Cipro and fibromyalgia

Nine months after given CIPRO via IV at the Hospital, I am still crippled.

I was a healthy 58 years old working full time. Now my tendons, muscles, ligaments hurt all over my body. I have very limited flexibility.

I am sooooooo aggravated that doctors don't believe you and they want to treat you with prozac.

I am sooooo mad that nothing I can do but suffer.

Lawyers said unless doctor diagnosis Tendinitis nothing they can do and doctors insist it is Fibromyalgia.

I took Cipro and had a persitant leg twitch, and did not think anything at the time. many symptoms came around a month later. all over body twitching, burning skin, muscle pain, tendon pain. maily on left side of body. Also, insomnia, dark circles under eyes, horizontal depressions in fingernails...just to name a few. It has been almost 2 years and I have sense been diagnosed with fibromyalgia by PC, I need to go to a ruemy. I have never had these pains until cipro and I still have all of them most of the time.
I told my mother not to take Cipro or any in the same class. She was prescribed Levaquin and called the nurse and said she did not want anything in the same class as Cepro, and thew nurse said "Oh no it is not, I did hear Cepro was bad". So she took them unaware. She was so sick after first pill. she thought it was severe flu. She could not even move her arms because of terrible shoulder pains.

Wow, I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia several years ago. Instead of getting on medication, i decided to watch my diet. I noticed i only had fibromyalgia when my cholesterol was high. I keep my cholesterol down and myself thin and toned and i am healthy with no fibro. However, i recently began to take Cipro, and all of a sudden i feel fibromyalgia coming on again. I decide to look this up online and find out there is a connection!

I was given Cipro 500mg twice daily for a UTI. After 4 days on the medication I developed severe joint and tendon pain. Every joint in my body was in pain! I have called the doctor and they had me stop taking the medication. I continue to have pain in my joints. By the end of the day, my knees are killing me! Will this ever go away. I am seeing the doctor tomorrow, I am so upset over this, I am in my mid-30's and am feeling like I am 80! I am a grade 1 teacher and have 3 young kids at home, I hope things will get better!

I took Cipro in April 2002 with no apparent side effects at the time. In June 2002, I experienced an unexplained tendon rupture in my arm. Over the next year I began to have more and more muscle and tendon pain. Now, February 2004, I have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia. My rheumatologist believes it could be related to muscle and tendon damage caused by the Cipro.