Ciprofloxacin poisoning?

Dear Mike7 i know that it is very difficult lose someone that you love especially someone that is so important to you like a father. The fact of the matter is Cipro is a very strong medication and it can cause some pretty significant side effects but despite that many times people have illnesses such as diverticulitis or sepsis that may be aggrivated by a medication or not effective to treat the illness. The problem is the symptoms don't show on the outside or they don't show up right away and the illness that often times sneak up on us as we age and can cause significant problems and even death. It is unfortunate that you may never know the true reason your father died you're trying to find a reason in something that has no reason and that can be a very hard thing to come to grips with. I felt the same way about my younger brother's death you just never know what the truth is. I've been a nurse in the ICU intensive care and worked in the emergency rooms and Trauma rooms inwashington DC and I can tell you that it is not uncommon to find an individual that is septic after being placed on antibiotics that unfortunately could not kill pathogen that they were given for. so it is not uncommon for people to be given an antibiotic and that the bugs that it's meant to kill it doesn't because the bug is resistant to that medication.The patiemt become more sick and dies because the antibiotc was not effective was allowed to go too far. I'm not sure if in your dad's casethis isnt what happened because without knowing whether he had an elevated WBC count or if he had lactic acid level that was elevated or if you had comorbidities or chronic diseases that would have made him susceptible to an infection. All of those things could affect weather he died from sepsis or not and the fact is is Cipro can cause you to kill off good bacteria that would worsen diverticuli causing it to be a secondary illness or issue but it wouldn't have caused his death. And fortunately not want to talk to you in circles I just want you to understand that it is possible to die from sepsis and still be on an antibiotic and not be poisoned by the antibiotic unless your dad had kidney failure Cipro worsen that I would say that Cipro was kind of a secondary thing you're trying to find meaning in his death and there is no meaning and death you just can't make sense of it but you can know this so your dad had a good son who was concerned about his mother and your dad raised you right to look at things and to make sure that there was no mistakes made you did the best you could for him and know this we Healthcare professionals we don't come in day today and make mistakes regularly we do our best we stay vigilant watch each other to make sure we don't make mistakes but our goal is to save lives saving the life of your father would have been our number one goal sometimes and I don't know how you believe but sometimes God calls us because it's our time and there's no other reason for that then that I hope this helps you understand feel free to ask me any question medically you might have and I'll do my best to answer it I'm sorry for your loss I'm sure your dad was an awesome man

I have had the exact symptons as you. I took cipro 500mg for 12 days until l woke up in middle of night with servers pain in my inner thigh muscles and knife like pain in both hips. It spread to both legs like groin injuries. I had taken this for a minor infection. Over the course of a week I had difficulty walking and could not lift my left leg high enough to do stairs. I had extreme pain  getting into the car. I was off work for 6 weeks.

I went to Physio for 6 weeks and took a magnesium liquid supplement that runners use and I am walking well (5km) I also took Adville.

I'm 74and used to run in 5km runs. The muscle pain is all over now. But weird in as much as it changes. My upper body muscles were aching for a week but ok right now. I had brain fog with it. Feels clear now. I presently have prickly and slight numbness in legs. I have no idea how long these symptoms will go on. I'm grateful I can walk, work and hope to run. Tiredness is also a factor. 

I hope the brain fog goes away. When I have it I have bluryriness in my right eye and anxious feeling and forgetfulness.

This is my present Status.

How have you done over the year?

latest FDA UPDATE- must read: I will post.

 

Hi ciprofloxacin is a generic . The brand name is cipro which is better

Original brand cipro by Bayer is much better then generics. I used to get sick on ciprofloxacin too. Not the brand

Hi Noosh,

Madge is right, you may feel better taking the original Bayer product than the generic, but they all have the same active ingerdients i.e. fluoroquinolones - and it's these that give some people the dreadful adverse reactions.  The generics may possibly have cheaper bulking ingredients or oher slight differences accoding to where they are made, but the fluoroquinolone component would have to be the same and that's what does the damage!

Cipro/Ciprofloxacin; Levo/Levofloxacin/Tavanic; Avelox/Moxifloxacin; Norfloxacin; Ofloxacin/Tavarid - these are just some of the names that fluoroquinolones are known by.  It's not just Cipro that has bad side effects, it's the while family.  They work differently to other antibiotics in that they damage human DNA as well as bacterial DNA - but most doctors don't realise this as it's not given a huge amount of publicity!