<blockquote>Quote<br><hr><i>Originally posted by: <b>Grendel</b></i><br>Cipro weakens tendons, as do the entire family of fluoroquinolone antibiotics.
I wish my CF physician told me this... I may have been more careful or chosen a different physical activity.<hr></blockquote>
I'm sorry you are in this situation man. And I seriously hate to beat a dead horse. But what are conventional doctors taught? They are taught to treat someone, whenever they might fart crossways, with antibiotics. CF patients bodies are the ultimate battlefield for a conventional doctors warplan. They are riddled with bugs, it's a terminal disease, and the bugs look to be very susceptible to your antibiotic regimen. You as a CF patient gets sick (because true non preventative, non antibiotic care is almost non existant), you need to be healed, doctor comes up with XY4 antibiotic regimen to battle your bugs, courtesy of your most recent sputum culture. Let's just say you and him "win", after he fully nuked your entire system with the equivalent of an internal massive dose of lysol to the counter top, your immediate infection is for all intents and purposes, "gone". You feel fairly nice for a while. What many people fail to realize is that your natural bodies Flora (bacteria) has been massively disrupted, and many of your good bacteria, has been killed off with the bad bacteria. Some of these same bacteria have been shown to produce vitamins, help synthesize fats, and be active proper channels in your system to fascilitate intra cellular chemical absorption. The list is nearly endless. When "normal" people have a cold, or a slight infection somewhere, doctors hand out antibiotics like tic tacs. They take this regimen, and will feel like they are past their infection, but remnants of their bacteria remain, and are in turn passed to others, and this bacteria talks to each other (i'm serious, they do), and instructs the other bacteria how to defend itself from that same threat. And in turn, that "same threat" that is taking place in a friend of yours body, has a good chance of now being resistant to current antibiotic treatments, due to the bacteria communicating, and mutating.
I'm not 100% against antibiotics, but I feel they should be used as a last resort, even something as apparently innocuous as penicillin, should be used as a last resort. If you keep (CF's and non CF's) your body as strong and healthy with natural antimicrobials (be it something as non invasive diet wise as monolaurin, or something as invasive as oil of oregano - due to internal use), and saturated with proper amino acids, and good nutritional supplements, your chances of coming down with crappy infections are automatically drastically reduced. Yes they can still happen, and will still happen. But the "will still happen" comes from those who feel anyone with an MD license are liasons straight from the mouth of god himself.
As i've said before, and I'll continue to say, a VERY strong quote dealing with conventional doctors can be found in this classic quote "If all you have in your toolbox is a hammer, eventually, everything starts to look like nails". I wish everyone the best, I hope you guys take your health very serious, and do serious research into potential supplements that can help you. Everything we ever needed is here, it's just up to us to discover it #1, and #2 for the rest of us not to destroy it.
