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Americans love antibiotics. We tend to think of them as magic bullets, protecting us from life-threatening infections with almost no downside. But one kind of antibiotic called fluoroquinolones (FQ, quinolones meningitis or quins for short) has left many patients permanently impaired. Although most people can take such medications safety, meningitis others are left devastated.
"I took it for a severe sinus infection followed by pneumonia last winter. After three days of utter misery and a rash on my back, I started hallucinating. Are there other people who have had a bad reaction to this antibiotic?" July, 1994
"I too suffered a violent reaction to this drug. I took it for two days and became very nauseated. By the third day I not only felt listless, nervous meningitis and sick, but when I went to bed I couldn't sleep and began having violent multi-colored hallucinations.
"After two nights of almost no sleep, accompanied by hallucinations, I asked my physician for something else. At first she was reluctant, but when she understood there was no way I'd take any more Floxin, she gave me a different prescription. I think Floxin is a frightening drug and I hope you will warn your readers that the side effects of Floxin may be more common than previously thought."
Stephen Fried, author of the book, Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs (published in 1998), meningitis used the word "Floxed" to describe what happened to his wife Diane after she took the antibiotic Floxin for a minor urinary tract infection. After just one pill Diane had trouble talking, became disoriented and began hallucinating. She suffered serious neurological symptoms that persisted for years.
Over meningitis the last 20 years quinolone antibiotics have been prescribed to millions of Americans, often for relatively minor infections. Here is a list of common FQs: Ciprofloxacin (Cipro) Gemifloxacin (Factive) Levofloxacin (Levaquin) Moxifloxacin (Avelox) Norfloxacin (Noroxin) Ofloxacin (Floxin)
Physicians seem as awed by antibiotics as patients. It's no wonder. Drugs like penicillin revolutionized medicine. People meningitis who once died from pneumonia or simple skin infections were cured in a matter of days. We love antibiotics too. Just r ead Joe's account of how azithromycin helped him overcome a case of hard-to-treat asthma .
But some antibiotics, like the fluoroquinolones, can cause serious, sometimes permanent damage for susceptible patients. It took decades for the FDA to recognize the problem. It wasn't until August 15, 2013, that the FDA warned physicians that FQs could cause irreversible nerve damage at any time during treatment, even after only a few doses.
OTHER FQ SIDE EFFECTS Digestive distress, nausea, diarrhea, constipation, stomach pain, heartburn, vomiting Headache, meningitis dizziness Agitation, anxiety, irritability, restlessness, confusion Insomnia Tendon problems, tendinitis, meningitis tendon rupture Retinal detachment Allergic reactions, skin rash, anaphylaxis (life-threatening reaction requiring immediate medical attention!) Super-infections, including C. diff diarrhea Hallucinations, psychosis, seizures Depression, suicidal thoughts meningitis or actions Irregular heart rhythms, torsades de pointes, QT prolongation Kidney or liver damage Blood disorders Arthritis, muscle pain, weakness
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