Highly recommend easy short and straight to the point read on FQAD with diagnostic criteria and supplemental suggestions.
This book is specifically written about FQs.
Jason Sousa’s guided book on healing from FQs here.
Informative podcast interview with Dr. Mark Ghalili, DO and Jason Sousa discussing Fluoroquinolone Toxicity.
Dr. Mark Ghalili website
+Another webinar from Dr. Ghalili on Fluoroquinolone Toxicity featured on his website here.
A webinar given by Dr. Ron Hanson MD, RMSK, CAQSM, ABFM on his approach/methods in working with FQT patients.
Dr. Ron Hanson website
Dr. Ross Hauser, MD discussing ligament and tendon damage after Fluoroquinolone usage.
Dr. Ross Hauser website
+Heather Slusher, ARNP founder of SunCoast Optimal Wellness website
+Fluoroquinolone Antibiotic Awareness & Healing Alliance website (More Doctors)
A very thorough report put together in 2003-2007 by T. Boomer affect by Fluoroquinolone toxicity
* I do not have personal experience with all of the doctors mentioned. This is here to provide you with easily accessible resources and education that might be helpful for you in your own research and journey. I am not affiliated with any person or doctor mentioned on this site.
MayoClinics Current Clinical Trials on those treated with FQs- for Mitochondrial DNA Damage- Open enrollment.
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WEBSITE RESOURCES CREATED BY OTHERS WHO HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY FLUOROQUINOLONES
Bobby: FQVictims.org
FloxieHope.com
Julie: JuliesHealing.com
Kerri: FQToxicity.com
David: MyQuinStory.com
David Fuller: FQresearch.org
Marilyn: PerilousPills.com
WHAT EDUCATED EXPERTS ARE SAYING
“Injury from a fluroquinolone antibiotic ( first generation) was first reported in 1972”
“.. in 1987, Cipro, the first modern FQ, was approved in the US with no major warnings of its potential dangers.”
— Jay S. Cohen, MD
“Fluoroquinolone antibiotics are associated with a wide array of musculoskeletal complications involving tendon, cartilage, bone, and muscle that are likely under-recognized and under-reported. The pathology of these complications continues to be investigated but appears to be related to alterations in cell-signaling proteins, as well as direct toxic effects.”
— Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine Center in article “Musculoskeletal Complications of Fluoroquinolones: Guidelines and Precautions for Usage in the Athletic Population”
“According to studies there are several scientific explanations for fluoroquinolone toxicity. First, the FQs inhibit prolyl and lysyl dioxygenases, which stops the production of collagen. Second, reduction of LH1 mRNA levels, which is the first step in collagen cross-linking that is necessary for the stabilization of collagen (what occurs in Ehler’s Danos Syndrome).”
Dr. Mark Ghalili, Do via Regenerative Medicine La website
“Fluoroquinolones are the most potent antibiotics in clinical use today. Increasingly, these drugs are being prescribed for relatively benign infections and for new categories of patients, including pediatric patients. As their use becomes more frequent, so will the adverse effects.”
— 2005 Article in the journal Expert opinion on Drug Safety
..”Doctors are subtly yet systematically trained to discount or dismiss peoples views. … Yet most doctors are caring by nature. The problem is the lack of training in how to work with patients who are reporting serious side effects. Many doctors have never had a single course or lecture on how to effectively handle the situation. Medical students are not taught how to critically evaluate drug studies, or to examine the adequate of a drug company’s research on key issues of toxicology or proper dosing. They are not encouraged to develop enquiring minds about what their credible patients tell them and to simply develop the ability to think independently and analytically.”
— Dr. Jay S. Cohen, MD in The Hidden Dangers of Antibiotics
“…When physical harm is dismissed as a simple side effect, drug manufacturers are able to hide these problems from public view, and dangerous drugs continue to be prescribed and used”
— Dr. Jay S. Cohen MD in The Hidden Dangers of Antibiotics
“.. The restrictions on FQs in children are correct and should be extended to everyone. FQs should not be used as first choice drugs for any condition unless other antibiotics are ineffective or laboratory testing shows that the bacteria are sensitive only to FQs. In other words, use only when necessary.”
— Dr. Jay S. Cohen, MD
“Doctors are completely unprepared for people with the plethora and diversity of symptoms involving so many human systems. They have no clue about the breadth and great severity of Fluoroquinolone Toxicity syndrome. .. From doctors’ experiences, they assume the cause must be some unusual autoimmune or neurological or immunological disorder. Because they have never heard of FTS, they cannot conceive that a mere antibiotic reaction could possibly involve so many systems and be of such severity and tenacity.”
— Dr. Jay S. Cohen
FQAD ( Fluoroquinolone associated disability) patients, whose disease is usually not diagnosed, not named and if so, not recognized but ignored, have nothing to expect from our healthcare system today. …which ensures that these patients are at best misdiagnosed as psychosomatic or psychiatric, but are often stigmatized as hypochondriacs.”
_ Dr. Stefan Pieper in FQAD pathogensis, diagnostics, therapy, and diagnostic criteria- Side effects of Fluoroquinolones.
“It is imperative to understand the fluoride component of the drug allows penetration to the central nervous system, thus disrupting proper neuronal firing of cells leading to rapid muscle atrophy.”
Dr. Mark Ghalili, DO via Regenerative Medicine La website