Question: My doctor put me on ciprofloxacin for 10 days at 500 mg twice daily for a stomach infection. I felt much better after using it 3 days.On the night of the 5th day (had taken 10 pills by then) I started to read the horrific stories about cipro and I stopped using it.I saw there were so many who took cipro who had to stop using it because they were in pain ,particularly in their tendons. I quit because I got scared.I took my last cipro pill 5 days ago and other than dry mouth (which seems to be getting better) I havent noticed any side affects from cipro . In fact I was mentioning to a friend that the cipro seemed to knock out the infection and the aches and pains I had been experiencing ,especially in my legs, and that they were largely gone.So I feel pretty good but is there any reason to believe that cipro will have a delayed effect over the next several days and weeks? If i had never read the bad stories about cipro I would be feeling good but now I cant get it out of my head about cipro having delayed effects that have crippled people.Part of what keeps me worried is that I have garden variety aches and pains and a bit of chronic fatigue that comes and goes.So when you feel a twinge somewhere (like in my feet or hands which tend to be a little stiff) you start to think is that a regular pain or cipro? Do I have to worry about a delayed cipro effect for the next year(or years) and refrain from physical activity that would strain tendons?I play golf and find it does cause a bit of wear and tear and strain particularly in my neck , hands and legs.

.Along with my stomach infection i developed constipation and a large hemorrhoid.My doctor put me on hydrocortisone suppositories which did help a lot but i have read that using such steroids with cipro makes it more likely that you will get cipro toxicity that can attach your body and tendons. A large part of what makes me nervous now is that 5 years ago I had a horrendous experience with the drug reglan which took almost 5 months to get over.Cipro is a different drug I know but it turns out I am allergic to regland and neuroleptics and I had terrible akathisia. I am worried maybe I have a weakness that would allow cipro to get me later on.The one thing I can say about the reglan is that there were signs that it was effecting me badly while I was taking it before I fully got akathisia. Does cipro have neurological affects?The neuro effects from regland were very bad but I was able to see a psychiatrist and he gave me prozac and my akathisia eventually went away.
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I have one more thing to ask.I play golf which tends to put a strain on my neck , hands and legs and it feels like arthritus and i will take something like tylenol or some an nsaid for the pain.Should i avoid exercise like this for awhile so I wont hurt a tendon?Should i stop taking nasaids for a long time since supposedly it reacts badly with cipro.Tylenol I believe is not an nasaid.