Yes, it's me again Margaret.
Some of you may remember that I have been dealing with some weird inflammation-type symptoms for about a year and a half now, ever since I started taking Minocycline/Minocine antibiotics for Rosacea. I will never be that vain again! I'd rather have my baboon's ass red-face (as my precious hubby calls it; yes, he’s sweet!) than to go through what I've had to deal with for so long.
Although the antibiotic I took was a Tetracycline antibiotic and not Quinolone/Floroquinolone antibiotic, I reacted to them as if they were Quinolones. Quinolones are known for causing tendon and fascia ruptures and tears in athletes.
In the beginning, after taking the antibiotics for two weeks, I was in so much pain; my feet felt like the tissue was tearing from the bone with each step. I also developed a burning sensation in my arches that felt like a bad sunburn, inflammation and burning in my left wrist and arm into my chest, extremely tight calves, and the PF I developed from walking around on the balls of my feet after cryosurgery worsened. (The MRI and x-rays showed no rupture or tears. The Ortho thought perhaps it was just severe inflammation I was dealing with.)
After stopping the antibiotics, I started to improve but still dealt with these symptoms daily, and it seemed I would never get better.
After researching and reading and researching and reading I decided to try combating the pain I was having from taking the antibiotics by taking super high-doses of probiotics. About four to five months ago, I took 200 million flora probiotics per day for seven days (in powder form), then 100 million every day since. Within three to four months, the pain and all of those symptoms were gone.
Now I have been taking antibiotics again, a different Tetracycline called Doxycycline (known to be mild to me in the past) due to having surgery this past Friday, and seven days later, I am starting to have the sun burning sensation in my right foot again, and my left wrist is hurting. I had been taking 100 probiotics daily, but it seems the antibiotics, understandably, are wiping them out, even though I have been taking them at least two hours “after” taking the antibiotics as Dr. Mike suggested. So today, I started on the seven day regiment of 200 million again. I will let you all know how this pans out.
I was wondering if anyone else has ever experienced anything like this. Please share. I’m frustrated. I mean it’s enough that I have to deal with the MN, then recovery from the surgery for MN, but now this! When I thought I had put it behind me!
Some of you may remember that I have been dealing with some weird inflammation-type symptoms for about a year and a half now, ever since I started taking Minocycline/Minocine antibiotics for Rosacea. I will never be that vain again! I'd rather have my baboon's ass red-face (as my precious hubby calls it; yes, he’s sweet!) than to go through what I've had to deal with for so long.
Although the antibiotic I took was a Tetracycline antibiotic and not Quinolone/Floroquinolone antibiotic, I reacted to them as if they were Quinolones. Quinolones are known for causing tendon and fascia ruptures and tears in athletes.
In the beginning, after taking the antibiotics for two weeks, I was in so much pain; my feet felt like the tissue was tearing from the bone with each step. I also developed a burning sensation in my arches that felt like a bad sunburn, inflammation and burning in my left wrist and arm into my chest, extremely tight calves, and the PF I developed from walking around on the balls of my feet after cryosurgery worsened. (The MRI and x-rays showed no rupture or tears. The Ortho thought perhaps it was just severe inflammation I was dealing with.)
After stopping the antibiotics, I started to improve but still dealt with these symptoms daily, and it seemed I would never get better.
After researching and reading and researching and reading I decided to try combating the pain I was having from taking the antibiotics by taking super high-doses of probiotics. About four to five months ago, I took 200 million flora probiotics per day for seven days (in powder form), then 100 million every day since. Within three to four months, the pain and all of those symptoms were gone.
Now I have been taking antibiotics again, a different Tetracycline called Doxycycline (known to be mild to me in the past) due to having surgery this past Friday, and seven days later, I am starting to have the sun burning sensation in my right foot again, and my left wrist is hurting. I had been taking 100 probiotics daily, but it seems the antibiotics, understandably, are wiping them out, even though I have been taking them at least two hours “after” taking the antibiotics as Dr. Mike suggested. So today, I started on the seven day regiment of 200 million again. I will let you all know how this pans out.
I was wondering if anyone else has ever experienced anything like this. Please share. I’m frustrated. I mean it’s enough that I have to deal with the MN, then recovery from the surgery for MN, but now this! When I thought I had put it behind me!