Antibiotics have been associated with Tendonitis, Vision Damage, Hearing Loss,Brain, Heart, Liver, Kidney, Pancreas, Blood and Endocrine Disorders

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Antibiotics known as Quinolones (e.g.: ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin, among others) have been associated with some or all of the following adverse drug reactions: http://www.antibiotics.org/Tendonitis, Tendon Rupture, Tendon, Ligament, Joint and Muscle DamageVision Damage, Hearing Loss, Taste PerversionPeripheral Neuropathy (Tingling, burning sensation)Insomnia, Nightmares, Anxiety Attacks, Depersonalization, Cognitive DisordersBrain, Heart, Liver, Kidney, Pancreas, Blood and Endocrine DisordersSevere Psychotic Reactions, Suicidal Thoughts or ActionsGastrointestinal DamageShould you have experienced any of the above, after taking an antibiotic, you are far from being alone! Many others have experienced similar long term problems as a result of being prescribed these drugs. Despite the fact that such events have been reported for more than forty years, your physician is either unwilling or unable to recognize, treat, and report such events. For more than forty years the FDA has allowed the manufacturers of this class of chemotherapeutic agents to be aggressively marketed as "safe and effective antibiotics with an excellent safety profiles and to be remarkably free of clinically significant adverse effects." This has been done in spite of compelling evidence to the contrary. Evidence that the FDA has ignored since 1939. For almost forty years the FDA has turned a blind eye to the severe, crippling and at times fatal adverse drug reactions associated with these chemotherapeutic agents. Even going so far as to allow these drugs to be marketed to physicians as safe antibiotics with minimum side effects. Antibiotics may exhibit adverse drug reactions that resolve upon cessation of therapy or modification of the therapeutic dose, however, the toxic adverse drug reactions associated with some antibiotics appear to be not dose dependant and do NOT resolve upon cessation of therapy in many cases. In these cases such adverse drug reactions do not even manifest until weeks, months and even years after such therapy has been terminated. These latent reactions also do NOT appear to resolve and become chronic conditions to which there is no known treatment protocol. Tens of thousands (literally) of patients may have died as a result of such therapy and hundreds of thousands more have had their lives destroyed by these drugs. Yet the FDA does nothing to prevent this ongoing carnage and continues to approve additional agents without a moment’s hesitation. Many victims of adverse reactions to antibiotics face the fact that their lives have been completely destroyed. Many face loss of job and income, some face breakup of the family. Some have even committed suicide because of the pain inflicted by these drugs. In 1982 spontaneous tendon ruptures were reported to have occurred long after such therapy had been terminated. In some cases well over a year later. Year after year numerous case studies, clinical trials and medical journal entries have documented this severe and crippling adverse drug reaction, often times citing the co-administration of steroids to be a contributory factor. The FDA has ignored this research and continued to approve additional agents and monographs devoid of this caveat for over twenty years. Only recently has the following warning been added to the monographs, twenty years later. "Achilles and other tendon ruptures that required surgical repair or resulted in prolonged disability have been reported ... should be discontinued if the patient experiences pain, inflammation, or rupture of a tendon." The patient being advised to: "To discontinue treatment; rest and refrain from exercise; and inform their physician if they experience pain, inflammation or rupture of a tendon " Yet when the patient presents with tendon pain and/or rupture he or she is told it cannot possibly be the drug by the attending physician. For more than fourteen years the FDA turned a blind eye to this until Public Citizen filed a petition demanding that they take action. They failed to do so. Despite the overwhelming evidence presented by Public Citizen, who demanded that at the very least a black box warning be added to the monographs and a "Dear Doctor" letter be sent, the FDA did nothing. No black box warning and no information provided to the prescribing physician, who to this day does not associate such spontaneous rupture to antibiotic therapy. The clueless physician also prescribes STEROIDS to treat such events once they manifest in his or her patient. Which results in severe injury to the patient with the resulting tendon ruptures. . In fact the FDA has recently approved yet another antibiotic with severe rash being a known adverse drug reaction together with the approval of the use of STEROIDS to treat such an event once it manifest in the patient. Compounding the problem is that there are numerous drugs which should not be taken in combination with this class of antibiotics. There are increased risks of injury when they are taken in combination with corticosteriods (e.g.: Prednisone, Flovent, Nasarel, Azmacort, Advair Disku, Methylprednisolone Dospak, Elocon Cream, Desoximetasone Cream, and Sterapred) and when taken in combinations with non-steroidal anti-inflamatory drugs (NSAIDs) (e.g.: Motrin, Pamprin, Aleve, Advil, and Ibuprofen, among others). Physicians are frequently not aware of these contraindications and prescribe dangerous combinations of drugs which cause severe injuries to their patients. Physicians may also not be able to identify that their patient is suffering an adverse reaction and instruct them to continue to take more of the antibiotic resulting in very serious and perhaps preventable injuries. The warnings within the monographs for this class of chemotherapeutic agents minimizes, trivializes, and distorts the potential risk involved in such therapy and claim that such events resolve upon cessation of therapy.