[QUAD-L] Cipro Warning

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Just got a UTI. I always used Cipro, but they have a new danger warning. So importent, its called a "Black Box" waning........       FDA Says Risks May Outweigh Benefits for Antibiotics Levaquin, Cipro Posted May 16th, 2016    by Michelle Llamas & filed under FDA News & Recalls.   Did you experience aortic complications after taking fluoroquinolones?   On May 12, 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it is requiring a stronger black box warning for common, popular antibiotics called fluoroquinolones that include Levaquin (levofloxacin), Cipro (ciprofloxacin) and Avelox (moxifloxacin) — medications taken by more than 26 million Americans each year.   “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is advising that the serious side effects associated with fluoroquinolone antibacterial drugs generally outweigh the benefits for patients with sinusitis, bronchitis, and uncomplicated urinary tract infections who have other treatment options,” the FDA said in a Drug Safety Communication. “For patients with these conditions, fluoroquinolones should be reserved for those who do not have alternative treatment options.”   The agency’s action comes after its FDA Advisory Committee meeting in November 2015. This is not the first warning for these drugs released by the FDA. It previously added boxed warnings in 2008 for tendon rupture and tendinitis and again in 2013 for permanent nerve damage called peripheral neuropathy.   The new boxed warning advises patients and doctors that these antibiotics may cause potentially permanent damage to muscles, tendons, joints, nerves and the central nervous system. In patients with minor infections such as sinusitis and bronchitis, the risk outweighs the benefits, the FDA panel found. In these cases, other treatments are often available and the agency strongly discourages doctors from prescribing them.