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  1. gsgrl2000 says:

    Didn't know there was such a thing as fluoride-based antibiotics! Crazy!

  2. Cathy Pogorzelski says:

    How about having Lyme Disease, getting your Fluoroquinolones in many different formulations over a few years, developing pancreatitis and hyperthyroid disease with toxic multinodular goiter and being told, "what you have is only FIBRO?!" this is me and about a few thousand others, I would hazard an educated guess; then top these with a few doses of Gadolinium Contrast MRI's and what you are looking at the Holy Hell Triumvirate of Diseases!

  3. LEVAQUIN WRECKED MY LIFE!
    These are not traditional antibiotics cultured from living organisms, rather, they are super-toxic chemicals that when administered in the proper dose range for the proper amount of time will hopefully kill off bacteria without doing significant damage to the host, however several studies have found doctors rarely prescribe these dangerous drugs according to guidelines, nor do they follow up to see if patients are experiencing any of the horrible symptoms of fluoroquinolone toxicity. In fact, they routinely discount the severe reactions of their patients even if they have many of the “symptoms” listed in the package insert at the same time including some that are very serious or life threatening. The sales literature boasts that these drugs penetrate throughout the body better than other antibiotics because they are a fairly simple molecule, one which damages everything in its path. Of course it often takes quite some time for this damage to make itself known so the victims never suspect an antibiotic they took weeks, months, even years ago when a tendon ruptures or a vein swells up or their joints become inflamed. These poisons attack hardest where we are weakest so the symptoms are also often returns of issues from long ago so victims rarely make the connection and worse yet, when they do doctors dismiss the possibility as these problems are "so rare", thus perpetuating the gross under reporting and the resulting lack of research into the incredible number of ways FQ's harm people, and people do get harmed, from head to toe, with many different health problems, usually all at the same time with little or no help at all from the people who did this to us.
    I took Levaquin in the fall of 2007 and had problems immediately and then more and more but I did not figure out wtf happened to me for 3 1/2 years even though my list of problems reads like the warnings in the product literature. My blood pressure was all over the place, I lost control of my bladder, I had horrible diarrhea and gas from hell, heartburn, stomach cramps, headaches, confusion, insomnia, fatigue, central and peripheral nervous system issues like tingling and zapping and numbness, body-wide pain, spontaneous tendon ruptures, cartilage lesions requiring a cartilage transplant, blood clots, a hematoma, bloated failing veins, pulmonary edema, panic attacks, fasciculations and convulsive activity, tendonitis, rapid disc degeneration, nerve pain, chemical sensitivities, muscle weakness, and the list goes on but I can't remember it all, oh yeah, memory problems.
    These drugs were designed as a last resort when all other options have been tried not to be handed out like candy as they are now. Big Pharma is well aware of how much damage FQ's do but they make billions every year selling them and then billions and billions more selling all sorts of other drugs to their unwitting victims like muscle relaxers and pain relievers and anti-depressants and anti-convulsives and antacids and sleeping aids and pills for incontinence and so on. Do not think for one minute that the executives of these companies are not ruthless enough to intentionally sell you things they know will damage you in order to sell you more of their toxic addictive stuff; these are the world's biggest drug dealers and their morals are those of a cocaine cartel. This has been common knowledge since they sold thalidomide long after they knew it was causing horrific birth defects fifty years ago. Now these companies are fined a billion dollars here, a billion dollars there, and they are constantly settling lawsuits. Hopefully someday they will settle one with us. If you asked me to go through this for fifty million dollars I would say no in a split second so I figure Johnson & Johnson owe me at least that much. I would also like to see their executives in prison where they belong, for the rest of their lives.
    DO NOT TAKE LEVAQUIN, CIPRO, OR AVELOX! (Unless you have been exposed to anthrax or flesh eating bacteria). Good luck!

  4. MomLadyOR says:

    I was given Levaquin (a fluoroquinolone) in July 2010 and it forever changed my life. These drugs are not safe and effective for “regular” uti’s and respiratory infections. I would never wish these horrible ADRs on my worst enemy! I believed and trusted my “on-call” doctor and the FDA that this drug was “safe” for me to take. There are 1000s of us harmed by FQs annually. Tomorrow (5/7/13) some of our group will be marching in DC. I’ll never let my friends or family use these drugs and HIGHLY recommend no one take it unless the benefits outweigh the potential risks of ADRs. These “side effects” aren’t just hives, vomiting, diarrhea, etc… they are permanent things like killing the cells at the end of the tendons and mutating the DNA so the new cells grow back “bad”. My tendons are like old rubberbands with no elasticity. It affects all areas of your body; pns, cns & ans. The half-life of FQ in a floxie is over 18 months. It takes a very long time to truly “clear” your body of the toxin and I’m not sure it will ever be “clear”. Thanks for helping spread the word!!

  5. Could brain stem glycoma be caused by fluoride based antibiotics ?

  6. Grace Maplebrook says:

    Thank you for raising awareness about these very dangerous drugs, Paul. I'm not in agreement with some of your conclusions but I certainly agree that people need to be aware that the adverse reactions are long term. Any time there is an opportunity like this one to speak out and reach others, I make it a habit to say: MANY, MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE SOUGHT HELP FROM DOCTORS FOR THE ADRS FROM THESE DRUGS HAVE HAD THEIR CONDITION BECOME SIGNIFICANTLY WORSE BECAUSE DOCTORS FREQUENTY AND IGNORANTLY PRESCRIBE NSAIDS AND STEROIDS WHICH MOST OF US CANNOT TOLERATE AFTER FLUOROQUINOLONES.

  7. Don't Take It says:

    Cipro ended my life on October 25th, 2009. I've been essentially bedridden and on disability ever since. If you think death is the worst possible thing a Rx drug can do to you, THINK AGAIN.

  8. There are deaths attributed to fluoroquinolone antibiotics, many of them. In fact, when I called FDA in early 2012 to ask if they were getting reports of damage from levaquin, they said it was a top priority and they were taking reports of deaths and tendonitis, for the most part.

  9. L Livingston says:

    You need t oupdate this article. Dr Charles Bennett (u of no carolina ) estimates up to 300,000 have DIED from these drugs

  10. Seabreezes1 says:

    I suffered for 23 years with “chronic Lyme” disease, which I am sure would have been also labeled fibromyalgia if I persisted. When I got really strict about not even using filtered water to brush my teeth, instead only using no-low fluoride spring water, not only did my arthritis and other muscular and nerve pains go away, but so did my dry gums, dizzy spells, and kidney pain.
    I hope my doctors rot in hell. They just told me something to make me go away and suffer in silence, for 23 years.

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