Re: Fwd: [QUAD-L] Cipro Warning

[greg]

The problem with Cipro and Levaquin are not a super bug, but blowing up your heart. etc. Reading the numbers is scary. Joints, muscles, etc. Sounds like you can use it fine many times, then bam it happens. Greg > I take cipro 1-2 times a year as a defense to a uti that presents > as at least some blood in the urine. Once every few years the first > round of cipro isn't enough and it gets stepped up to something > stronger. These doctors have been giving people antibiotics every > time they have a discomfort, even if its viral which anyone with > any sense knows a virus has to run its course. The worry is a super > bug will come from to many antibiotics on the average whiner. I > personally don't believe anyone is going to have a problem taking > antibiotics in moderation. Sometimes doctors wont give them even > when it makes sense to. In those cases just go to the ER or the > walk in places if its during the week. In my opinion a quad that  > cant weigh a doctors advise probally wont live long. > > > Ron > > > On Friday, February 10, 2017 4:47 PM, greg <g...@eskimo.com> wrote: > > > Me too, I took it anyway. > I'm alergic to Macrobid, so not many option that work for me. Greg > > >> Well that's wonderful. Cipro and levaquin have always been my go- >> to drugs. >> >> Larry WillisRetired and proud of it >> >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> >>> Resent-From: quad-list@eskimo.com >>> From: greg <g...@eskimo.com> >>> Date: February 9, 2017 at 10:58:35 PM EST >>> To: <quad-list@eskimo.com> >>> Subject: [QUAD-L] Cipro Warning >>> >>> >>> 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.