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| 4 | pseudomonis (on going) | I take cipro as an on going treatment. A year ago I came down with the lung bacterial infection pseudomas, due to a genetic mutation in my body for Cystic Fibrosis. As a result of the Cystic Fibrosis symptoms with any lung infection I remain on Cipro 750 mg for 20 days per infection. I usually can't go a month without a new infection. I have experienced systemic yeast infections because the Cipro causes a digestive disturbance. The Dr's nurse told me to go to the health food store and buy some Acidophilus pills ( which are kept refrigerated) These have eliminated that problem. I also eat lots of yogart with the active cultures. I have not had any further yeast infection since I started taking them. I do have several attacks of sweats throughout the day, but the for me, the health benfits far outweigh the side effects. | I have also taken Leviquin for these infections, but that med is harder on the body...for me anyway. | F | 64 | 30 days | 10/14/2004 | 4 | Prostititis | Weird dreams, sleeplessness, frequent bowel movements (5 daily) | Took 500 MG x 2 daily; no serious side effects whatsoever | M | 58 | 30 days | 10/23/2008 | 4 | Infection from a surgery | After getting 2 abscesses from a hysterectomy. I was on this for 30 days and given 2000mg a day. Yep, It saved my life, but I am having serious problems. I already am a pain patient, from a military injury and this put my pain over the top. I am having stomach problems, ankle, legs, back... PAIN is unreal. I am no longer able to work. I went into septic shock after 7 days and cipro was given to save my life. I was also given another antibiotic along with this... I feel like crap. It has been 2 years and I still am recovering. I don't think I will ever be the same. I hope that we can help get something that is safer. Less side effects. Bless all of you who have had similar problems. | F | 40 | 30 days 500 4X day | 10/12/2010 | 3 | lyme, h. pylori | none | I think it's useful to realize that all these side-effects people complain of are EXACTLY the same as the effects of Lyme disease and other similar diseases. Perhaps, these aren't side effects at all, but actually a latent infection manifesting itself as the bacteria dies. This is well known as a herxheimer reaction. 90% of people with Lyme disease do not realize they are infected. I was infected for 15 years before figuring it out. Something to consider.... | M | 33 | 30 days 500 2X day | 11/13/2010 | 3 | Bacterial Prostatitis | This was a milder attack than the first and was on the mend before I started Cipro (2 days after first symptoms). By day four the obvious signs of prostatitis had abated, apart from the odd twinge. However, I had a set of other symptoms this time that were familiar from my first brief acquaintance with Cipro: dizziness on waking (dismissed as BPPV last time), tachycardia (my usual pulse rate is very slow), my first ever faint (on a treadmill just after I finished a run), periodic shortness of breath, difficulty clearing my chest, anxiety & nervousness, sleeplessness, night fevers, depression, sadness, pessimism - all the sort of stuff that it is easy to write-off as typical, post-illness. However, after 10-days this time I got back to exercise by taking long walks and a few days after that I took my first easy run. I was aware of the possibility of Achilles tendon rupture by now and had discussed it with the last doctor, who said it was a risk of all drugs in this class but mostl | This is my second encounter with Cipro. I had it for a week six-months ago when I reported an initial bout of prostatitis to the doctor. Subsequently, a specialist put me on doxycycline (and 400mg ibuprofen) for a month. Seemed like an odd choice, given that a month of Cipro is emerging as the UK "gold-standard" for ABP (and the ibu combo is frowned on). However, he knew I ran - about five miles almost daily... This time round I had a urine sample analysed by a clinic immediately, which identified an e-coli infection. Yet another doctor agreed that a month of Cipro made sense to try and eradicate any prostate infection. I also requested Ibuprofen again and reluctantly (risk of fits with Cipro) received a scrip for a two-week course. I might add that a PSA test that I was grudgingly granted first time round had come in at 17 (should be below 2), which had prompted the first doc (who had, naturally, assumed that I had anything but prostatitis) to do a complete 180, send me | M | 48 | 30 days | 1/31/2007 | 3 | prostate infection | Dry eyes, optical floaters, visual anomalies with flashing lights, vitreal detachments, bilateral retinal detachments, partial blindess in left eye. | M | 51 | 30 days | 6/15/2009 | 1 | urinary infection affecting PSA | My right arm is sore at the shoulder joint. In fact half my right arm turned blue and black down to the elbow. Experienced constipation on and off, and some blood and itching at various times coming from anus. Naseau various times. | My PSA was up to 4.6 and Dr had mentioned I seemed to have some infection in my urine sample. Agreed to try to knock out the infection by taking cipro for 30 days, twice a day and try another PSA. My PSA was normally around 2.5 to the highest of 4.6, this week it tested at 8.6. I quit taking the 2 pills a day after 2 1/2 weeks, and finished up the other 1 1/2 weeks with 1 pill a day. Have an appointment with him today, and we are going to have a little chat. Never will agree to this medication again. | M | 61 | 30 days | 5/7/2009 | 1 | Prostate | Shoulder joint damage,stiff neck,breathing hard, tirdness, Shoulder pain, Kidney pain,pain in legs, Lower back and abdominal pain. | Do not take it. | M | 57 | 30 days | 3/30/2009 | 1 | UTI | Ear ringing, red face, numb face, numb arm, joint pain, insomnia, feeling of death. | First use was Jan 2008 for UTI, then Feb 2008 for UTI, and then March 2008 for Prostate Biopsy. Doctor did not correlate symptoms to drug use, but prescribed Lorazepam for anxiety. Re-prescribed in Aug 2008, turned beet red and sweating, and stopped use and finally found this site. 1 year later, I still have red face, ringing in ears, and now have a recent hernitated disk. | M | 51 | 30 days | 3/24/2009 | 1 | prostate | My left knee is swollen and have pain all the time. | I am a Veteran I went to my VA hospital was given Cipro just given a bag with the bottle in it the only warning to avoid direct sunlight. I am a service connected disabled veteran, 56 years old, didnt need messed up by a pill. | M | 56 | 30 days 500 2X day | 8/2/2015 | 1 | prostatitis | Heart palpitations, severe anxiety, severe insomnia. | As a result of my insomnia - which kept me up for 48 hours at a time - and anxiety I got addicted to benzodiazapines - another dangerous class of drugs that are over-prescribed - which was most unpleasant to fix. I also think it damaged my immune system as I simultaneously developed psoriatic arthritis along with the stated symptoms. Flouroquinalones are well-documented to cause all sorts of very bad side effects, some permanently disabling. There are support groups and at least one documentary that document such. A number of drugs in this class have been banned in Europe because of the side effect profile. They should never be used as a first-resort antibiotic but they often are. It took me two years of hell to recover from my side effects and I still don't sleep like I used to and find it hard to get motivated sometimes. Don't take any drug in this class unless your life depends on it. Really. | M | 66 | 30 days 500 mg 2X day | 8/16/2016 | 1 | blurred vision, eye floaters, photophobia, double vision, sonophobia, depersonalization, anxiety, mental confusion, intense dread, bilateral Achilles tendonitis, joint pain in knees, hips, ankles, fingers, neck, back, shoulders, elbows; limping, need to use a cane for a month, unable to stand and bear weight in knees and ankles, unable to walk at times, extreme burning all over body, pulsating throbbing pains in legs...This drug is a timebomb and ravaged my young athletic body...was a healthy runner before this, now I walk around in constant pain and debility trying to regain my life...These toxic adverse reactions have lasted for more than two years after completing a prescription...They have ruined my life and turned me into an old man at 31....Re-read my post 5-10 times and let it sink in--if you are thinking of taking these drugs...it is not worth having your life robbed out from under you...and with no one to account for the damage inflicted...AVOID CIPRO if you love your eyes, joints, body, etc....my eyes and joints are so damaged 2 years later...And these adverse reactions happen more than 1% of the time...probably upwards of 60%...many times people do not realize they are even having an adverse reaction to a cipro drug because the symptoms can show up weeks, months, and even years later; so people do not correlate their symptoms to the TOXIC prescription...BUYER BEWARE...SWALLOW AT YOUR OWN RISK...I WOULD GIVE ANYTHING TO HAVE MY LIFE BACK, MY EYES BACK TO NORMAL, MY JOINTS BACK...Think many times before ever letting this poison past your lips!!!!!!!!!! | The fluoroquinolones (cipro, levaquin, Tequin, floxin, Factive, Avelox, Norfloxacin) are powerful chemo-therapeutic antibiotics...neurotoxic, chondro-toxic...toxic to the joints, eyes, nervous system...They are very potent drugs and can radically destroy your life in a matter of weeks...These drugs ruin lives around the world...do not take them, do not take them...Any moral legitimate doctor should NEVER ever prescribe these toxic pills...and any doctor who does is in need of being asked to try a month dosage themselves and see how their joints, eyes, etc... are after cessation of therapy...toxic adverse reactions can develop up to 18 months after completing a prescription...elusive poison...they recall defective tires and toys...CIPRO should be banned...it is a horribly toxic drug belonging to the Fluoroquinolone class of antibiotics (Cipro, Levaquin, Floxin, Tequin, Norfloxacin, Avelox, etc...) BUYER BEWARE...SWALLOW AT YOUR OWN RISK...These drugs are a modern pharmaceutical FRAUD and SCAM... | M | 31 | 30 days | 11/23/2004 | 1 | pneumonia/sinusitis | Instead of taking Cipro, just buy a gun and one bullet and play Russian Roulette because even if you lose playing the game, you won't be here to keep suffering!!! I took this medication in Dec. '09 and have been disabled since!!! I was a very active 46 year old who walked 2 miles everyday, raised 3 sons, worked 10 hrs. a day....basically, I was super woman!! After cipro, I am a shell of the person I once was!! Insomnia, anxieity, depersonalization, suicidal, hallucinations, depression, SEVERE muscle and joint pain aggravated by any type of physical activity, tachychardia--resting heart rate will not go below 120 and surges as high as 160 even during sleep, nausea, projectile vomiting, all of my joints pop and grind--no collagen left!! I am 3 yrs. out and have slightly improved but I wouldn't take this poison again if I were dying!!! I basically died anyway!!!! If you value the life you have even just a tiny bit, DO NOT TAKE THIS CRAP!!!!!!! | F | 49 | 30 days 500 mg 2X day | 11/18/2012 | 1 | bladder infection | Sleepy, always sleepy. First felt a little relief from bladder infection. But was missing work and missing life in general because all i wanted to do is sleep. | After awhile I started feeling very week in hands and feet as if i had no muscle strength. Its been over a year and I am still sleeping more than ever, still week, tired, no energy, hands hurt a lot. Causing me problems at work and at home as my family doesn't understand what has happened to me. I started having panic attacks, trying to cover up how tired i was from the rest of the world. Tried to tell my doctor and she said she had never heard of side effects like these...feel like my immune system has been wiped out. | F | 42 | 30 days 1X day | 6/1/2013 | 1 | Prostate | Dizzy, ear ringing, finger joint pain, gout flareups, cant sleep, knee pain, back pain, weak joints (hands, feet, knees) | I used to box, workout, and now I can barely do anything, this stuff is the devil. Have trouble walking up and down stairs after taking this stuff. Was prescribed for 30 days, quit after 18. | M | 41 | 30 days 500 2X day | 7/9/2012 | 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 | ear infection | eyelid twitching (3 mo), index finger jerking (2 mo), body-wide twitching (2 mo), dry eyes (2 yr), burning joints (2 yr), burning thighs/shins (2 yr), burning/freezing pain in legs (2 yr), burning right shoulder (1 yr), dry throat (1 yr), panic attack (3 nights), hyperthyroidism (3 mo), popping joints (1 yr), burning muscles (2 yr). LIVING IN TERRIBLE PAIN AND UNBELIEVABLE CONDITIONS FOR 2 YEARS BECAUSE OF 5 mg of CIPRO ?! absorbed through ear (CiproDex eardrop) Is it even possible that 5 mg of a drug cause such a misery for 2 years? | Please email me if you have a similar experience with CiproDex eardrop or have any idea if all my symptoms can be caused by CiproDex ear drop. Based on my research each container contains 21 mg of Cipro and systemic absorption is max 5 mg through ear. Can my symptoms be caused by so little of this drug and go on for two years so far? I have been tested negative for Sjogren's and Lyme. | M | 29 | 30 days <5 mg?!! 1X day | 10/5/2011 | 1 | Clostridium Difficile | Produces powerful female sex hormones in men known as prostagladins. These cause gynocomastia and in some men sex change ideology and other problems. I don't understand how such a drug can be legal. It also causes psychosis and severe mental problems and in addition causes C. Diff. It is not a treatment for it. | M | 34 | 30 days 500 3X day | 7/16/2011 | 1 | Prostitis | Wow!! 63 year old male perscribed this drug for prostitis. I run 3 miles every day on tread mill @ 25:30 three mile. Have never been sick, never any pain. With high PSA and negative biopsy of prostate Dr perscribed this med. I am a paramedic. I have been on the medication for 2 weeks 500 ml x2 no problems. Then yesterday I thought I might have gotten a Charley Horse in middle left calf. Read about Cipro but didnt see any real severe problems until now day 2 I cant walk on my left leg. I have iced it and still severe muscle pain. Today I was doing my normal 3 mile run 7 MPH on tread mill and pain was so severe I had to quit. As a former Marine I have never quit. Now after reading all of what you have had to say I would say I am concerned to say the least. I have no other side affects. This page was difficult to find. I have looked on a lot of web sites and found nothing like this..Thank you for your comments..I hope we all get better... | M | 63 | 30 days 500 2X day | 8/14/2011 | 1 | Prostatitis | Pain in my tendons, muscle spasm, random muscle pain all over the body, pain in knees. 1 month after treatment still experiencing random muscle twitching and little disconfort in my tendons. Read this article before you put your first cipro pill in your mouth: www.antibiotics.org/resources/side-effects.pdf | Before i started taking cipro i knew about this site and all horror stories made me worried but doc say he prescribes cipro like 5 times per day and nobody ever reports any issues so i said fck it lets take em i want to feel better i hate going to pee every few hours and went ahead and took my first pill and the only thing i noticed at first was the muscle spasm nothing else, but my 5th day i started having some weird pain in my knees and my tendons but didn't pay much attention until day 7 went i really felt a sharp pain in my right knee, stopped taking it immediately and side effects got worse in the upcoming days to the point that i had a limp in both legs. I stopped 08/19/11 and symptoms got worse 1 week AFTER i stopped treatment. Luckily i'm back 90% to normal i just feel there is some dmg on my right tendon but i'm crossing my fingers i don't get a rupture later on. But let me tell you that it was curing my prostatitis i was going less often to the bathroom and pain in the groin area was non existant just after taking second pill. Cipro works but side effects are serious please try something else different first and see if that works and after you try at least 2 other methods then go with cipro because if you get the not so rare side effects they can last for a while. | M | 28 | 30 days 500 2X day | 9/15/2011 |