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Why are Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics (FQs) such as Cipro, Levaquin etc. even still on the market, from the many life long devastating side effects they cause man
by rpaddock 5y ago
Why are Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics (FQs) such as Cipro, Levaquin etc. even still on the market, from the many life long devastating side effects they cause many?
The FDA itself has said that this class of Antibiotics should be reserved until ALL other options have been exhausted. Yet doctors are giving this crap out like candy. Usually for things that they don't even work for such as UTIs see FDA July 26 2016:
"Limits use for acute bacterial sinusitis, acute bacterial exacerbation of chronic bronchitis and uncomplicated urinary tract infections." See link below.
Because for those items they don't work any better than a placebo, as the FDA itself documented in this 617 page report:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170113234645/http://www.fda.gov/downloads/AdvisoryCommittees/CommitteesMeetingMaterials/Drugs/Anti-InfectiveDrugsAdvisoryCommittee/UCM467383.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20170113234645/http://www.fda.go...
On page 17 of that report they even give a name to the problem these antibiotics cause:
'"fluoroqunolone-associated disability" (FQAD)'.
I have gathers all of the FDA warnings, and a few from the EU that say don't use them at all, about FQs at my late wife's website:
https://www.kpaddock.com/fq https://www.kpaddock.com/fq
In large part she is my late wife because of Levaquin causing her systemic tendentious. After several years she killed herself to stop the pain from that and CSF Leaks. For that whole saga see the documentary Pain Warriors that is free to watch on Amazon Prime and TubiTV:
https://www.kpaddock.com/pw https://www.kpaddock.com/pw
For me because of all of that it comes down to don't trust Big Pharam and the Medical Establishment with your health. Study EVERYTHING and make an informed decision before taking anything a doctor offers you.
Ask them "Is my problem being caused by a pill deficiency?" and watch their stunned looks...
On a possible upside there is some work coming around on using Phages as a type of antibiotic. The founder of this company experienced her own antibiotic resistant infection. [Full disclosure I have communicated with her about the above FQ issues, I receive nothing from them.]
https://www.felixbt.com/new-page https://www.felixbt.com/new-page