Almost 10 months away: changes and thoughts and one question
26 / F. 5*750 mg Cipro for literally nothing.
You can learn a lot of details about my process from my old posts.
I'm writing these as a note to myself. Maybe it'll help someone.
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Here are all the symptoms I have had in 10 months:
- Muscle twitching
- Gut irregularity
- Gas/bloating in the stomach and gut
- Cracking/popping in the joints
- Night sweats
- Swollen and visible veins
- Lack of sleep
- Bruises
- Anxiety, stress
- Crying non-stop
- Pressure (like opening and closing) and heartbeat in the ear
- Tinnitus
I'm not sure about these three symptoms:
- Sensitivity to the sun
- Forgetting the names of objects
- Positive afterimage
The symptoms I still have:
- Rarely muscle twitching
- Rarely abnormal joint cracks
- Swollen and visible veins
(Since we are in the winter months, I only notice it if my body temperature gets too high. They will probably be very visible and swollen again when summer comes)
- Rarely pressure (like opening and closing) and heartbeat in the ear
- Tinnitus
(When I completed the 3rd month, it suddenly started in my right ear at midnight, and 3 weeks later it started in my left ear as well. I can't hear it during the day, and I can hear it occasionally at night and when I first wake up in the morning, if I pay attention. If I close my ears with my hands, I can hear it, but it doesn't affect me. This is a very important development because when Tinnitus first started, the psychological damage it caused to me was much worse than Tinnitus itself.)
- My sleep pattern is generally normal, but sometimes I sleep late. (This may even be normal.)
- Sensitivity to the sun
(It was summer in my first months and I noticed it a little, but it may have recovered. I will check it when summer comes.)
- Positive afterimage
(I noticed this a few months ago. It's quite a strange thing, but I don't know what I can do about it or if this is something related to FQ or if I had it before. - For example, I think I had floaters before FQ, too.)
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Supplements I took in 10 months (I did not take all of them regularly):
- Iron (My ferritin levels were low. They were low before FQ as well.)
- Vitamin D
- Omega 3 (Just a few times. It worsened lack of sleep.)
- Magnesium Glycinate & Malate & Mg N-Acetyl Taurinate (Game changer for me.)
- Collagen powder
- Vitamin C
- Zinc
- Betaserc (A histamine drug prescribed by ENT for Tinnitus. I used it for 1 month, but it did not help.)
I took most of them for a month or two and stopped, and for the last two weeks I have been using only collagen powder and when the 3-month cure is over, I will stop using it and take a break.
Since I am Aegean, I didn't have to make many changes in my diet. My consumption of packaged foods was already few, but I paid more attention. I didn't consume coffee for a short time, but now I drink a cup every day, just like before.
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Supplements that I thought about taking but didn't:
- Methylene blue
- ALA
- CoQ10
- PQQ
- NAC
- L'theanine
- Astaxanthin
- Lutein
- Glutatyon IV
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Thoughts
My thoughts on tinnitus, crying non-stop, and the acute phase: https://www.reddit.com/r/floxies/comments/17ibazx/5_months_after_the_last_dose_is_this_what_its/
As someone who has struggled with depression and anxiety for maaany years, I can say that it is nice to get back to my own anxiety and my own troubles. :) It's nice to worry about ordinary things (job, inflation, existence, etc.).
I get a blood test sometimes and take supplements that i need, but I don't know what's going on in my body at the cellular level. Luckily I've stopped thinking about it too much now.
- I think I've never experienced any flareups or relapses.
- I had cold twice after FQ and didn't take any medication.
- Shortly before using FQ, I had sciatica pain and ibuprofen medication and gel were helped me. They don't exist to me anymore, fortunately, I only had sciatica pain twice in 10 months, but I'm afraid of needing those medications one day.
This was my comment for a user:
"I think fear, terrible anxiety (I already had anxiety, what I'm talking about here is something different), and uncontrolled crying resolved around the months 5-6. It's quite interesting because I woke up one morning and it was like a curtain in my mind had been lifted and a little bit of light had come in.
I don't know how this happens - good quality Magnesium is a pretty good help.
I can't say these symptoms left and never came again. But it doesn't affect my daily life as much as it used to. Now, I can stay home alone, I come to this subreddit less and think about Cipro less.
Oh, and I couldn't feel like myself for a long time, too. I just hung in there. When you feel like yourself again, you will see that your patience was worth it.
There are not enough words to describe how I feel when I am anxious. But probably everyone here understands me anyway. My only advice to anyone experiencing this problem: not everything you think is real. (Many people here gave me this advice during my bad times, and they were right.)"
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One question:
Have you ever eaten shrimp, mussels, oysters, squid after FQ? If you ate, what was your reaction? I'm staying away from them for now.
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Of course, there is more detail on this hard journey that still continues, there are many thoughts to say. But I want to leave them behind because they don't occupy my mind so much anymore. I wish the good developments will be permanent. I wish my other symptoms will disappear over time. I wish these for everyone.
I wish each of you lots of recovery. I no longer remember the some things I experienced in this regard in detail, I think my mind is trying to forget. But still, if you have any questions, I try to be helpful.
I know how hard it is, but hang in there. As I wrote above, what you think is not real. These stupid drugs make us all think the same dark things.
Sorry for my English.