The fact that Cipro and quinolones can cause permanent, untreatable tendon damage as highlighted by the need for a black box warning, that leaves patients with crippling untreatable pain, is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the other severe and permanently disabling adverse reactions that Cipro and other quinolones can inflict. The product information sheets provided by quinolone manufacturers also fail to indicate that some individuals will suffer from multiple adverse reactions that will become permanent and untreatable.

The Chicago teen-ager was also 16 when a physician told her mother to give her Levaquin, according to the girl's sister.

The sister, Mrs. Teri Noto of Roselle, Ill., said the teen-ager did not get through the full course of daily 500-milligram Levaquin pills.

"After five days, it was as if a bomb went off in her body," said the sister. "She collapsed at school and had to be half-carried out of the building."

Yes, I've had tinnitus since September of last year. I was floxed in July 2003.

While being floxed and for several weeks afterwards, I had *extreme* discomfort from sound. Actual physical pain and a sensation of pressure in my ears. (Same thing with bright light.) Pretty much all sounds seemed louder to me than usual, and very loud sounds were excrutiatingly painful. A roomful of people talking was more than I could bear.

After about exactly two months of this pain from noise, the tinnitus started, suddenly, in the middle of the night. It woke me up out of a sound sleep.

Every morning when I open my eyes, I awaken to this nightmare. There is a “sickness” that feels like my body has been poisoned. My hands and feet are swelled and sore…my entire body is stiff and painful…heart-palpitations, vibrations throughout my body…ringing in my ears…bleeding specks of sores on my skin…and a full, bloated feeling in my gut…I feel like I should be dead. It is only by the grace of God, and the love of my 2 children that I am able to pull myself up out of bed, and make it painfully down the stairs.

On my 23rd birthday I started ciproI only took 3 doses of cipro in total before realizing what was happening… I went from being a very healthy 23 year old male who was athletic for over 10 years doing Karate, Yoga, Football, Judo and other sports, I eat an extremely healthy diet, no bad foods at all, and generally take care of myself in everyway possible, I have never drank alcohol and never smoked… I have all the blood tests and other tests to prove how healthy I was.