I just saw this interesting news story linking fluoroquinolone antibiotics and heart problems.
Commonly used antibiotics may lead to heart problems
Commonly used antibiotics may lead to heart problems
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Yeah, I wish they would be taken off the market.like those things need more bad news!
Yes, when I was on levaquin for 50 days straight it basically destroyed me. I didn’t appreciate the full impact it had for many years. Sorry to hear you experienced that nightmare too.I wondered what those strange palpitations were that year. Good thing I've been on magnesium and taurine ever since. Not a bad bet.
Still feels like the house won. The damage happens so damn fast and it's worsened by corticosteroids and NSAIDs, which doctors love to give at the same time. That was the first year I seriously considered murdering someone. Good thing I was too crippled to leave a chair. ************* thought of everything.
I took NSAIDS and Tylenol at the same time too. Yikes!That's ridiculously long exposure. You must've had the whole plethora of effects (neuropathy, liver, gut, tendons, cartilage)? I only had a short course 5 years ago and that was it - but with a NSAID - I bet that's what tipped the scales [toward collagen damage]. I wanted to jump off a bridge every day that year, so I figured I might as well bring someone with me (you can't do it because you know the media will spin it against your cause - I really thought about this lol) **.
Haven't read about it in awhile but last I could figure they kill off the chondrocytes in joints and that lets MMP enzymes eat away the cartilage (the latter would be why the corticosteroids and NSAIDs accelerate the damage). It's almost pointless to research because by the time you figure it out the permanent damage has long been done.
There are way too many stories like ours.
** That was probably serotonin lol. Anyway thanks for the words.
Thanks for this info. I've thought it's best to use others unless nothing else can be used but here's a real example of when to use it.they can be life saving though. My wife failed to respond to others and only one of these worked when she had pneumonia. She could have died otherwise.
There is a risk/benefit element involved here that calls for using Levofloxacin. There is little to lose in taking it. Pneumonia, just like sepsis, is an advanced stage of disease where the risk of dying is high. I agree with you here. But I wouldn't use this class of antibiotics regularly for recurring issues like UTI.Yes for instance levofloxacin can cure pneumonia when nothing else has worked. I know they use ciprofloxacin for UTIs when they really shouldn’t but that doesn’t mean that these are all bad and should not be used. They can save lives.
They are definitely a double edge sword to be used with great caution. I’ve considered that levaquin quite possibly saved my life at the time yet left me with decades of life altering issues. I’m truly glad for everyone that has been helped by them and sorry for those who have suffered long term problems. It’s really no different than any medical treatment where we have to be informed and weigh out the pros and cons carefully. Sorry if my original post came off as extreme. I still would not personally take fluoroquinolones again unless it was truly a matter of life or death.
I’m so happy she’s pulling through! Pneumonia can certainly be deadly.Me neither, but I would take them for that. My family member s recovering from life-threatening pneumonia just now and only the levofloxacin has been responsible. She would be dead without it I think. The other antibiotics were tried but didn’t work.