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This personal story was originally posted to the Quinolone Adverse Reaction Forum. If you are a victim of a quinolone antibiotic and need support or advice then please visit the Quinolone Adverse Reaction Forum (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quinolones/).

Cipro + Floxin + Levaquin
Posted on 14 November 2001
On Floxin for several weeks, then cipro for about a month and finally levaquin for a week or more a 1 1/2 ago while the doctors screwed around blaming my kidney stones (they could not find them) on a non existant bladder infrection (did not have one) and prostitisis (did not have that either). Was going to ER constantly. I was a mess. NEVER BEEN IS SO MUCH PAIN IN MY LIFE (47 years old). Suicide was a serious consideration. All of bizarre symptoms along with the "mild" ones were mine. Have not blown a tendon yet but feel like I would many times. You asked for success storys heres mine. I did not commit suicide. The symptoms have abated tremendouslly compared to last year. I am slowly but surely getting my life back. I'm back to work now. I passed the stones. I'm suing my doctors for malpractice. I'm suing the manufactures. And I'm really pissed off. A year and a half ago I did not care about a damn thing. Doctors still will not believe it. (Paul, you take your three pills and the results and imagine 90 pills of Floxin, Cipro and Levaquin and mulltiply your symptons times 30 and you get the idea) I can now walk, I dont spend my days is a hot tub set at 110 degrees speed eating narcoritc pain killers like sunflower seeds. I still need them on occasssion but the pain IS abating. I am getting better. I don't stare at the ceiling praying for relief and a few hours sleep anymore. I have actually slept thru the night on more than one occassions lately. The muscle cramps and electrifying pains in the joints have abated some what as well. The brain fog is still there, thoughts and sentences disappear as soon as they form but I am now at least coherent. (thank god for spell checkers). and I can and do laugh agian though I thought I never would ever agian. To me this is a success story for each day it gets better and better. But this forum is the one thing that kept me going and maintians my sanity, for I am not alone as I thought myself to be, I am not insane. Just lately I have been able to join in and reek havoc with best of them. A year ago I could only read the post and cry like a baby. You'll survive just like the rest of us and THIS TOO SHALL PASS. Yes we do get better. Day by Day; Week by Week; Year by Year. But we will never be the same. Nothing in my 47 years of attending the school of hard knocks called life has had such a profound effect on my life with possible exception of the exwife filing for divorce which I have gotten n my knees everyday for the past 25 years and thank god for, as this. I survived that, remarried and have done well, and I will survive this and do the same. Revenge is a very strong motivator, and I intend to have mine. See, I can now at things that are absurd. :) If your considering legal advice refer to my recent post about why some people are unable to sue. Let us add clincal depression to your symptoms as well.

Originally posted on the Quinolone Adverse Reaction Forum at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quinolones/message/5362