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Reply to "Tingly hands and feet?"

It's not good to be on any antibiotic long term for a variety of reasons. You're aware of flagyl's dark side, cipro can eventually cause tendon issues. For all of them you can and will build up an immunity if you take the same one long term and they can cause issues in the rest of your body. For example you can get yeast infections in your skin because the bacteria there dies as well.

HOWEVER, don't freak out. You can be on long term antibiotic therapy successfully by rotating through antibiotics. Cipro to flagyl to xifaxin to augmentin is a popular rotation, although if your current symptoms are tied back to flagyl that'll be off your radar for awhile, and potentially forever.

You can also try probiotics after a course of antibiotics to help grow a good environment of bacteria in your pouch. The good keeps the bad from taking foot. VSL and Algin are two popular probiotics.

Hang in there, you can figure it out.
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