[Warning] These Antibiotics Can WRECK Your Health
Victoria thought she was dying.
Heart palpitations… numbness… a headache that lasted for months.
The 50-year-old mother was in such terrible pain that she started planning to die… and wrote goodbye letters to her children.
So what was Victoria’s mystery illness?
Well, it wasn’t an illness at all.
She was the latest victim of a class of antibiotics that can be like a wrecking ball for your health – and can leave you writhing in pain.
I’ve seen the damage firsthand – and you deserve the hear the truth before you ever fill a prescription for these meds.
Fluoroquinolone antibiotics have been on the market for about 40 years now – and it’s hard to imagine the number of people they’ve harmed.
They go by names like norfloxacin or ciprofloxacin (which is what Victoria took). They all have “flox” in their name.
And they’ve unleashed such a trail of damage that medical professionals developed a term for it – “getting floxed.”
We’ve known for years that fluoroquinolones can harm tendons, ligaments, and other tissues by altering blood supply and disrupting the formation of collagen.
And a study out of Taiwan found that people who took fluoroquinolones had a 62% higher risk of suffering an aortic aneurysm or dissection.
They have also been found to damage peripheral nerves and interfere with neuron signaling. This can result in symptoms like numbness and persistent headaches – exactly what Victoria was experiencing.
But I didn’t need Victoria’s story to convince me that fluoroquinolones are bad news. My own wife was injured by a fluoroquinolone antibiotic years ago – and we won’t go near them anymore.
Antibiotics are one class of drugs where we don’t often think about the risks or side effects. They just kill bacteria and clear up infections.
But fluoroquinolones come with heavy-duty risks – and every patient taking them needs to know.
If you are prescribed a fluoroquinolone antibiotic (remember, they all contain “flox” in their names) talk to your doctor about safer alternatives.
You don’t want to be the next victim.
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