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I have a question for my fellow spoonies. Do any of you have any experience with taking Ciprofloxacin. I have hEDS and was prescribed it a few days ago for a kidney infection, but I’ve had horrendously bad side effects from it (severe nausea, headaches, dizziness, tremors, periods of uncontrollable shaking, numbness in my hands, and probably other stuff that I’m missing because in general my usual symptoms are much worse than normal). I was wondering if there’s anyone would be able to talk to me about their experiences of taking it, especially if they have a connective tissue disorder, POTS, CFS/ME, and/or Tourette syndrome with tic storms.

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Many of the world’s rivers are flush with dangerous levels of antibiotics

Antibiotic pollution can fuel drug resistance in microbes. A global survey of rivers finds unsafe levels of antibiotics in 16 percent of sites.

In a massive survey of rivers across 72 countries, researchers found antibiotics at 66 percent of 711 sites sampled. Many of the most drug-polluted waterways were in Asia and Africa, where there hadn’t been much data until now.

Environmental pollution from antibiotics is one driver of microbial drug resistance, which threatens public health. People should be as concerned about resistance evolving abroad as they are about resistance brewing in their own backyards, says William Gaze, a microbial ecologist at the University of Exeter Medical School in England who was not involved with the research. Even if wealthy countries curb antibiotic pollution, drug-resistant microbes can hitch a ride across the globe with traveling people, migrating birds or traded food and livestock, he says. “It’s a global problem, and we need global solutions.”

About a third of the sites surveyed over the last year contained no detectable levels of antibiotics. But 66 percent, or 470 of the sites, tested positive for at least one of 14 types of antibiotics. And almost 16 percent, or 111 sites, contained concentrations considered unsafe, based on safety levels estimated by AMR Industry Alliance, a global biotech and pharmaceutical coalition. The alliance set its safety thresholds based on levels that wouldn’t kill algae in the environment or promote resistance by killing susceptible bacteria.

“I don’t think I was expecting the degree of concentrations that we saw. That was quite eye-opening,” says environmental chemist Alistair Boxall of the University of York in England, who conducted the survey with University of York colleague John Wilkinson. The two presented their results on May 27 and May 28 in Helsinki at a meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

The scale of the study is unprecedented, Boxall says. Previously, most surveys had focused on North America, Europe and China. So Boxall and Wilkinson sent water collection kits to colleagues all over the world and then tested samples from a total of 165 rivers for 61 drugs, including the 14 antibiotics.

Samples continue to roll in and the researchers plan to release more data in the future. “Ultimately, it would be nice if we could get samples from every country of the world,” Boxall says.

Many sites deemed to have unsafe antibiotic levels were contaminated with more than one of these drugs. The most commonly found antibiotic was trimethoprim, used to treat urinary tract infections, which showed up at 43 percent of the sampled sites. Other commonly occurring antibiotics were sulfamethoxazole, ciprofloxacin and metronidazole. Some of the antibiotics the researchers looked for — including oxytetracycline, amoxicillin and cloxacillin — were not detected at any site.

Samples from Bangladesh’s Kirtankhola River, near the south-central city of Barisal, contained the highest antibiotic concentrations of any surveyed site. The level of metronidazole approached 40,000 nanograms per liter, or about 300 times the safe level. The commonly prescribed drug ciprofloxacin exceeded safe levels by a factor of eight.

High antibiotic concentrations were also found in river samples near the cities of Accra, Ghana; Nairobi, Kenya; Lahore, Pakistan; Lagos, Nigeria; and Nablus, Israel. The most contaminated sites in Europe were in an urban tributary of the Danube in Austria. And the most polluted U.S. river was found in North Liberty, Iowa, near many animal farms.

To figure out how antibiotics were getting into waterways, the researchers did some sleuthing. Google Street View showed that some contaminated sites are near pharmaceutical plants, which could be releasing discharge into the waterways, the researchers say. Photos from several highly polluted sites in Africa and Asia also showed trash heaped along riverbanks as well as sewage-carrying trucks nearby, Boxall says.

River features such as the water’s depth, how fast it flows and whether a sampling site is located downriver from a city or hospital would also have an impact on drug concentrations, Boxall says.

Boxall, Wilkinson and colleagues plan to test how antibiotics at the levels measured might affect algae and other organisms in the environment. The researchers hope their work leads policy makers worldwide to take action toward curbing antibiotic pollution.

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I have been extremely sick recently and I wanted to share what happened to me

(warning, some of the content is graphic so read at your own risk) 

Recently I took the antibiotic ciprofloxacin because I had a sinus infection and my Dr gave me a flu shot the same day. My sinus infection was really bad and turned into bronchitis so my dr decided to up the antibiotic to ciprofloxacin. This is when things started to go downhill for me both mentally and physically. (keep in mind I barely took ciprofloxacin on wednesday night of this week so my journey has just begun) 

When I took it I felt horrible immediately after, I started to feel really sick and shook. I thought this was because I was still sick and I was just still trying to get over it. So I had a hard time sleeping but did eventually. Once I did it felt horrible to even try and get up. I could feel my entire body but felt like I couldn't move. Once I did start moving all my joints started popping and cracking, especially my back and feet. I kept going on since I had to go see a councilor that da. so I got up out of bed and tried to wake myself up. I felt so hazed over and foggy minded, like I couldn't wake up all the way. My legs felt weak and I was aware of my body, almost like an out of body experience. I started to develope a horrible headache in the right side of my head and I felt as though I could never get enough water. But I had to keep going. 

Once I did go to the councilor I tried my best and put on my best fake smile and act and tried to function like normally. It was successful and I got what I needed done. Right after I left is when I noticed that my pain suddenly disappeared as though my whole body couldn't feel pain anymore. It concerned me immediately, luckily though this didn't last more than a few hours and faded. Eventually I started to feel a little better mentally. I became more relaxed but it definitely wasn't perfect by any means because the rest of my body was still in shambles. As well I couldn't focus on simple things or enjoy anything like I use to, but some of the anxiety went down. 

Some other side effects I experienced so far have been anxiety/panic attacks, Mental fogginess, eyesight not as good as before, tingles in arm, supper cold feet, losing feeling in certain limbs at different times, food not tasting good, mouth dry, lots of back pains and muscle pains and other such things. 

This is when I finally decided that it would be best to look up if what happened to me was normal. This is when I found a horrible discovery. Ciprofloxacin can poison you. Many people had experienced similar or worse than what I was currently going though. Infact there is a whole community of  people who are ciprofloxacin survivors for hope  

There is many stories and information on this drug and its effects. If your suffering and took this pill and don't know why I suggest looking at it as it may give you hope and tips. But only if you think you can mentally handle it as its a lot of scary information that may send you into panick attacks (of course the people on here are not Dr so any medical information given is not professional) The reason it is also important is because most doctors will not admit or recognize cipro poisoning is a thing and a very serious one at that. So unfortunately if you go to a doctor they may not help you. 

If I would have know how horrible this drug is I would have never taken it. Basically I wanted to inform everyone of what was going on and if you take this drug be cautious. I will give updates in the future of how im doing and im hoping that since I only took one dose I can manage to repair my body and mind as much as possible from this harsh drug. 

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