Caffeine, Cipro, Levaqui
I am a practicing internist in used York City and Long Island, used York. I am 34 yrs old, and have had chronic prostatitis for 2 years. Only recently did I start eliminating ALL CAFFEINE from my diet, including all coffee
products, sodas (diet and regular), as well as tea.The results have been quite remarkable- my symptoms have been greatly
reduced, and my sense of debilitation from this troubling disease diminished considerably. After multiple courses of antibiotics, I was ready to try acupuncture and any other sort of alternative medicine. I can proclaim as a patient that taking Cipro or Levaquin for a 6 week period is extremely difficult, and I was oftentimes experiencing bad side effects after 2 weeks which could make me discontinue treatment. As a physician and a chronic prostatitis sufferer, I encourage all to discontinue caffeine products for a short time to observe clinical effect. I am no longer aware of my symptoms for a large portion of the day. According
to my reading, other men are affected by alcohol, red wine, and spices– this however has not been the case for me. The main aggravating agent is most certainly caffeine. I am hoping that I will keep on to stay in remission while avoiding caffeine. I hope other men can find out this information useful.
February 9th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Thank you for your information on the possible adverse reactions to caffein. I have permanent damage after a ten day course of Floxin, a delayed reaction that ruptured two tendons, and developed a chronic pain and inflammation situation in both calves and ankles. I live on awful pain, it is hard to walk now. it has been 10 years. seen so many doctors. Is there a doctor that you now of the New York who may understand the damage done to the insides of my legs from Floxin? I just see a pain specialist, a foot surgeon for his advise. (cannot operate on this problem) and an endocronologist.. i now have problems in that area too. The delayed reaction I had from Floxin has pretty much ruined my life. I don’t take very much caffein, but I will try and cut it out 100%. thank you.
Paul
February 10th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
The adverse profile of the fluoroquinolone class of antibiotics, to which levaquin is one such drug, are horrendous. Since less than 5% of cases of prostatitis are the result of a true bacterial infection it is insane to even suggest the use of this class unless such an infection is truly present, that has FAILED to respond to the number of safer antibiotics used to treat this disease. Though the above poster poinst out that restricting the use of caffeine to be helpful, I am appalled that nothing was mentioned regarding this adverse profile of the fluoroquinolones.
Recently Public Citizen had to sue the FDA in Federal Court to attempt to get “Black Box” warnings as well as “Dear Doctor Letters” to warn both the treating physician as well as the patient of the very real risk of being crippled for lile by this class.
Sponaneous tendon ruptures, (both during and long after therapy), irreversible peripheral neuropathy, permanet vision and hearing damage. toxic psychosis, CNS and PNS damage are all part and parcel of such therapy. Unless you are facing a bacterial infection that is raging out of control and threatens your life or limb, there is absolutely NO justification for prescribing this class to treat any bacterial infection. This class is to be considerd the “Nuclear Bomb” of antibiotics with severe collateral damage. Too be only considered as a last resort when all else has failed. They are NOT a first line agent for ANY disease state.
For further information log unto http://www.fqresearch.org where you will find over 4000 medical journal entries, case reports, etc., that detail all that I state here.
Regards,
Mr. David T. Fuller
Director
Fluoroquinolone Toxicity Research Foundation
http://www.fqresearch.org
February 11th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Dear Doctor in used york,
I am interested in the side effects from the fluoroquinolones that you experienced. What symptoms did you suffer from? Being a woman I don’t have any prostatitis issues, but suffer from irreversible peripheral neuropathy due to the quinolones. The neuropathy is just one of my many painful long term problems due to the quinolones that I am experiencing.
The reason that I am bringing this up is to make more people aware of the toxicity of the quinolones and that they should be used as a last resort when considering antibiotic therapy. Since I manage a laboratory I have had the opportunity to educate the physicians I directly work with and take any other opportunity I have to relay the message to other health care professionals.