I think my sister is trying to kill me | Christina Cooke

The Ciprofloxacin antibiotic I’m taking to rid my stomach of the issues it picked up in Bolivia can have some serious side effects, according to Medline Plus, a service of the U.S. Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

They can include:

  • agitation
  • anxiety
  • feelings of not trusting others or feelings that others want to hurt you
  • difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep
  • nightmares or abnormal dreams
  • tingling or swelling of the face, neck, throat, tongue, lips, eyes, hands, feet, ankles, or lower legs
  • difficulty breathing or swallowing
  • rapid, irregular, or pounding heartbeat
  • unusual bruising or bleeding
  • extreme tiredness
  • loss of appetite
  • pain in the upper right part of the stomach
  • yellowing of the skin or eyes
  • seizures
  • dizziness
  • double vision
  • pulsing sounds in the head or ringing in the ears
  • confusion
  • uncontrollable shaking of a part of the body
  • hallucinations (seeing things or hearing voices that do not exist)
  • depression
  • thoughts about dying or killing yourself
  • pain, burning, tingling, numbness, and/or weakness in a part of the body
  • loss of ability to feel light touch, pain, heat or coldness, or vibration in a part of the body
  • loss of ability to know position of a part of the body
  • loss of muscle strength in a part of the body

Laura keeps looking at me weird. I don’t trust her one bit.