Tendons - new pain

Hi forum friends

I've got a new kind of pain. My achilles tendons (especially the left one - my left side is always worse than my right side) really started to hurt since about one week and a half, also the one in my left elbow, and my left shoulder. The pain is bearable, but it's getting more and more present.

I'm not on abx since 8 weeks, I wasn't on Levaquin since the beginning of September 2012. I'm only using Buhner's Core Protocol (Cat's Claw, Resveratrol (Japanese Knotweed) and Eleuthero), combined with Lypospheric Vit C, Magnesium Citrate. I haven't stopped detoxing (epsom + hydrogen peroxide footbaths, more than 2 liters water per day (often with organic lemon juice in it), and the coffee enemas (4 times a week)).

Do you know if this can be related to one of the herbs? Or any other ideas?

Thanks!

Marie

Have you taken any fluoroquinolone antibiotics in the past year or so? Levaquin, cipro etc... If you've had surgery or other invasive medical procedure, they often give it without informing you, as happened to me.

Levaquin symptoms can be delayed, it's common. I had side effects right away but it didn't effect my
achilles heel until about a year out. Particular foods can set off an episode of Levaquin side effects, any meat or dairy from animals who were given a fluoroquinolone, any soy products, msg, aspartame, cheap honey, etc....

Soy is a bad one for people who have had a reaction to levaquin. I was given the levaquin about four years ago, it took about three years for the worse side effects to go away, but if I eat the wrong thing or am exposed to certain chemicals, stress etc... I have a flare up. My acchilles heel pain went away - it wasn't my worst side effect - but I have to watch my diet, stress etc. I'll never go back to the way I used to eat. Recently I had a flare up and learned that the Extra Virgin Olive oil that I'd been using was likely mixed with soy or gmo corn oil. So if your using olive oil, there is a huge problem with adulturation. The purest Olive Oil tends to be California grown, which is what I'm using now.

Using coconut oil for cooking is a good alternative also. Meat products are really a problem because they are using floroquinolones on the animals, sometimes illegally, and it shows up in the meat, which is like getting dosed again. Eggs can be a problem also. I've gone vegan, which got rid of a lot of symptoms. If you do a google search on "floxed" you will find tons of info from people who are having major problems from side effects.

summer16 said...
tonesg, I was floxed 5 years ago, too.  Most people don't realize that tendon issues can happen many months or longer after taking the fluoroquinolones.  I have 2 articles how Levaquin can bring out the dormant Lyme's disease....wish I had saved these articles.  Levaquin affected my cns and pns.  I have not found that the foods you mentioned affected me in any way although I did eat organic for about a year after being floxed. 

Did you recently get bit by a tick?????

Patty

No. I had pretty much beat lyme using the salt/c protocol for about a year prior to being floxed.

I was a-symptomatic from lyme at the time and was given levaquin and cipro pre and post surgery as a prophalactic, without my knowledge. I did read a study which indicated that floroquinilones genetically change benign gut bacteria into toxic bacteria, which then release toxins similar to what lyme does. Some people think that the toxicity from levaquin is related to the flouride......could be both, I guess. Diet was really key for me, and for many others, interesting that you didn't have to get too radical with that. Getting floxed really complicates the lyme picture as some of the symptoms are just about identical, though the floroquinolones do attack the tendons in an apparently unique way. The only positive thing is that many lyme people are already disciplined and can navigate through the, for some, necessary diet changes pretty easily.