Just last week I had what the doc suspected was pneumonia. Because erithromycin causes diarrhea, she prescribed a 5 day course of Levaquin. I took one pill and no problems. The 2nd day I started to have serious numbness & burning pain starting in my ankle & radiating up to my knee. I read the insert (too late, I guess) & almost fainted when I saw the laundry list of sx...most notably an achilles tendon rupture!! Who in the world would trade an infection for a ruptured tendon?? When I phoned the doc to say I wasn't going to continue, she got very defensive & said she gave it to many patients & only ONE had a ruptured achilles tendon!! This is a freaking nightmare of a drug. I still have much more intense burning & pain in my one leg & am worried that this is not the worst of it. Who knows what disabling effects await me down the road?

I read Dr. Cohen's report of the efficacy of glutathione & NAC. I'm happy that there might be some kind of treatment for this. The easiest would be to order some NAC asap.

I went to the health food store and got the NAC and the natual vitamin E and started on it as soon as I brought it home. I'm a little scared now. PN symptoms have definitely flarred up. I am done with my course of cipro and the infection is gone. I really have to keep an eye on this....