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Elizabeth
9 years ago
Hi I have some questions. I was prescribed a month of Cipro. Last night was day 14 and I stopped taking it. My symptoms from it are extreme fatigue, insomnia, anxiety, and depression. The depression and fatigue being the worst.
I take many supplements and I hope that I’m on the right ones to keep my body supported as I get this Cipro out of my body. I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and I do not need anything else piled on to my health problems.
I’m scared of what might happen…is it possible I might not have more symptoms? Might my symptoms go away on their own? I keep having major anxiety attacks knowing now how scary this drug is. I don’t like reading about it. People say the effects can come on at any point in time even afterwards.
What else do I need to do/take to get this out of my system? I am on a pretty high dose of magnesium. I already was but I increased it while taking Cipro. I eat mostly healthy also.
Anyone have some tips/thoughts to put my mind at ease? To stop these anxiety-producing thoughts? I know that my own thinking is making thing worse, the last thing I want to do.
Thank you!
Hi there! Someone in my Myspsce group shared this
website with us so I came to take a look. I’m
definitely enjoying the information. I’m book-marking and will
be tweeting thhis to my followers! Fantastic blog and outstanding design.
Karla
9 years ago
I was wondering if anyone takes a multi-vitamin, if so which one? On another note, my eyes are still very dry. The eye doctor said they haven’t improved and haven’t worsened. His recommendation in the future would be to try Restasis or the tubes that go in your ducts? At this moment, I’m not interested in either. Has anyone here had success with Restasis or the tubes?
Thanks!
Melissa
9 years ago
Karla ~ I was wondering the same thing about the mulit-vitamin. I was just floxed at the end of February. I was on Restasis about five years ago. I really did not like it I found that it made my eyes itch (sort of like pink eye). My dr told me to continue with the and it would get better. The reason I stopped is that my insurance did not cover it. I could not afford $200 every couple of months for eye drops. I have talked to friends who love it. On of the FQ FB message boards a few weeks ago, there was a discussion about it. I cannot remember all the comments right off.
Jason
9 years ago
Hi Karla and Melissa. Dr. Mercola makes a pretty good multivitamin, and for “maintaining” a normal “healthy state” I would recommend it. Note however that no one here fits that description, and there are many other things I would recommend someone do first and instead of a multivitamin. I say instead, because a person does not want to take too many pills at once and overload the liver, and I consider the other things more important. Please see my last 2 posts just above for what I think those are, of course this is only my opinion.
Karla
9 years ago
Jason and Melissa, thanks for your responses. I asked about the multi-vitamin because I purchased the Fluroquinolone Toxicity Sloution Book and it mentions starting a good multi-vitamin. I’m new floxed myself. A little over a month. Just trying to do all I can. This site does offer some really great support!
Mark
9 years ago
Very interesting podcast: https://youtu.be/LeCpHugyI80
Especially since the aging problem is so closely related to the Fluoroquinolone side effects (mitochondrial damage and repair).
Mark
Jason
9 years ago
I leave you all tonight with yet one more story of healing, from our very good friends at the Earth Clinic. As they often are, a VERY dramatic story, and there are hundreds there. It was stories like these that convinced me to, at the very least, use the things they did.
I REALLY urge people to go to the Earth Clinic link I posted about 8 or 9 posts up, and read that entire page, and see what it recommended near the bottom (and please do explore the website, and the many cures and stories there). Remember this guy who wrote that particular page took 2 months worth of Fluoroquinolones, developed Fibromyalgia, did a ton of research and then cured himself.
Here is the story:
Posted by Fluoridefree (San Diego, Ca) on 05/28/2012
I’d like to say thank you so much to God for answering my prayers and thank you EarthClinic for helping to save my life. I have been so miserable with muscle pain, muscle twitching, jaw pain, constipation, dry eyes, dizziness, stomach pain, depression, anxiety, headaches, fatigue, itching all over even in my ears, pain under left shoulder blade, muscle contraction, and the list goes on. I have been terribly ill for over a DECADE. I have seen numerous doctors. At only 23 years old, several years ago the best advice one docter could give me was to start walking with a cane. Most docters wrote me off as a hypochondriac or tried to put me on anti-depressants.
I’m a yoga teacher, so I’m very in tune with my body. I just knew it wasn’t “all in my head”. I tried several different remedies on EarthClinic through the years and tried cutting out many different foods thinking I had a food allergy. It literally felt like I was allergic to every kind of food. However finally after constant prayer, a very patient husband, and years of research; I figured our that my sickness had worsened significantly in 2008 when parts of San Diego began putting fluoride in the water. The intial exposure came from growing up in Indianapolis, IN. And I became extremely sick in 2011 after the birth of my daughter (anesethia has fluoride) and when all of San Diego County started fluoridating their water.
After just one week of avoiding as much tap water as possible in food and drink and using a pinch of borax in reverse osmosis water, I feel like a different person. This IS a miracle! I had gotten to a very dark place. Even with the birth of my daughter, I had lost the will to live with so much pain. Just a heads up though, there have been several times where I took Lugol’s iodine and the detox symtoms were utterly unbearable. Blessings!
Daniela
9 years ago
This is “someone” who recommended powdered turmeric applied directly for pain.
For anyone interested, it’s an old remedy from India. The powder purchased elsewhere may or may not work. If not, try the actual root.
Staining however is probaby a good sign as that might indicate a high concentration of turmeric in the powder. And the powdered turmeric is so inexpensive, I would recommend it first of all.
Just use a pinch, rub it in. It really doesn’t take much. A tiny pinch has an incredible healing effect on even a sprained ankle.
There are so many things readily available and very cheap as opposed to all these costly supplements. I recommend that everyone first investigate what is free or cheap because it might be a very long process and you should watch your funds. So beware of advice to go to another website and make purchases. Looking to pills is what caused the problem in the first place!
Daniela
9 years ago
The stains fade eventually with normal soap and water but it does take a few washings.
If people get through this why is there so much negativity on the Facebook site? Seems like the only people posting are newly floxed or people with long term issues. I have been going on hoping to get information but each time feel more scared and worried I won’t heal like many on there . Has anyone else needed to step away from the boards and not let others stories scare them?!? I wish there were more people coming on the sites with more recovery stories . That’s what keeps us going ! I loved B’s recovery post on this site as it listed recovery posts . Would love more of these !!!
Daniela
9 years ago
“I get a lot of pains and there is a big chance I might faint.” “I have joint pains sometimes in my elbows and knees, and I feel nauseous and dizzy and really, really tired.”
It sounds so familiar. These are the first two intertitles of a Danish documentary about teenage girls given the gardisilvaccine. Some of them are in wheelchairs.
Thanks Jason for all the information! SM has it improved at all for you? You are five months ahead of me -yikes!!! Mine has slowly…very slowly – improved but it still bad. Gone from constant burning to more prickling and tingling (I guess that’s improved!) my legs don’t like pants so that’s a problem;) socks I can tolerate but closed shoes make my feet tingle which is annoying . I assume we are waiting out nerve healing which I know is a long process . Hoping by 24 months…if anything has helped let me know. I’ve tried it all… And can’t say I’ve found the magic supplement or treatment. Thx again! My dr. Says exercise can speed nerve healing so trying…
tricia
9 years ago
Help!!! I think I have a uti. I’ve been taking d-mannose, cranberry juice concentrate, acv, tinctures… Nothing seems to help. Are there any antibiotics that are OK for Floxies so I won’t have a reaction??
John
9 years ago
Hi everyone,
I posted a few months back about my testosterone levels being low, I now know they r below normal low(Im almost positive it is not the fq that caused it to be low as it probably already was prior to my intoxication). Low t and fqs probably accelerated my decline. My ent doctor is highly recommending i take some gel to level me out. However it has been stated many times that floxies should avoid nsaids and steroids. Testosterone is definitely a steroid. This fq toxicity has had me age fast. Ive lost mass/collagen etc and would really like to try test to help build back some of the mass ive lost. Will this type of steroid set me back? Any experiences? Thanks.
Tyson
9 years ago
Hello all,
I was floxed by Levoquin, I am a 27 year old male who was completely normal and healthy prior. I am about 3 weeks post Rx and I am starting to feel better. I had all the usual symptoms (terrible joint pain, brain fog, bad anxiety, headaches, and others) and I feel they are starting to subside. I can walk normal again and climb the stairs without struggle. My brain fog has subsided for the most part (thankfully) and my anxiety is getting better. I consider myself lucky that I am improving at a fairly fast pace.
I am still struggling with insomnia. I have noticed that after a night of drinking that I will wake up very early (3am-5am) with a pounding heart beat and anxiety. Has anyone else experienced this? I have never had a problem with alcohol and could drink a case a beer and feel completely fine prior to all this. I am praying this all goes away because my social life is struggling which is starting to cause anxiety/depression flare ups.
I just wanted to stop in and ask if any of yall have experienced this and I was wondering if it ever went away for you. Or if there is anything I can do to keep it from happening.
Thank you all and good luck!!
SM
9 years ago
I have a documented deficiency in D, B12, and mag. For the past few months I’ve been supplementing pretty heavily. After 22 months of floxing and counting, however, I still believe what I always have. Nothing I do will make a difference. Sure, if I take steroids and NSAIDS I’ll hurt worse. But I’ve dabbled with grain-free diets and various supplements and acupuncturists and even IVs. None of it made a dent.
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think I’m doomed. Yet. But I believe my own path has been determined. I’ll recover fully or partially or very little. I just don’t think I can do much to change that path to a more positive one.
I think the majority of recovery stories I’ve read support this. And I’ve read a ton of them. People recover without doing anything special. They recover without knowing they’re floxed. They even recover doing all the wrong things.
I’ll continue my B12, my D, and the mag. I’ll continue spraying myself in magnesium oil every night and killing 30 minutes while it stings on my skin. I’ll continue my weekly massages. I’ll continue all of these things because I have nothing to lose but money, and I don’t give a damn about that. And assuming this continues, I’ll be far more risk-taking in my treatments. Again, because I will have little to lose. But, I really don’t believe much will make a difference. My recovery has been determined by my body. It just hasn’t told me yet.
ursula
9 years ago
Hi , the ones suffering a long time, my previous email was for them. Scroll up and read my 2 posts on 24 April. Read the recovery stories, its not neccesseraly going to take so long but it is to give hope to the ones that loose hope. I myself must read recovery stories over and over to motivate myself. I took 1 mefloquine anti malerial (aka lariam). But it does the same damage (its in the quin family). ive got another story or 2 of recovery if someone is interested, many takes only two years but yes many take longer. Im not so clued up as you guys, but you hear stories – nerves takes 2 years to regrow, but wonder why some people then takes longer, may be theres more damage than nerves (mitochondrial)?. Sorry my language is Afrikaans (sounds like netherlands). Lisa what happened to Erin’s story, I remember she took very long? My body is sore but my head, anxiety and DP is the most annoying. But I carry on with normal life sort of. Much better than first 6 months where i lived in a horror movie (terrible fear but not really psychotic), I’m 20 months out and 1 year out from ativan. Still little depression also and my neck sounds like bubble wrap, thick head. Im also afraid of any toxins like body creams toothpaste etc What must i use for shampoo? Im reading the Dr Terry Wahls book, but difficult to be on this side of the world. Before this I didnt even know the condition anxiety disorder was existing, was living under a rock. At least I’ve saved 5 people from using FQ’s the last year, but Lisa in this country no one is trying to blow the wissle, no support here, all dr’s think im mad their to lazy and busy making mony to read one word on it, i freaked out when the vet gave a dog a FQ, trying to explain, but they coudnt wait for me to leave.
J
9 years ago
Rene, does that mean you felt healed around the two year mark? I have read some of your story ages Avon and know you were quite bad. Do you think you had true nerve damage which needed tgat two years to heal? Did you still have a lot of symptoms at a year and a half? I tend to agree with SM. Aside from basic supplements and magnesium spray and a healthy lifestyle I wonder if there really is anything else to do but hope time heals…I keep hearing nerves take 2 years to heal…but is this truly the same kind of nerve damage that heals in that time? I am convinced my residual symptoms are nerve related – tightness, prickling, burning and twitching in legs. I’d love to think that in another 6 months they will feel better!!
Hi I have some questions. I was prescribed a month of Cipro. Last night was day 14 and I stopped taking it. My symptoms from it are extreme fatigue, insomnia, anxiety, and depression. The depression and fatigue being the worst.
I take many supplements and I hope that I’m on the right ones to keep my body supported as I get this Cipro out of my body. I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and I do not need anything else piled on to my health problems.
I’m scared of what might happen…is it possible I might not have more symptoms? Might my symptoms go away on their own? I keep having major anxiety attacks knowing now how scary this drug is. I don’t like reading about it. People say the effects can come on at any point in time even afterwards.
What else do I need to do/take to get this out of my system? I am on a pretty high dose of magnesium. I already was but I increased it while taking Cipro. I eat mostly healthy also.
Anyone have some tips/thoughts to put my mind at ease? To stop these anxiety-producing thoughts? I know that my own thinking is making thing worse, the last thing I want to do.
Thank you!
Hi there! Someone in my Myspsce group shared this
website with us so I came to take a look. I’m
definitely enjoying the information. I’m book-marking and will
be tweeting thhis to my followers! Fantastic blog and outstanding design.
I was wondering if anyone takes a multi-vitamin, if so which one? On another note, my eyes are still very dry. The eye doctor said they haven’t improved and haven’t worsened. His recommendation in the future would be to try Restasis or the tubes that go in your ducts? At this moment, I’m not interested in either. Has anyone here had success with Restasis or the tubes?
Thanks!
Karla ~ I was wondering the same thing about the mulit-vitamin. I was just floxed at the end of February. I was on Restasis about five years ago. I really did not like it I found that it made my eyes itch (sort of like pink eye). My dr told me to continue with the and it would get better. The reason I stopped is that my insurance did not cover it. I could not afford $200 every couple of months for eye drops. I have talked to friends who love it. On of the FQ FB message boards a few weeks ago, there was a discussion about it. I cannot remember all the comments right off.
Hi Karla and Melissa. Dr. Mercola makes a pretty good multivitamin, and for “maintaining” a normal “healthy state” I would recommend it. Note however that no one here fits that description, and there are many other things I would recommend someone do first and instead of a multivitamin. I say instead, because a person does not want to take too many pills at once and overload the liver, and I consider the other things more important. Please see my last 2 posts just above for what I think those are, of course this is only my opinion.
Jason and Melissa, thanks for your responses. I asked about the multi-vitamin because I purchased the Fluroquinolone Toxicity Sloution Book and it mentions starting a good multi-vitamin. I’m new floxed myself. A little over a month. Just trying to do all I can. This site does offer some really great support!
Very interesting podcast:
https://youtu.be/LeCpHugyI80
Especially since the aging problem is so closely related to the Fluoroquinolone side effects (mitochondrial damage and repair).
Mark
I leave you all tonight with yet one more story of healing, from our very good friends at the Earth Clinic. As they often are, a VERY dramatic story, and there are hundreds there. It was stories like these that convinced me to, at the very least, use the things they did.
I REALLY urge people to go to the Earth Clinic link I posted about 8 or 9 posts up, and read that entire page, and see what it recommended near the bottom (and please do explore the website, and the many cures and stories there). Remember this guy who wrote that particular page took 2 months worth of Fluoroquinolones, developed Fibromyalgia, did a ton of research and then cured himself.
Here is the story:
Posted by Fluoridefree (San Diego, Ca) on 05/28/2012
I’d like to say thank you so much to God for answering my prayers and thank you EarthClinic for helping to save my life. I have been so miserable with muscle pain, muscle twitching, jaw pain, constipation, dry eyes, dizziness, stomach pain, depression, anxiety, headaches, fatigue, itching all over even in my ears, pain under left shoulder blade, muscle contraction, and the list goes on. I have been terribly ill for over a DECADE. I have seen numerous doctors. At only 23 years old, several years ago the best advice one docter could give me was to start walking with a cane. Most docters wrote me off as a hypochondriac or tried to put me on anti-depressants.
I’m a yoga teacher, so I’m very in tune with my body. I just knew it wasn’t “all in my head”. I tried several different remedies on EarthClinic through the years and tried cutting out many different foods thinking I had a food allergy. It literally felt like I was allergic to every kind of food. However finally after constant prayer, a very patient husband, and years of research; I figured our that my sickness had worsened significantly in 2008 when parts of San Diego began putting fluoride in the water. The intial exposure came from growing up in Indianapolis, IN. And I became extremely sick in 2011 after the birth of my daughter (anesethia has fluoride) and when all of San Diego County started fluoridating their water.
After just one week of avoiding as much tap water as possible in food and drink and using a pinch of borax in reverse osmosis water, I feel like a different person. This IS a miracle! I had gotten to a very dark place. Even with the birth of my daughter, I had lost the will to live with so much pain. Just a heads up though, there have been several times where I took Lugol’s iodine and the detox symtoms were utterly unbearable. Blessings!
This is “someone” who recommended powdered turmeric applied directly for pain.
For anyone interested, it’s an old remedy from India. The powder purchased elsewhere may or may not work. If not, try the actual root.
Staining however is probaby a good sign as that might indicate a high concentration of turmeric in the powder. And the powdered turmeric is so inexpensive, I would recommend it first of all.
Just use a pinch, rub it in. It really doesn’t take much. A tiny pinch has an incredible healing effect on even a sprained ankle.
There are so many things readily available and very cheap as opposed to all these costly supplements. I recommend that everyone first investigate what is free or cheap because it might be a very long process and you should watch your funds. So beware of advice to go to another website and make purchases. Looking to pills is what caused the problem in the first place!
The stains fade eventually with normal soap and water but it does take a few washings.
Patience is my best recommendation.
Please comment:
http://cluelessdoctors.com/2015/05/02/act-now-against-cipro-the-fda-is-ready/
https://twitter.com/MigraineBook/status/594683109842374656
If people get through this why is there so much negativity on the Facebook site? Seems like the only people posting are newly floxed or people with long term issues. I have been going on hoping to get information but each time feel more scared and worried I won’t heal like many on there . Has anyone else needed to step away from the boards and not let others stories scare them?!? I wish there were more people coming on the sites with more recovery stories . That’s what keeps us going ! I loved B’s recovery post on this site as it listed recovery posts . Would love more of these !!!
“I get a lot of pains and there is a big chance I might faint.” “I have joint pains sometimes in my elbows and knees, and I feel nauseous and dizzy and really, really tired.”
It sounds so familiar. These are the first two intertitles of a Danish documentary about teenage girls given the gardisilvaccine. Some of them are in wheelchairs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO2i-r39hok
Thanks Jason for all the information! SM has it improved at all for you? You are five months ahead of me -yikes!!! Mine has slowly…very slowly – improved but it still bad. Gone from constant burning to more prickling and tingling (I guess that’s improved!) my legs don’t like pants so that’s a problem;) socks I can tolerate but closed shoes make my feet tingle which is annoying . I assume we are waiting out nerve healing which I know is a long process . Hoping by 24 months…if anything has helped let me know. I’ve tried it all… And can’t say I’ve found the magic supplement or treatment. Thx again! My dr. Says exercise can speed nerve healing so trying…
Help!!! I think I have a uti. I’ve been taking d-mannose, cranberry juice concentrate, acv, tinctures… Nothing seems to help. Are there any antibiotics that are OK for Floxies so I won’t have a reaction??
Hi everyone,
I posted a few months back about my testosterone levels being low, I now know they r below normal low(Im almost positive it is not the fq that caused it to be low as it probably already was prior to my intoxication). Low t and fqs probably accelerated my decline. My ent doctor is highly recommending i take some gel to level me out. However it has been stated many times that floxies should avoid nsaids and steroids. Testosterone is definitely a steroid. This fq toxicity has had me age fast. Ive lost mass/collagen etc and would really like to try test to help build back some of the mass ive lost. Will this type of steroid set me back? Any experiences? Thanks.
Hello all,
I was floxed by Levoquin, I am a 27 year old male who was completely normal and healthy prior. I am about 3 weeks post Rx and I am starting to feel better. I had all the usual symptoms (terrible joint pain, brain fog, bad anxiety, headaches, and others) and I feel they are starting to subside. I can walk normal again and climb the stairs without struggle. My brain fog has subsided for the most part (thankfully) and my anxiety is getting better. I consider myself lucky that I am improving at a fairly fast pace.
I am still struggling with insomnia. I have noticed that after a night of drinking that I will wake up very early (3am-5am) with a pounding heart beat and anxiety. Has anyone else experienced this? I have never had a problem with alcohol and could drink a case a beer and feel completely fine prior to all this. I am praying this all goes away because my social life is struggling which is starting to cause anxiety/depression flare ups.
I just wanted to stop in and ask if any of yall have experienced this and I was wondering if it ever went away for you. Or if there is anything I can do to keep it from happening.
Thank you all and good luck!!
I have a documented deficiency in D, B12, and mag. For the past few months I’ve been supplementing pretty heavily. After 22 months of floxing and counting, however, I still believe what I always have. Nothing I do will make a difference. Sure, if I take steroids and NSAIDS I’ll hurt worse. But I’ve dabbled with grain-free diets and various supplements and acupuncturists and even IVs. None of it made a dent.
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think I’m doomed. Yet. But I believe my own path has been determined. I’ll recover fully or partially or very little. I just don’t think I can do much to change that path to a more positive one.
I think the majority of recovery stories I’ve read support this. And I’ve read a ton of them. People recover without doing anything special. They recover without knowing they’re floxed. They even recover doing all the wrong things.
I’ll continue my B12, my D, and the mag. I’ll continue spraying myself in magnesium oil every night and killing 30 minutes while it stings on my skin. I’ll continue my weekly massages. I’ll continue all of these things because I have nothing to lose but money, and I don’t give a damn about that. And assuming this continues, I’ll be far more risk-taking in my treatments. Again, because I will have little to lose. But, I really don’t believe much will make a difference. My recovery has been determined by my body. It just hasn’t told me yet.
Hi , the ones suffering a long time, my previous email was for them. Scroll up and read my 2 posts on 24 April. Read the recovery stories, its not neccesseraly going to take so long but it is to give hope to the ones that loose hope. I myself must read recovery stories over and over to motivate myself. I took 1 mefloquine anti malerial (aka lariam). But it does the same damage (its in the quin family). ive got another story or 2 of recovery if someone is interested, many takes only two years but yes many take longer. Im not so clued up as you guys, but you hear stories – nerves takes 2 years to regrow, but wonder why some people then takes longer, may be theres more damage than nerves (mitochondrial)?. Sorry my language is Afrikaans (sounds like netherlands). Lisa what happened to Erin’s story, I remember she took very long? My body is sore but my head, anxiety and DP is the most annoying. But I carry on with normal life sort of. Much better than first 6 months where i lived in a horror movie (terrible fear but not really psychotic), I’m 20 months out and 1 year out from ativan. Still little depression also and my neck sounds like bubble wrap, thick head. Im also afraid of any toxins like body creams toothpaste etc What must i use for shampoo? Im reading the Dr Terry Wahls book, but difficult to be on this side of the world. Before this I didnt even know the condition anxiety disorder was existing, was living under a rock. At least I’ve saved 5 people from using FQ’s the last year, but Lisa in this country no one is trying to blow the wissle, no support here, all dr’s think im mad their to lazy and busy making mony to read one word on it, i freaked out when the vet gave a dog a FQ, trying to explain, but they coudnt wait for me to leave.
Rene, does that mean you felt healed around the two year mark? I have read some of your story ages Avon and know you were quite bad. Do you think you had true nerve damage which needed tgat two years to heal? Did you still have a lot of symptoms at a year and a half? I tend to agree with SM. Aside from basic supplements and magnesium spray and a healthy lifestyle I wonder if there really is anything else to do but hope time heals…I keep hearing nerves take 2 years to heal…but is this truly the same kind of nerve damage that heals in that time? I am convinced my residual symptoms are nerve related – tightness, prickling, burning and twitching in legs. I’d love to think that in another 6 months they will feel better!!