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I have the story of quinolone toxicity that could probably put the hurt on the companies that make all of these medications more so than anyone could imagine.  I do not want to take up too much space here but another day I will list every horrible thing that has happened to myself and my family members trying to help me.   I am 37 today but it all started at 18.  I took cipro for prostatitis and noticed after a couple of doses my left wrist started popping and it still pops today.  I never had any joint problem before then actually really healthy playing baseball, basketball, raquetball and many other sports.  My physician again prescribed the ciprofloxacin at about age 20 or 21 and I remember after taking a few doses having horrible panic attacks and wanting to die.  I felt extremely depressed and anxious and could not sleep.  I felt as if everything was not real a sort of depersonalization or disconnect from reality.  My parents and physician and friends did not know what w
 as wrong with me and I wasn’t exactly sure either.  I had never felt like that before.  Then my physician gave me alprazolam with the cipro and I felt even worse after that.  I will never forget I never really prayed to god but did then please make me feel normal or end it.  Then I layed in bed tossing and turning never able to fall asleep really and the next thing I know off to the right side of me came a golden white light and I cursed, ” holy f___s___.  I never cussed before that.  I was sucked out of my body and started to go down this tunnel to this pinpoint of golden white light.  At first I was scared but then a telepathic voice said, ” Do you want to stay or go back?”  The amazing thing about this whole experience was that I was no longer in any pain and wasn’t depressed, I felt very peaceful.  I telepathically said, ” No not now.”  Then I was slammed into my body feet first and felt like crap again.   I know I digressed here but this wasn’t by far the worst experien
 ce I have had with fluoroquinolones.
      At 23 I was preparing for pharmacy school and the physician prescribed floxin for prostatitis again.  I don’t know why I kept getting prostatitis.  This was the worst experience I have every had.  I had extreme panic attacks and insomnia beyond belief.  I really didn’t sleep hardly at all for close to two weeks.  Then in the dorm room I passed out and was on the floor.  I woke up with a heavy head feeling and dizziness and felt like the life had been sucked out of me.  Then later I went to the bathroom and was found on the floor by the urinal with a bloody face.  I did not want to go to the hospital so I went back to the dorm room and passed out again on the floor and hit my head again.  Finally my roommate called and ambulance for me.  The physicians in the ER kept asking me if I was taking elicit drugs.  I have never and would never do that.  They did not find much except that my blood sugar was really low.  I told the doctors about the Floxin and they said those side
  effects couldn’t happen and continue taking it.  
     Actually you would think all of this was enough, but it was just the beginning.  I had to later be admitted to the hospital and go in a psych hospital for panic attacks.  I will continue with the second part of the story in a few days.  I’m getting a little emotional now because I remember laying in the hospital not being able to sleep and the doctors wouldn’t give me anything.  So I layed and prayed and pleaded with god to either help me get well please or help me die at 23 years old.  Sorry to have to continue but this is tough.