Please be careful if you are going to continue taking antiobiotics in the fluoroquinilone class.
I know of 2 people severely injured.
One has tendon rupture.
The other central nervous system damage. Continuing Lyme-like symptoms from the antibiotic. Yes, both Cipro that you took and the Levaquin that you are thinking of taking are of this class of drugs in the link below.
http://fqvictims.org/fqvictims/index.htm
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Here is a very interesting find of a virus called bacteriophages that fluoroquinolones (Levaquin and Cipro are ONLY two of the MANY names they are sold under) supposedly can set off and they can cause quite a trigger effect. It makes me wonder if this is why victoms injured by them feel the central nervous system Lyme-like symptoms.
I was really surprised of this, when I was sent this link and read the information. I pasted the excerpt from this link.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0ISW/is_285/ai_n19170382/
An astonishing new finding was released by John Travis in Science News (July 2003;164).
Travis reported that research performed by John F. Prescott found that certain antibiotics, such as the fluoroquinolones, the class of antibiotics that includes the name-brands and generic brands of Levaquin[R], Cipro[R], Tequin[R], and Avelox[R], actually are known to trigger a type of virus called bacteriophages (viruses that can infect bacteria) to change the genetic sequencing of the bacteria, causing the bacterium they have infected to start producing toxins.
These viruses can act as genetic delivery vans, invading bacteria, such as spirochetes, often lying dormant, until activated by a change in the host (your body's) environment. Once activated, these viruses insert their toxin-generating genes into the bacterial chromosomes. These viruses can turn basically harmless bacterium into killers through this genetic sequencing of toxins (Travis 2003).
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