Cipro late 2015 an update
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I was inspired to put an update up by a letter through the post this week.
So Cipro late 2015 for prostatitis left me with muscles shot to pieces in and around hips and shoulders, lot of pain lot of painkillers, I work part time as a gardener so lots of fun trying to earna living. I use the word fun loosely. Got offered a place this sumer 2018 on a Back Skills Training course, basically eight weeks with other people in constant pain and on painkillers to try and see a reduction in pain and painkillers. For me it has sort of worked through doing daily exercise and going through the pain I have come off the painkillers although I will have low level pain for life. The test will be the winter when i always usually ralpse because of less work and the damp I suspect. heyho we do what we can eh.
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derek76 OldBob
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After the European Medicines Agency conference on damage by this family of drugs this is part of the outcome;
Fluoroquinolone and quinolone antibiotics: PRAC recommends restrictions on use
New restrictions follow review of disabling and potentially long-lasting side effects
EMA’s Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) has recommended restricting the use of fluoroquinolone and quinolone antibiotics (used by mouth, injection or inhalation) following a review of disabling and potentially long-lasting side effects reported with these medicines. The review incorporated the views of patients, healthcare professionals and academics presented at EMA’s public hearing on fluoroquinolone and quinolone antibiotics in June 2018.
Very rarely,??????????????????? patients treated with fluoroquinolone or quinolone antibiotics have suffered long-lasting and disabling side effects, mainly involving muscles, tendons and bones and the nervous system.
Following its evaluation of these side effects, the PRAC has recommended that some medicines, including all those that contain a quinolone antibiotic, should be removed from the market. This is because they are authorised only for infections that should no longer be treated with this class of antibiotics.
The PRAC recommended that the remaining fluoroquinolone antibiotics should:
not be used to treat infections that might get better without treatment or are not severe (such as throat infections); for preventing traveller’s diarrhoea or recurring lower urinary tract infections (urine infections that do not extend beyond the bladder);
to treat patients who have previously had serious side effects with a fluoroquinolone or quinolone antibiotic;
to treat mild or moderately severe infections unless other antibacterial medicines commonly recommended for these infections cannot be used;
be used with caution especially for the elderly, patients with kidney problems, patients who have had an organ transplantation or those who are being treated with a systemic corticosteroid. These patients are at higher risk of tendon injury caused by fluoroquinolone and quinolone antibiotics.
The PRAC also recommended that healthcare professionals should advise patients to stop treatment with a fluoroquinolone antibiotic at the first sign of a side effect involving muscles, tendons or bones (such as inflamed or torn tendon, muscle pain or weakness, and joint pain or swelling) or the nervous system (such as feeling pins and needles, tiredness, depression, confusion, suicidal thoughts, sleep disorders, vision and hearing problems, and altered taste and smell).
Prescribing information of individual fluoroquinolone antibiotics will be updated to reflect the restricted use.
The PRAC recommendations will now be sent to EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), which will adopt the Agency’s final opinion.
miriam65408 OldBob
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Hi Bob,
It's good to hear that the programme worked for you even if it's not returned you to perfection. I have not come across anyone damaged by Fluoroquinolones who has achieved a 100% recovery, regardless of age, in all the thousands I've come across. Some say they feel 90%, others think they are 100% then have too much alcohol or exercise or something and find it sets them back.
Are you in the US? The PRAC report Derek has referred to was the EU equivalent to the FDA announcement in July 2016. I thought the EU would beef up what the FDA said but they hav eactually gone weaker and not even recognised FQ Toxicity as a diagnosable illness - at least the FDA called it FQAD!
The only good thing we have is that they say they will write to all doctors and pharmacists which is something the FDA didn't do and I understand many of them in the US still don't acknowledge it or take care not to prescribe it.
It's very sad and all we can do is keep pressure up on these agencies who are supposed to protect us (not the wallets of the manufacturers). We need to keep alerting people and hopefully try to prevent too many more from being damaged as you, and Derek, have been.
Stay strong, Bob, and keep posting!