Hope you are ok because there don’t seem to be any more blogs since August 2010. It is now 2011 August so I am concerned. I have just been diagnosed with antiphospholipid syndrome which has destroyed my brother’s life. Your blogs are great and help people just diagnosed.

Particularly read the story of Paul Levine, a talented musician who wrote very positive children’s music. He took his own life because there were just too many diamonds on the floor for him

Read the story of the Petijohn family who lost their 23 year old nursing student daughter due to quinolone antibiotics. Their diamonds never cease to be on the floor.

I have a toll free line where I listen to people’s diamonds on the floor for hours at a time.
It is absolutely horrible that for $$$$$ the drug companies, the FDA, the legislators and politicians, the lobbyists and even the media would allow us to go on pouring diamonds on the floor without even a care for us. Just a care for their diamonds ($$$$$).

I really appreciated the song, it puts into words and perspective the way I feel about quinolone antibiotic (actually chemotherapeutic) therapy that is unleashed on untold hundreds of thousands of people each year. I am one of them. For 8 years now, I’ve shed so many diamonds I could own a mine. A 20 year career – gone, a 12 year marriage – gone, all my savings and 401k – gone, friends and co-workers I knew for years – gone. And the constant never ending pain.

Every night I sit up awake because the Cipro caused brain damage that won’t allow me to sleep and causes constant seizures, ear ringing, anxiety, panic attacks, brutal insomnia. I sit up all night and just pour diamonds on the floor. The floor where I live (with my 75 year old widowed mother and 14 year old daughter) is covered with diamonds, and a fresh set is produced every night. Quinolones must be taken off the market or we will hear much more:Michelle, see if there is any quinolone in your medical history. Look for drugs with the name Avelox, Cipro, Floxin, Levaquin, Tequin, Trovan. Who knows – maybe they are responsible for your diamonds on the floor as well. Again, as for me……..

“I CAN’T TAKE NO MORE, DIAMONDS ON THE FLOOR”

The Fluoroquinolone antibiotics are among the most powerful and toxic drugs in use today, often leaving the patient with permanent disability. Some within this class are:
Cipro(Ciprofloxacin), Levaquin(Levofloxacin), Avelox(Moxifloxacin), Floxin(Floxacin), Vigamox Eyedrops(Moxifloxacin in eyedrop form), and others, many of which have been removed from the market over the years due to severe injury and fatalities. Tequin(Gatifloxacin) is just one example.

On another sad note…. the Fluoroquinolones have recently been approved for pediatric use, even though clinical trials have proven them to cause arthropathy in juvenile rats.

Similarly, this class of powerful drug should never be given to a patient over 60 or who posesses any other medical condition…. yet they are being prescribed (often by IV) to many elderly and nursing home residents to treat simple bacterial infections. Vigamox (Maxifloxacin in eyedrop form) is also the “antibiotic of choice”, and routinely prescribed (or dropped into the eyes at the office, just before the procedure) for cataract surgery. The patient (mostly elderly) is not even being informed of the potential for serious adverse reaction to this toxic drug. This drug has the potential to affect the QT-prolongation of the heart. I personally know several senior patients who suffered fatal heart-attacks just days after having a Levquin IV removed.

Even within the veterinary community, dare I say yes, this toxic antibiotic is being prescribed to our beloved pets. Baytril(Enrofloxacin) is just one of several Fluoroquinolones given by our vets, and also with no warning.

One of the other many issues with this class of “antibiotic” is that the serious adverse reactions can occur up to months or years LATER. Months to years!! How many patients would even recognize that their “mysterious symptoms” were the result of an “antibiotic” they took years before??! Yet, it’s TRUE… which is why many sufferers and those diagnosed w/ autoimmune issues need to become aware of the correlation of this drug to their symptoms. Whether it was just one pill…. and 5 years ago….. or several courses just this year. There IS a connection.

If you don’t know or can’t recall ever taking a Fluoroquinolone antibiotic, please check your medical and/or prescription drug records. Knowing the truth and the facts may save your life…. precautions need to be taken if a patient has ever been exposed to a Fluoroquinolone, no matter how much time has passed. Prednisone should never be taken after/before or during Fluoroquinolone exposure. NSAIDS must be avoided as well. And a patient must NEVER take another Fluoroquinolone for the rest of his life. They are cumulative in the body and have been attributed to renal (kidney) failure and liver toxicity.

Please SEARCH, WIKI, YOUTUBE the “TOXICITY of Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics” (I have listed several) and join our FACEBOOK groups. A congressional investigation is also warranted. The owners of the websites FQResearch.org and FQVicitms.org continue to work tirelessly on this serious global issue.

There are many links on both sites, be sure to open the drop-down menus. From FQToxicity, run by David Fuller, there is also a link to the Fluoroquinolone Toxicity Yahoo support group.

Thank You,
God Bless, Comfort and Heal

~Shells~