Cipro Gave Me a Tendon Rupture

by Lisa
(North Carolina)

I was a school teacher and had a sinus infection and was put on Cipro aND noticed that I could not lean on the high stool by the projector without the tendons on the back of my thighs at the butt hurting severely.

When I stepped in a chair to get something off the top of a cabinet I heard a big snap like a huge rubberband pop, also lightening bolt pain but just for a second and I stepped back down quickly. It felt like I was walking on a boiled egg. No pain but weird and clumsy.

The Dr. said that I had torn the tendon on the bottom of the foot and needed therapy. When I went to therapy they put me on a bike and after it hurt so bad I had to get down, I hurt for over six months.

I tore tendons around the coccyx as well. Every time I stood up severe pain that literally took my breath away for six months. I even had spinal injections that left me screaming like a banshee. I also passed out at school from the plastic fumes and latex painted walls in the new computer lab.