It is a popular and powerful antibiotic, but is it dangerous?
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- Опубліковано 25 бер 2015
- Tonight a warning about a popular and powerful antibiotic. Tens of thousands of patients across the country including some right here in the bay area report devastating side effects and in some cases death. We went to both the government and to one of the largest drug makers in the country to find out what is being done about it.
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Fluoroquinolone
Ofloxacin, Levofloxacin, Marbofloxacin, Gatifloxacin, Gemifloxacin, Ciprofloxacin
These were the names that were shown quickly.
Cipro is very bad. I was prescribed that one recently for a UTI. When the pharmacy gave me the prescription it came with a seven page warning. When I saw that I didn't take the Cipro. Thank goodness I didn't.
Wow ,I'm not sure but them symptoms sound familiar ,my hands and feet were cooking from the inside out .I slept on ice for almost 3 years ,not sure what caused it ,but was doing a very strong antibiotic and it accidently released the pain medicine out of my patch and damn near killed me .I didn't think that was to cool .
Cipro is most common.
@@mirandawise2528 I remember doing that ,I can only do one kind now that doesn't make me ill that I know of .My body is really screwed up now from something .
Judy, thank you! 🙋♀️💙✝️🇺🇸
I almost had a heart attack after taking this drug….30 years ago…
Hallucination and acute anxiety,around 30 years, had to lay down could not get up.
Greed produces risk. But never consequences.
Yes. Seems pharma is ok with the risk to others.
About sums it up
Add CIPRO.
Black box warning on it.
I pray that God heals everyone that is suffering horrible side effects from this horrible medicine I took 500mg twice and I'm going through soo much please lord heal us and reverse these negative effects amen protect us all
Your God allowed your doctor to prescribe the crap in the first place...
@@geonerd true everything is for a reason
Are you good now?
@@MuhammadBilal-hv9wk yes much better praise the lord thank you for asking
How very nice of you to undermine the doctors and chemists who are the real gods that saves lives most of the time
Levaquin caused my tendons and ligaments to snap in my back, knee and hip. Took months to recover. I still have knee problems. I told my doctor but it went no further. My doctor looked at me like I was making it all up.
It caused my the tendons in my ankles to do that. I only had taken 2 dose. It was at least a year before the pain subsided.
I had the same thing happen.
I had the same issue..could not walk tendinitis from leviquin
I took Levaquin for a petty long time in 1997 in an attempt to clear up a uterine infection so that I could have a hysterectomy. Since then I have had a continuous problem with tendons. I have torn rotator cuff twice in right shoulder and once in left shoulder. Had to have thumb surgery on tendon release. And have pretty much constant joint and tendon pains since. I have ofte. Wondered if there is a correlation.
@@LisaAllen-bl7bf So sorry to hear this. The answer is likely yes. I still have problems years later.
Get it off the Market,I was given this Prescription to take. But my Pharmacy warned me about it. So I said I don't want it. Already have enough health problems
Thanks for the warnings
P.S. Also Cipro --- 🧐
Patient's, read the doc that should come with your prescription. I was prescribed topical med for a rash. Apply to affected area using gloves, don't touch other body parts, might cause cancer. I didn't use it.
If people actually read the info that came with meditation no one would ever take it.
I was prescribed Levaquin myself before and I went and did some research before I started taking it. I asked him to change the prescription to something else like an older drug that has possibly less side effects than these new ones we have to be our own doctor sometimes and we have to look up the side effects and do some research before we put stuff in our bodies.
Anyone who trusts anything a doctor says without checking it out themselves is a fool. In my experience and in the experiences of people I've known, doctors screw up more than they fix. Also, the doctor never knows remotely as much about medications and interactions as the pharmacist, so always ask your pharmacist before taking a new med.
So what did u take instead
Take it off the market .
It should be taken off the market!
I was perscribed this antibiotic approx 8 years ago and my whole body felt as if i had been hit by a bus. My muscles ached and I still have some pain. I am glad I did not take the whole perscription.
All about that money
Disturbing that Drs are still giving this toxic stuff! 😣
Why when benefits outweigh risks? An adult should know that all medications have side effects.
Do they really outweigh the risks though? Not so sure about that
@@annmarie2964 ypu say the same stupid lies in here.
Truth is : What is the lawsuit against Cipro?
Cipro's manufacturer, Bayer Pharmaceuticals has faced multiple lawsuits filed by people who have experienced side effects such as tendon rupture or neurologic damage and by the families of those who experienced serious aortic injuries.
You're wrong!!!!!!!
@@evanhughes1510they don't, annmarie must work for Big pharma... don't trust it! What is the lawsuit against Cipro?
Cipro's manufacturer, Bayer Pharmaceuticals has faced multiple lawsuits filed by people who have experienced side effects such as tendon rupture or neurologic damage and by the families of those who experienced serious aortic injuries.
It's horrible
@@evanhughes1510Exactly that's just what they want you to believe to make a dollar.
Please do another video and give us an update on these products or any other ones that you find like this. Thank you for the information.
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My sister and I have seizures but hers are very bad mine are just absent seizures. Her dr put her on levequin for a utility. She took it for a day then the next morning after she took it later on she was cleaning house and started seizing. We called 911 and they had never heard of it causing seizures. So after lunch the same thing happened and we called our pharmacist at the time and she told us it had been known to cause them. so we called the dr and he just changed the medicine so when she would go to another dr she would put that as an alergy
Great information ... Thank You !
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I hate antibiotics I dont get sick often but literally every antibiotic I've tried has made me extremely sick and made me feel disconnected from my own body it makes me feel worse than I did before taking them
Just the reason they give them to make you sick?
Even pennicilin?
@@bretert Yeah penicillin is the main one actually, all the drugs in the same family as well, amoxicillin is probably the worst, allergic reactions to these substances are common due to their mechanism of action, they can harm good bacteria in your body whilst harming the negative bacteria too.
@@ev3rsonix392 so what does one do when getting an infection? For example... If a sinus infection goes untreated can lead to meningitis.
Same here I am hyper sensitive I think also too them buttons one about took me out of this world.
Er doctors have tried to put me on Levaquin and Cipro for a UTI a few years ago. I declined the Levaquin, and tried one Cipro which was enough to give me vibrating feet every here and there.
Cipro can cause very bizarre side effects!
it ruined my tendons
Put a link for treatment.
They gave it to me when I had a severe kidney infection and the same happened to me I was messed up for a year and a half
Cipro is sometimes used for more severe UTIs or kidney infections, but it's not a first-choice. What is the lawsuit against Cipro?
Cipro's manufacturer, Bayer Pharmaceuticals has faced multiple lawsuits filed by people who have experienced side effects such as tendon rupture or neurologic damage and by the families of those who experienced serious aortic injuries.
I am 31 and my doctor prescribed me ciprofloxacin, one of the worst thing ever happens to me. I felt I was literally dying. And suffers anxiety and confusion. I was almost passed out. Horrible sensation including three days before stopping the medication.
Saw a video about a lady with a
UTI.... Cipro paralyzed her..she couldn't eat either. Went down to 60 pounds, i saw her pics. She was in horrible pain...Just say NO! Big Pharma is all about 💲💲💲 Septra is a sulpha drug that's cheap and always worked for me, didn't ever have side effects..Big Pharma loves side effects, then they make you take another drug to fix it, then IT has side effects... can't win for losing
Saw a video about a lady with a
UTI.... Cipro paralyzed her..she couldn't eat either. Went down to 60 pounds, i saw her pics. She was in horrible pain...Just say NO! Big Pharma is all about 💲💲💲 Septra is a sulpha drug that's cheap and always worked for me, didn't ever have side effects..Big Pharma loves side effects, then they make you take another drug to fix it, then IT has side effects... can't win for losing
Idk but the side effect seems like what i had. Just after i took 4 dose of levo, i got photosensitive can led to migraine aura, that still last even after 2 months i stop the dose. Also The dizziness, light headed, motionsickness, vertigo that last weeks after the dose.
This poison ruined my life. I was told in 1990 by a walk in clinic everythung was becoming resistant to the old standards so I had to take that!!! It messed my whole nervous system up. I couldn't stop clenching my teeth and jaw or relax my body. Things calmed after stopping until I got pregnant. Had a miscarriage. Got pregnant again, but my whole last tri mester Was irritable uterous and early labor problems. When my baby was 6 weeks, horrible pain in my legs,feet and lower back began. I'm now 66 and barely sleep from fibromyalgia pain.
You suffer yet from it since 1990?
If there’s any black label warning on a medication, they should take it off the shelf. Let’s not play Russian roulette.
Why are these still on the market? Why are they being prescribed knowing that they are deadly?? Take them off the market!!!
1000% agree . It’s criminal doctors prescribe them wily nilly. Unless there is absolutely no other solution or it’s a time sensitive life or death scenario , they should not be given . I was given some antibiotics a while back but I’m not sure if it was one of these types but I do and have been having some strange deep muscle or bone pain , hard to tell which but I have had some pain before the antibiotics and now after . I’m still not sure what exactly tendinitis is supposed to feel like so I don’t know if that’s the pain I’m feeling .
They are still on the market because they work.
I literally just got off this for diverticulitis and couldn't figure out why i was so sick and in pain
What happen to FDA?
Two of my friends had ruptured Achilles tendons from this. I took it the highest dose too and ine pill sent me into a severe panic attack, my hand eye coordination got messed up, trouble typing, tendon pains, and sheer terror. I knew if I kept taking it I would end up hospitalized. Never ever ever! Will I take any of these medications they are legit evil.
is there any alternatives than cause in my country doctors like giving cipro
I took these 3 years ago and my life has changed, I suffer from tendonitis in my joints and something horrible is happening in my stomach and I am up most of the night with stomach problems. :(
@michael vorhees are you fine now?
@michael vorhees So happy that you are fine now. I was worried about you. Glad you are living a normal life.
@michael vorhees Makes sense of the sick stupid
I pray your ok now
How many did you take?
I was given ciprofloxacin back in January of 2023. I felt like on was on speed! It was very scary!
Thank you for this video.👍 it is very helpful.
antibiotics ruined my daughters life, shes basically disabled from Ancef/Cephalexin, awaiting biologics to help with inflammation. She also have Crohns, so it just made everything worst for her. Wondering if I can take legal action
why do they keep stuff like this on the market?
They don’t care about us
MONEY.
Because more people are helped than are hurt by using it.
@@annmarie2964i don't believe that. i think the doctors that prescribe this crap subscribe to the bill gates way of thinking. that there are too many people on the planet so they give you stuff that makes you more sick and while you're on the way out you'll be back there plenty of times so they can extract more money from you. so win win for them.
@@annmarie2964 you must work for Big Pharma, you keep pushing these poisons 👹🔥🤮
Thanks for sharing 👍
Thank you
Most upper resp antibiotics make me nauseous so I barely got thru the second day..I can only tolerate augmentin(barely) and amoxicillin..but I usually self treat oj, lots of water, not laying down 24/7 n infections are gone in about the same time as if I took abt's
I was warned that the drug could cause tendinitis. I was given no other warning. And I was never given a choice.
People need to STOP TAKING shit when it causes issues. I had a terrible reaction to the 'usually safe' cephalexin. Mental confusion, profound lack of energy, physical coordination problems (almost fell a time or two), headache, and insane bouts of sweating and shivering. I think it was affecting my CNS in some manner. This all began ~24 hours after I started taking the crap. After a day of suffering, I took myself off the drug. Within 16 hours I was almost fully recovered.
I just started cephalexin 24 hours ago , been absolutely exhausted all day ( even after sleeping for 18 hours ) , so so so dizzy and anxious. I’m not sure if the infection is clearing up from the antibiotic cream I apply or the stupid pills I take 4 times a day 500mg
@@bunnie646 Hi, how are you feeling now? I was prescribed cephalexin and I will start taking it today, I am very scared to read the reviews. I am afraid to start take it.
yeah everyone has a different reaction. If you feel weird you need to immediately tell your doctor. Also take probiotics when you are ON the stupid thing. I had mild C-diff when i was 20 from taking 2 very strong antibiotics in the same year. Was sick for 2 years pooping back and forth forever. Now I'm sensitive to a buttload of them, can't do cipro, can't do clendmycin, can't do zpaks. Insta-runs.
@@bunnie646 how you do you take 500mg at 4 times a day at every 6 hr? I got prescribed and makes me need to go the bathroom alot.
my parents wont believe me when i say that i feel dizzy, confused and have a lack of energy after taking cephalexin. what should i do
I took this medication for a UTI nothing happen to me. I took it for 6 months.
I took a course of Levaquin twice in 2 months for diverticulitis. Thirty days after I completed the second course, I was so sick that I couldn't stand up straight. I was very weak, and I literally had to go up
In 2000 I went to a demartologist with Tinea pedis and rosacea. No proper idea how to deal with Tinea pedis and metzonidazol for rosacea. I didnt go for the drug. The rosacea resolved itself turned out it was being caused by an explosion in the population of Demodex mites. The metzonidazol wasnt necessary. Doctors have been presribing so many anti biotics and farmers pump animals with so many that super bugs are evolving which are resistant to them
Just got home from the ER room, felt like I was going to die from Macrobid, my dr told me not to stop taking it, the ER room said Stop taking it now! The sad part is, ppl in their 30’s have antibiotic resistances because if we had a cold, you were given antibiotics. Not so fun when you actually get sick as an adult. Nasty stuff.
I took that antibiotics before. . I felt sick so I stopped after 3 pills.
What were ur symptoms?
STOP RIGHT NOW! I'm attorney Bob Goldwater call my lawfirm RIGHT NOW
@@hugh2hoob668 antibiotics can activate dormant cancer cells and also cause heart attacks. Tell them
What were your symptoms?
Took Ciproflaxin for a bladder infection and it did not help..at all
I always say that I am allergic to quinolones on medical forms. This may not technically be an allergy but I am lucky , I get so sick and weak I can’t tolerate them.
Quinolones - Class of Antibiotics of reserve, means it can treat very dangerous infections, like Anthrax and Tularemia and others , so it’s not recommended to prescribe those antibiotics often, otherwise bacterias develops resistance to quinolones and we wouldn’t have something to use in case of biological attack. Yes, new group of quinolones like : Levofloxacin, Moxofloxacin( Avelox) have multiple side effects. Some of new group of quinolones been taking even of market because of overwhelming adverse reactions, like Tequine. But old group of quinolones: Ciprofloxacin still relatively has low adverse side effects, but use of those still recommended not often , because Cipro - first line of treatment for Anthrax and other similar infections..!!
I can’t have antibiotics anymore I feel like I’m going insane on them, short of breath, sense of severe impending doom and just a feeling of severe sickness. What are they putting in them nowadays. I used to have this stuff when I was a kid and no problems just had it and didn’t have any side effects
Antibiotics are a fungus all come from the ergot fungi a witches brew
That's because all we had as kids were the penicillins - not this modified, over engineered BS.
I took cefdinir and have a really bad cough now. All day and night. Didn't have this bad before
I broke out in hives after one day so luckily stopped it. Didn’t know it was so dangerous
Levofloxacin, yep never felt so sore, my whole body felt like it was coming apart, it's the patients responsibility to read the side effects, and determine wether or not they may cause an issue..
I do extreme labor, says right there if you physically exert yourself you probably shouldn't take this med,
WHERE is this drug produced?
Probably China, that's why it's killing us
That’s important I’m waiting
Johnson n Johnson
@@RowdyBorders-ni3ti thks
Most likely China
Sure, they are keeping an eye on it, like the border is.
Effective family of antibiotics, but they should be used as an emperic or last line defense. For respiratory infections I always ask my doctor for an initial shot of cephtriaxone along with a z pac. I never had any issues with this treatment and usually feel improved within a few hours of the shot.
Just FYI, z pak is an antibiotic.
@@Jim_Buffett3 it's not in the same family as these quinilones though is it? i think that's what he was getting at.
Stay away from these unless it is a last resort!!
Look up “Floxxed” groups….
Never heard of this drug.
What do you mean look into it
Why in the world did they ever approve such a thing? That is ridiculous that is hideous. That is wrong.
Shoulda proscribed keflex
OM MY GOODNESS, I am currently on ciprofloxacin, I'm going to stop taking it as of tomorrow, I refuse to take it now, I was prescribed it for bronchitis
Crystal Smith i took one pill and felt itchy and tingly in my body. I stopped taking it but i am scared of any side effects that can still happen
Crystal Smith it's been 3 days for me ima stop taking it 2
Not a good idea. Suddenly stopping or not finishing antibiotics leads to antibiotic resistance. Should contact your doctor and pharmacists about your concerns.
Dont get influence by them lied easily, the fuckibg doctor he or she may take everyday with antibiotics but they suggestions to their patients stop usibg to many unless u have consult by your doctor
are you still alive?
I have peripheral Neuropathy from cipro
I'm in a wheelchair and in constant pain. It started 14 years ago. A hospital floxed me again in December after I told them to not give me fluoroquinolones..they gave me 3 different ones with steroids.
Cipro really messed me up once. I was lucky my side effects went away after a few months but it was brutal it felt like my brain was swelling, made my nerves feel like stuff was creeping and moving up and down all thru my body. Gave me major gut issues while taking it as well.
Amoxicllin did the same too me in 2022 from a dentist who put me on it for 30 DAYS, instead of the regular 7 to 10 days as i was told later by a Doctor , before he did a infected tooth extraction I was a zombie moving in slow motion at my husbands funeral service 😢now almost 2 years later I still have not recovered.I spent my whole life avoiding antibiotics now this😢
How do we sue them ???
Thank you for the warning ⚠️
NOT
I was prescribed this a few weeks ago
Metrodazanol ruptured and ovarian cyst on me and almost caused me to bleed out and had to go to the hospital..they tried to blame it on my period but I had already had it two weeks prior before taking the drug for a bacterial infection
In 2019, I also took Metrodazanol and severe nerve and balance issues ever since. Hope my body can heal itself in time, my mobility is very limited. Why, why, why did I listen and trust that doctors know best!
I was given ciprofloxacin tagamant clindamycin it almost cost me my life the last thing affects all my life has changed dramatically I went from Love and husband to losing it all
How?
I am so very sorry :-( It has ruined so many lives!!!
Make your own antibiotics Garlic ,Cloves & Raw Honey
GREAT INFORMATION WOW!: THANKS YOU GOODNESS 🌟 DAPHNE COTTON ALWAYS 💜
I can’t take it bc it made me feal strange and I started having convulsions
is this also for bactrim or just levaquin?
They aren’t even the same drug class. One is sulfonamides and one is a fluoroquinolone?
Get rid of it what do you mean what to do about it
500 mg levofloxacin is no joke almost shut my body down like the flu. And I wasn’t positive for the flu.
Really?
The doctor prescribed this medication for me..😢
I’m taking cephalexin. I recently had diahrriah, nausea, slight headache and itching. I really don’t want to take it I might have to talk to my doctor about what else to take
Jazmin Ramirez I’m taking it too just started two days ago and I feel the same your are experience !
Maritza Ob Yea it’s pretty bad but I was on it for only 10 days. It tastes horrible
I am on it too and I feel the same 😷
Julie Matthews yea.. hopefuly you get better soon. The medicine had weird side effects and tasted horrible.
Jazmin Ramirez I have mastitis, and it’s working, taking it away. Thank goodness, it still fight one sickness and cause another. Not good
Anaphalaxic shock both my husband and myself.
I have been prescribed Cipro in three different occasions in my lifetime 😮
It seems to me Ciprofloxacin isn't as harsh on men as Doxycycline, but which one heals the infection quickest? I'm not sure...
Not true. It's just as brutal for both men & women.
Can't be more specific about the pain? Where? Sharp? Dull? Joints? Muscle? Not one mention of tendon ruptures and cell damage.
These reports are limited on the amount of time spent on one subject. But it's so important to get ANY KIND of press about this.
Why did the fda approve this in the first place? Aren’t they responsible? They need to be investigated
Money gets anything on the market and along with it highvpowered attorneys. Follow the money and it proably lands at congressmen and senators feet
The doctors and drug industry continues to take advantage of the trust and confidence placed in them. The average person has a duty to study safe home remedies.
Yup. Been there. 👿👿
Why is this medicine still given to people??? The doc just prescribed it to me today 😡😡😡😡
Did you end up taking it ? I got that prescribed yesterday. After watching this video I’m not taking it .
Because they don’t know much I had to check out side affects in USA as in Holland the nerve damage is sited as very very rare but it’s handed out as sweeties all the review sites are full of very negative affects so I changed after symptoms starts in 2/3 tabs already BAD poison
Because the dr decides the benefits outweigh the risk
Exercise helps everything.,
For many who have been floxxed, exercise is not an option. In fact, exercise exacerbates symptoms.
Nausea, vomiting and weakness are what i experienced taking gambapentin
I mean macrodentin
OMG I have taking it for a week....with Ibuprofen for an ankle injury....
Pls STOP!!
Ur not supposed to take nsaid's with these. Not aspirin, Tylenol, no ibuprofen
@@jennaquinn84Really? Where did you get that information? Everything I'm reading does not say there is an interaction?
@@bobbarker5884 with the papers that came from picking it up at rite aid
Levaquin made my eyes and throat close up. I’m a completely healthy person. Thank god when this happen I was already in the ER. So scary
God help u now. healthy person in E/R is not healthy
How r u
@@trafficjon400 could go to the Er for injuries or anything LMAO a healthy person can get hurt from a car accident or anything. Stop being judgmental
@@Pokemongx01 You could say that.
Yes I was in the Er as well!!!! I had a terrible reaction to Levaquin as well… thgt I was going to pass out ‼️‼️‼️‼️😳
Ya walk up to the doctor’s office…you glance at the door and it shows your doctor’s name along with the words, Practicing Medicine 🤔
I took this they sent me home from hospital on this next day i had a seizure back to hospital but didnt say nothing but just took me off of it...iam glad i didnt finish taking the rest of the bottle like they told me to do...
Ciprofloxacin that doctor gave me made my back and legs in so much pain and the anxiety and worrying and these mad feelings it gave me, I'm day 4 now off them and symptoms are getting worse
I honestly thought that was what she was gonna say that smh that almost felt like it was trying to kill me
How have healed hour back pains?
Me too did u get better after all
@@elvisedimo5694 still not yet
@@Forever___61 nope I got allot worse
Not even counting what it does to your tendons…
I took one read bad reviews on it gonna throw rest down toilet.
and end up in E/r and get more poison?
@@trafficjon400 sadly thats true
I'm surprised a Doctor took these!! Wow, just wow.
Shouldn't two things be considered???
1. Did the CVD jab have any connection?
2. Generic versioins are made mostly in China with cheap and someitmes bad fillers which cause many side effects by themselves.
Studies need to be done. More research.
Why aren’t they compensating us with all the damage and pain we still suffer from😊
That amoxicillin was going to kill me with serious allergies before cause me to go to emergency room for 4 hours heartbeat fast , high blood pressure, fast breathing, dizzinetand craziness like i cannot control my mind
Lawsuit
This drug should be taken off the market. It never cleared my UTI and the tendon in my right foot was affected. So, now I use a natural remedy. Oregano oil...cleared it in 24 hours.
as a nurse seen this over and over again
What would you say is the best anti biotic for a UTI? I have amoxicillin and minocycline.