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by avgDev 1521 days ago
I just want to add some anecdotal evidence and what my experience has been like with a popular antibiotic. Cipro has wrecked my connective tissue and nervous system. This family of drugs has been around for a long time. The side effects have been discussed in medical studies for years. The drug has a black box warning label. Yet it gets prescribed very often against the current FDA recommendation to only be used for life threating infections. I have talked to top physicians in the US and they literally just ignore the problem like it doesn't exist. I have connected with physicians, chemists and other people with PhDs from all over the world who suffered the same. A pharmacists I know was called crazy by her colleagues when she said what happened to her.

My primary physician has stopped prescribing the medication, I send pages of research to him, which he probably didn't have time to read but it validated what is going on with me. He was surprised I actually took the covid vaccine, as not only did cipro screw me up but the whole medical community also completely ignored me and kept asking about anxiety. When I clearly had mechanical issues with tendons. They ran a bunch of tests and told me I was healthy.

Recently, Dr. Stefan Piper released a book on FQAD (flouroquinolone associated disability) and discussed pathogenesis, possible causes and therapies he has been using on hundreds of patients by now. He is an actual MD. From his experience a subset of people who are diagnosed with fibro, cfs developed it after taking the an fq antibiotic. Currently, there is no way to test for it. However, Mayo clinic is doing a study right now, to see if flouroquinolones are causing damage to mitochondria.