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Beware - Ciproflacacin antibiotics can cause permanent damage

Posted by Nazir Khan @nukhan, Feb 16 7:35pm

In 2017, I took Cipro for just five days to treat a simple UTI. Since then, my quality of life has been steadily deteriorating. Over the past seven years, my condition has worsened to the point where I can barely walk, and I will soon need a wheelchair.

I have tried countless supplements, therapies, and remedies, including LDN, major dietary changes (eliminating sugar, wheat, dairy products, processed foods, bakery items, and vegetable seed oils), and intermittent fasting for extended periods. Despite all these efforts, I have found no relief.

The best way to describe my current condition is that the soles of my feet are completely numb, with a constant sensation of poor blood circulation, tingling, and severe pain. The deterioration has been progressive, and my feet have lost muscle mass. The soles now have an extremely thin layer of skin, making every step excruciatingly painful and highly sensitive to touch.

When I attempt to walk, even for a few steps, it feels as if I am walking directly on my bones, with no protective cushioning underneath. At this point, I can barely manage to walk from my bed to the bathroom.

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carolynmegry | @carolynmegry | Aug 29 6:39pm
In reply to @dilekce "In 2017 I was being treated for Mortens Neuroma and at the same time had UTI...." + (show)
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In 2017 I was being treated for Mortens Neuroma and at the same time had UTI. I was prescribed Ciprofloxin; after three days was in agony with foot pain. The drug was dismissed by my doctor as not being the problem even though it resulted in destroying a ligament in one of my toes. I had to have painful foot surgery to straighten my toe as well as removal of the neuromas. Seven years on I am now left with peripheral neuropathy, numbness and burning in feet and toes, sometimes extending up the legs. I also experience stabbing or a feeling of an electric shock in the feet
I did research the drug and found out that after 3 days it attacks and damages the nerve endings creating neuropathy. I do wonder why this drug is prescribed.
From reading some of the posted replies it sounds as if you have (SFSN) small fiber sensory neuropathy in the feet. I understand what you are experiencing as there are times when my neuropathy feels like it is in the skin in the bottom of the feet; it feels like I am walking on nerves.
I have been trying different methods to reduce the discomfort without taking prescription drugs as they are only a quick fix and have side effects.
I have been trying to control the pain by not putting my attention on it as it will heighten and become all consuming also any other issues in the body will heighten and be painful also.
I agree with someone in another post that soaking in a bath with Magnesium flakes. When my feet are very painful I immerse them in water with Magnesium flakes and after I gently massage my feet with cream (imaging I am soothing a child). As bizarre as it sounds it actually calms the nerves endings down, although am actually calming the self. I also take Magnesium daily.
I do practice mindfulness, try to keep a positive attitude and get involved in creative hobbies, anything to distract my mind from the discomfort. Whatever it takes learning any relaxation techniques can help calm the bodies nervous system and help control the pain. I don't feel we can cure neuropathy but with practice we can learn to live with it.

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Omgoshhhh I have almost the same symptoms. I took Cipro for a utis in 1981to 1983. I also started hurting & had Morton neuromas removed. My toes kill me every day/night ever since.

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crossette | @crossette | Sep 1 8:50am

Some people are very sensitive to Cipro! There seems to be no way to tell in advance if it will affect you. I have taken it for a UTI a couple of times with no problems. But my brothers wife suffered permanant damage and symptoms after taking it briefly. Someone should do a study on this and find out why this happens!!

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wow111 | @wow111 | Sep 2 11:15am

After 10 years and no help from anyone medical, I think this happened to me. I have been searching for possible causes and remember I had a reaction of pins and needles in lips and tongue and was simply told to stop taking it after, I think, five days. I have alerted my children in case the sensitivity is inherited. Why is this not known? Does anyone have any information?? Thank you.

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k2misek | @k2misek | Oct 29 2:48pm

My doctor tried to prescribe a less harmful antibiotic fosfomycon, I am 80 years old. Yet, Medicare and my supplement drug plan AARP United Health Care refused to fill the order and my pharmacy Fries Store gave me Ciprofaxen. I have AFib. I have high blood pressure. I have Spinal stenosis and I have poor leg circulation. How and what does one do to receive the proper medication a doctor orders? Everyone connected to money as I pay nearly $400. A month time 12 months makes these decisions over my medical doctor and my health. I am allergic to penicillin, Sulfa, and many others. I carry an epipen, I get hives, tongue swelling, difficult breathing, I have asthma, and much more and yet Medicare and AARP United control my antibiotics.

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luvnursing52 | @luvnursing52 | Oct 30 5:20pm
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Some people are very sensitive to Cipro! There seems to be no way to tell in advance if it will affect you. I have taken it for a UTI a couple of times with no problems. But my brothers wife suffered permanant damage and symptoms after taking it briefly. Someone should do a study on this and find out why this happens!!

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@crossette I only took one dose of Cipro for a uti and hours later developed tendon pain so severe I was unable to walk. Tendon rupture is also a side effect of this drug. I fell when I attempted to walk. I've given Cipro IV many times to patients with no apparent problems, but I was unaware of the tendon rupture issue till it happened to me.

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