“Death by Levaquin” Brain/Body Toxic Drug

It’s hard to get much of anything accomplished once you have been poisoned by quinolone antibiotics. When I do have some bursts of energy I try and contact media stations.  I was wondering if anyone lives near New Haven, Connecticut ?  There is a TV show in New Haven that would like to film quinolone victims for one of their tv shows. The show films between 11 and 12 on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. I have contact information. I think Sally, the clown, and Paul may be able to go for this. Both of them are still suffering from quinolone toxicity. They want to also film this from the perspective of quinolone support groups such as favc.info ect. If anyone that is floxed that lives nearby that wants to be filmed on this news show please contact me via this blog.

I made a few other calls and I may be able to get on two big time national news shows. One show films out of New York City and the reporter that I talked to was very interested in quinolone toxicity. She found it hard to believe that I was a pharmaceutical sales rep that once sold a drug called Quixin ( opthalmic Levaquin ) I am sending her a big media packet this weekend. My mom will put most of it togather since everything takes four times longer to do with my brain and pain issues. The other show is in Washington DC.  I just hope these opportunities go through. They sounded very interested and willing to help. I talked with each reporter for about 20 minutes.

If I actually got a chance to go to one of these two venues I am not even sure I could make it. NYC is about 3 1/2 hours away and Washington DC is about 2 1/2 hours. I made the trip to Wash DC for the Quinolone documentary a month ago and that was very hard to do. I am so fatigued and have so many other Levaquin poisoning symptoms. Travel is difficult. We need to get our story to the media. We need to be recognized. If I was well enough I would drive around the country in a big van spreading the quinolone message to all the news stations and other places willing to listen. I’m too poisoned to attempt anything like this. I can only dream of it. Many thanks to Heidi Witherspoon for providing me with a great media contact list and all others who have emailed me with their contributions to this site. Thank you very much for your help.

Radio broadcast:

• WVPB FM Beckley WV Saturday 7:00 AM
• WVPW FM Buckhannon WV Saturday 7:00 AM
• WVPN FM Charleston WV Saturday 7:00 AM
• WVMR AM Dunmore WV Saturday 7:00 AM
• WVWV FM Huntington WV Saturday 7:00 AM
• WVEP FM Martinsburg WV Saturday 7:00 AM
• WVPM FM Morganton WV Saturday 7:00 AM
• WVPG FM Parkersburg WV Saturday 7:00 AM
• WAUA FM Petersburg WV Saturday 7:00 AM

I had 3 grams instead of two grams of glutathione yesterday. That is considered a fairly high dose. The glutathione treatment is fairly quick. About 20 minutes in time. I feel tired after each treatment. The tiredness lasts about a full day. I feel a more elevated sense of mood after the treatment. This lasts for many hours after the treatment but then it dissipates. The doctor said he want to have a copy of the Quinolone documentary to loan out to his patients. He already has a women with Levaquin induced anxiety and some young kid who took Cipro and his achilles tendon is hurting him really bad.

On a different subject, I received an email from a lady on the Lariam board who told me that I should have a legal disclaimer for my site. I talked to Bob Grozier,(Fqvictims.org) and Sam at (fqhelp.com) They advised me to have a legal disclaimer for my site to protect myself. I had Sam write-up a legal disclaimer for my site and he put it on a post and then on a link on my blog. I may have worded the reason for the disclaimer poorly when I posted it a few weeks ago. The reason for this disclaimer is to protect myself.  My intention is to warn people about the crippling side effects of these antibiotics and to try and bring about change in terms of advocacy efforts. 

I am going for my fourth IV glutathione treatment tomorrow. I put the glutathione in a ice bag and take it to the doctor’s office. So far the glutathione doesn’t seem to help much. I have one more treatment left and that will be it for the glutathione. Maybe it takes a while for any benefits to show up. This is obviously what I am hoping for. Kind of like the delayed reaction to the Levaquin that I had. It took many months for the worst symptoms to appear.

I have a good media contact list provided to me by another Levaquin victim named Heidi. I have been emailing some health reporters at these different media outlets. I got one response so far and I am scheduled to be on a fairly big radio show on March 4th. I will make sure to let the listeners know everything about quinolone toxicity. I should probably write some notes down so I don’t forget anything.

I watched a scary movie last night called Eastern Promises. I didn’t realize how gory it would be. My central nervous system couldn’t handle it and I had to turn it off. Too much stimulation for my overstimulated brain. Recently, I bought a baby pacifier to put in my mouth as I sleep. I am trying anything to help calm my brain down. Maybe having the pacifier in my mouth will help trick my brain into a more calming state. Can’t believe as a grown man I am having to try something like this. Quinolone poisoning affects so many parts of my life now. 

When you watch some of the drug commercials they usually depict some lady dancing in a meadow with the sun shinning or something like that. Sometimes they show someone in a lab type setting with the message of making your health better through their prescription drug. They are committed to bring you a better life. Johnson and Johnson seems to be spending a lot of time trying to cover up the toxicity of Levaquin. One of the quinolone manufacturers tried to change all the information about quinolone toxicity syndrome on wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Sam, who is the author of Fqhelp.com, has been helping me to install IP address tracking software so I can view who is on my Levaquin blog. You would think that Johnson and Johnson would have more important things to do with their time than to be viewing my Levaquin blog. Below is an email from Sam that shows that Johnson and Johnson is on my blog. So instead of spending all of their time in researching how to make their medications more safe and effective they are spending time on my simple Levaquin blog. Johnson and Johnson’s behaviour is nothing but shameful. They know thousands of people have been poisoned and disabled from Levaquin and they don’t spend any research into helping us get our lives back. They just spend their money on the false propaganda to the doctors that Levaquin is safe with very little side effects. Below is the message to me from Sam and in the message is the IP address screenshot stamp of Johnson and Johnson on my blog.  

Hi John,

Thanks for the interesting information with stem cells. I’m not sure if it’s correct, but I heard that parasthesia can be a sign of nerves regenerating, hence the increase when given B vitamins or even the stem cells.

I think that interviews with other victims are indeed a great idea. I could probably work with Bob to sort out the interviews. I believe that if you manage to get the opinions of Dr. Plumb, and other medical people, that definitely give it a lot of credibility, especially for other doctors.

I forgot to mention that after lots of effort and work, I managed to install and set up an effective IP tracker on your site. John, you’ll be happy that all that time and effort definitely paid off.

You will NOT believe what I discovered. I managed to find out that Johnson & Johnson ARE DEFINITELY on your website. Just as we predicted! There are also lots of interesting groups visiting your website, even foreign universities are viewing your website.

I have attached a screenshot of one of the IP Tracker’s logs. If you can’t download the attachment, here is part of the data that I managed to log:

Johnson & Johnson (148.177.1.212)

Raritan, New Jersey, United States, 0 returning visits

With the IP tracker, we can view almost every detail about a user’s visit, including the:

It seems like this IP tracking project is going to be quite successful. I’m almost finished setting up everything. I’ll send you the access details as soon as it’s all done. Although it was quite challenging getting it to work without access to your webhost and FTP, I managed to finally get it up and running. I just have to make sure there aren’t any serious bugs. Other than that, everything is working.

Sam

In addition to the Levaquin toxicity that Johnson and Johnson tries to cover up here is some more unethical behaviour from this unethical company. This one involves a birth control patch in which Johnson and Johnson hid data from the FDA. 

http://www.youhavealawyer.com/blog/2008/04/07/ortho-evra-lawsuit/

I started taking vitamin D drops a week ago to try and help my Levaquin poisoning. I am taking 8000 IU’s a day. My vitamin D3 and D2 levels are low. I had to find a form of vitamin D that doesn’t have many fillers, additives, binders ect. do to my sensitivity to all of this. I found a brand called Carlson’s vitamin D3 drops. One drop equals 2000 IU’s of vitamin D. The only other additive in the vitamin D drops is coconut oil.  It wasn’t that expensive and it got very good online reviews. I have no idea if this will help my Levaquin poisoning. I am trying all sorts of things. Lately my insomnia has been getting worse. This may have been because I was taking omega 3fish and flax oil that had soy listed at the bottom. I didn’t initially see this due to my vision damage but I just saw it the other day. Fortunately I was only on this for about a week. I have been putting some carpet fresh Lavender scent on my bedroom carpert to see if the aromatherapy would relax my brain down to get some more sleep. So far it doesn’t seem to be doing anything.

I bought a few potted plants and put them in my bedroom. A couple snake plants and other plants that are supposed to be good at removing indoor toxins and emitting more oxygen. I am desperate for any slight advantage to help minimize the Levaquin poisoning. Like tens of thousands of other quinolone victims I have sensitivities to toxins that the normal person can tolerate. I bought some organic cocoa powder recently and started taking that to see if it will help. Cocoa powder is rich in antioxidants, fiber and other good things for the body. Pre Levaquin I used to nibble on chocolate every now and then and it would elevate my mood a little. Kind of like drinking a soda.  I was hoping the same would be true of cocoa but it doesn’t seem to do much. It is criminal that the criminals at Johnson and Johnson that have poisoned us don’t do any research into any type of healing protocol. When we were all young we use to hear the phrase “Crime doesn’t pay” …. Well crime does pay. It has been paying billions into the coffers of Johnson and Johnson and Bayer while tens of thousands are being poisoned by quinolones every year.  

I called Public Citizen today in the Washington D.C office and spoke to a lady named Kate. I told her that the Black Box warning that was issued last July is still not on the prescribing literature at the pharmacy. I told her that there was a guy named Peter who was in the recent quinolone documentary that was really informed about the situation with quinolones. She said she would give my information to him and someone else and hopefully they will find out some information on this. Hopefully something will turn up as to why there isn’t a Black box warning on quinolone antibiotics yet. When I talked to the FDA last week a lady told me that if there was a Black Box warning on the literature then that might scare people away from taking their medication. It is my belief the the persons right of informed consent should supercede any other right. If we had all seen a Black Box warning on the prescribing literature I think most of us would have looked this up on the computer. The Black Box warning should have been issued many years ago back when the FDA was first petitioned on this. But of course, with all the money coming in to the FDA from the pharma companies, they tend to look the other way or delay for as long as possible in putting appropriate warning labels to medications. In the quinolone documentary, it was mentioned that the british national formulary had all the tendon warnings for years before the FDA here in america had them.

Back when I was a pharmaceutical sales rep I knew of Dr. Sidney Wolfe and Public Citizen. I sold a statin called Crestor.  Dr. Sidney Wolfe and Public Citizen were trying to get warning labels put on Crestor. I remember I used to think Dr. Wolfe and Public Citizen were nothing but a bunch of people trying to make a big fuss over a small issue with Crestor. My pharmaceutical company would repeatedly tell me and the other sales reps that rhabdomylisis ( muscle disintegration ) reactions with Crestor were extremely rare. After what happened to me with Levaquin, I will never trust anything other than my own research into the dangers of pharmaceutical drugs. How times have changed. 

Let food be thy medicine and medicine thy food said Hippocrates. We all know that good health is through eating a good diet filled with proper nutrition. I find it to be a sad state when this is not preached too often when you go to your general practitioner. Western medicine is prescription prescription prescription. That is not health. Prescriptions for everything never fix the underlying ailment or disease state. They often lead to many side effects that are largely dismissed by the medical establishment. It is funny that when people go to an “alternative doctor” that these are the doctors that preach proper nutrition. Why are the “alternative doctors”  considered alternative when they are usually the ones giving us information on proper nutrition which leads to better health.

I really think the FDA not only is in bed with the drug companies but also the food manufacturers. They let them put in all kinds of preservatives and additives and other chemicals that leads to worsening health and thus more doctor visits and more prescriptions. It is a viscous cycle. The FDA doesn’t care. As long as they get their money from the pharmaceutical companies and the food manufacturers they are set.  We are all paying for this with higher health care costs. The powerful food manufacturers and drug companies have too much sway and influence that is undermining our collective health. A lot of money and powerful lobbyists goes a long way.