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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Janet - which antibiotic, please?

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Janet's avatar

Sorry. Forgot. Clindamycin.

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Melissa S's avatar

Re: "life changing side effects to this particular AB"

My family experienced this first hand with Clindamycin, given to our grandson. It caused terrible side effects, which were "remedied" with yet another pharmaceutical that caused even more terrible side effects. After 4 months of terrible suffering for an innocent child, numerous doctor and specialist appointments, thousands of dollars in medical expenses, and unremitting stress for the entire family, we are finally coming out of the dark tunnel.

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tjsplace's avatar

I am so sorry. I hate reading about children having to suffer like that.

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Janet's avatar

OMG. I’m so sorry. What a nightmare—and to a child. I feel my only choice now is to question EVERYTHING. Verify all. Even doxycycline gave me tinnitus. And a still messed up gut despite the usual ways of returning gut health after ABs.

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BBS's avatar

My tinnitus started after my second pneumonia vax. That was 5 yrs. ago and tinnitus is here to stay. That was my last vax. Never again. Not for anything.

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Janet's avatar

I don’t notice mine in daytime. At night I have trained myself to consider it white noise. If I can help it no ABs OR vaccines ever again. The vax I can forcibly not comply.

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Frances Lynch's avatar

I pretend it is a whistle from a radiator valve. Now I don't have radiators, but I did in my childhood home. So in a rather perverse way I often smile as the tinnitus whistles away, reminding me of long ago :)

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Thank you :)

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The Keys's avatar

Cipro is dangerous for people too.

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EMME's avatar

Yes…it is considered “Black Box”, yet they dish it out like candy!!

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Janet's avatar

Yup. The one I mentioned above is Black Box. It could mess me up more than having a hip replacement, which I sailed through. Gosh, it’s scary out there. That same PA was chortling at that last check up that he was happy that you could get your jabs at once in both arms now. Or whatever he said as I quit listening and told him I would not comply in any case. .

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Maggie Think of Me's avatar

Cipro has saved my brother in law's life. After whipple surgery he developed an infection resistant to everything but cipro. Since then he has been seen several times in the ER, each time doctors insisted he didn't need it and took him off... only to develop severe infections that required hospitalization. My husband, a superb MD, knows his situation well and has had to have numerous conversations with doctors who knew nothing about my BIL's situation... He needs cipro.

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Merry McIntyre's avatar

The worst! I know from personal experience.

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