I don't recommend things with "bad side effects"... on this forum.

The worst thing about the original thiamine I already mentioned.

You can search further on the topic to satisfy your need for more information.

I get my Benfotiamine from Life Extention Foundation. It is a wonderful site. I love the webinars and help you get there. My doctor uses several brands like Designs for Health for supplements he advises, and he likes Life Extension Benfotiamine, Eye health supplements and others. I get my protein powder there also.

I found this brand at GNC "Vitamin B-1 300" is that good to start with? I couldn't find the Benfotiamine yet. The pills I have are 300mg each. Do I take this once a day at 1 time, or am I supposed to break them into 2 and take them at different points in the day? It's important, as I could not find this answer anywhere. Maybe I can cut the 300mg into 2 - is that wise? ...please help.

I was floxed in Dec 2012.

At that time my symptoms were limited to insomnia, numbness on my head and chest, plus tendon and joint issues.

I actually couldn't walk well for about a week.

I got better over 4 weeks and returned back to normal.

Fast forward 7 months and after a rabies vaccine I have lower back pain/burning, joint issues and as of 8 days ago parethesia (prickly/itchy feelings under my skin).

Is this what you are experiencing?

Who are you asking, me?

If so, I have much worse pains, now mostly pins and needles pains and deep bone pains in my fingers, toes hands and feet. With various burning all over my back and body. Somedays are worse than others, somedays are pretty low, pain-wise. ...For me, it appears weather (especially high humidity) is a regular trigger.

I never experienced anything that gave me trouble walking, more so, it was just the onset of painful Peripheral Neuropathy that caused me such havoc. Now, PN is a warning on the Ciprofloxcacin side-effects warnings.

It is highly suggestive that taking both Naproxen (such as Alieve) and a Benzo (my Clonazepam) together with the Cipro is what made my case so bad.

Still, my very recent discovery of having a very low Vitamin D level is "suspected" as a strong irritant of it as well.

By the way, can you please tell me the manner and drug use that got you floxed? You are the only other person here that I have met that has been floxed other than me. So any trading of experiences should help us both.

I had taken Cipro and by the 4th day my achillies tendon on my right foot started burning.

Then 24 hours later the other symptoms hit me.

Every tendon in my body alternately started burning... I swear I was playing whack-a-mole with my ice pack. Then joint stiffness and pain started... then the numb head and chest and insomnia.

I recovered pretty quickly.

I will PM you a great private group on Facebook with over 1,000 members for Flouroquine Reaction.

Thank you Chemar .
I hope to learn that link thing by the end of this
summer. This is the first vacation I could come on
often at all.

The better VitD thread is the one with video in the
title. I think it is on the first two pages and is a newer
thread. That thread gets more views than the older
one.

When our son visits he will give me another lesson on
this new iPhone

I find this thread, but it's from '09.
New medical information on Vitamin D + videos:

Doc

Can I read that FB group without joining?

If so please send me the link also.

I think it's private but you can ask to join.

It's not like your going to have to run the gauntlet or give up your first born to get in.