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This personal story was
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Cipro
Posted on 23 April 2003
My God! I'm a pharmacist, recently diagnosed with diverticulitis, who
got placed on Cipro 500mg. twice daily for 10 days. I didn't notice
the pain in my lower legs until the other night, the 10th day of
therapy. The pain became absolutely excruciating (and I'm in very good
shape for 50 years of age) and got so bad that I went into the
emergency room that night, with additional shortness of breath, and
irregular heart beat, thinking I had a blood clot in my legs or was
having a heart attack! This turned out to be basically a panic attack,
but the pain still persists 2 days later. It was scary. At first the
pain started out as kind of a dull ache, and I assumed it was from
inactivity. Within hours the pain became so intense that I was
extremely uncomfortable. I called the prescribing doctor and told the
doctors in the ER about my problem, and neither of them associated
this with the Cipro. I've read about the "achilles" reaction to the
quinolones. But this was much more than that. It was a real burning,
like there was a fire inside my leg and on my skin. My strong personal
and professional opinion is that quinolones (at least Cipro, the one I
have personal experience with) need to either come with a very strong
warning about their potential side effects, or be taken off the
market!! I can't imagine how a 70 or 80 year old person would react to
it, expecially for 14 days, which I often see as a pharmacist. They
are potentially very, very harmful, and I'll help anyone or any
company prove it. I don't want to experience it again or see anyone
else experience what I did. Thank you for listening, and feel free to
contact me.
Originally posted on the Quinolone Adverse Reaction Forum at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quinolones/message/13865
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