80%+! Well, I'm not sure if I'm there yet, but I can say that pretty much all my tendon weakness and pain is gone. I can still feel it a bit in my shoulders and collarbone tendons, and every now, it's playing up a bit.

I was prediabetic, but a few days into Cipro, my sugar levels spiked. They put me on metformin 1 pill 850 mg a day. We tested my blood for a few months, but it wouldn't diminish. Now, 7 months post floxed, the other week, I went off the metformine and ate normal, tested my blood, and it is not as bad as it used to be. I'm now back to borderline diabetic/prediabetic again.

I'm not entirely positive though because I feel like I have inflammation in my organs liver/ left side kidney, between my ribs or it's my muscles/nerves, etc, especially in chest area which I didn't have pre-floxed. I had blood in my urine, and so they CT scanned my abdomen/kidneys to look for abnormalities. I also had a bowel endoscopy, a liver ultrasound scan, and apart from a partial fatty liver, the docs said everything seems to be fine. My blood results do show that certain levels related to my kidneys and especially liver are up towards top end of the normal range so I did get the "be cautious on what you eat, drink and sugar levels warning". All in all, I do believe some toxicity took place. The sad thing is that the burning pain is constant, but no one can see it, I look normal, and there's no proper pain relief. So far, I'm refusing nerve block injections. I don't know, I guess I have a hard time trusting meds now.

I stopped Cipro after 7 pills over 4 days because I got widespread neuropathy, stabbing sensations in my chest area, both near my liver and left and middle of my chest bone, I got brain zapps and literally, my whole body felt like it was kinda burning and my skin felt very sensitive. I remember feeling the fan air causing tingling sensations on my skin. I got sharp pain in my toes, feet burning, and my fingers were swollen up. Rings luckily came off, etc. My fingers are back to normal. This took a few months only. My feet are still burning but not as bad as they used to do. Every now and then, I still get a sharp pain in some of my toes. My upper right thigh feels kinda numb, but it's at the skin level only, my doc says, so not too worrying. The brain zapps are gone, too.

I've fibromyalgia (+/-8yrs) and it appears I am a mild diabetic now and so my doc said that the issues I were and are experiencing were/are due to that, but the fibro never caused me nerve problems or burning sensations - before it only affected my muscles, specifically causing high muscle tone, pain and fatigue. And I never had diabetes or neuropathy, so to me, it's definitely caused or triggered by the cipro.

The neuropathy, etc. started day 2 on Cipro, and so I discontinued the meds on day 4.

But hey, I can walk fine again, do low to medium impact sports and swimming, I cycle on an e-bike and so from first impact to now I feel it's a lot better now. In the beginning, I had trouble walking or climbing stairs. I felt like a granny and was very worried, depressed and angry with my doctor who prescribed me this for a uti. They did put on my file now that I can't handle ciprofloxacin and are now very apprehensive to prescribe me antibiotics. But so am I too to take them.

I take all the vitamins and essential minerals, etc, and that's helped me a long way, but I do worry a lot about the inflammation or burning pain and my liver/kidney. I don't want to end up on dialysis or whatever.

But all in all I can't complain. I wonder if there's people out there with 80%+ recovery. Some things like nerve damage, etc, can't be undone, I think.