QUICK GUIDE TO FLUOROQUINOLONE ANTIBIOTICS TOXICITY

1. Cipro, levaquin, avelox, tequin, floxin, are fluoroquinolone antibiotics. There are others as well.

2. These antibiotics are not natural compounds, but chemotherapeuticals with a potent toxic profile. However most doctors believe that they are safe antibiotics.

3. The toxicity of fluoroquinolone antibiotics is intrinsic to their formulation, therefore it does not depend on the individuals that take them. Some people get more affected than others because they are old, have a poor liver metabolism, or too young for instance, but in general, everyone gets injured, although for small doses the damage shows no symptoms that a normal person can identify as a toxic side effect.

4. Many people get intoxicated during their first treatment, or during a later treatment after having followed with apparent success some previous treatments.

5. Although one can start feeling symptoms of intoxication during the treatment, it is more common that many symptoms start well after completing the treatment. The onset of the symptoms of some of the worst injuries frequently take place some months after ending the treatment.

6. Once intoxicated, the initial symptoms increase in intensity and new symptoms appear during, weeks or months after treatment cessation. It is common that the injuries increase during up to two years after completing the treatment.

7. There are intoxications that heal relatively quickly, in a year or so, and others that take 10 years or more to become endurable.

8. Many injuries caused by fluoroquinolones are permanent, irreversible in nature. The package insert acknowledges this fact for the nervous system, that is so evident for so many thousands of persons.

9. Some of the most debilitating symptoms affect the brain, the whole nervous systems, the musculoskeletal system, the joints (tendons and cartilages) and almost all organs of the body.

10. Almost all intoxications of fluoroquinolones are not linked with the antibiotic, neither by the patient nor by the doctors. Doctors in general show an appalling ignorance about the toxicity of these antibiotics. They mostly believe firmly that fluoroquinolones are quite safe.

11. Intractable pain is present in the majority of intoxications.

12. Once the intoxication takes place, there is no known treatment, and only time and avoiding toxic medications, specially fluoroquinolones, as much as possible brings some healing.

13. It is very difficult to find a doctor with a knowledge about this kind of intoxications. Most medical professionals, out of ignorance, would never accept that the symptoms of a patient are a manifestation of fluoroquinolone toxicity.

14. The most likely diagnoses for a fluoroquinolone intoxication are fibromyalgia, Sjögren's, Reactive arthritis, serum sickness, multiple sclerosis, Raynaud's, chronic fatigue syndrome, lyme, gulf war syndrome, and all sorts of neuropschyatric disorders.

15. Some doctors treat some diseases with high dose-long term prescriptions of fluoroquinolones, like some specialists on lyme, that consider levaquin the drug of choice for treating bartonella (tick-borne or cat-scratch). These treatments are one of the most important sources of deeply and irreversibly injured people, that are unaware that they suffer from fluoroquinolone toxicity (called “floxing” in this report) because floxing symptoms and lyme symptoms are very similar.

16. Once intoxicated, you have to avoid any rechallenge with another quinolone, for the rest of your life. At the beginning of the recuperation process, fluoroquinolones in food have also a detrimental effect on the floxed person, and impair healing.

17. Save for mild cases of intoxication by quinolones, the victim thas to adapt his/her way of living to the new situation, in order to speed up recovery.

<<Laboratories and doctor's sects can only attempt to create their own reality for so long. All these real adverse effects that have long been denounced by victims are now coming to become evident by the sheer numbers of people injured, and while there are still the nay-sayers, many of them on the payroll, or getting grants from laboratories, still trying to deny and confuse the issue, it has become a short of moral issue, because it has to do with the right of people to not be maimed for life just for nothing>>.