Re:Fluoroquinalone antibiotic & Thyroid meds.

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Hi Val, thanks for this link. what do you think of what Shomon says

about cipro and other antibiotics? better just to avoid these? Are these drugs

related to fluoride at all? Dahlia http://thyroid. about.com/ b/2008/02/

28/ciprofloxacin -interacts- with-thyroid- replacement- therapy.htm? nl=1

So, if you are on levothyroxine, it makes sense to allow at least six hours

apart from taking your ciprofloxacin. And if you have to take the antibiotic for

a lengthy period, you should discuss the potential impact on your thyroid with

your doctor, and possibly request period thyroid testing to ensure that your

thyroid treatment is not affected.

Note: Interestingly, there are also anecdotal reports -- including my own --

of bad reactions to other fluoroquinolone antibiotics. Read about my own

experience getting what's known as " floxed, " in When Drug Side Effects Get Out

Of Hand: Side Effects of Quinolone Antibiotics Like Tequin (Gatifloxacin) Can Be

Serious.

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[Guest guest]

While I would try to avoid these antibiotics in this class, if you have

a serious infection that does not respond to OTHER gentler antibiotics I

think you have to prioritize. I have taken Cipro when I had the bad

upper respiratory infection last winter and needed it as the others were

just not gettoing rid of it. So not as a first line I would not take

them, but certainly if others have not worked.

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i had a tendon damage with it. it is said that it has side effects if one is on

cortisol therapy which means to me that side effects will be present if one is

high in cortisol.i was high in cortisol when i had tendon damage from it. Nil

Re:Fluoroquinalone antibiotic & Thyroid meds.

Hi Val, thanks for this link. what do you think of what Shomon says

about cipro and other antibiotics? better just to avoid these? Are these drugs

related to fluoride at all? Dahlia http://thyroid. about.com/ b/2008/02/

28/ciprofloxacin -interacts- with-thyroid- replacement- therapy.htm? nl=1

So, if you are on levothyroxine, it makes sense to allow at least six

hours apart from taking your ciprofloxacin. And if you have to take