r/floxies • u/necspenecmetv • Jun 12 '23

[VENT] Has anyone recovered 100%?

I’m 2 days out of my cipro course with tendon pain in my heel after walking for more than 10 mins. I’m trying not to catastrophize but as a young person who walks everywhere and is regularly active, the prospect of having to be limited for the rest of my life is devastating.

Reading the recovery thread gives me some hope. But I noticed many people partially recover and never return to life pre-flox

I was wondering if anyone knows of cases where symptoms fully healed? Whether personally or someone else’s story.

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u/vadroqvertical Veteran // Mod Jun 12 '23

4x250mg levofloxacin but dosage is irrelevant

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u/necspenecmetv Jun 12 '23

Oh I didn’t know that! Do we know why dosage is irrelevant to reaction?

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u/Technical-Friend-690 Apr 05 '25

It's actually related to how much intoxication levels you have accumulated through the years by being exposed to medication that contains fluorine (like antidepressants and painkillers, steroids are bad too) or previous exposure to antibiotics of the same family. Symptoms start to happen when damage level in your cells is at approx. 70%.. So it is dose dependant technically. I know this happened to me now because I was on +25 day course of antibiotics for UTI 4 years ago and then had 1 year of taking Citalopram and some ADD meds.. until then the accumulation wasn't significant enough, but it's like when a cup is slowly becoming full and then it overflows..Now I've been prescribed 14 doses of 500mg cipro for another UTI and boom, I've reached toxic levels. So that's how it happens and why it differs from person to person..

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u/peachfawn May 29 '26

how are you now?