[poi_lover]

I'm very sorry about your problem. Unfortunately there are some pretty nasty side effects to a lot of medications out there. People don't realize that for almost every drug, there are people who have to deal with some major life-threatening side effects. My husband has taken Cipro in the past for more than a year for Crohn's with no problem whatsoever. He did have mighty unusual reaction to an immuno-suppressive drugs, Imuran, that landed him in the hospital about two years ago. It affected his liver, however, he got better once the pulled him off the medication.

My husband also takes Remicade by IV every 8 weeks. That has a whole host of bad side effects. One of them is sudden death by liver failure, however, he has enough problems to warrant it's use. It can also trigger MS, lymphoma, lupus, congestive heart failure, TB, and a host of different infections. These side effects are things I worry about, but so far none have happened. Right now, we just have no other choices.

My mother-in-law is also suffering the side effects of Aredia (a bone building drug) which has required her to stop chemotherapy. She is now doing better as far as the problems she was having with the drug. However, now she is past the point of being able to go back on chemo.