Levaquin Tendonitis Treatment

This is not going to be your typical page on Levaquin Tendonitis Treatment.

If you are simply doing a report on Levaquin Tendonitis or you are looking for traditional medical treatments, good luck. A search for Levaquin Tendonitis brings up mostly lawyers offering to represent you in a lawsuit or forums like The People's Pharmacy with people who are disabled discussing their pain and weakness that has not improved for many years despite all the Levaquin Tendonitis Treatment.

Good luck if you are going to stick with Traditional Medicine for your problem- and please let us know if you had a Levaquin Tendonitis Treatment that was actually effective and helped you to get better.

We absolutely want to hear about that.

But if you HAVE Levaquin Tendonitis and have not been able to get better, you are in a good place to start.

Levaquin Tendonitis is a rare but often completely disabling 'side effect' of the antibiotic Levaquin and any of its associated antibiotics known as 'Fluoroquinolones'.

There is no cure for Levaquin Tendonitis or related Levaquin damage known to the medical world.

Kerri and I think that there could be an effective Levaquin Tendonitis Treatment that uses EXISTING testing and remedies to find a possible answer in your own body chemistry?

What IF doctors and researchers are looking for Levaquin Tendonitis Treatment in drugs that don't exist yet when they SHOULD be looking for answers in YOUR body?

Levaquin Tendonitis Treatment
Lots of Variables
Lots of Unseen Connections

I'm big on the physical side of the Tendonitis and Tendonosis dynamic. Kerri is a long time ER/ICU nurse, and a Functional Medicine practitioner, and she's big on the medical knowledge, systemic workings, and up to date research.

There is a LOT of information that could make for an effective Levaquin Tendonitis Treatment- so keep reading and bear with me while while I go over the MANY factors and problems that COULD be clues to why you are hurting AND that COULD be of help to you.

Levaquin Tendonitis Treatment
Questions, Questions, Questions

Not everyone gets damage after fluoroquinolones, and we are basing this page on the fact that everyone has individual metabolic and cellular processes going on in their body that may predispose them to getting Levaquin Tendonitis.

It's not -just- because the quinolone family of antibiotics is toxic, but that there is some individual factor in YOU predisposing you to damage from the toxin!

If it was just a factor of toxicity or poison, everyone would be affected, right? So, there MUST BE other factors at play; variables that make someone more susceptible or vulnerable to the toxic aspects of these antibiotics.

Levaquin Tendonitis Treatment
All The Pieces

So, take a breath, get some popcorn, and let's start to tease all the pieces of a possible Levaquin Tendonitis Treatment out and then see how they all work together.

Magnesium


Pre-Tendonitis and Tendonosis


Detoxification Pathways


Mitochondrial Dysfunction


Vitamin D


Inflammation

Problems That May Have Contributed to Your Levaquin Tendonitis
And How Fixing Them Might Help You Heal

Magnesium

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When muscles get tight, they use up extra magnesium and calcium, cause general stress (which requires more magnesium)- and increases cellular energy requirements of the muscle cells. When we are Magnesium deficient, our muscles can get locked into tightness and spasm.

This also puts chronic tension on our tendons and connective tissue. This strains our tendons, and can lead to Tendonosis and Tendonitis. In other words, Magnesium deficiency can play a role in weak and unhealthy tendons and connective tissue.

Magnesium also plays a role in managing stress, regulating cellular metabolism and in detoxification of chemical substances (like Levaquin). Lower levels of Magnesium would result in lower levels of energy, difficulty managing stress and decreased detoxification capability.

Pre-Tendonitis and Tendonosis

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Tendonosis is a function of not enough circulation to the tendon cells, which then essentially starve and die. This tendon tissue degradation doesn't necessarily feel painful to us.

Levaquin attacks the fibroblasts in our tendons. If we already have tendon structure degradation, a sudden influx of fibroblast destroying cytotoxin can lead to sudden and enhanced tendon degradation, whereas someone with 100% healthy tendons my either take no damage, or hurt for a time and then heal.

Detoxification Pathways

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The body is constantly detoxifying. The body has two primary detoxification pathways: Methylation and Sulfation. While we are not going to go into detail on these complicated processes, these two 'pathways' require a constant influx of certain nutrients- and often these nutrients are missing from the vast majority of people's diets.

If we don't have those nutrients, we either have limited detox capability, or we don't detox.

As a nation we have unhealthy, insufficient levels of most of these nutrients- even those who eat 'PERFECT' still eat food grown in nutrient poor soil or that are picked too early to have all of the nutrients necessary. And some people simply have much higher genetic requirements for some of these nutrients in the first place. Add in a constant massive dose of toxins in the environment that must be detoxified every day that already uses up these precious substances, most of us have a limited ability to detoxify any more chemicals.

So, if you are on the edge of being low in nutrients required to detoxify substances- even if you think that you are 'perfectly healthy' (and lets face it, if you needed Levaquin in the first place, then you weren't perfectly healthy now were you!?), if you add in a big dose of a chemical like Levaquin that must be detoxified then you could easily set up a chain reaction of cellular damage from toxins floating around in your body.

Vitamin B12: Vitamin B12, specifically in the form of Methyl B12, is a VERY common vitamin Deficiency. Not ONLY can lack of it cause muscle pain and weakness, but it is also a BIG component of detoxification- contributing the 'Methyl' part of the 'Methylation' stage of detoxification. Doctors nearly ALWAYS miss this deficiency and it can be a BIG problem!

Cysteine: A common amino acid that supplies the Sulfur for the 'Sulfation' part of detoxification. We get this mostly in garlic and onions. NOT foods that people eat every day. Deficiency is common, doctors willNEVER test for it and it's IMPERATIVE that we have it.

Mitochondrial Dysfunction

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People that take sudden muscle pain from Levaquin possibly already had 'low energy' at a cellular level. Mitochondria are the tiny cellular energy centers at the center of every cell. They are most well known for containing the 'Mitochondrial DNA' that transfers from the mother to every child. This enabled researchers to trace human DNA back to the first 'mother' that they named 'Eve'. You may or may not believe this, but it makes no difference. You HAVE mitochondria wherever they came from and they do SO much more than carry DNA.

Every cell creates energy to give YOU energy- and the mitochondria are DIRECTLY responsible for this. And due to diet, genetics, increased amount of toxins in the environment, inability to detoxify, advancing age, etc, some people may already have 'low cellular energy'.

Coenzyme Q-10: One of the primary nutrients required for this cellular energy is something called CoEnzyme Q10. We already know that certain medications- particularly the cholesterol lowering 'statin' drugs, block the production of CoQ10. And that's why people taking them get Statin Muscle Pain where the muscles become weak, painful and sometimes even damaged so badly that they get a life threatening muscle wasting condition called Rhabdomyolysis! That's how important CoQ10 is in our muscles.

Carnitine: Carnitine is another substance that is Vital in cellular energy production, but that has not been as popularized in recent years as Coenzyme Q-10. But Carnitine deficiency also leads to low cellular energy and muscle ache/pain.

Carnitine has been given in high doses to people with fatigue for unknown reasons and, in many cases, these people generally feel better. Even when people has completely normal Carnitine levels, their energy levels improved and they felt a lot better. So while doctors would scoff at the thought that carnitine deficiency might be causing your weakness, the research says differently.

These are just two factors that inhibit the body's ability to literally be strong and healthy.

If you are a person that already has, or is prone to, low mitochondrial energy levels, then dumping Floroquinolone cytoxicity into the system can knock it down or wipe it out, depending on your exact situation. And just like with the Cholesterol Lowering Statin drugs, if you have strong, healthy levels of nutrients and mitochondrial energy, you may be better able to resist the effects of these drugs.

Vitamin D3

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Low vitamin D levels wouldn't necessarily set one up to take damage from Levaquin. However, low Vit D3 levels VERY FREQUENTLY result in muscle pain and weakness, either locally or all over.

The VAST MAJORITY (up to 85%) of people in the US are Vitamin D3 deficient and ANYONE with ANY form of chronic pain should find out if they are vitamin D deficient.

I virtually guarantee that your doctor will miss this step, and vitamin D is a CRITICAL component in the working of the immune system, helping with healing and reducing inflammation and pain. So, seriously, get tested for Vitamin D ASAP and get your levels up to between 40 to 80 ng/ml.

Check out Kerri's Vitamin D pages on www.Easy-Immune-Health.com

Inflammation

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Nearly everyone who has Levaquin Tendonitis has some degree of Inflammation. And Inflammation is another one that probably plays more a role in post-Levaquin damage the puts one at risk for it, but since nobody knows, and we need to lower inflammation levels anyway because that will lower pain levels, it is important to take into account.

Levaquin Tendonitis Treatment

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If you want to wait until there is an AMA approved Levaquin Tendonitis Treatment drug or procedure- you are going to wait a LONG time for double blind placebo controlled long term studies to be done and drugs to be approved, etc.

In the meantime, you can fix the factors IN YOUR OWN BODY that may be contributing to the problems or preventing your own body from healing. Does that make sense? If it does, then here is what I suggest.

One of the tests Kerri works with is called an 'Organix Profile'.

This is an in-home urine test kit that gets mailed to you and you mail back to the lab. Even though your doctor doesn't do this test, it is a REAL test that is used all over the world by doctors who specialize in nutritional medicine and by nutritionists and Naturopaths. It has many years of accurate use and has had 'peer reviewed' studies done on it to show that it is accurate and useful. It gives results for your levels of:

Markers of Oxidative Damage/Antioxidant Levels

Ability to Detoxify Substances

B-Complex Vitamin Status (a big player in pain and nerve pain, detoxification, tons of other stuff like muscle strength/weakness)

CoEnzyme Q-10 Markers

FATTY ACID METABOLISM (your ability to create strong healthy cell walls)

Here is the Organix Profile Basic PDF. It goes into greater detail, and lists exactly what gets tested.

Kerri and I are very interested in the Levaquin Damage mystery and therefore, in the interest of finding an effective Levaquin Tendonitis Treatment and trying to help find answers to this devastating problem, we are offing those of you with Levaquin Tendonitis the Organix Profile for OUR COST.

For just $179- exactly what it costs her- Kerri will send you the test, do a consult with you on the phone, explain the results, answer your questions, and help you come up with a plan of action based on the test.

$179 total cost, which is Kerri's cost, for the Organix Profile home test kit. Urine test, send it to the lab, results back in approx 2 weeks from the time you send it in.

 

Summary

If I took Levaquin and had damage and side effects, knowing what I now know, the very first thing I would do would be to take this Organix Profile. It will show you exactly what is going on from an energy production, nutrient and cellular level.

If you are one of those with temporary damage, the right physical things like Physical Therapy and icing may work. But with the knowledge you get from the Organix Profile you can quite possibly speed your healing.

If you are one of those with permanent, and disabling damage, I say you want to know your results from this test. Levaquin and Cipro cause system damage that just doesn't go away. Something is wrong with YOUR system, and fixing THAT is likely to be the only Levaquin Tendonitis Treatment that you are going to find!

Take the test.

 

$179 total cost, which is Kerri's cost, for the Organix Profile home test kit. Urine test, send it to the lab, results back in approx 2 weeks from the time you send it in.

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