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I have been taking this medication for 7 days and off of it since a week and still have severe side effects, abdominal cramps, severe headaches, dizziness, unsteadiness... How long is it expected to last? It was prescribed with Ciprofloxacin to me and I take Entrophen on a regular basis...

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Excuse my language but holy s***.. if you read the side effects of both those drugs they look like bookends.. Recently I had a UTI and the dr wanted to give me Cipro... I read up on it and refused because it causes the same symptoms I'm already experiencing!!! The question is why you were treated with both drugs.... but after the fact the main issue is how to get over it!!! And no, I don't know the answer to that question... I was diagnosed about 3 weeks ago with Ataxia and the doc finally admitted it was Flagyl that caused it.. NOW this past week I finally saw a neurologist who said that I have neuropathy (mostly numbness that I wasn't really aware of...but when they checked my reflexes there was little motion at all...which i suppose is the numbness...) and I'm to see a Physical Therapist this coming week to see what we can do. I'll send up dates as I can. I'm not sure who all can see the updates??

Add to that the fact that now I have osteoporosis and they want to treat it with drugs that cause the same side effects I'm already having in my gut. This is going to be one knock down drag out fight I think... I'm going totally natural instead!!!

If you are dizzy.. PLEASE use a cane to walk....

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I've often had a lot of trouble with my neck, much longer than this issue.. Last year working with a chiropractor we discussed my using a neck collar at night and he said lots of his patients find that helps relieve pain in the neck and stiffness...which seems counter productive but I noticed when I sleep with out it I get up with a painful stiff neck but if I sleep with it I don't...

Go figure!!!

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Hmm.. that's interesting, BJH. Right now, my neck is doing okay but it's very sensitive. If I sleep on it wrong, it can be irritated for days. I will keep the collar in mind if it starts flaring up again. Thanks.

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get one now and start using it for a few nights and see if it helps you feel better rather than waiting to see if it gets worse again.. Get ahead of the pain rather than behind it.

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Hi bjh
Well that thing you mentioned about The amount off eggs you should take, to make breakfast to everyone. And you couldnt figure it out. Im like that to. I feel i cant think anymore. And i have a hard time with my memory since i took flagyl. Many Times i stumble on words too.

I think i have that too with my bones. I try to walk every day, but i cant go long. Because off The dizziness and off balance. And when i do walk, i get so much pain in my legs and hip, back and so on. But i Will try harder. I have start training when im siting down. My legs and my arms. I cant do so much, but its a start
The Hard thing for me is my neuropathy also, i have it in my whole body, including face and head
Well The neurologist was not good at all. The only thing she did was "look at The right, look at The left " and then she said " up with your leg and down with your leg ", and then she told me she could not help me. I got angry and sad. I asked her if this was not her job, because Who Will i turn to now to get help. Then she said that i have to go to every doctor that treats every symptom.
Its just sick....I have gotten so Hurt from flagyl. It has damaged my brain and central nervous system, but The doctors and neurologist over here Will not help me or belive me. I did a test in january 2016 after all this, that showed small fiber neuropathy. I guess i have it in the whole body
I have had The joint pain since i took flagyl and The joints crack and do popping sounds every where around The body
Well thats good that your neuropathy do not Hurt och that you dont feel pain. For me its extreme pain, numbness, tingling and feels like its burning or cold.
But thats good, you seem to have progress with your dizziness and off balance. That you have that only when you walk is good, i think it Will get better with time. I have it even when laying down. But much worse when walking. I have tried to get help, so i cant know how i can do to make it better. But The doctors dont take it seriously. My cardiologist has sent a referal to a neurologist Again. So i hope they Will help me, but i guess they Will just answer that they can not do anything for me. But i going to fight to get help. And i try to do some small light exercises att home. Even with my off balance
I hope 2017 is going to be a better year for us. When we can start to heal

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Request a referral to another neurologist... now... just because you got one that didn't even want to figure it out is not to suppose that they are all like that.. Where do you live?

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BJH
I have been to two neurologist, no one off them took me seriously. They are not aware off flagyl toxicity, even if i have try to show them papers. I live in sweden .

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Universal health care? Do you have to have referrals? If not then get some referrals from friends, ask who has had what issues and how they were treated.... Meanwhile.. When did you start having the pain? Was it before or after you took the med or have you had it for a while?

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I did get an ER doctor to admit that flagyl caused dizziness and metallic taste in the mouth. But, she wouldn't bite on the darkened stools, nausea, brain fog and chills. She did howeve admit that probiotics are a must if taking any sort of anti-biotic. I checked my notes from last year and I had tinnitus in my ears while I was taking Flagyl and cypro. While a few antibiotics are listed to cause tinnitus, these two are not. According to my log it took almost two months for this to clear up.

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Wow... that is one side effect I didn't get.. I hope you didn't have a lot of others.. and I'm astounded that the doc rxed both of those drugs at the same time..... are you cured from the reason you were given the drug? Do you still have tinnitus? I didn't take cipro...if I had I think I'd have succumbed totally... both those drugs have similar side effects... dr wanted to give me cipro for a UTI and I read the side effects and refused!!! So, now I've got osteoporosis, I believe from too many years of having my gut NOT working right and taking proton pump inhibitors for GERD etc... and I have been suffering for at least 2 yrs with a gut that barely moved.... which means I didn't get calcium from my food... got an appt next week, I can hardly wait until she rx's fosamax for that..... side effects? Same stuff I'm currently having, constipation, diarrhea, gas, bloating, etc... think that the drug is going to make that better or significantly worse? I'm really distressed that so many people are being damaged by these drugs.. what on earth can we do?

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Flagyl can cause tinnitus. It's not on the label but I've talked to a lot of patients who have gone through it with this drug. And Cipro...everything can go wrong with cipro. Both these drugs are some of the nastiest on the market.

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Yes I experienced head aches for 2 weeks after taking Flagyl and still have stomach cramps and am taking probiotics. I feel like I may get better and then it all comes back.

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You may need to take more probiotics than you think and also take some Prebiotics. See your health food store. Do you have any other gut symptoms?

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Judy, that's how Flagyl works. Two steps forward, one step back. It does typically improve over time but it might take awhile. Amd I agree with BJH--more probiotics might help. You ever drink kefir? It's a drinkable yogurt with lots of probiotics. It's what I used and it did help.

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I see that you posted this message in 2011. I hope you are still out there and will tell us what has happened since?

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Bjh
I never had any muscle pain or joint pain before. I started too have that when i took flagyl. And The pain is not getting better. All around in the body, in every weird spot. And i never had neuropathy before, The flagyl caused it. So now i have tinggling, numbness and pain from head to toe
I dont know what to do to get help. But i Will not give up. Its not easy to fight for my right to treatments and have help, when i can hardly function as a human. But i Will keep trying.

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Ok, I'm going to work on solutions.. research on neuropathy..

health.facty.com/conditions/10-symptoms-of-neuropathy

Next You need to research solutions. I'm found a couple of sites that have to do with supplements to take..

Now here are my thoughts on this..

The stomach is like your mother board...your brain is a central processing unit. Effectively you have 2 brains.. the one in your skull and your STOMACH - your MOTHER BOARD.

When you take Flagyl you are breaking the connection between these two parts of your Computer system. The stomach communicates with the brain to tell it that you are hungry, to tell it to communicate with your glands, etc so they produce what you need... and your brain communicates with your stomach to tell it to send nutrients etc to the body.

So with Flagyl you have a disconnect. So the next question is how to reconnect this?... perhaps physical therapy...perhaps trying to get the motherboard to function with nutrition? If you read all the stuff about neuropathy it talks about stomach issues. I'd say, take a few really good tips from that.

Evaluate how your stomach is working... what symptoms do you have?... and then look at what YOU can do about fixing those.

I was having major issues with my gut before the flagyl and after... So, I talked to my nutritionist friend, who asked me some questions...

1. do you have a gall bladder? - No
2 do you take antacids or proton pump inhibitors? - I have in the past.

She then said, take Ox Bile for the lack of gall bladder.. yes, the liver still produces bile but that bladder was a storage unit so that when you eat it dumped a lot of bile into your stomach. And if you have taken antacids then you have very little stomach acid, which is needed to digest your food... so she had me take HCL with pepsin...

Within 24 hrs I started having regular bowel movements that were perfectly normal. I also discovered by observing that some of the diarrhea I was having related to eating those little oranges called Cuties... I stopped and no more diarrhea!!

So, now I know that my motherboard is working.

NEXT STEP is physical therapy and Tai Chi... these should help get the motherboard to reconnect with the CPU... I'll keep you informed..but with the Tai Chi alone I've noticed less of a problem with balance... The tai chi I've been doing is private lessons that focus on stretching my body and getting lots of the pain out of it.. I can walk better now although I'm not 100%.

I start PT on Wed. I'll let you know.

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Anna-sorry I have not checked in...I hope you are well. Things were busy here and when the holidays are here, with being on my feet more I crash more as well and it takes days to weeks at times to feel well enough to get on the computer again. As for all the things I did to try to improve, the list is so long as I have been dealing with this since 2009. The only thing that saved me in the beginning was drugs. I hate to admit that as I tried to remain organic as that was how I lived my life before this happened as many of us did...that makes me wonder at times. Supplements were getting too much for me as well. I only take Milk Thistle, Ionic magnesium, and Chelated Iron now--iron because I do not want a transfusion from getting severe anemia. I have already been down that road. The milk thistle is simple to many but I know it works on the liver for sure. Long story, but it even saved my dogs life so I keep with it. I cannot say for sure if these things make things better more than perhaps stop some things from getting worse. If not for Klonopin after four months of no sleep which people say is not possible--well if you are floxed I bet we all beg to differ---I was in such bad shape that the Klonopin was a temporary way to finally get three hours of sleep here and there for a month. I made a difference for sure. I do not use it anymore but for sure needed it after trying to be so proper with how I was treating myself. I wanted to live organic like I had been and wish it worked. The one dose of Dilaudid in my IV in the hospital also let me sleep in 2009. that was before the Klonopin. There is no way I am even close to ashamed of using these drugs. I was in so much pain I could care less at that point. I just needed it to stop. None of it was permanent but even the temporary relief made a huge difference. I think people will preach and preach when they are the ones that get better but it may not be that they get better from what they are doing more than just people that would have improved. There is just no way to tell. So many or us do everything right after being floxed and do not heal and others do not do these things and get better. There is no doubt-the best thing to do it treat the body the best we can but if that was the answer, than I should not have been floxed in the first place. My friends were shocked this happened to me out of so many of us. I was the one that my friends made fun of for being so exact with watching everything I put in my mouth and making sure it was good for me. I just felt so healthy living that way and life was so good. I had so much energy and loved the way I looked and felt, and enjoyed my work and enjoyed clothes shopping as many of us do. That all changed with this. I have bins of shoes and clothes in my attic that are from work. SO hard to give them away. My daughter takes a lot. IF you are suffering so bad, and you have heart issues and seizures, it is tough for you to know what to do to get out of pain. It sounds like you are in that spot that I was in....desperate for a break at least. A break from the pain and the lack of sleep. What is the thought with marijuana there? Do you feel if you get some what of break for a few days you might be able to regroup a slight bit? I know that sounds nuts, but that is how I felt. That or I was done. I am not as bad as the first year. No where near like that...that was the worst by far. I am also not good either. But I can do things around the house--maybe not in the morning but I can do things. It takes me a few hours in the morning to move and I usually only sleep 3=4 hours a night. If I sleep more than that...I pay the price in pain. Too much sleep equals more pain and no sleep equals too much sleep the next night. A crazy cycle. Have you tried Valerian tea or herbal supplement for rest or that plus melatonin? These are helpful to some people. I am sorry you are going through so much. I wish this would ease up for you. Do you have a date picked out for a wedding? That must be tough to plan right now. I wish I had answers for you. You will hear so much from so many. The best I know is instead of piling to many things on so fast, a few supplements here and there are better as my stomach could not handle what the drs. wanted me to have all at once. I could not digest it and it made me sick even though they were good for me. I am sorry to go on and on....I did not sleep good during the night --insomnia night. I gave up and have been up all night. I tend to ramble at times when I get no sleep. Talk to your fiance - I am sure you already do. As long as he understands that you are speaking from a place of non-stop pain that you need a break from so much, then perhaps he could help you research a dr. that could advise you what to take when in so much pain but have heart issues. I had crazy blood pressure the first year as well but did not stop me from needing relief after a while. But that is me.... Again-this is a lot of rambling--so sorry. I do not know what I even answered this time. I hope you have some relief in pain today.

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Ok, let's start with the stomach.. my nutritionist says that much of the problem has to do with the disconnect between the stomach and the brain... and part of that connection seems to be related to the vagus nerve....read up on it... find out what it does and then how to help it reconnect...

I'm going to need a social secretary soon.. just saw the PT who said I also have difficulty with balance because of the crystals in my inner ear.. and she has some good exercises that will help pretty quickly.. so I'm to have at least 20 PT sessions before they evaluate and see what else needs to be done...
more later.

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HI Bjh

Thanks
Well i agree the brain and the gut connection is very important. Like they say, the second brain. I think i have destroyed mine. But in my case, i think its because of maybe autonomic neuropathy. Thats why my stomach act like this. But im trying everything to heal it. Drinking bone broth and taking colostrum. I think i have a leaky gut also.

About the neuropathy. i think i have to much nerve damage. I have tried many supplements for the neuropathy. But i havent notice a difference. But maybe its because i always have to stop with the supplements, because off my stomach.

But thats good that you see some progress in your off balance. really good. continue to take thai chi lessons, if it helps you. Tell me how everything goes. keep me updated.

lol.....a secretary would be nice to have . Im writing alot with people out there now, who have gotten hurt from flagyl or fluroqinolones.

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