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charmednks
Female, 36, Topeka, KS
"I am so upset and sadly disappointed with the medical community here..."
4:07am, July 11, 2009
Beware of the drug CIPRO!! Mood
Monday, July 13, 2009 | A Breaking News story
Well I ended up back at the ER I think 5 more tomes before all was said and done. And as pissed as I am at some of those docs for not knowing what most of the Nurses would tell me. I am however better for about 6 weeks I believe there wasn't even an infection. It was Cipro I swear ed the stuff was going to kill me. This is a great Warning, that stuff was slowly killing me for nearly 10 weeks. It was raising my Heart Rate, my blood pressure and wasn't allowing me to absorb any nutrients I believe. Can you believe it rejected B-comlpex and Cranberry Juice oh and Calcium. It was crazy it got to the point were it lowered my body temp. Every time I toke it to like 96 and for me made me very ill. It cleaned my gut out totally were I couldn't eat. The last pill I toke was 2 days ago and it was making me foggy and I would get these massive Hot Flashes and then I would have no energy and I mean NONE. Couldn't get my head off the couch, I couldn't talk or barely breathe. It was giving me massive Panic Attacks or acute anxiety. And weird funny pains in heart and head. It was scary the sc3iest place I have ever been. I thought I was going to die. So we got the lab results there was no infection for weeks the only one I had was back on May 7th. All along as I thought I was dying from this horrible infection it was the Cipro and not one doctor could look at me and read Prolonged use of Cipro and see how it can cause everyone of those side effects that's the part that is the scariest doc after doc would say you don't have an infection. But not one said get off of it its killing you. Unbelievable!! They acted like I was a Antibiotic junkie just coming in wanted this drug when all I wanted was to feel better and get off of it. Over and over I asked my Primary Care if I stopped it and of course without listening to my story they kept saying take the full course. well I've been off of it for 2 and half days and I feel great. I've been taking Probidoics for my poor gut, and eating Yogurt and taking Garlic as well. I will add more Natural things as my body can handle cuz I can tell its still got some healing to do.
So now that Nightmare is over all I have to do is figure out what to do about this heart rate if its truly thyroid or what. Going to see my Cardio. Doc today hopefully he'll have some insight on this next step and then I'm done. Just have to make some serious lifestyle changes.
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On the road to revcovery I think lol... Mood
Monday, July 6, 2009 | A Breaking News story

Ok well since I loggged on last been to the ER what 3 times now, and this is what I think is going on my UTI infection has way lessoned as I have been speaking with a Micro biolgist and wow he is helping me so much, he is an Angel.. By what we have the real bad bacteria is gone there is one left and it will take a certain kind of antibodic to knock that out of my system. so I am not feeling really well but at least I am off the Cipro it was causing major tachacarydia on top of my very high heart rate.. so next plan is to ask doctors for those antibodics.

Then I have to ask my cardioligst to let me take something to get my heart rate down for now why I work on the underlyine problem which is my THRYOID, i thought I had what is called a thryoid Storm about 4 years ago, when this all started.. then I have to get a full Hormone Panel done, I am praying since I don't have insurance and go to a clinic hear in town that they will do this for me to see what is really going on.. 

The only thing I can't decide is if I should get on the Calcium Channel Blockers in the meanwhile since that isn't the main problem it is really is my Thyroid but I guess this will all come to me this week. I know this this is it, by my hubbys  40th bday on Saturday I better be feeling better one way or another.  Then I can deal with the big picture. Boy I wish I would have really looked into this more 4 years ago, and I didn't so here I am... but at least I understand it all now.. and I have a clear path to get down to get better now..

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Thought it was bad before!!! HA it got worse.. Mood
Sunday, June 28, 2009 | A Breaking News story

Well today was one of the last 4 were I just felt so sick, so last night I had made up my mind to go see a doctor and when I woke up I had it all planned out, as things were working out I crawled my way into a Express Care Center here in town and meet a very KIND doctor who did another UTI test and after being on Cipro for 5 days still showed a bad infection with Blood in it.. boy that just scares me, my poor kidneys.,,due to the negligence of a local clinic doctors who i begged all week to give me another antibiotic because the one I was on was not working.. I got even more sick then I was 10 weeks ago. I am missing work left and right.. I am self-employed and work from my home and my clients have been so neglected I feel horrible.

Well the doc gave me Microbid if that is how you spell it, I was relieved to be hones but feeling so sick still. I came home and started to feel that Cipro leave my body and was feeling a little stronger..

Well then I popped the new pill the Microbid and feel asleep was running a good fever which for me is like 100 I have a very low body temp.. and I woke up 4 hours later and thought I was going to die. I told my hubby something isn't right and I just felt so sick I can't begin to tell you.. well then my heart rate jumped to 140 and stayed around 130 for oh a good 30 minutes or so.. I couldn't stop shaking and we called 911, then I had to use restroom.. my hubby got me to the bathroom and afterwards it just was like something has left my body I started to feel stronger again and my heart rate was dropping back to about 103 or so.. so I choose not to go to the ER because thats a $800 ride.. I was going to go on my own. But I called my aunt who has had the UTI's also for years  which is a whole nother story) and said she has been through the same as we all have I am not sure what to do now..because in the beginning of this insanity I had the same thing happen were I toke Cipro and my heart rate went up to 160 and stayed but wasn't this sick wasn't this weak and ill feeling at the time..

So do I take the Microbid tomorrow is the question or will it just be to much or was it just simply the infection that caused me to feel so badly?

I am up now at 5am and still feeling very very badly heart rate still climbing to 130 when barely walking and my back is got a funny pain in it again around my kidney.. woke up with another fever as well. ya know at this point I just wish the ER would have kept me in the Hospital so I didn't have to go through this anymore.. I am scared today 

I am going to call the doctor but she doesn't get there til 11am and shes going to be busy so it will through me off of taking the Microbid by 5 hours which I am worried that infection can really set in more the way I am feeling now.. I just hope I can stay on something and start to feel better soon..

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