Truly sorry to hear that. 
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- Edit 2Before modification by Joel at 06/02/2012 09:57:00 PM
"Tendon rupture can occur while taking Cipro or after completion of treatment. Typically, tendon ruptures occur near the end of 7 to 14 day courses of Cipro, but tendon ruptures have occurred as early as a few hours after the first dose or as late as six months after completion of treatment."
Seriously??!!! This is a known thing? Six months after? I told the doctor I take gym classes of high intensity. I would have appreciated a warning. I haven't torn the tendon, but it's inflamed, along with muscle sprain. (Couldn't straighten my legs in the morning. Standing and especially walking hurts at the top of the calf; it's painful to the touch, and now I'm also getting occasional spasms.) I don't want to be a person who has endless chronic problems. %&^k #@*& &@*#.
So how does one treat muscle sprain/tendonitis? Bandage? Ice or heat? Dr. said wet heat, but at this point I'm considering getting a second opinion.
Seriously??!!! This is a known thing? Six months after? I told the doctor I take gym classes of high intensity. I would have appreciated a warning. I haven't torn the tendon, but it's inflamed, along with muscle sprain. (Couldn't straighten my legs in the morning. Standing and especially walking hurts at the top of the calf; it's painful to the touch, and now I'm also getting occasional spasms.) I don't want to be a person who has endless chronic problems. %&^k #@*& &@*#.
So how does one treat muscle sprain/tendonitis? Bandage? Ice or heat? Dr. said wet heat, but at this point I'm considering getting a second opinion.
Glad the damage is not more serious, and here is hoping you make a swift full recovery. If it makes you feel better, I still have regular (and current) pain and stiffness in my right wrist from the night we loaded 200mg bags of Cipro fifteen at a time with three people in two hour rotations. I hate it far more than you do. Great money maker though; we used to joke about using a box of Cipro or Levaquin as retirement plans, because both are obscenely expensive as injectables. If you knew more about the idiots making it you probably would not get within a hundred feet of it. If you like, next time I am on FB I can direct you to some you can yell at for your injury.
Um, sorry about all the former shop talk, and again for your injury; I feel culpable (if you got it via IV there is a very good chance I handled it.
) Feel better soon.