**Overview:** This regimen is currently tailored to attacking the oxidative stress and potential tendon / collagen / tooth / etc damage of fluorocarbon toxicity. Only the nigella sativa is specifically for neuropathy, but it doesn't have good science behind it. Also, many people report magnesium helps with muscle twitches, and avoiding sugar (part of my diet) helps with their pain, pins and needles, numbness.

## Supplements

- Alpha-Lipolic Acid (energy metabolism, antioxidant)
- Bee Pollen (antioxidant)
- BCAAs (branch chain amino acids, protein formation)
- Cod liver oil (general health)
- Collagen powder (tendon / ligament / muscle repair)
- Colostrum (digestive health, immune system)
- Coq10 (mitochondria food, antioxidant)
- Creatine powder (tendon / ligament / muscle repair)
- Food based antioxidant pill (antioxidant)
- Glucosamine Chondroitin (joint health)
- Glutamine (antioxidant, glutathione precursor)
- Glutathione (antioxidant)
- L-Carnatine (enegy metabolism, antioxidant)
- MCT oil (medium chain fatty acids, general health)
- Magnesium (muscle relaxation, cell function and healing)
- NAC (antioxidant)
- Nigella sativa (GABA receptors / brain function)
- PQQ (mitochondria food, antioxidant)
- Probiotic (gut health)
- Selenium (antioxidant)
- Vitamin C (general health, prevent NAC headaches)
- Vitamin D3 (when I don't get enough sun)
- Vitamin E (antioxidant)
- Vitamin K2 (when I don't get enough foods containing K2)
- Whey protein powder (tendon / ligament / muscle repair)
- Zinc (general health, muscle repair)

**Notes:** Occasionally a multivitamin twice a day, and if I take that I won't take the vitamins listed above. Have currently stopped Vitamin E (science is iffy on health benefits), and glutathione (research shows it's not very bioavailable and it's too pricey for the limited absorption). Don't take PQQ very often as they are tiny pills and not many of them. I don't take zinc daily, at most once every other day. I have an iron supplement but won't take it unless a blood test shows I'm deficient. I do not take any B-vitamins (except in the occasional multivitamin) and attempt to get them from food sources.

## Foods

- Antioxidants:
    - Ginger
    - Green tea
    - Tumeric
    - Black pepper
    - Cinnamon
    - Nutmeg
- Apple cider vinegar
- Bone broth (home made)
- Fish
- Liver
- Beans (red, black)
- Red meat
- Tart cherry juice
- Probiotics:
    - Kefir
    - Kimchi
    - Sauerkraut
    - Greek yoghurt
    - Kombucha
- Brie and Gouda (for vitamin k2)

**Notes:** Diet is not limited to these foods, this is a list of foods I'm specifically trying to increase for healing. Continuing ketogenic diet. Main sources of carbohydrates are currently honey, dairy, dark chocolate, fruit, and tart cherry juice.

## Other

- Magnesium topical spray (used 2-3 times a day on various body parts)
- Epsom salt baths (1-3 times a week)

## Lifestyle

- Stopping major exercise, not currently riding bicycle, not going to gym, not rock climbing
- Experimenting with "ice massage", freezing a full plastic water bottle and rolling out muscles with it
- Switched to non-fluoride toothpaste
- Attempting to meditate more
- Try to avoid hunger and eat generously
- Light walking every day. Stretching if I'm feeling adventurous.
- Occasionally will foam roll out back. Foam rolling out calves / legs has not shown positive impact on pain
- Have stopped drinking alcohol entirely, and if I were a recreational drug user I would have stopped those too
- Avoid NSAID drugs (Ibuprofen)

I am considering massages and acupuncture but have yet to try either.

## Typical Day

- Probiotic first thing in the morning
- Make shake of BCAAs, glutamine, whey protein (1/2 serving), creatine (1/8 serving), collagen (full serving), MCT oil, mixed in water, tart cherry juice, tumeric, salt, black pepper, nutmeg, green tea, cinnamon, greek yoghurt or kefir. Might add fruit, topping off with kombucha.
- Breakfast, usually eggs, veggies and fruit, with some probiotics like sauerkraut or kimchi.
- With breakfast first rouond of supplements. Varies from day to day. Usually something like magnesium, selenium, bee pollen, Coq10, vitamin C, alpha-lipoic acid. I have a system where I put supplements I've used in one corner of the table to avoid taking double doses, especially of supplements that are only 1/day
- Lunch is usually another shake of similar servings to the breakfast shake. This one is likely made in a blender so I can add veggies, such as kale, leftover broccoli stems, carrots, or whatever is lying around. Lunch may include a light to medium meal and snacking. May take some supplements here to space them out, and may take supplements that are OK at higher doses, like alpha-lipoic acid and Coq10.
- Probiotic before dinner
- Dinner is a large meal, about 1/4 of the plate is meat (red meat or fish), some cooked vegetables, some probiotic foods (kimchi or sauerkraut), maybe half an avocado. Cooked in healthy fats, coconut oil, olive oil, butter.
- With dinner is remaining supplements, including second or third dose of supplements taken multiple times per day.
- Epsom salt bath after dinner with a pinch of apple cider vinegar added to the tub.
- Before bed is a light shake of small portions of BCAAs, glutamine, whey protein, creatine, collagen, in an attempt to discourage overnight muscle and collagen breakdown.

**Notes:**

I am drinking bone broth and water throughout the day. I usually have 3-4 cups total of bone broth a day, and regularly make more when I'm running low.

## How has this affected your symptoms?

I've been experiencing symptoms for a little over 2 months as of October 27th, 2016. Whether or not the above regimen directly influences my fluoroquinolone toxicity symptoms is unknown and currently impossible to prove. It's also possible any of these symptoms could relapse later, as many floxies report.

#### What's gotten better?

These symptoms started earlier in my floxing and have improved, but not healed entirely:

 - Full body muscle twitches. I used to get them non stop, including some finger spasms. Now they are usually only a few mild episodes a day.
 - Pins and needles and tightness feeling in right foot. In the beginning I would have some pins and needles in the right foot and calf, worse at night and in hot baths. Now I have almost no pins and needles and the ankle usually doesn't feel tight at night.
 - Eye pain. Earlier on I had random sharp eye pain in random parts of both eyes, most often at night. I might get a similar feeling once or twice a week now but much less frequent
 - Achilles / calf / ankle pain and tightness. While this seems to come and go, it's gotten moderately better over the last few days. Notably there is almost no pain when the legs are at rest (there used to be). Still discomfort when walking.
 - Brain fog. In the beginning had quite scary brain fog, hard to concentrate, hard to keep thoughts in my head. Felt like a constant pressure and buzzing in my brain. Now I feel spacey occasionally but nothing like the beginning.
 - Muscle weakness / shakiness. Earlier on I would take some walks and have my legs shaking the whole time, especially when going up and down stairs and hills. Quite scary. Now I feel more stable on my legs, despite lingering pain.
 - Difficulty managing body temperature. Every night in the beginning was a struggle to be under the blanket and boiling or on top of the blanket and freezing.
 - General uneasy / "caffeinated" feeling. Earlier on I would feel bad in a strange, buzzing way, similar to being sleep deprived but pumped full of caffeine, except without the energy
 - Headaches. In the beginning I would have a headache every night, which is quite uncommon for me. Before my floxing I would almost never have headaches. Now I don't have any.
 - Bleeding gums. My gums were bleeding a lot, even on waking up. They bleed less now. Possibly attributed to flossing more.

#### What hasn't gotten better?

These symptoms have stagnated or gotten worse:

 - Shoulder tendinopathy. About 4 weeks ago had searing pain in shoulder while sitting completely still. Now it has good days and bad days but today I can't lift it above a 45 degree angle without pain stopping me.
 - Tooth pain. I get mild but out of the ordinary tooth pain from time to time. It started about 1 month into my floxing.