I don’t know where to start. I had been taking this drug for over a year until two days ago when I stopped it myself. I was prescribed it last April while in hospital with ARLD and alcohol hepatitis. I was very poorly and since recovered from it. My first blood tests after discharge were normal but I had started suddenly with muscle and joint pain, in my neck first then it started to rapidly spread to all joints and muscle. I had no cause to read the leaflet I may add until a couple of days ago. I went to my GP and told him my symptoms immediately last May and he started to prescribe me with a continuing cocktail of various pain killers from tramadol to naproxen etc etc. An appointment made for a bone scan etc etc. Nothing worked. My cipro was never mentioned. To cut a very long story short. I have been in agony for a year with chronic pain. I had a HA in February and a stent again no one questioned why I was on this medication.
I have just read by complete chance, about its horrible side effects! I have Immediately stopped taking it. God knows the lasting impact on my body!!! Why did no one question the fact that this pain literally started the day I was discharged???!? I trusted the doctors. When I read the leaflet in the box I nearly passed out! I also have ringing in my ears since taking it and again no one was interested! I feel really let down.
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Why were you started on ciprofloxacin? It’s an antibiotic so you should have had a short course, go back to your doctor and ask why they are giving it on repeat prescriptions? Good luck
I mentioned it twice to my consultant who said she wanted to keep me on it in case I got blood poisoning again. I didn’t question it but always wondered if it would be working any way after all that time! I am mortified now as I have suffered so much pain over the last year and no one questioned the antibiotic. I thoughtI had fibromyalgia !!!!
Please contact your doctor, your consultant must have had a good reason, I’d ring his/ secretary and ask for him/her to phone you. Self diagnosis is extremely dangerous!
I am not taking it anymore as I have the side effects very badly. I can’t get through to my doctors but I will inform them the same. I spoke to a chemist just now who advised me to stop it immediately.
Hi Teddy Sorry to hear about your issues, I have just read on line regarding the meds you were given I don't understand why a strong antibiotics was given for such a long time !!
Please as cat -b said see your Dr and ask questions..
I flushed them down the toilet when I read the label. I feel like I have been slowly poisoned. I have read the pain could be permanent now. I literally couldn’t sleep because of the pain which I have now got use to thinking that’s what fibromyalgia does! Don’t think they will have helped my heart either!
I never thought of PALs. I don’t want to annoy my doctors though as they were good at getting me checked out before I had an even worse heart attack. My Gastro consultant is nice too but I feel WHY DIDNT THEY KNOW OF THE SIDE EFFECTS. It’s actually highlighted on the NHS website for doctors to read! I had no history of joint issues before just a bad back
Yes try PALS, that way your not directly getting the wrong person /people involved with whom allowed this to contine .Please keep us posted and try not to worry
It makes you feel like that but I don’t think you ever win in this sort of thing. I am more mad with one GP who I sat face to face with last year and said that I couldn’t understand why the pain, which started in my neck, started the day I was discharged from hospital ! I was only on the Cipro and something for gallstones which were causing no trouble. I can’t believe I had all these appointments and no one questioned it ! At one stage even Tramodol 3 times a day didn’t work. I felt like a zombie. The physio said to stop taking them as no pain relief was working anyway. Any form of light exercise hurts now. I told them my joint pain is in my muscles too but no one took any notice! I said to my doctor do you think I am making this up? She said of course not so off I trotted to see a rhuemotology specialist ! What a waste of NHS money!
I would consult with a barrister. But perhaps not thinking rationally but emotionally. The good news is that it can't get any worse anymore. Perhaps you have a friend who is a chemist who can answer some questions? I wish you all the best, good luck!
Yes, I can’t get any worse thankfully. I am glad I found out what I did. It just shows you you have to be so careful and don’t put your trust 100% in doctors.
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