Ciprofloxacin and other fluorquinolones will lower the seizure threshold when in your system. A fever can also lower seizure threshold. Cipro will not alter your brain permanently. It does NOT cause epilepsy.
Ruptured Achilles’ tendon does happen with quinolone antibiotics. I’ve seen it as well. I have sufficient experience prescribing various medications to say I have done my research. Interestingly, use of Cipro to treat cystitis has caused seizure in my own patients a couple times. For one it led to early diagnosis of a brain cancer.
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It has something to do with quinolines being hard on our cartilage and connective tissue cells responsible for maturation of collagen. Immature collagen is weak and prone to failure. They connective tissue matrix cells, get sickly when exposed for long periods to the quinolones and don’t effectively strengthen the connective tissue in the tendons. At least that’s how I’m remembering it.
The quinolone antibiotics have saved far more lives than they have ended. I just try and help people with the tools at my disposal. I didn’t invent quinolones. It would be nice to have a magic bullet that is without side effects. We don’t.
Everything you state here is true.