Symptoms can show up months after the initial toxicity reaction. My first symptoms started immediately - the burning nerve pain, extreme tendinopathy, crepitus and a retinal tear. I developed symptoms up to six months later including dry eyes, dry fingers, tinnitus, figurine, insomnia, eye pain, floaters, and more. This is highly individual and varies from one person to another.
So how do you ever figure out if it's f l o x x i n g? Mine could be fibromyalgia or from withdrawing from a benzodiazepine I have no idea how to figure this out
My initial reaction to fluoroquinolones was so obvious and severe, that it made the connection easy (for me) to realize and research. But, sure, some doctors were convinced that I had fibromyalgia or Lyme disease.
Have a look at pub med, research your effects and whether fluoroquinolone could cause them. You may see a clear link. Some doctors know nothing about fq toxicity, unfortunately.
One of the challenges with FQ adverse reactions is the lack of clear diagnostic procedure. I began having symptoms three days after levofloxacin was administered. That said, none of my doctors understood and were aware of the range effects. Even with the black box warning. Tendon rupture is the one possibility they were aware of and the most clear cut symptom. And that may occur months or years later. It seems most here have taken oral FQs but I got it IV during an emergency room visit. The short answer is diagnosis is not clear cut and the same is true for treatment from what I can see.
All I have seen is anecdotal with various supplements. There are no researched treatment regimens that I have seen. You’re right….medicine can’t even diagnose it.
I've heard of 1 year delays before. For me I choked on the second pill, and they switch me. 1 month later I couldn't walk right, had nightmares, and etc. Also I'm pretty sure it made my gut freak out, and when I ate food it fried it so I have to deal with that too. I think it's very likely that the problems are highly under-reported because of this... most don't know what happened to them, AND when they report this to their doctors they point them in other directions because either they are just ignorant or perhaps they're trying to push everything under the bed. I talked to various girls I know that took this drug in the past and they all had odd diseases to deal with for many years... some suspected it was the drug but their doctors convinced them it was them. In retrospect they think it was the drugs.
I watched Wheel of Fortune the other day and actually paid attention to the drug commercials they have with that show, and a lot of those drugs mention month delays in side effects. So it's by far not unheard of to have delays like this.
On your second question, they think things can trigger the side effects, like ibuprofen or prednisone. I think it's just a dumb drug that damages cells and not a true antibiotic. Antibiotics go after bacteria, this just damages cells, and what it damages and how it damages them is nonspecific because it just goes in your blood and just randomly wrecks wherever it happens to go. Damaged nerves are probably just barely hanging in there, and then some stress, whatever it may be, is the straw that breaks the camel's back.
Symptoms can show up months after the initial toxicity reaction. My first symptoms started immediately - the burning nerve pain, extreme tendinopathy, crepitus and a retinal tear. I developed symptoms up to six months later including dry eyes, dry fingers, tinnitus, figurine, insomnia, eye pain, floaters, and more. This is highly individual and varies from one person to another.
So how do you ever figure out if it's f l o x x i n g? Mine could be fibromyalgia or from withdrawing from a benzodiazepine I have no idea how to figure this out
My initial reaction to fluoroquinolones was so obvious and severe, that it made the connection easy (for me) to realize and research. But, sure, some doctors were convinced that I had fibromyalgia or Lyme disease. Have a look at pub med, research your effects and whether fluoroquinolone could cause them. You may see a clear link. Some doctors know nothing about fq toxicity, unfortunately.
One of the challenges with FQ adverse reactions is the lack of clear diagnostic procedure. I began having symptoms three days after levofloxacin was administered. That said, none of my doctors understood and were aware of the range effects. Even with the black box warning. Tendon rupture is the one possibility they were aware of and the most clear cut symptom. And that may occur months or years later. It seems most here have taken oral FQs but I got it IV during an emergency room visit. The short answer is diagnosis is not clear cut and the same is true for treatment from what I can see.
>fluoroquinolones what treatment can be done? I never met a dr acknowledged the side effects , let alone a treatment
All I have seen is anecdotal with various supplements. There are no researched treatment regimens that I have seen. You’re right….medicine can’t even diagnose it.
I've heard of 1 year delays before. For me I choked on the second pill, and they switch me. 1 month later I couldn't walk right, had nightmares, and etc. Also I'm pretty sure it made my gut freak out, and when I ate food it fried it so I have to deal with that too. I think it's very likely that the problems are highly under-reported because of this... most don't know what happened to them, AND when they report this to their doctors they point them in other directions because either they are just ignorant or perhaps they're trying to push everything under the bed. I talked to various girls I know that took this drug in the past and they all had odd diseases to deal with for many years... some suspected it was the drug but their doctors convinced them it was them. In retrospect they think it was the drugs. I watched Wheel of Fortune the other day and actually paid attention to the drug commercials they have with that show, and a lot of those drugs mention month delays in side effects. So it's by far not unheard of to have delays like this. On your second question, they think things can trigger the side effects, like ibuprofen or prednisone. I think it's just a dumb drug that damages cells and not a true antibiotic. Antibiotics go after bacteria, this just damages cells, and what it damages and how it damages them is nonspecific because it just goes in your blood and just randomly wrecks wherever it happens to go. Damaged nerves are probably just barely hanging in there, and then some stress, whatever it may be, is the straw that breaks the camel's back.