My 81 year old mother, who has Diabetes and Blood Pressure (and w...

To momofmeezer and others.

Sad to hear your mother´s story.

I am not surprised.

Something similar happened to a close male friend.

He was in his early seventies.

Like your mother he was put on several medications.

I am sure that he was given many of them for pure side effects and year after year.

Unfortunately, I did not have Internet until much of the damage was already done.

In 2004 he became confused and was re-admitted to the Infection Clinic at the local hospital.

He had been there about two and a half months earlier for foot sores that would not heal.

He had then been prescribed Ciprofloxacin and Heracillin

(I don´t know what Heracillin is called in the U.S. I live in Sweden).

I immediately wrote to the doctor in charge and asked him to look through all medications because I was sure that there were several that my friend did not need.

I had also discovered that at least five of them could cause confusion -even psycosis.

Unfortunately, the doctor did not pay any attention to my request but added another medication - a neuroleptic - Risperdal.

I was disgusted!

One year earlier something similar had happened to my 95-year old father. He was put on Melleril and Aricept together with all his other medications. Criminal.

That`s when my "education" began.

Levaquin (Levofloxacin) and it´s relatives (quenelones) all have similar side effects.

You can google for the different product names but also for the active substances.

You can also google the words: floxed and floxies.

Visit:
www.fqresearch.org
www.fqvictims.org

Also read the interesting book by Stephen Fried - Bitter Pills.

His young wife suffered serious side effects - including psyciatric - from this type of antibiotics.

You will find more suggestions about books to read at the above webb-addresses.

I hope this message will not be censored.

All I want is to help other people find a way to unbiased information so they can take well-informed decisions about health issues.

P.S. I have also written about my friend under Zocor and Lipitor.

You're comment about it being "criminal" is so accurate. After the fiasco, when I was able to research the Levaquin, I was absolutely amazed about how many people were experiencing side effects, and that nothing is being done. They've black-boxed it. Big deal. They need to get it off the market, and all other medications like it.

Thanks for information you provided, and the book suggestion (Bitter Pills). I'm going to look for it in our local book store.