A staff member in the Senate feels some of the potential muscle side effects from Cipro, relating back to the Anthrax attacks. Missing a kit of work, he was unable to keep his old job, and now he serves as a senior adviser to the committee, so perhaps there is some real muscle side effect dangers to the antibiotic, as the FDA has cautioned. BD
A few days later, he felt pain in both his Achilles tendons. A week after that, the pain had grown so bad that he talked to a doctor, who switched him to another antibiotic. But the pain did not go away, and nearly seven years later, Angell still walks with a cane and cant hike or play tennis the way he used to. Like the rest of America, the Health Blog has been reading a lot about anthrax this week, but until we chatted with Angell we had not thought to connect the 2001 attacks with the tendon problems the drug causes in rare cases. Indeed, Angell told us he was not aware of any other Senate staffers having problems associated with Cipro.
Health Blog : Lingering Pain from the Anthrax Attacks: Cipro Side Effects
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