Cipro has significant CNS neuro effects all its own.
Don't have to be allergic or have a "die-off"...Cipro and its family of fluoroquinolones can damage the brain, cause seizures, massive confusion in the elderly (less so in younger patients), and have NOTHING to do with Lyme.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciprofloxacin
Cipro and its cousins are not just antibiotics...they are toxic to many types of cells in mammalian bodies.
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Psychotic reactions, and confusional states, acute pancreatitis,[80] bone marrow depression, interstitial nephritis and hemolytic anemia may also occur during ciprofloxacin therapy.[81][82] Additional serious adverse reactions include temporary as well as permanent loss of vision,[83][84] irreversible double vision,[85] drug induced psychosis[86][87] and chorea (involuntary muscle movements),[88] impaired color vision, exanthema, abdominal pain, malaise, drug fever, dysaesthesia and eosinophilia.[89][90] Pseudotumor cerebri, commonly known as idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), (also referred to as increased intracranial pressure), has been reported to occur as a serious adverse reaction to ciprofloxacin.[91]....The serious adverse effects that may occur as a result of ciprofloxacin therapy include irreversible peripheral neuropathy,[66][67] spontaneous tendon rupture and tendonitis,[68][69][70][71] acute liver failure or serious liver injury (Hepatitis),[72][73] QTc prolongation/torsades de pointes,[19] toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN),[74][75][76] and Stevens-Johnson syndrome, severe central nervous system disorders (CNS)[77] and clostridium difficile associated disease (CDAD: Pseudomembranous colitis),[78][79] as well as photosensitivity/phototoxicity reactions.
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