s gut in Jan 2017 upon returning from a trip overseas. I had a bout of diarrhea on Feb 26th and my body went out of wack (I believe strong side effects from Cipro). I was struggling to breathe and got put on a 5 day dose of Prednisone (this was a very bad decision on my part I have learned).
I am still dealing with heart palpitations, fever, loose stools, hand/face tremors, restless sleep, gas, burping, ear ringing, dry lips, acid reflux and muscle spasms in April now. I have been seeing my Chiropractor and getting acupuncture done once a week, which is helping some of these issues. I have completely cleaned up my diet, not eating anything processed. However, I am losing weight frequently, was 117 in 03/15 and now 112 on 04/06.. which I’m not sure is from the clean foods or the GI issues..
My question is broad – wondering if any Floxies know what steps I should take to work on these issues? Or on the GI issues..? loose stools, burping/gas, acid reflux. I have been doing tons of research for the past 6 weeks and am going to start taking magnesium and a probiotic (does anyone have any recommendations the best probiotic?).. If you have any advice, please help. Very glad I found this website. Thank you!
Hi everyone- I am over a month out from being floxed and my muscle weakness is progressively getting worse. I’m trying to stay calm but wanted to ask the group if there was anything that helped for the weakness. I have also cleaned up my diet. I really appreciate the help.
I was blessed to run into a woman who gave me a card with information on cipro , levaquin and Avelox. I have all the symptoms.!!! I took cipro for a urinary tract infection five years ago. There isn’t a day that goes by that I feel good. I actually think some days I’m dying.I was moving at the time doing a lot of lifting so much brain fog and weakness and then took more antibiotics for a month for h- pylori . I was able to get social security disability . I think they based it on thinking I was insane , and a hypochondriac ! Although Im diagnosed with fibromyalgia osteoarthritis adhd depression and ibs If it weren’t for my leaky gut , I probably wouldn’t be here . It keeps me on track eating a diet of mostly organic food. Lots of greens.!
We all need to take trace minerals. !!!pro and prebiotics!!
And get our guts in the right shape first if we want to survive this !!!!!. I need to talk with someone else who suffers . Because family and friends think I’m crazy . ????Oh Lord ….
If they only knew ! One more thing . If it weren’t for my faith … prayer and meditation time , I definitely wouldn’t be here !!!
Mine´s a long, long story, as would be the case with all of you. We all suffer in our similar yet unique ways. This website´s just awesome! I hope God rewards everyone of. I´ve been a reader since three weeks now, finally decided to post to get advice on something.
I was Ciprofloxed in January 2016, most of my symptoms are mental and emotions (insomnia, heart palpitations tremors, concentration issues and memory loss etc.) but all that is somehow 100% connected to what I eat. I´ve removed all foods that cause me trouble, but it´s now water that´s causing me issues. Mineral as well as tap water… Would it be any wise on my part to try out distilled water to see how it goes with me? Would distilled water be any more damaging to my health?
I hope to see the day where I´ll recover enough to post a recovery story here, but right now I´m still far away from that!
Warmest regards and hugs to you all,
Rawal Afzal.
Hi all,
I’ve had this strange metallic? taste and slight burning in my mouth for the past couple months. Does this ever go away? Wondering if anyone else has had this? Thanks for any info.
I’ve taken 10,000. 500mg pills of Cipro in the past 25 years. And now I’m here.
For Goodness sake please do not take lyrica/pregabelin without first reading the terrible side effects. I know that sometimes when one is desperate one may in a moment of weakness take anything to try to feel better.
I have felt that way myself!!
However please be very wary of these drugs, they are very nasty and one wonders why they are even produced let alone prescribed ! Silly question as we all know why, for money.
In conclusion when I reported a side effect of a drug for epilepsy the hospital pharmacist said to me ‘you can always find a reason if you look hard enough to stop any drug’. I said well take the drug yourself , suffer the side effects like I have then come back and say the same.
People like that make me feel sick-literally.
End of rant.
I took cipro jan 2016 for uti for 5 days where afterwards i experienced major chest pain, chest tightness, ear ringing or buzzing (wet ears in the morning?) tremors, heart palpitations, vibrations in the body, muscle twitching, dizziness, mid back pain, eye floaters, brain frog, anxiety, insomnia. I was on a leave because i couldnt work. I saw soo many specialists…my results were coming back perfectly fine and no one was able to help me. In fact one dr wanted me to see a psychiatrist becuse he thought its something in my head or maybe i was depressed.. and yes u can get depressed if you feel that something is wrong with your body but no one can figure out…i have seen naturalpaths and took over 40 different ivs…like vitamin c mayers coctail, amino acids, ala….and few f
Hydrogen peroxide ivs….As of today which is a year and 4 months later most of the symptomps are almost gone but some still persists like chest tightness, ear ringing which is on and off (the worst is at night or when its quiet), light dizziness and light eye floaters….i went back to work a year later and over all im doing much much better. I think i will try the ozone therapy iv as well and bowen therapy that was suggested by my naturalpath. Anyone tried that??? Im so worried about my chest tightness and throat tightness. Im taking probiotics, magnesium and shitake mushrooms to boost up my immune. Will this go away with time??? L. You mentioned you had that? I had the consistent chest pain which went away after 11 months but im left with chest tightness, its hard for me to take a full breath…feels like somethings is blocked inside my chest…i did mri for chest and xray and nothing showed but still…could this be tendonitis or some kind of muscle disfunction? Someone please help me. Im still short of breath….
Hi Everyone,
I just wanted to let you all know what’s been going on with me.
I was doing really good with the magnesium and Omega patches, but eventually I started to flare and they weren’t helping. All my brain issues, the shaking, vibrating, dizziness got worse. Then I broke out with the shingles again on my back (this is the 3rd time since being floxed).
So I decided to treat this flare as though it was a virus. I took a bunch of natural antiviral supplements and they all helped, but the olive leaf extract worked the best at calming everything down which now leads me to believe my flares are definitely from a virus.
But it was just taking too long and I feel my immune system is in the gutter, so I ordered LDN which is supposed to help boost your immune system, and help with CFS/ME, MS, Fibromyalgia and a lot of other things.
Anyhow, today is only the 2nd day, and it is definitely helping with all my symptoms like joint pain, brain issues the stinging and itching, fatigue ect. I feel overall very good just some very light stinging, but my brain is great! I have NO pain and I have good energy.
I like to let you all know when I’m trying something different in case someone was thinking about trying it themselves. I know it’s too early to know whether or not this is going to continue to help which is always the problem I have. Throughout this whole ordeal I have found tremendous help from various supplements, but the help never cures or even lasts more than a few months or sometimes only days. So, we’ll have to wait and see.
In the meantime, it would be great if anyone who has been floxed and has taken LDN to try and help with their symptoms, if they would post some details and let us know if it helped them or not.
Thank you, and I hope everyone is at least better 🙂
P.S. Ryan, I was wondering how you were coming along with your infection, and how you reacted to the antibiotic??
Hi Bob,
Here’s a site that explains it briefly but there are many http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/09/19/one-of-the-rare-drugs-that-actually-helps-your-body-to-heal-itself.aspx
Hi Barbara – hope you had a good trip to Cuba. Have you had the results of your thyroid tests and heart ultrasound yet? Glad to hear you are doing well. What’s your secret for the weight -loss? Initially after the hospital iv Cipro I lost a lot of weight without trying. I was happy about it as I have struggled for years with my weight. But then I put it all back plus a bit more. I find exercising is making my tendonitis worse so don’t do much other than work in the garden 2/3 hours a day. Even this knackers me but I have been a keen gardener for years and would be utterly miserable if I could not do it. I have had to modify what I do though to avoid tendon tears. I suspect my thyroid meds need to go up.
So I am continuing to have to wait to get eeg and more waiting because of me bad insurance I guess they are worried more and more what’s going on in my brain. My dr just looked at me and smile when I guess I had checked out of a conversation I don’t remember. I just took shower and had trouble keeping me eyes open. I been quite because it’s all a lot I’m constantly loosing communication ability based on me tired. I can’t try cbd oil because expensive and would mean I couldn’t do the once month IV treatment I get. No place will let you sample it first and that stuff impact everyone different.
Stephanie have u been checked for Vit b12, D, deficiencies or had your thyroid screening including thyroid antibodies checked?