Comment from Chidichimo Brian

We need world attention to treating Fluoroquinolone associated disability. Why? Because this is a pharmaceutical induced disease that is caused by an antibiotic that is heavily prescribed and there is no official treatment. We need big pharma to subsidize research into understanding and treating this totally avoidable disease of the huma mitochondria. Patients suffering from this have no approved treatments and insurance doesn’t cover the options they have to resort to becsise medical industry doesn’t acknowledge FQAD. Please push for regulations and requirements that must be met before any doctor can prescribe this poisonous drug. Cipro is just one name in the fluorquinolone family that destroyed my future. Went to treat a UTI and ended up disabled with multi system failures that cannot heal without proper medial insight and intervention all of which are unknown and unavailabe by the medial industry. Please imagine your loved one was harmed by a drug they were told would help them and raise awareness and force fundinf by pharma to treat this disease they have created. This disability doesn’t occur in nature it’s manmade and needs research to help the thousands of people silently suffering. Many don’t even know what caused their dysfunction and spend many days and years visiting doctors and getting more and more unneeded tests and contrast scans that further harm them only to be dismissed by the industry. I just retired from a 35 year career at the DOT, began to enjoy my retirement and was disabled after a simple treatment of a FQ antibiotics. An antibiotic that could have been avoided with less risky alternatives but the practitioners are unaware of the true risks despite numerous black box warnings. FDA must make it mandatory that a doctor sign off on the know serous risks and discuss them in detail before being allowed to prescribe these drugs and most importantly show the bacteria sensitivity report that might offer alternatives that are not carrying these black box dangers. Patients like me willingly took the pills because the doctors judgement. This drug said serous risks for people over 60. Yet the doctor was able to prescribe it to me at 63. They use enforced to acknowledge these risks before working any script. It’s too late for those of us who have been destroyed but if we can save future “floxies” from being created we have helped. For those that have been damaged we need research and a dedicated medical clinic for treatment that should be funded by the pharmaceutical that create and profit from this drug. Surely they could allocate funding from their billions in profit that n help those they damaged. Please I respectfully ask you to consider these points Funding for research into FQAD Funding for treatment for those suffering from FQAD Funding to update the medical industry on limiting prescriptions and mandatory training on what issuing thes drugs can do and awareness of the treatment options. Thank you Brian Chidichimo