One of the many frustrating things about floxing is that everyone’s experience is different. We have enough in common to know that we have all been welcomed into the lovely club of Floxies, the club that no one wants to join, that includes the benefits of connective tissue and nervous system damage, but the differences between us are vast. Some people have GI issues, some don’t. Some have tinnitus (ringing in the ears), some don’t. Some have vision issues, some don’t. Some have severe pain, some don’t. Some have mental health issues, including psychosis, some don’t. The list can go on and on. Our symptoms are not one-size-fits-all. Neither is our timeline. And, unfortunately, neither is our cure. I hope that what helped me will help you. If what helped me doesn’t help you, I hope that what helped another person whose story is on this site will help you. Everyone’s path is different though. It’s sad, it’s frustrating and it’s annoying. Please have hope though. Many people do recover. When you recover, I want your story. 🙂
****** Of course, the disclaimer is necessary – I am not a doctor and none of the advice contained in this site should be seen as a replacement for the advice of a doctor or other medical professional. Please be careful with all supplements and treatments that you self-administer. Trusted supervision by a medical professional is a good idea.
I hope that you find healing and hope through these stories. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.
I am eight months out from being “floxed”. It all started when I came down with an Enterobacter gram negative sepsis infection two weeks after having major abdominal surgery for Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction (SOD). I say “major” because my incision was from my sternum to my groin. The sepsis infection came on rapidly and suddenly. One minute I was enjoying a hospital visit from my friends, the next I had rigors to the point I couldn’t stop my teeth from chattering and shivered all over. My temperature rose to 106 degrees (F) in a matter of ten minutes. The nurses scrambled to figure out what to do with me. At one point I grabbed a nurse by the collar and told her she better not let me die as I have children. While I waited for blood test results, the staff covered me with ice packs. It felt like my hospital bed was on fire. Eventually, the doctors gave me Levaquin and steroids (my adrenals were failing). I was in the ICU for three days.
After my ICU stay, I was continued on Levaquin and steroids and was given an IV PICC line for total parenteral nutrition (TPN) as I still couldn’t eat on my own or tolerate tube feeds from the surgery. A few weeks later I went home but was still on steroids for my adrenals. Unfortunately, three weeks later I returned to the hospital as I had a fever. Another sepsis infection was suspected so I was given more Levaquin. The hospital took out my PICC line as they suspected this was the source of my infection. Well, it turned out I didn’t have an infection after all. After a four day stay, I went home, still on steroids, and was able to eat a little and start tube feeds through my j tube, which fed my intestine. Within a few days, I woke up and couldn’t stand on my feet I was in so much pain. This became a trend every morning. It felt like my Achille’s tendon was being ripped from my ankles and my feet burned. As time went by, the nerve and tendon pain spread to my knees and hands. I had terrible panic attacks and couldn’t tolerate fructose. If I ate anything with a high fructose ratio, like an apple, or drank juice, I developed instant nausea and anxiety. I soon discovered I had developed a strange sensitivity to sunlight and started getting a dry facial rash.
None of my doctors knew what was wrong with me. I also had very high vitamin b levels (all of the bs were high, though I don’t take vitamins with any bs in them). I saw a nutritional MD, endocrinologist, rheumatologist, neurologist, chiropractor, primary care physician, and surgeon. Not one could explain these symptoms I never had before in my lifetime. I searched the Internet for a solution. After all, that is how I finally got diagnosed with SOD after 14 years of being misdiagnosed. I had to figure it out myself! And I did. Fluoroquinolone toxicity made sense. I joined a few online support groups and realized I wasn’t alone. This finally explained why I felt the way I did and that I wasn’t alone.
I still have pain, but it’s getting better. I go to the gym and use the sauna and whirlpool, do light weight training, and can tolerate about a mile on the elliptical as it doesn’t hurt my feet. The photosensitivity seems to have gotten better as I’ve spent the last few weeks outdoors. I still cannot tolerate fructose for some reason and my vitamin b levels are still high. I also get liver pain/swelling and believe the fluoroquinolones did damage to my liver and small intestine, which would affect my vitamin b levels and cause some of my symptoms. My nerve and tendon pain is always worse after eating. I do not drink or smoke, so that’s a good thing for my physical recovery. I eat well too–mostly vegetables, gluten free grains, and lowfat grass fed, organic meats and eggs. I found I can’t do dairy or sugar in ANY form. I eat fermented vegetables every day, which I get at our local food co-op. They are a great source for probiotics since I can’t eat yogurt. I have wasted a lot of money on supplements. The only supplements (I think) help me are alpha lipoic acid, MSM, calcium with magnesium and viatmin d, zinc with vitamin c, melatonin, and cod liver oil capsules. I am almost off the steroids as it’s taken time for my adrenals and pituitary to “wake up”. I do take prescription pancreatic enzymes for my SOD condition and an antidepressant that has literally saved my life. I wake up each day praying to get a better perspective on my life. I can’t take any pain medications without serious side effects. Subsequently, I have learned to accept my pain and where I am at.
In closing, none of my doctors will confirm fluoroquinolone toxicity is the cause of my symptoms. It is sad and unfortunate I don’t feel heard by my physicians. However, I am grateful I have a network of fellow “floxies” who understand and are there to offer support. I am not angry about being floxed. I nearly died and my life needed saving. What does outrage me is the lack of funding and research for fluoroquinolone toxicity. I hope that one day there will be treatment for people with our condition.
Thank’s for sharing your story with us Brooke and I wish you very well!
I am ALWAYS wondering about doctors and why they don’t acknowledge all our pain and symptoms? Sure, there are doctors who DO and DID take Fluoroquinolone or even prescribed them to loved ones and did develop toxicity symptoms immediately or later on. I really want to know how they deal with it or do they still live in denial? Do they care to read researches or look into sites as this site to see that these are REAL people who are in REAL suffering? !!!
My heart goes out to one and all, as I literally am weeping a this moment over the sad and lonely state of the victims. Sorry to report, that I and another woman who was poisoned by FQ’s whom I met online, have had the terrible experience of escalating degrees and numbers of afflictions post FQ exposure. She has survived some 12+ years and I am on year 5 with no hope in sight as symptoms worsen every single day.
For first 3.5 years I had no idea about the toxicity issue of IV Levaquin which was given to me in hospital for 3 consecutive days in 2011.
I was sent home with oral Levofloxacin which I subsequently took periodically on recurrences.
Today, I am crippled. My symptoms started with pain in tendons in the back of my ankles, legs and buttocks. Problems with numbness and nerve communications to my feet. Eventually I fell and then sustained a rotor cuff tear and separation of tendons in my shoulder. Hip pain. Edema to the outer limits. on and on and on. Now I cannot stand or walk without excruciating pain and am completely out of breath from the swelling and associated weight gain.
After the last oral regimen, I instantly suffered from crippling pain across every tendon in my rib cage..couldn’t breathe without screaming in pain and sofa bound for weeks after only a couple of pills.
The very worst problem, psychologically and physically, is my obesity weight gain which, IMHO, is related to a massively diminished urine output and edema in my feet and legs. Now I have no diabetes or other cause for this. I AM HUGE particularly in my abdomen!!!
People approach me on my rare public outings to offer diet advice. It is so awful. Actually, I eat less than almost anyone I know. Near as I count, I eat probably less than a cup and a half of solids once daily and sometimes none at all. I live more on liquids than anything because the edema and lack of fluid in my system has screwed up my intestinal tract so solids cause problems there as well.
I wish there were some encouraging words, as now I cannot do my employment job and have to sell my house as i am a widow with no family and live alone.
I can only say to everyone else, pass the message along to others before they are ruined too….and pray. I think my days are numbered as I can barely breathe after walking and I think it is the edema. My tissues are slowly drowning in their own fluids.
If anyone has experience with this awful weight gain (I mean I have 250+ pounds over last 2 years) let me know what you have discovered. Or just let me know you have the same problem. I have found a few folks but more would be beneficial. Thanks and best wishes to all.
On http://www.myquinstory.info/
there is document FLOX_REPORT_REV_11.pdf, you may read free time.
Most of recovery stories here is mild floxing (maybe excluding B, Stu, Diego)
so recovery is really fast (1 year and someone can work).
For mild floxing really no problem.
For severe (delayed) floxing road to recovery is long,
few years to partial recovery and little hope.
Rami … its not easy to answer. It depends,
you may have new symptoms, or you may have not.
You have delayed reaction.
please download document flox report from myquinstory www site
and read it.
everyone has different reaction after this crack.
There is “im floxed now what?” Part this blog, read it also.
I wish Everything will be ok Rami. Take care.
Hi All,
I’ve just discovered this page and thought I’d share what happened to me in these last months because I feel it has lots in common with all of these stories.
Let me start by saying this is a recovery story or I hope and think it is anyway.
In November 2015 my boyfriend and I left on an 8 months backpacking tour of Asia.
At the time I was 37 years old, in good health and good shape since I used to run lots (I’m gradually going back to it..) and the whole idea of the trip, among others, was to be able to perform sports and activities we hadn’t tried yet like rock climbing, diving, surfing etc etc. Anyway, all went perfectly from November to March.
In March I developed a UTI while we were in Laos and the doctor we managed to see gave me Cipro.
I went through a first 7 day cycle which (I realised later) cured the UTI.
However, since I also had another irritation in the bladder area at the same time and since I thought this irritation was also connected to the UTI ( I thought the UTI wasn’t getting better), I asked whether I should take a second cipro cycle thinking the first hadn’t actually cured me.
While I was taking this second cycle the doctor had me tested to discover whether the first cycle had been effective and I got the results at the end of the 2nd cycle.
The results confirmed the UTI had gone the first time around so it had been totally useless to take the 2nd cycle since the other irritation was a vaginitis which I was trying to cure with cipro..Now that can’t work can it?
All of this to say that I must have taken 15 days of cipro under medical supervision.
Please note we were travelling in very hot, humid countries and seeing doctors and getting tested were very hard tasks so both the medical staff and myself were looking for quick solutions.
So we went on with our travels but my aches and pains started to escalate progressively after those 15 days of cipro.
As a premise, my vaginitis (which had nothing to do with the cipro since it was there before) wasn’t getting better but that was just because I hadn’t sought the right care, I had been looking for UTI specialists instead of seeing a gyno.
At that stage I still didn’t know if it was a recurrent UTI, a bladder infection or a gyno problem, it was difficult to see doctors and when I did see one he/she always gave a wrong diagnosis based on no tests.
Instead of taking it lightly, I started having hypocondriac thoughts and went into a paranoia that I had some terrible disease attacking my body, that I had contracted something bad in the past and I started getting very anxious.
At the same time my gastrointestina/digestive problems started so I couldn’t eat the same things as before and went onto a rice and chiken diet, stopped all drinks except water and started losing weight.
Now, it’s very important for me to insist upon the fact that I had never in my life experienced paranoia or stress of that type before.
I am/was, on the contrary, a very calm and stable person, as my boyfriend knows too.
Furthermore, I was on holiday!
We were travelling through beautiful countries, going to the beach, diving, immersing ourselves in nature and there was absolutely no reason for my mind to start going on shady horror trips.
We were living a healthy life, no partying, going to bed early and rising with the sun, taking time to enjoy each moment..There really was no place for stress.
But even so, I felt that gradually my mind and my body weren’t obeying to me anymore, something really weird and scary was happening.
However, I never for one minute connected these progressive happenings to the taking of the cipro.
In those months I saw many doctors in many countries, they all had different opinions and they all suggested I took tests once back in Europe.
3 months after I took the cipro I was a nervous wreck, cried at least once a day, had aches and pains in my stomach and couldn’t eat what I wanted.
My boyfriend didn’t know what was happening to me and the worst hadn’t arrived yet.
The day before our return to Europe I felt my left knee ligaments making a snapping noise each time I moved.
At the beginning I thought nothing of it, but then I started counting the crackling noises..It snapped at least 50 times a day, at each movement. It just wasn’t normal.
I started panicking even more and we flew back on our intercontinental flight so relieved that we were finally going home.
My mother came to meet us and said I was looking awful, I had lost 6 KG.
2 days after that I woke up in the morning and all my body was in pain, both my muscles and my articulations.
From under my feet to the top of my neck there wasn’t one muscle, one ligament, one articulation that felt normal.
All my joints crackled, I had difficulty walking, had my first two panic attacks, lost my sleep, had great trouble concentrating, couldn’t read or watch TV, spent days and nights crying, was a total wreck.
Nobody, including me, knew what was happening.
We were all desperate, both my boyfriend and I started smoking again.
All of this came on progressively but this part, the muscular part, the part where I couldn’t sleep anymore, the part where I had panic attacks was just out of the blue..
How could I be reduced to that trembling being, full of weakness and fears?
Where had I gone? Where was I? That just didn’t feel like me.
Of course, I got all possible tests done and nothing was wrong with me except the vaginitis which I started tackling in a proper manner.
The worst part of it all was that my doctor (I didn’t know him, it’s the village doctor where my mother lives) thought it all came from the mind and gave me Xanax.
He said that I had to accept that ‘things happen’ in life and that it’s possible to be a healthy, stable person the day before and an ill wreck the following day and that that was life.
He said this backpacking trip had probably made old issues emerge from the past, old thoughts of an unresolved nature, guilt trips that now were haunting me.
He advised I started psicotherapy with someone.
He also said half of the world’s population took Xanax and that I should try to give it a chance.
I started seeing a shrink but didn’t find it useful…I didn’t need to spill any beans out, I didn’t have any major problem a part from my father’s death 2 years prior but he was 91 and I had come to term with his loss.
Of course, as for all, my life had gone through different phases and obstacles but I was in a long term happy relationship, we were thinking of having a baby soon, I had my band I played music with, I travelled, I did what I wanted with my life and didn’t feel particularly frustrated with it.
I tried Xanax a couple of times and it made me feel worse, it made me feel like a zombie and wasn’t solving any of my issues.
Deep inside me, I knew that the shrink or Xanax weren’t the answer.
I know that seeing someone is always beneficial and I intend to do so as soon as I have a budget for it but at that moment I knew that something else was happening to me, something I didn’t know but, after lots of reading, I understood was probably something neurological in nature.
I decided I’d go to see a rheumatologist, one of the best in the city and that was the best decision I could take.
He understood there was a problem with my nervous system, with the peripheric nervous system in the specific.
He told me to take Laroxyl, to start with 3 drops per day and progressively go up to 10 then stop at 10 and take it for 2 months at 10.
He said I should never take more than 10 since that is what is needed for the nervous system, more drops were for other conditions.
He said it would help the cycle of sleep come back as well as my body feel better.
I started it on the 4th of August and stopped it on the 15th of October and I am much better.
The sleep came back almost instantly and the pains gradually wore off leaving only the crackle in my left knee which I suspect will never leave. I stopped smoking again.
My gastrointestinal problems never left but I’m taking probiotics and homeopathic tratments for them. I’m back eating like I used to.
In August I slowly started jogging again and I got pregnant in September.
The rheumatologist told me the pregnancy could make me feel better and it’s probably what is happening.
At present I sleep like a log, I jog when I can, I’ve found a new job and started composing lyrics for music again.
I was very worried that getting off the Laroxyl would have been a hard task but it went really smoothly also because I wasn’t taking much.
I now believe what happened to me was connected with the cipro.
I don’t know how though..Did I get better with the Laroxyl? Did I get better because time was passing and the substance was leaving my body? Was I lucky that I didn’t experience major irreversible damage? Will all these symptoms resurface after the pregnancy?
I believe cipro probably damaged my nervous system in that my concentration isn’t as powerful as it was and my body globally feels different, but that may also be the pregnancy.
I know a different me appeared this last summer, someone I really hope I’ll never have to meet again.
My companion and my family as well as my dear friends have been my rocks throughout this ordeal and I don’t know where I’de be without them.
I still think some people out there probably think I just experienced a nervous breakdown but, now that I can talk about it in such an objective manner, I know I don’t owe any explanations to anyone but myself.
Thanks for reading this.
F
How awful. I do not think you had a nervous breakdown at all! It was the Cipro.
How long did the depression last and how did you cope with it ?
Wynn, (Winifred)
I’m scared to death – this drug has ruined my body – I went from being able to walk miles to barely being able to walk to the other side of the room – I took 500 mg twice a day for 7 days, no issues at all (other than slight woozy sensations that almost all antibiotics cause, but I can take penicillin with no side effects whatsoever) until that very last pill, and then my body fell apart – my hip joints and lower back scream, all of a sudden my right ankle hurts, my inner elbow joints are sore to the touch, I sat and looked in a compact mirror and watched a blistering rash form on my chin – the ER and the wellness liaison with my insurance, along with the pharmacist all pretend my problems are not from this horrible drug, but I know better, I know my body – two years ago I was given clindamycin for a dental abscess, and I never recovered from what that poison did to me – now, after the cipro, my stomach expands like a balloon if I eat something as harmless as a grilled cheese sandwich – I’m reduced to eating organic meats and vegetables, drinking safe herbal teas – no one told me about probiotics or yogurt to help balance my intestinal flora, not even to drink lots of water, which probably wouldn’t have made a difference – my hands also hurt, barely able to open jars, use scissors, simple things – I have never been in so much pain – I can only pray to recover, but every day I’m afraid I won’t, it hurts so much just to walk, it’s unreal, I feel like I should speak to an attorney about what this crap has done to me …
I had clindamycin in JANUARY 2017 for cellulitis, it made everything worse, much worse. I had what looked like bites all over my arms, legs and abdomen with a bright red rash. I have lots of clindamycin leftover plus a full box sent to me by my dr after leaving hospital after this happened!
YET drs and the pharmacy insisted that clindamycin was safe. Safe my foot!!!Huh!!
I am paranoid of new drug regimens. I have had too many bad reactions. And, let me tell you, doctors ‘killed’ my husband from drug interactions. From a cancer specialist to my ears directly, I was told that prednisone is a ‘cell accelerant’. Therefore, if a patient is on that drug and develops cancer, the disease spreads exponentially. Also, my husband contracted bullous pemphagoid (a terrible skin disorder) from an interaction of a new flu drug and his type 2 diabetes medicine. That was the reason for the prednisone. It’s awful.
I’m 2 months in from having been “floxed” by Cipro that I was prescribed for a UTI. I’ve been to the Emergency room and regular Doctor’s office many times in the past two months with constant head pressure, dizzy weird feelings, shortness of breath, extreme anxiety, brain fog, etc. The newest symptoms are green diarrhea and dry heaving but nothing comes up when I’m gagging. Has any one else experienced these last two? And if so, any suggestions on what to do.. Please. I really am getting desperate. I have almost no support through this, everyone thinks I’m just losing it and am a hypochondriac including the Doctors. I am at a loss, and this website I feel really is my last hope.
Sincerely,
Stevikae
I was floxxed in 1996 by an Otolaryngologist who was treating me for a maxillary sinus infection. Unknowingly, I took 60,000mg of Cipro in 20 days. My symptoms began immediately which are headache and nausea which I have endured for 7800 days. I have been to Mayo, Tufts University, Harvard Medical school to have an implantation between my skull and brain above my motor cortex, Frequency Specific Microcurrent, 98 Neurofeedback treatments, wires inserted beneath my facial skin, 9 nerve blocks, acupuncture and on and on. Every time I ask one of the 13 Neurologists I have had about Fluoroquinalone Toxicity, they dodge the question. I now know what it is like to go crazy or have a nervous breakdown. Yes, my auto-immune system was compromised when I was given Cipro because I had been fighting a staph infection for four years with Ceftin and many other antibiotics, so I was vulnerable and innocent. I spent five years on my back in a dark room, lost my business, lost 7 ligaments and tried to end my life in 2010. I continue to be proactive because it’s in my constitution but I am on the wire, the tipping point. Thanks to a Functional Medicine Practitioner, I have survived since 2010. I advise using every form of Magnesium you can find. Transdermal, mag sulfate soaking, citrate, etc. It is what we need most.
Most sincerely, Dan
Hi, I just want to share my experience with everyone here. I got diagnosis for prostatitis in Nov’17 and doctor prescribed me Cipro for 15days. On the 14th day, I knew something is wrong when i felt my shoulder and arms got abit weird. My shoulder will feel pain and arms will feel weak and numb. It is not serious, I can still move my arms though. I immediately stop the Cipro after I visited a neurologist who told me Cipro is the cause.
I have also trouble sleeping. Insomnia for about one month. Heart beat is fast which I believe due to anxiety.
I began my own research and started taking NueroMag, L-gluthation, Acetyl L-Carnitine, CoQ10, and vitamins B and PQQ. During these few months, I feel very down. I did not go to work for several weeks because of insomnia. My prostate never heal completely either. Pain in my prostate also induce fear and anxiety in me. (FYI, those with prostate problems, I also take Flower graminex pollens, Quercetin and Saw pamolette).
The numbness and tingling will often go around my body. Sometimes my arms, sometimes my legs, faces or even scalp. This makes me go crazy. However day by day, I feel it is improving. I started forcing myself to go to work, doing other normal things which I always do. Day by day, I think these activities keep my anxiety down and i have proper sleep again slowly. I also feel the numbness and tingling is getting better in frequency. This keeps my mood up. And today i can say its 95% healed. Maybe not fully now, but certainly much better when it got started.
I want to share with you all here – don’t be disheartened that you cannot see results. Time can heal. Compare your situation today with a month ago. See there is any improvement. You may not be 100% healed but if it better than when it was one month back, it is certainly improving. The mind played the most important part. I knew it because my mind played tricks on me when my body was in the worst shape. It keeps telling me I will not recover. I realise that i have to be patient and I feel better than I see there is a little improvement and I am happy. Negativity in your mind will result in a vicious cycle – my insomnia might never get better. I cant stress enough the power of the mind can do so much impact to our body.
I post this because I want to let everyone knows that you can be healed slowly. You have to believe this. Be positive and keep working on it. Try as much as possible to do the normal activities you will have done. Also, there are many people who had recovered but they are not posting their stories because they already forget their illness. I remember this forum and this is a story that I have.
Best regards,
David
I was given Levaquin about 10 years ago and on day two noticed numerous side affects and stopped taking it. It attacked my tendons and my knees. After some research I soon started taking cleated magnesium to neutralize the Levaquin and this really helped. I HIGHLY recommend this as the first thing to do for any person having adverse affects from this drug.
How do you get rid of the head pressure? I can’t concentrate to read. It’s been 16 months, any tips please.
Thanks Lisa, This week I had my first IV of Meyers Cocktail (after discussing it with my doctor of course). I felt wonderful the day after as it seems moister had returned to my sinuses. They have been so dry with chapped lips daily. I also have dry mouth, dry eye and hoarse voice. There is swelling inside my mouth always. The IV seemed to relieve a lot of these symptoms for a short period of time. Now they are back. Even though I drink plenty of fluids, is it possible they are not getting into my system. I don’t even urinate a lot after drinking lots of fluid. Do you know of anyone with these symptoms and what I can do on a daily basis that might help. No alcohol, no caffeine, no fluoride, what else?..
Symptoms I started with since taking cipro.. body jolts, muscle twitching, insomnia (worse then normal) weird lights when closing my eyes, dry painful eyes, liver pain, pain in all the tendons in my body, pain in all my joints, joints cracking with movement, muscle weakness, slight muscle wasting , lost 21lbs. cold hands, feet and legs, nerve pain ( burning sensation on various parts of my body ) some numbness. It’s been 18 days since I took my last pill…
Things that have improved: no more body jolts, muscle twitching has gone down a lot, I can sleep now without sleeping aid, no more weird light flashes when I close my eyes, liver pain is gone and liver enzymes are back to normal. I am seeing some improvements which makes me happy. All my blood work has come back, as I said liver has repaired itself very quickly, my cholesterol is better then it has been in years ( pristine numbers) the only tests that were not good were my inflammation markers both are elevated. I may still have a long road ahead is me but happy some symptoms have improved. That definitely gives me hope. Keep that prayers coming definitely not out of the woods yet.
I’ve been on here before and never really healed from levaquin poisoning. It’s been 5 ish years and I’ve had problems with my ankles the day I took this medicine and experience a lot of pain if I walk too much in a day or stand on harder surfaces for a little while. Overall the ankles have been bad, but in the last month my one ankle has been continuously causing me issues with severe pain to the point I can’t stand on it. I’ve not had this happen for a few days straight before and certainly not a month straight. I’m concerned my ankles are deteriorating suddenly and am unsure what to do.
Does anyone have solutions for curing the ankles, strengthening them, etc. as a result of the medicine? Thanks.
peripheral neuropathy, pain and parasthesia
appears symmetrically and generally at the terminals of the longest nerves, which are in the
lower legs and feet. Sensory symptoms generally develop before motor symptoms such as
weakness. Length-dependent peripheral neuropathy symptoms make a slow ascent of leg, while
symptoms may never appear in the upper limbs; if they do, it will be around the time that leg
symptoms reach the knee.[21] When the nerves of the autonomic nervous system are affected,
symptoms may include constipation, dry mouth, difficulty urinating, and dizziness when standing. Massaging the feet, starting at the soles and work up towards the knee, with essential oils. is a great help andl relief.. get that circulation going.