Psychological implications of fluoroquinolones.
Avoid These Four Psychological Pitfalls After Floxing
For those new to Fluoroquinolone Toxicity try to avoid these psychological pitfalls which can hamper your progress.
Chronic Floxing and Toxic Positivity
For each chronic FQAD sufferer there is a fine line between validation, true hope, and those commonly seen sanitized stories or messages that border on toxic positivity. One Chronic FQAD sufferer candidly shares her struggles.
Speak Comfort to Me Jacob
Pharmaceutical companies hide, ignore, or misrepresent evidence about new drugs; distort the medical literature; and misrepresent products to prescribing physicians.
Another Brush With Death: Returning From The Brink
To those who are new to my plight or are unfamiliar with my personal situation, my life is delineated with a clear demarcation line. The life before taking Levaquin, a fluoroquinolone (FQ) antibiotic, and my life after. My healthy life before and my not so healthy life after. It is my story, my quin story, my life after Levaquin; Extremely healthy in one season, and a struggle with health the next.
Another Heart Attack…
On March 1, 2016 a week before my 55th birthday I suffered a second heart attack, thanks to the fluoroquinolones.
Becoming a Danger to One’s Self and/or Others by Taking a Fluoroquinolone
It is very disturbing that an antibiotic, which is often given out for routine infections, may result in violence, anger toward others, and horribly, may result in suicide-related adverse events.
The Internet Health Consultants
Unfortunately, and more often than not, I have seen a cash strapped floxies pay out $1000 or more in consulting fees and walk away no healthier than they were when they started out and many times more frustrated, confused, and definitely lighter in the pocketbook.
“You’re trying to have a heart attack…”
Although I knew darn well why I was there, this moment was very surreal for me, almost unbelievable.
Nurse Practitioners, Not For Me
I would have to say that we are one of the most complex subset of patients that can be seen by a physician. More often than not, we often leave the average physician scratching his head as to how to diagnose or treat our condition. Keeping that context in mind, I have determined that I will never see another nurse practitioner again.
The Cult of Personaility
The cult of personality is not limited to public figures on the world stage. I do not get particularly upset by these leaders and consider them an inevitable hazard of internet community politics. As the saying goes, "You can't have a picnic without ants." Just remember, sometimes those who rise to power in an internet community would never be able to rise to power in "real life" and for good reason.
Don’t Get Lost
If you are not careful, you run the risk of believing that deliverance from your toxicity is entirely dependent on sources outside of yourself.
“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence!”
Claims of self-empowerment are more often than not contradicted by the behavior of health care providers. In reality, informed, assertive, and confident patients are often penalized for doing what they’ve been told to do. For the first time in my life I felt discrimination, alienation, and dismissal.
A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Some in society argue its existence is necessary, saying it's power is needed to defeat an even more powerful enemy. But with great power comes great potential for damage; And when the cure becomes the disease, we have truly created a monster of epic proportions.
A Twist of Fate
It just so happens that serious adverse drug reactions are not rare at all, we just choose to stick our heads in the sand and ignore the statistics which are there for all to see. We assume that things like this always happen to the "other guy" and never to us.
What is a Delayed Adverse Reaction?
If the patient never connects the dots he/she may never uncover what the root cause of his/her mysterious illness is, or are given a default diagnosis that is a "catch all" for the medical community. Considering the day and age that we live in, it is one of the greatest medical travesties, that is of monumental proportions, that is continually being perpetrated on innocent individuals.