The Ciprofloxacin antibiotic I'm taking to rid my stomach of the issues it picked up in Bolivia can have some serious side effects, according to Medline Plus, a service of the U.S. Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.
They can include:
- agitation
- anxiety
- feelings of not trusting others or feelings that others want to hurt you
- difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep
- nightmares or abnormal dreams
- tingling or swelling of the face, neck, throat, tongue, lips, eyes, hands, feet, ankles, or lower legs
- difficulty breathing or swallowing
- rapid, irregular, or pounding heartbeat
- unusual bruising or bleeding
- extreme tiredness
- loss of appetite
- pain in the upper right part of the stomach
- yellowing of the skin or eyes
- seizures
- dizziness
- double vision
- pulsing sounds in the head or ringing in the ears
- confusion
- uncontrollable shaking of a part of the body
- hallucinations (seeing things or hearing voices that do not exist)
- depression
- thoughts about dying or killing yourself
- pain, burning, tingling, numbness, and/or weakness in a part of the body
- loss of ability to feel light touch, pain, heat or coldness, or vibration in a part of the body
- loss of ability to know position of a part of the body
- loss of muscle strength in a part of the body
Laura keeps looking at me weird. I don't trust her one bit.
