I just re-read this thread, and there's something left unfinished here. I mention in it several times that I had developed neuro symptoms on Cipro, and considered myself "allergic" to it, in a loose definition of the word allergic.

Well, now that I've been properly diagnosed with Lyme, my doctor tells me that I did NOT have a bad reaction to Cipro, per se; instead, what I had was a herxheimer reaction. Cipro was killing off the lyme bacteria and they were releasing toxins which made me neurologically ill, since these bacteria mainly live in nerve cells. Herxheimer reactions are very common when treating Lyme. He thinks it could have been a tip-off at the time.

Oh well. Better late than never with treatment....