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BY ADMIN PUBLISHED JANUARY 21, 2017 UPDATED JANUARY 22, 2017
Every once in a while I get the dubious honor of talking to a doctor who has become floxed, with this happening again quite recently. My conversation with this doctor is a
poignant example of how truly dangerous the Fluoroquinolones (FQs) are in our society.
Sometimes, it is hard to put into laymans terms what has happened to a person when they are struggling for answers to FQ toxicity. It is doubly hard to try to explain it to a
medical professional, who has to shed paradigms and biases in order to grasp a hold of what has happened to them. Especially a physician, who themselves has been
prescribing FQs throughout their career.
In your opinion, what is happening to my body? the doctor asked me puzzled by the symptoms he was exhibiting. I have run all the standard tests and I am coming up with nothing
conclusive. I have tendon issues, peripheral neuropathy, anxiety, and I have had to stop practicing. I keep racking my brain and logically, the Cipro and Levaquin are the only things that it
could possibly be. I ran across your website and I decided to reach out to you. Believe me; it took a while before I got the courage to contact you. I must have rehashed this at least a
dozen times.
This doctor treated himself for a urinary tract infection with Cipro. When he had a reaction to the antibiotic he assumed it was a specific allergy to Cipro, and gave himself a
round of Levaquin, thinking he would just discontinue the Levaquin if he had any negative reactions to it. This is exactly what happened, but when his symptoms did not go
away, he became puzzled and alarmed.
downplay the adverse events associated with the FQs and the patients trust in, and believe, the doctors. However, on occasion,
doctors fall prey to the same system.
Many doctors, including this doctor, assume that the FQs only affect bacteria; that the FQs only interfere with bacterial DNA via
topoisomerases. They were never taught in medical school that bacterial DNA and mitochondrial DNA share many similarities.
Medical school curricula is almost exclusively memorization, so most doctors arent trained to think critically. Doctors have a difficult
time taking disparate pieces of information and combining them. Despite the fact that the FDA pointed out in their April 17, 2013
pharmacovigilance review that the FQs affect mitochondrial topoisomerases, many doctors dont get the information. As a matter of
fact, researchers as far back as 1993 knew that FQs were damaging mitochondria and still the info has not reached the average
doctor.
Now, to the average person reading this article, this may not sound like such a big deal. As a matter of fact someone reading this
may ask, so what?
That was the reaction of this doctor, Okay, so what does that mean?
Pay attention and let this sink in, I told the doctor, The ONLY other topoisomerase interrupting drugs are chemotherapy agents. Again, let that sink in for a minute.
Chemotherapy
Thats absurd, the doctor replied.
I paused for a moment before I continued, All the other topoisomerase interrupting drugs are chemotherapy drugs that are used to treat cancer.
The doctor was silent.
You are free to look up the information. The topoisomerase method of action that they know about is well documented, I said, offering to supply the doctor with sources.
In some people it seems as though the FQs cant tell the difference between bacterial DNA and mitochondrial DNA, I interjected.
So, to give you an example that you can relate to, you just gave yourself two rounds of chemotherapy. The second round, Levaquin, was after you already had a bad reaction to the first
round, Cipro, I said.
I continued, Think of it more like a crude form of systemic chemotherapy. That is the best description that I can give you to make you understand what has happened to your body. And
that is not all.
I did not learn any of this in medical school, the doctor replied stunned at the revelation.
I went on, Additionally, throughout research literature there are many references to the method of action of the FQs that are poorly understood, or unknown.
Poorly Understood
When I read technical journals and research papers I find phraseology such as this:
but poorly understood exceptions have been documented.
The explanation for the apparently anomalous behavior of the fluoroquinolone is as yet unclear.
The molecular nature of the interaction of quinolones with their target enzymes is only incompletely understood.
A number of aspects of quinolone action remain to be described.
Also to be defined are all the factors that are necessary for generating DNA double-strand breaks and cell death.
I realize that there is so much unknown about the FQs method of action. Although I believe given enough FQs anyone would eventually have an adverse event, but much like
certain forms of chemotherapy, there seems to be a threshold limit that is variable and unique to the person.
Damage caused to the mitochondria is not always immediately observed since mitochondria turn over slowly in
many tissues. Depending on the degree of damage, time is required for the amount of mitochondrial machinery to become pathogenic, I
explained.
I continued, Chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, chronic regional pain syndrome, and possibly even Parkinsons or worse.
Oh my God, the doctor said.
Yes, we could use Gods help. Think about how many people have had an FQ and have come down later with CFS/ME, Fibromyalgia, or
some neurodegenerative disease. The doctor and the patient never connect the cause. Time separates cause and effect. Or worse yet, the
patient connects the cause and the doctor completely dismisses the patient outright, I adamantly said.
Have you talked to other doctors that have had this happen to them? the doctor asked.
Yes
Can you put me in contact with them? he asked further.
Yes, I can give you a few names and emails, I said.
If it is any consolation, I am sorry that this happened to you. I will do what I can to help you with the limited knowledge that I have, I offered.
If there is anything I can do to help out, please let me know, he offered back.
I will take you up on that, but first, we will wait until you feel somewhat better, I said.
With that we hung up, knowing I would hear back from him again. My thoughts reflected on a quote from HP Lovecraft From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom
absent.
* I received permission to relate this conversation with the personal identification redacted.
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...damaged by fluoroquinolones in 2007 at age 46. Prior to, a healthy law enforcement official. Now an amateur FQ researcher, author, and blogger.
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Wayne
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Good job. I wish every doctor could read this. Maybe it would stop at least a few from getting floxed.
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