I have taken cipro before with no obvious problems and am now sta...

cipro is in the same drug family as levaquin. please read all the posts for levaquin. i took that drug one year ago and i am still dealing with the adverse reactions. these are extremely dangerous drugs but you will probably not hear that from a doctor or pharmacist. can't you try something like doxycycline, bactrim, or bioxin? there are much safer drugs than cipro. i will have to be literally on my death bed before i would consider a fluoroquinolone and even then, i probably would choose death.

oh, one more thing..you can't detox from the adverse reactions. the drug is already out of your system after you've finished the script. the reactions are caused by the damage that the drug has done to your body while you were taking it. the only thing that maybe helps is time (and lots of it). for some people, even that doesn't bring relief. good luck.

Plese go to www.stephenfried.com. There you can read one chapter out of his book Bitter Pills. Also Google the name - Stephen Fried - if the www-adress should have been erased.

Here are two more very informative sites: www.fqresearch.org, www.fqvictims.org.

You can also google the words - floxed or floxies. That`s what people who have been hurt by this group of antibiotics (quenelones?) call them selves.

Also read the patient stories for the other medications in this group. They all have similar side effects.