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After my bout with knee/achilles tendon problems I joined a group of people who

reacted badly to quinolones (drugs like Cipro, Levaquin, etc.). The reactions

are frightening - young healthy people's tendons just rupture during normal use;

people get panic attacks that last years, other bad stuff. And it doesn't seem

to go away again, at least not quickly.

Some internet research just turned up an interesting link - induced magnesium

deficiency in dogs caused the same problems as quinolone drugs - loss of

proteins in the tendons which could lead to the ruptures people are

experiencing. The study concluded that quinolones may cause problems in people

with an underlying magnesium deficiency (or vitamin D deficiency since it is a

magnesium carrier).

Still, my mind is haunted by the Showa Denko l-tryptophan fiasco where the

product permantently damaged people's tryptophan pathways causing fibromyalgia

evidently for life.

If you *must* take a quinolone drug, make sure you are getting enough magnesium

and vitamin D. I told the pharmacist to put me down as allergic to the class so

they couldn't be accidently prescribed to me.