I got contacted by a lady named Cindy Perlin who is writing a book on problems with our current health care system. She has a website that I listed below. She wants to hear about medical horror stories of adverse side effects of medications. If anyone had a bad floxing you can log onto her website and click on the Horror Stories  link and submit your story for publication into her book. She was very easy to talk to on the phone and she said she wanted to get more stories for her book.

http://healthcarehijacked.com/

Levaquin poisoning has ruined yet another Christmas. My parents told me last Christmas that I would be much better by next Christmas. That hasn’t happened. I’m still living a living death. So too are all the hundreds of thousands of people severely poisoned by Levaquin, Cipro, Avelox and other quinolones. I think I am one of the tens of thousands with permanent damage. I tell my parents that I am 90% percent better so that they don’t worry about me. I don’t want my poor health to affect their health.

Dr. Jay Cohen says that even if only one person out of 100 suffers a grave side effect that can mean millions that are suffering. Even the corrupt FDA admits that less than 5 % of all drug side effects are ever reported. Speaking of the FDA, I remember a story from last year regarding the head of the food and drug administration. China executed that person for taking $800,000 in money from the the drug companies over there. Here in America that is considered business as usual. China is one of the worst countries in terms of human rights violations and yet they still execute the head of the FDA over there. The FDA in America is such a joke. The FDA gets approximately 50 % of its funding directly from the pharma companies. What an absurd conflict of interest. 

I spent much of the day in my hot tub. It gives a little relief but not much. I wonder if the chlorine is seeping into my skin causing more problems down the line. For any non floxed person reading this blog, most of us who have been poisoned by a quinolone have all types of bizarre sensitivities and chemical intolerances that affect us. I actually made it to Christmas church. The long walk up the steps to the church doors was pretty brutal. About 10 minutes into the service the priest walked down the aisle with a bag of incense that he was waving back and forth. The strong smell hit me like a ton bricks in the brain. My head pressure ramped up to about 9 on the richter scale. Had to excuse myself from the pew and stand outside. The head pressure returned to normal head pressure levels this morning.

My sister gave my mother a book for Christmas from James Patterson called “Against medical advice.” It is apparently about a person who has tourettes syndrome and the inside book cover mentions that this person is trapped in a living hell with involuntary tics. No offense to that person but I would gladly trade my living death for a life of involuntary tics. I think I may send a big packet of quinolone toxicity information to James Patterson if I can find his mailing address on the internet. Being one of the most well known authors in the world he could sure open a lot of eyes if he ever did a book on Quinolone poisoning. Being that he is a writer he probably doesn’t take any advertising money so maybe if he read our collective horror story he would entertain the idea. 

I hope all the quinolone poisoned people out there had a reasonably good holiday. I know many of us that are severely poisoned are bedridden for much of the day. I hope next year is a better year for all of us.

Please read the links below and educate others on the severe and often permanent disabilities caused by quinolone antibiotics.    

By Sally Fallon and Mary Enig Phd.

Hypercholesterolemia is the health issue of the 21st century. It is actually an invented disease, a “problem” that emerged when health professionals learned how to measure cholesterol levels in the blood. High cholesterol exhibits no outward signs–unlike other conditions of the blood, such as diabetes or anemia, diseases that manifest telltale symptoms like thirst or weakness–hypercholesterolemia requires the services of a physician to detect its presence. Many people who feel perfectly healthy suffer from high cholesterol–in fact, feeling good is actually a symptom of high cholesterol!

Doctors who treat this new disease must first convince their patients that they are sick and need to take one or more expensive drugs for the rest of their lives, drugs that require regular checkups and blood tests. But such doctors do not work in a vacuum–their efforts to convert healthy people into patients are bolstered by the full weight of the US government, the media and the medical establishment, agencies that have worked in concert to disseminate the cholesterol dogma and convince the population that high cholesterol is the forerunner of heart disease and possibly other diseases as well.

Who suffers from hypercholesterolemia? Peruse the medical literature of 25 or 30 years ago and you’ll get the following answer: any middle-aged man whose cholesterol is over 240 with other risk factors, such as smoking or overweight. After the Cholesterol Consensus Conference in 1984, the parameters changed; anyone (male or female) with cholesterol over 200 could receive the dreaded diagnosis and a prescription for pills. Recently that number has been moved down to 180. If you have had a heart attack, you get to take cholesterol-lowering medicines even if your cholesterol is already very low–after all, you have committed the sin of having a heart attack so your cholesterol must therefore be too high. The penance is a lifetime of cholesterol-lowering medications along with a boring lowfat diet. But why wait until you have a heart attack? Since we all labor under the stigma of original sin, we are all candidates for treatment. Current edicts stipulate cholesterol testing and treatment for young adults and even children.

The drugs that doctors use to treat the new disease are called statins–sold under a variety of names including Lipitor (atorvastatin), Zocor (simvastatin), Mevacor (lovastatin) and Pravachol (pravastatin).

How Statins Work

The diagram below illustrates the pathways involved in cholesterol production. The process begins with acetyl-CoA, a two-carbon molecule sometimes referred to as the “building block of life.” Three acetyl-CoA molecules combine to form six-carbon hydroxymethyl glutaric acid (HMG). The step from HMG to mevalonate requires an enzyme, HMG-CoA reductase. Statin drugs work by inhibiting this enzyme–hence the formal name of HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors. Herein lies the potential for numerous side effects, because statin drugs inhibit not just the production of cholesterol, but a whole family of intermediary substances, many if not all of which have important biochemical functions in their own right.

Consider the findings of pediatricians at the University of California, San Diego who published a description of a child with an hereditary defect of mevalonic kinase, the enzyme that facilitates the next step beyond HMG-CoA reductase.¹ The child was mentally retarded, microcephalic (very small head), small for his age, profoundly anemic, acidotic and febrile. He also had cataracts. Predictably, his cholesterol was consistently low–70-79 mg/dl. He died at the age of 24 months. The child represents an extreme example of cholesterol inhibition, but his case illuminates the possible consequences of taking statins in strong doses or for a lengthy period of time–depression of mental acuity, anemia, acidosis, frequent fevers and cataracts.

Cholesterol is one of three end products in the mevalonate chain. The two others are ubiquinone and dilochol. Ubiquinone or Co-Enzyme Q10 is a critical cellular nutrient biosynthesized in the mitochondria. It plays a role in ATP production in the cells and functions as an electron carrier to cytochrome oxidase, our main respiratory enzyme. The heart requires high levels of Co-Q10. A form of Co-Q10 called ubiquinone is found in all cell membranes where it plays a role in maintaining membrane integrity so critical to nerve conduction and muscle integrity. Co-Q10 is also vital to the formation of elastin and collagen. Side effects of Co-Q10 deficiency include muscle wasting leading to weakness and severe back pain, heart failure (the heart is a muscle!), neuropathy and inflammation of the tendons and ligaments, often leading to rupture.

Dolichols also play a role of immense importance. In the cells they direct various proteins manufactured in response to DNA directives to their proper targets, ensuring that the cells respond correctly to genetically programmed instruction. Thus statin drugs can lead to unpredictable chaos on the cellular level, much like a computer virus that wipes out certain pathways or files.

Squalene, the immediate precursor to cholesterol, has anti-cancer effects, according to research.

The fact that some studies have shown that statins can prevent heart disease, at least in the short term, is most likely explained not by the inhibition of cholesterol production but because they block the creation of mevalonate. Reduced amounts of mevalonate seem to make smooth muscle cells less active, and platelets less able to produce thromboxane. Atherosclerosis begins with the growth of smooth muscle cells in side artery walls and thromboxane is necessary for blood clotting.

When I was a pharmaceutical sales rep I sold a statin. The cholesterol guidelines were established by physicians.  Many of the experts who participated in writing the guidelines for cholesterol disclosed various financial relationships with the pharmaceutical firms who manufacture statins.

When  a patient is on a statin like Lipitor or Zocor that then requires more doctor visits in order to do blood tests to check to make sure the liver is functioning properly and that there is no muscle damage occuring.

The archives of internal medicine in 1993 showed that elevated total cholesterol levels correlate with an increased risk of death only through the age of 40 and not once after the age of 50. Most people that take statins are after the age of 50. Each statin pill costs roughly three dollars. Millions of people are taking these drugs that don’t need to be. The terrible irony in all of this is that you actually NEED cholesterol. It helps the brain to function and it helps the nerves to funtion properly. With the Millions of people on this high priced medication it is costing us taxpayers billions of dollars of wasteful spending.   

I took the plunge and had 1000mg ( 1 gram ) of IV glutathione a couple days ago. Didn’t seem to help in any way although I know glutathione takes time to work. I do feel much more fatigued than usual. Wonder if that is Levaquin toxins coming out. It’s getting really cold here in Pennsylvania. I am worse in the winter time. Not sure why. I was doing better last summer than I am now. I should be improving but I’m not improving much lately. I wonder if this is as good as it gets for me. I woke up with blood in my mouth today. Not a lot but enough to scare me. A Levaquin induced growth on my gum popped and left some blood in my mouth. I have blood in my urine now too. Didn’t have this before. I guess it is another new Levaquin ADR. Fortunately, no visible blood in the urine but it was picked up in a urine dipstick test. Urologist wants to do a cystoscopy or something like that. My alternative doctor says not to do it. It could cause an infection. If I get a bad infection I think I may be cooked. I won’t take another antibiotic. Too dangerous. Even a non quinolone could unleash new horrors. Can’t afford a severe relapse. I think my immune system is running very low.

Alternative doctor wants to bump me up to 2 grams of glutathione. I hope the 2 grams doesn’t overload anything in my body. I have read Rob’s glutathione healing story and hope it helps me and others. There isn’t much else left that I haven’t tried. I have read so many good things about glutathione. Over 6000 published studies on the benefits of glutathione. I wonder why doctors don’t prescribe it to their patients. Probably because it can’t be patented so therefore no drug company can make any money off of it. People need to be continuosly sick so that doctors have lots of patients. There is no money in dead people or healthy people. Doctors keep patients on statins and other medications that do more harm and never fix the underlying illness. Then they have to go back to the office to get blood tests for liver and kidney fuction to make sure the medications aren’t destroying those organs. All the while they never preach simple things like taking healthy supplements such as cod liver oil and magnesium and other simple inexpensive healthy things so you don’t need to take the expensive medications. I used to sell a stain for cholesterol reduction. It’s all a big scam. I’ll explain it all in a later post. 

Kristine’s Story

http://www.askapatient.com/viewrating.asp?drug=20635&name=LEVAQUIN

Hundreds of crippling injuries documented in this database. Average rating: An abysmal 1.9

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL1pKlnhvg0

I wonder how many reporters were fired for trying to report a story on the permanent damage caused by quinolone antibiotics. Probably quite a few with all the drug advertising money going to the big media networks. This is what we are all up against. They say ignorance is bliss. No, ignorance kills.  We should all have a right to know the truth. Especially when it concerns the most important part of our existance – our health.  The truth is quinolone antibiotics cause permanent brain and body damage. It’s stated right in the package insert. It’s criminal that none of us were informed of this before taking the poison.

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For those of you that have been floxed please try and take a few minutes to fill this form out. There is a severely crippled Levaquin woman near Chicago who is collecting these petitions and taking them congress. She has collected nearly 500 hundred of them. To print this form off go to: Fqvictims.org and click on the “Get involved” link at the top of the website. Click on the Petion to Congress link and print off the short form. It only costs a postage stamp. The more petitions the better. Thanks very much..    

A Petition to the United States Congress
 

Date: ____________________

A petition To the United States Congress:I, (Name)  _________________________________________am signing this petition to request the United States Congress to immediately take action to protect American consumers from the serious adverse drug reactions that are occurring from a class of antibiotics known as “Fluoroquinolones”. These serious adverse drug reactions often leave victims with long-term or permanent, crippling disabilities, and cause preventable deaths. 

The fluoroquinolone antibiotics manufactured and distributed are: Cipro, Levaquin, Floxin, Avelox, Tequin, Noroxin, Maxaquin, Trovan, Raxar, Zagam, Ciloxin, Quixin, Ocuflox, Penetrex, Chibroxin, Cinoxin, Vigamox, and Factive, just to name a few.

The respective pharmaceutical manufacturers and the FDA have failed to adequately warn the American public of the inherent risks associated with the use of this class of antibiotics and as a result many of these reactions are occurring unnecessarily and should have never occurred. 

There are no known effective treatments or cures for a fluoroquinolones adverse drug reaction. 

I am signing this petition to formally request that Congress conduct an investigation and hold hearings to remedy this serious problem and to provide corrective action leading to proper warnings, proper prescribing and also research into effective treatment outcomes for a fluoroquinolones adverse drug reaction. 

I am respectfully requesting that the United States Congress immediately and fully investigate the misconduct of the respective pharmaceutical companies and the FDA and to implement a procedure for the victims of this misconduct to be compensated for the damages they have suffered not withstanding existing statutes of limitations.

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