I need help with this?
My only suggestion is to drink plenty of water to flush it out of your system.
Just an update, it’s been around 2 and a half hours since I mistakenly took the ciprofloxacin tablets. I’ve just began to experience stomach pains and diarrhoea.
Thanks Derek, I hope that this can help although I’m starting to feel pretty bad.
Contact emergency hospital or 111 (if in UK ) for advice. Presumably diarrhoea will be getting it out of your system. What does leaflet say about overdose ?
It just says seek medical advise and take medicine with you, on hold to NHS 24 now.
take magnesium. it helps your body to not absorb all the cipro. fluoroquinolone drugs can be dangerous.
try magnesium chelate or MALATE… there are many forms. most are good. google which works best in body absortion after taking CIPRO.
NEXT AND ASAP: Join the FACEBOOK page Fluoroquinolone TOXICITY GROUP.
The folks there will help you! fabulous group that saved me after taking just 3 pills of CIPRO. join now! they’ll guide you.
Will a banana work?
if thats all you got. but no, the magnesium in food is not ENOUGH!
is there a store open where you are ? its midnight my time.
how are your achillies tendons? thats usually the first sign your in trouble. they swell or feel stiff.you might also experience extreme tiredness. these are the signs of being FLOXED.what we call an allergic reaction. I WAS FLOXED BY CIPRO! Or poisoned is another way to put it!
I’m not sure what I’ve to buy? And which shops nearby would sell what I’ve to get
My Achillies are fine, I’m just tired because I stayed up all night worrying about my condition
also, from the experience of other cipro users, the docs DONT know how to treat us or our side effects.it is vitamin and mineral DRIVEN. the cipro wrecks Havoc on your MITOCHONDRIAL SYSTEM!
Follow a MITO. Diet. low sugar, low carb diet. eat parsley, avocado, bell peppers…
drink TART Cherry juice. if you get a reaction, its a battle. just giving ya a heads up!
This is all very worrisome, does Cipro affect everyone like the ways you are describing?
I did not want to worry him about that reaction yet. I’m going to forward this to Miriam who you probably know is our expert on this
No really quite a small percentage . It is said to depend on our DNA make up if we come into that category. Some people can take it for years without a problem. Why were you prescribed it ? I had tendonitis after first being prescribed it for a prostate condition and on two later occasions when only taking it for a couple of days before I made the connection. It can then lay dormant for a long time and in my case was evidently triggered by two other drugs I was prescribed.
Since last year doctors have been warned about it and should not prescribe it for many conditions. Floxie Hope will show more than you need to know at this stage.
I was prescribed it for a bacterial infection within a spermatic cord. So what you’re saying is a very small percentage of people can be seriously affected by this drug whereas others are able to take it and nothing will happen to them?
There are millions of prescriptions issued world wide and in some you can buy it without a prescription so the numbers are not known so side effects not reported but yes the majority get away with it.
There was a conference on it held by the Eoropean Medicines Agency in London last year where even doctors and pharmacists had been affected by it. After that was when SOME restrictions were placed on prescribing for certain conditions including prostate and urinary tract infections.
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Hi Sam,
I’m interested to know how you managed to take 4 Cipro tablets so close together. You said they were prescribed to you for epididymitis (or similar)? They’re probably 500mg each and I guess you were told to take 1 twice a day so what happened? Also, are these the only 4 you’ve taken or had you already been taking them for a day or two?
Please let us know how you’re feeling now. I’m sorry I wasn’t able to write when you first posted (I was away and hadn’t got access to my Patient password!). Diarrhoea is common so start to take probiotics (such as loads of live yoghurt but preferabley unsweetened or with just a little honey in it). The fluoroquinolones (Cipro is just one of 5 fluoroquinolone antibiotics - or FQs) are hampered by milk products so a good full fat live yoghurt will replace your good bacteria and also help lessen the effects of the Cipro (it says to avoid dairy on the packet!).
The comments here suggest to take supplements such as magnesium and also fruit juices and berries. This is because you need antioxidants to help combat the damage the Cipro is doing and you also need to replace the essential minerals that it’s ‘stealing’ from your cells.
I think it’s perfectly normal to feel bad after an overdose of anything and any antibiotic will play havoc with your gut as it will clear all the bugs out both good and bad. Everybody reacts differently to the fluoroquinolones - some can’t tolerate even one tablet while other people can take multiple courses with no problems. Most people seem to sit somewhere in the middle and find that their third or fourth course sets off the adverse reactions that you’ve obviously read about. Remember- this still may not happen to you, your present symptoms might only be from taking four tablets so close together.
It might well mess with your brain and cause you to have insomnia, bad dreams and or panic attacks. If you are affected in this way it’s important to try to stay calm as actually panicking will only make things worse. Keep drinking as much water as you can, and rest as much as you can.
If you can tell us exactly what happened and how you’re feeling now we may be able to come up with other ideas. The advice to join a social media group was also very good. There are some useful addresses on this thread started by the moderator some time ago -
Hope this helps.