Muscle wasting
Tendon Pain
Tendon Rupture
Joint Pain
Psychosis
Hallucinations
Anxiety
Depression
Insomnia
Hypersensitivity
Ear Ringing
Burning Neuropathy
Brain Fog
Memory Loss
Paranoia
Death
Dr. Mark Ghalili, DO, at Regenerative Medicine LA has years of experience, including personal experience, with the side effects of Fluoroquinolones and Fluoroquinolone Toxicity. Dr. Ghalili has suffered a numerous amount of progressive symptoms including muscle wasting, neuropathy, and seizures so severe that he became fully disabled and wheelchair-bound. After making a full recovery, Dr. Ghalili dedicated his practice towards helping patients who have been damaged and neglected by traditional medicine.
The FDA released a Black Box Warning on the side effects of fluoroquinolones in 2017, but many physicians across the United States are still prescribing these antibiotics despite the dangers of antibiotics they were warned about. In our practice, we have treated over 800 patients with fluoroquinolone toxicity and not one patient was able to show us a documented culture to show a bacterial infection that was sensitive to Cipro or Levaquin. We estimate Cipro or Levaquin is used appropriately less than 1% of the time. There are thousands of individuals in online forums who have become severely disabled from this class of antibiotics.
Many who consume fluoroquinolone antibiotics and do not have disabling side effects. This is because everyone has a different genetic makeup and the cumulative effect takes time. We do believe everyone is affected in some way due to mitochondrial damage on a cellular level with DNA adduct formation, this means the antibiotics can alter the DNA leading to permanent damage.
Dr. Mark Ghalili, DO, is a board-certified internal medicine physician and the founder of Regenerative Medicine LA. After experiencing life-changing fluoroquinolone toxicity himself, Dr. Ghalili used his medical training, and personal recovery journey, to pioneer advanced regenerative treatments for patients worldwide. Today, he is recognized as one of the leading experts in mitochondrial repair, IV therapy, and stem cell medicine, having helped thousands of patients reclaim their health and quality of life.
Fluoroquinolones may cause short term side effects including muscle pain, tendon pain, tendon rupture, psychosis, anxiety, insomnia, neuropathy, palpitations, ringing in the ears, paralysis, muscle wasting, weight loss, brain fog, memory loss, fatigue, sluggishness and a myriad of symptoms by causing damage to your bodies mitochondria.
Fluoroquinolones may cause long term side effects which in a vast number of cases are permanent including peripheral neuropathy, muscle wasting, weakness, brain fog, memory loss, anxiety, depression, tendon pain, tendon ruptures, chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia type symptoms.
As someone who has personally experienced fluoroquinolone toxicity, I want every patient to understand this: there is no magic bullet or overnight cure.
