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Elementalist
Apr 9, 2024
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I haven't been on here in months. I've been suffering with severe brain damage for the last 5 years, the last two being the hell I didn't think could exist. My case history, over 1 year of daily oral doses of macrobid. Followed by doses of ciprofloxacin. The Cipro damage took me about 7 years to recover from. And then I made the fatal error of taking bactrim in 2020. I'll never be able to convey what it is that I have been through. Severe cognitive dysfunction. Complete loss of inner voice, complete loss of inner eye, complete loss of verbal capabilities most of the time. Severe electrical jolts, not brains zaps, but full on convulsion like electrical damage in the brain and body. Massive muscle degeneration, the list is catastrophically long. I wouldn't be able to put everything down if I had to. I was certain this time I wasn't going to recover. I at times honestly couldn't tell if I was alive or dead, and not metaphorically or figuratively speaking. But literally. Far beyond anxiety, far beyond depression, far beyond mental confusion, so-called brain fog, extreme tinnitus as well, like high pitch sounds or trains, chirping, loud explosions inside my head, things I can't describe and things no one would begin to understand. Destruction of brain so bad that I didn't even dream anymore, and if I did dream it was just in the shapes of the neurological damage that I endured endlessly. On top of that, severe cardiac dysfunction, severe cardiac conductivity damage stemming out of my brain stem and damage to the cardiac muscle and nerves itself. Loss of bladder control, loss of bowel control. I was sure I was dead and I was sure I couldn't take one more second of it, I don't know how I've lasted especially these last two years but here I am.

I never met anyone as bad as I have been, and I'm not saying that like it's a contest, I'm just saying that I had no one to talk to that could say I have that too, everyone I tried to speak to about it was like I have no idea what the f*** you're talking about.

Anyway, lately, almost hitting the 5-year mark, I'm starting to see my brain recover. I didn't take any drugs at all, no pharmaceuticals of any kind, but I drank alcohol pretty heavily for the better part of a year or more. Because it was that, or I was going to kill myself. I bought the SN from dmc, I bought SN from SD. And I still have both. All did all the things, firearms, tried to find a partner, and now, I'm finally starting to see that there might be a life for me outside of this. I know there are many people on here suffering from pharmaceutical injuries or other allopathic harm, and I swear to god, those are the majority of people that take their lives that I have ever known, and I have known a lot, because no amount of suffering can compare. I'm not saying that to minimize what anyone else is going through, I'm just saying it's a whole other thing when your very consciousness is destroyed chemically from the inside out by pharmaceutical poison. I had severe neurological damage to my peripheral nervous system, that resulted in severe burning, I would say that that was far better than the damage to my consciousness. It was tolerable by Miles compared to the brain damage so it's not as if I don't understand physical pain too, including nerve spasms so bad that I almost blacked out when I even tried to go to the bathroom. Back pain so bad that I vomited and was crawling around on my elbows at times because I couldn't physically stand up anymore. pissing razor blades, teeth and jaw pain so severe that I seriously was considering ripping some of them out. I know all sorts of pain.

I'm here now because I posted here many times in the past, I try to read through things I posted in the last year, and I just shake my head because I see how completely gone I was, and how unbelievable it is that I've gotten to this point today.

I want to say to anyone suffering from benzodiazepine injuries, antipsychotic drug injuries, antidepressant injuries, antibiotic injuries, especially classes like fluoroquinolones or bactrim or macrobid. Keep fighting if you don't want to die, keep fighting. My toxicity history is unlike anyone's I've ever seen, I don't know anyone that took over a year of high dose macrobid, followed by compounding neurological injuries from cipro, including IV, and then was crippled for 7 years got better for two more, and then essentially killed themselves with bactrim. But that is my story. And I'm finally starting to see cracks, a little light shining through, moments that are starting to string together where my thoughts are, more existent number one, and coherent. It may be that the cardiac disregulation is something that I can't fully overcome, and that may kill me regardless, but I no longer feel I have to kill myself in this moment and that's a huge win.

I'm not a pro-life person I'm not suggesting anyone who wants to take their life shouldn't, that's no one's choice but the individual. I'm trying to speak to those who don't want to kill themselves, and who are injured the way that I was, and the way that I am. It may take years, but if any part of you can believe, that at the end of five, seven, 10 years, that you would be better, would it be worth it? There's only one way to find out. You aren't alone.

Peace be with you all.
 
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fedup1982

Specialist
Jul 17, 2025
324
Holy crap that sounds like literal torture. Fk big pharma, I think that's what I take from your story. Thanks for sharing so eloquently, it makes me value the health I do have (not that I wouldn't swap it for not existing, as guilty as I feel for saying that). I wish I could give you total health. I'm sorry you've been through all that, well done for making it this far
 
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Daphne

Student
Jul 23, 2025
184
That is awesome. I injured myself with RC opioids, the wd's are so horrific I had to get on buprenorphine. Now that stuff is messing me up and I can't get off due to wd's.
Pharmaceutical injury is no light matter. If I could rewind, I would steer clear of pills!
 
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qwert3948

Member
Apr 24, 2023
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wish you the best on your recovery journey!! that's insane man
 
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Light_

Elementalist
Apr 9, 2024
811
That is awesome. I injured myself with RC opioids, the wd's are so horrific I had to get on buprenorphine. Now that stuff is messing me up and I can't get off due to wd's.
Pharmaceutical injury is no light matter. If I could rewind, I would steer clear of pills!
I hope you can get off, it will be hell probably, but you would get better eventually. I don't think i would have gotten better if I had gone on more Rx drugs. Idk how i survived, time passed and I was in hell. that's the only way i could describe the time it took for me to get "here".
wish you the best on your recovery journey!! that's insane man
it is insane, this whole human world is fucked up insanity. fwiw I am 44 and female.
Holy crap that sounds like literal torture. Fk big pharma, I think that's what I take from your story. Thanks for sharing so eloquently, it makes me value the health I do have (not that I wouldn't swap it for not existing, as guilty as I feel for saying that). I wish I could give you total health. I'm sorry you've been through all that, well done for making it this far
thank you, and it was layers below torture friend. there is nothing more sinister than pharmaceuticals based on what I know.
 
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Kali_Yuga13

Warlock
Jul 11, 2024
707
I'm glad you're recovering. I never heard of antibiotics doing so much damage. What did the doctors say?

What does loss of inner voice and inner eye mean in this context? Like your ability to visualize and hear your self think?
 
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Light_

Elementalist
Apr 9, 2024
811
I'm glad you're recovering. I never heard of antibiotics doing so much damage. What did the doctors say?

What does loss of inner voice and inner eye mean in this context? Like your ability to visualize and hear your self think?
the doctors told me to "make your peace with it" meaning, we can't help and we would rather pretend this isn't happening.

no inner eye, like can't visualize anything inside your minds eye, hard to describe it's absence, it's an experience you can't really contextualize unless you lose it. No words, no self voice, again impossible to imagine if, number one, you can imagine anything, or have an inner monologue. mine were gone, fully, not muted under fog, gone. all i had was the color orange where mind function used to be. pray you never understand what I am talking about <3
 
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Daphne

Student
Jul 23, 2025
184
the doctors told me to "make your peace with it" meaning, we can't help and we would rather pretend this isn't happening.

no inner eye, like can't visualize anything inside your minds eye, hard to describe it's absence, it's an experience you can't really contextualize unless you lose it. No words, no self voice, again impossible to imagine if, number one, you can imagine anything, or have an inner monologue. mine were gone, fully, not muted under fog, gone. all i had was the color orange where mind function used to be. pray you never understand what I am talking about <3
i hope you got a malpractice settlement!
 
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Light_

Elementalist
Apr 9, 2024
811
i hope you got a malpractice settlement!
Of course not. They weren't erroneously prescribed necessarily. And anyone suffering the way that I have knows that the medical establishment gas lights and denies. Blame the victim. Especially when it's severe delayed neurotoxicity like me by over 3 years even though it was a downward slide the entire time since taking those drugs. And even though it's well documented in medical literature that delayed neurotoxicity is a thing up to 10 years post exposure or ingestion of these poisons. The entire allopathic world is sinister, raw evil. I'm just glad I didn't compound things by taking more poison, besides the alcohol, but honestly for the damage the alcohol also did, it was the only thing that saved my life. I stopped drinking about 3 months ago, and in the last month or so I have finally started to regain parts of my life. And I know I will continue to do so. Even if the cardiac damage kills me. I still beat those m************ assholes in a way, the ones responsible for this kind of devastation.
 

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