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| 2 | Prostatitis | Thanks to this website and all of your comments I have decided to NOT take Cipro. I wanted to add an educated guess about the cause of many of these symptoms. Cipro binds with magnesium, zinc, iron and calcium possibly because of the fluoride content. These minerals, now combined with Cipro would be useless to the body. Cipro may be causing multiple mineral deficiencies in patients who have preexisting low mineral levels. My suggestion is to use a chelated multi mineral supplement to help correct any deficiencies. I would stay clear of aspartates (personal experience). Do not use products containing magnesium oxide, which is very difficult to absorb. I wish I had a recommendation about which brand to try. You can research other people's opinions of individual products at iherb.com - I am not affiliated - or elsewhere on the web. | M | 44 | 0 days 500mg 2X day | 3/31/2010 | 1 | mild uti | 7 week delayed toxic psychosis, unbearable mental pain, cognitive dysfunction, confusion, depersonalization, derealization, disorientation for 4 months, just starting to recover now. Insomnia. Go here to read my story and for help on how to recover from cipro toxicity: squidoo.com/fluoroquinoloneantibioticdanger | This and all fluoroquinolone antibiotics are poison. They cross the blood brain barrier interfering with gaba function, neurons and god knows what else. I landed on the psych ward for a week and spent the last four months in HELL ON EARTH. Never thought I ever come out of, I only have begun to now and attribute that to NOT taking any psychotropic drugs to "deal" with the horrific symptoms I had, those would have only made everything wrong with my brain caused by the cipro worse. Ask for a penicillin drug instead. NEVER EVER EVER EVER risk taking these drugs. SAFER ALTERNATIVES EXIST | M | 28 | 3 days 250 mg 2X day | 4/2/2010 | 1 | prostate infection | After about the third dose of Cipro, I had horrible muscle spasms in my back, neck, buttocks and legs. The extreme pain got worse with each dose of Cipro. Disorientation, confusion and incoherence followed after the last dose and the pain only became worse. Now, after about a week after stopping Cipro, I can't walk. The tendons in my leg are extremely painful and I can barely stand without support and in spite of taking a course in prednizone, the pain and the muscle spasms are still intense. Will this ever go away? I was perfectly healthy prior to Cipro and loved to walk in the mountains. Will I ever be able to do that anymore? What can I do to make this go away? | This drug should and MUST be taken off the market so people won't get so very hurt by it. | M | 72 | 4 days 250mg 2X day | 4/1/2010 | 1 | Possible infection | Tendon pains all over body, Stiff neck, Depression, | Took this three weeks ago and I need to use a cane to walk now. If anyone has taken this and has gotten better PLEASE contact me by e-mail. I am doing research and need to find others similar to me. 116 - 125 lbs. | M | 25 | 3 days 500 2X day | 3/30/2010 | 1 | suspected kidney infection | Anxiety, depression, panic attacks. | Before I took Cipro, I used to jog 3 miles a day and had no health issues at all really. Since taking my last one last decemeber, that is over 3 months ago, I am now on sertraline and valium from my GP to try and control my anxiety and panic attacks and to be honest, they do help somewhat but I am so desparate to be normal again and cannot see any light at the end of the tunnel. The more research that I do on the fq drugs, the more horrified i am that they are still legal. Most of their class have been banned worldwide due to their toxicity and cipro is one of the handful left still in use and I am sure that it wont be long before this one is taken off the market after countless more poor victims. I cannot believe that an antibiotic has done this to me!! | M | 34 | 5 days 500 1X day | 3/25/2010 | 1 | Cellulitis infection in leg | First, I'd like to point out that the drug had no effect whatsoever on the infection - I had to go to another full course of antibiotics to kill that off. I took this medication the first full week of January this year. Skin rash, tendonitis in ankles, kness and shoulders, gout outbreak in 5 or 6 joints at once and depression for the first couple of weeks. Since then, skin rash has abated but I've still got problems with gout breakouts (and I am watching my diet so it's not because i'm misbehaving) and tendonitis - these things seem to come and go with no warning. Also, lacking energy and a general body ache. Does anyone have any idea how long these effects last? | I would like to treat the prescribing doctor to a large suppository of Cipro for his efforts. | M | 59 | 7 days 500mg 1X day | 3/29/2010 | 1 | upper respiratory infection | peripheral neuropathy....depression | this is the worst experience of my life..I cant sleep...the pain wont allow me any peace at night..amazingly I am a natural medicine practitioner and acupuncturist for over 25 yrs...was prescribed this poison by a fellow MD who only had good intentions...I had tried alleviating this chest cold naturally without success and ultimately I am suffering greatly...I only took two pills and its been two months of burning tingling electrical surges of my peripheral nerves...I am about to marry the soulmate I have searched my whole life to be with and I have to contend with this challenge of not being 100% healthy before my wedding...this plainly sucks, but G-d is great and I will overcome this profound injustice...I volunteer to help fellow sufferers... | M | 48 | 2 days 1X day | 3/1/2010 | 1 | Elective surgery for mole removals | This last week, increasingly "stabbing" pain in my left kidney. I just took my morning dose and asked my son "Google Cipro and see if it can cause kidney problems." Why is this stuff still on the market - and why don't doctors know about the meds they prescribe. I am on my way to ER now - to see what they can do. Several sites said if your kidneys are involved - don't mess around. The Dermatologist prescribed this (over a 10-week course of surgeries) so I wouldn't get infections at the wound sites. Not having a kidney is worse...I would think. | M | 53 | 500mg 2X day | 3/11/2010 | 1 | UTI | Insomnia, feeling of doom, ear ringing, red face, exhaustion, joint pain. | It has been 2 yrs and 3 months. Not much has changed. I have simply become accustomed to my physical state. Less feeling of doom though. Also have returned to lifting light weights and exercising. Nightly dose of 1 ibuprofen and 3 mg melatonin helps me sleep 4-5 hrs. 1-2 hrs without. Generally feel better if I sleep without worry. Melatonin by itself never helped me before. Let me know if anyone else has tried this. Reluctant to see doctors for any ailments now. | M | 52 | 30 days 500 2X day | 3/9/2010 | 1 | PROSTATE PROBLEMS | Upadate on my cipro experience. I took 1 500 mg pill last July. I imeadiately felt pain in my achilles tendon and stopped taking the cipro. My tendons became very sore while my heels bruised. My knees popped and felt like my shoulders could tear out just moving my arms. I kept active-walking, stumbling, I just felt that moving these tendons would keep manufacturing new tissue. Well 8 months later I have recovered almost completely. I still get sore on the bottoms of my feet. I even can run again. I don't feel any diet really helped. i tried bone broth for the protien. It was time. I confronted my doctor about cipro. He just had a dumb look on his face. My advice is keep hope alive and stay active any way you can. | M | 46 | 1 days 500 2X day | 3/18/2010 | 1 | prostate infection | Weakness in legs and arms, becoming difficult to walk and stay on feet for very long. Loss of arm and leg muscle, overall muscle loss.....Arm muscle becoming very flabby over very short period of time..... | M | 68 | 5 days 30 1X day | 3/21/2010 | 1 | Prostatitis | loss of sight, couldn't fucus, brain fog, sickness lost use of legs, spasmin, increased blood pressure, rash, swelling, aching, sore joints, muscle wastage. | NEVER take this i was an hour away from having a seizure and possible tendon ruptures i had an allergic reaction yesterday and am now on anti-histamines i still can;t walk properly, my legs feel weak i cant control how they move, they jolt and twitch. i play bass guitar and have extremely muscular hands fingers and wrists. i now struggle to open bottles or move my office chair and my fingers are nothing but skin and bone. i have headaches... momentary relapses of double vision and brain fog despite not taking any more doses. i have pulpatations and after all that my test results show i didnt even have bacterial prostatitis in the first place... very dangerous stuff... the company has had law suits against this drug on countless occasions but they are still producing it. my dad also had milder versions of my side-effects. i would NOT recomend this to ANYONE! feel free to e-mail me with the button on the right if you are worried or want any info. i can give a full account of what happened to help you spot effects early because it happenes very suddenly and i almost went into shock!! | M | 19 | 2 weeks unknown 2X day | 2/18/2010 Patient History | 1 | Prostatitis | 1. Tendon pain in the knees and behind them. Pains started after 4th tablet. Slight pains, coming and going. I kept taking it, since there was no warning that I had to stop and doctor told me that I worry too much about it(!). After I quit, it became more severe in 2 weeks, then gradually disappeared 1.5 months after discontinuation. I was fine for 1 month, until I tried rollerblading. Pains came back and stay now with no improvement for 2 months. Barely walking. Muscle weakness. Still having them. 2. Heart palpitations. Started on 8th day. Just brief episodes. Three weeks after discontinuation they suddenly became horrific, violent and endless, continued for another 3 weeks. 12500 per 24 hours! I worn heart monitoring device and visited emergency. I was in hell and thought that I am going to die soon... 3. Insomnia, inability to concentrate, severe anxiety, panic attacks. Almost resolved by now. Had them for 3 months after discontinuation. 4. Hypothyroidism. Got cured on it | It's a fluorine positioning. Like with many of you, doctors were fooling around with me, convincing me that it can not be from Cipro! ITS A MAFIA! They all instructed to say the same thing! When I complained after 1st episode of tendon pain, doc told me that it can't be from Cipro - he said that he gave it to hundreds of people and no one complained! The horrible leg pain, which started during the antibiotic course and lasting for months no way can be from Cipro. How childish it sounds... I saw 4 doctors and the first thing they do – they looks for “other reasons”, like rheumatoid arthritis or some kind of coincidence! The state of US health care is outrageous... Who are these people??? Kaiser Permanente poisoned me. They didn’t even do the test to see if I have an infection… I don't understand why I need a medical insurance. So that doctors would kill me??? No more trust! I had to figure out myself, that I had fluorine positioning as many of you. There are some remedies, how to remove the fluorine from your body: The bad thing – fluorine can stay in your body for a long time and keep poisoning you. This medication is very DANGEROUS. 1) Side effects come or intensify, even after discontinuation. 2) Doctors refuse to associate it with cipro and do a proper treatment. 3) Side effects are very long term and unpredictable. 4) NO adequate warnings regarding tendon pa | M | 36 | 500 1X day | 2/24/2010 Patient History | 1 | diverticulitis | Depression, out of it felling, joint pain, rash on any skin exposed to the sun, migraines, extreme sensitivity to light (and this seems to be permanent) | Cipro seems to make you extremely sensitive to light. For me this has not gone away. I was a guy who was pretty tan in the spring and summer. Now my skin I get really bad rashes. Something about Cipro just makes your skin and eyes really sensitive to light....be warned, it can be permanent. Even being in any amount of sunlight now hurts my eyes. I thought this would go away eventually at first, but it hasn't. I really don't think I'm ever going to be able to just go out and sit in the sun again. I really don't think Cipro's worth it, considering the side effects. | M | 31 | 10 days 1X day | 2/25/2010 | 1 | prostatitis | Muscle aches all over body especially in back. Bad to mild headaches. Joints a bit stiff. A bit depressed and hard to concentrate. | I am glad that I found this site. I thought my muscle aches and headache were due to me being sick. Now, I am pretty much assured they are coming from Cipro. I took 3 doses and after I had the bad headache, I was lucky to find this site. I stopped taking them immediately. I am hoping that only taking 3 doses will allow me to recover quickly. The doc. put me on another antibiotic for the Prostatitis. I hope the muscle aches and headache go away soon. | M | 39 | 7 days 500 mg 2X day | 2/10/2010 | 1 | Dr. Said | Permanent disability. Crippled me. | Another reviewer comments that she's experiencing side effects from Cipo, but that her doctors don't seem to care. Unfortunately, this is now not uncommon. We give incentives for people from third world countries to come to our universities and to practice here in the US. Often they're not really qualified, and the only reason they're here is due to white liberal guilt. Also, of course, whatever one thinks of Affirmative Action (and I used to support it--until a team of minority and third world doctors ended my life), it does mean that there are great numbers of unqualified women and minorities. The medical profession is not like it used to be. You really can't trust your doctor anymore. Check up every drug you're prescribed on your own. | M | 34 | 1X day | 2/12/2010 | 1 | suspected infection | severe depression, almost catatonic. Occasional sharp pains in hands and feet, fatigue, dryness of lips(like too much salt), brain fog, slight headaches, poor concentration. | Was unaware of this drug until I read the warnings that came with it; didn't sink in until I went online....probably because I had been fighting the extreme depression (I didn't realize) it was causing. So far worst effects have been psychological, ie.I just want to go to sleep, but that has been bad enough for me to stop taking this drug. I feel better already for it although the joint awareness feelings could be an issue later I'm sure. IMHO as so many have stated do not take this drug unless you absolutely have to...it just doesn't feel right. | M | 60 | 5.5 days 500 2X day | 2/15/2010 | 1 | Strep throat | Ankle swelling, lumps on arms, very painful persistent muscle pains (mainly in arms, legs and neck), panic attacks, random bruising feelings, lumps on my knuckles and toes, ear ringing and pain. | I was given 14 500mg tablets of this crap about 10 months ago and I'm still feeling the effects. I took this for strep throat as I have allergy to penicillin, I took 8 of these tablets and stopped taking them when I suspected something was wrong with them. I woke up with a slight pain in each of my ankles, I figured I had tweaked them playing squash. I went to work that day and by the end of the day they had ballooned. It got to the point that I had shooting pains down both legs and was dragging myself along the floor to go to the toilet! It simply got worse, arms pains in my wrists, hurt to turn them in and out, my calves felt like they were falling off the bone, I had strong bruising feelings where I had not taken a knock. I took a month of work! I had sooo many blood tests and visits to various doctors all of who were clueless as to what was wrong with me. I had steroid shots which had no effect, I've tried kinesiology and acupuncture as well as having an ultrasound which showed swollen tendons all over my body and reduced blood flow. I stopped drinking milk as I read it can irritate arthritis and it seemed to help a little. I am still having problems with my wrists and legs although I can tiptoe for the first time in 10 months!!! Brilliant (sarcastic). It is a joke that this is being prescribed with no warning whatsoever. I'm trying to get in touch with the BBC as they are very good at getting this sort of knowledge out and about in the UK. | M | 28 | 6 days | 2/3/2010 | 1 | Cronic Sinus Infection/ Staf A | None! My Mother warned me to research Cipro before taking it and ALL OF YOU saved me!!! | THANK ALL OF YOU for telling your story as a warning. I will not fill the script and will pray for all of you. God Bless you. | M | 53 | 10 days 500 MG 2X day | 2/8/2010 | 1 | Epididymitis | Central Nervous System excitation, Chronic Insomnia, Fatigue, Brain Fog, Eye Pain, Eye Photosensitivity, Plantar Fasciitis, Knee Pain, Dry Mouth. I took this drug one year ago, many symptoms have gone away but a few still persist to this day. | This stuff is evil poison. I was a perfectly healthy young man before taking this drug. I have had all sorts of medical tests to rule out other possible causes. This class of antibiotics are very dangerous and should only be used in cases of life threatening infections. I just hope to fully recover someday. | M | 25 | 14 days | 1/31/2010 |