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Always read the warning label! · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: The scary part about today's story is it could happen
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  Speaker 1: On the night of October twenty fifth, two thousand and nine,
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  Speaker 1: a fit, healthy, thirty year old man named Alex was
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  Speaker 1: at home in San Diego watching TV in bed. At
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  Speaker 1: some point, he noticed there was a slight pain in
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  Speaker 1: his left achilles tendon. A tendon is the fibrous, connective
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  Speaker 1: tissue that connects muscle to bone, and the Achilles tendon
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  Speaker 1: is the biggest tendon in your whole body, and it's
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  Speaker 1: the one you can feel on the back of your ankle.
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  Speaker 1: It connects your calf muscle to your heel. Alex had
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  Speaker 1: never had tendon pain before, and so he assumed it
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  Speaker 1: must just be tightness from the long walk he had
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  Speaker 1: taken that night around his neighborhood, and so after massaging
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  Speaker 1: it for a little while, eventually he kind of forgot
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  Speaker 1: about it and just kept watching TV until he fell
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  Speaker 1: asleep for the night. The next morning, when Alex woke up,
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  Speaker 1: he immediately recognized that the pain in his left achilles
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  Speaker 1: tendon was ten times worse. It was blindingly painful, and
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  Speaker 1: then his right achilles tendon was also now starting to hurt,
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  Speaker 1: and so he reflexively reached under.
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  Speaker 2: The covers and tried to massage.
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  Speaker 1: His sword tendons, but as soon as he touched the
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  Speaker 1: backs of his legs, he felt shooting pain in that area,
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  Speaker 1: and so he couldn't touch them anymore, and so instead
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  Speaker 1: he swung his legs off the bed and he sat
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  Speaker 1: up on the edge of his bed, and then he
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  Speaker 1: slowly rocked forward until he transferred his weight onto his
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  Speaker 1: feet and tried to stand up, and as soon as
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  Speaker 1: he did, he fell to the ground because of the
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  Speaker 1: blinding pain in his tendons, and so he manages to
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  Speaker 1: pull himself back up using the bed and then he.
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  Speaker 2: Hobbles his way out of his bedroom over.
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  Speaker 1: To the top of the stairs, and then he grabs
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  Speaker 1: the railing and he carefully makes his way down the stairs,
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  Speaker 1: and as he's walking, it feels like the tendons are
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  Speaker 1: so tight they're going to snap like a rubber band.
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  Speaker 1: And so he gets to the bottom of the stairs
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  Speaker 1: and he walks his way around into the kitchen where
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  Speaker 1: he sits down and he kind of evaluates what's going on,
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  Speaker 1: and he thinks to himself, man, I must be developing
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  Speaker 1: a wicked case of tendonitis. Tendonitis is inflammation or irritation
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  Speaker 1: of the tendon and so Alex grabbed his laptop, which
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  Speaker 1: was right in front of him. He opened it up
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  Speaker 1: and he began looking for ways to alleviate pain from tendonitis.
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  Speaker 1: And so, after looking in a couple of medical forums,
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  Speaker 1: he got up and hobbled his way over to the bathroom.
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  Speaker 1: He opened up the medicine cabinet and he grabbed the
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  Speaker 1: icy hot, which is a topical pain reliever, and then
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  Speaker 1: he hobbled his way into the first floor living room
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  Speaker 1: where he laid down on the couch and then he
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  Speaker 1: applied a healthy amount of icy Hot on the backs
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  Speaker 1: of both of his legs, right over his tendons, and
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  Speaker 1: then he propped his legs up on two pillows, and
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  Speaker 1: so he laid there and he's thinking, okay, so it's
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  Speaker 1: the weekend, I have today off. I'll just lay here
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  Speaker 1: until the pain subsides. But by that evening the pain
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  Speaker 1: had not subsided. It had gotten progressively worse. And so
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  Speaker 1: Alex picked up the phone and he called a podiatrist,
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  Speaker 1: which is a doctor who specializes in feet and the
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  Speaker 1: lower half of your leg and he made an appointment
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  Speaker 1: for the following morning to have a look at his
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  Speaker 1: achilles tendons. And so after he hung up, Alex thought
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  Speaker 1: to himself, you know, the best thing I can do
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  Speaker 1: is probably just go to bed. I'm bound to feel
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  Speaker 1: better in the morning. And so Alex hobbles his way
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  Speaker 1: back up the stairs, holding onto the railing, and he
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  Speaker 1: goes into his bathroom to wash his face. He reaches
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  Speaker 1: for the towel and he notices his thumb is suddenly
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  Speaker 1: locked up and he can't move his thumb. And then
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  Speaker 1: his other thumb too locks up, and he's looking at
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  Speaker 1: them and he can't get them to move, and so
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  Speaker 1: with his other fingers He tries to.
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  Speaker 4: Move that thumb and bend that thumb, but he can't
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  Speaker 4: do it. The tendon in both of his thumbs had
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  Speaker 4: suddenly become unbelievably tight, to the point where he couldn't
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  Speaker 4: move his thumbs anymore. Up until this point, Alex had
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  Speaker 4: convinced himself that whatever was happening with his Achilles tendons
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  Speaker 4: was probably minor, that with or without medical intervention, it
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  Speaker 4: was bound to just get better. But now he wasn't
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  Speaker 4: so sure because the thumb situation that really scared him.
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  Speaker 2: He had never experienced.
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  Speaker 1: Anything like that, and he couldn't help but think that
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  Speaker 1: whatever was happening in his thumbs was probably what was
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  Speaker 1: happening in his achilles, making this.
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  Speaker 2: A much more complex problem.
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  Speaker 1: So Alex forgets about washing his face or even going
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  Speaker 1: to bed, and instead leaves the bathroom and grabs the
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  Speaker 1: railing and hobbles back downstairs. He makes his way into
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen with the stiff thumbs, and he sits down
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  Speaker 1: at the table. He opens up his laptop and he
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  Speaker 1: begins looking for any information about what is happening to him.
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  Speaker 1: A few minutes into his search, he was about to
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  Speaker 1: type something into Google when all of a sudden, he
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  Speaker 1: felt the rest of his fingers start to lock up.
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  Speaker 1: The tendons in his fingers were tightening up, just like
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  Speaker 1: his thumbs and just like his Achilles tendons. And so
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  Speaker 1: now Alex is going into crisis mode. He doesn't know
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  Speaker 1: what's happening to him. He has no idea what to do,
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  Speaker 1: but he manages to calm himself down, and he told himself, Alex,
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow you got a doctor's appointment. They'll know what's wrong
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  Speaker 1: with you. They will fix this. Everything's going to be
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  Speaker 1: just fine. And so, despite his overwhelming urge to panic,
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  Speaker 1: he closes his laptop and he hobbles his way over
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  Speaker 1: to the stairs. He climbs up to the second floor,
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  Speaker 1: and he goes directly into his bedroom, crawls in bed,
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  Speaker 1: and he goes to sleep. The next morning, when he
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  Speaker 1: woke up, the tightness and pain in his Achilles tendons
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  Speaker 1: and in his hands had not gotten any worse, and
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  Speaker 1: that kind of comforted Alex. He's thinking, Okay, we're past
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  Speaker 1: the worst of this.
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  Speaker 2: I just need to figure out what this is and
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  Speaker 2: then fix it.
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  Speaker 1: And so he crawled out of bed, he hobbled his
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  Speaker 1: way over to the stairs, he went down, he grabbed
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  Speaker 1: a quick bite to eat, and then he went outside
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  Speaker 1: to his car to head out to his doctor's appointment.
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  Speaker 1: When he got to his car, he reached the door handle,
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  Speaker 1: and when he pulled on it, he felt an unbelievable
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  Speaker 1: surge of pain in the hand that was on the car.
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  Speaker 1: And when he looked down, all of the joints in
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  Speaker 1: that hand that had been pulling on the car, they
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  Speaker 1: had all separated, like the connective tissue that kept his
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  Speaker 1: finger hole was no longer strong enough. So Alex screamed
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  Speaker 1: and he retracted his hand in horror, and when he
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  Speaker 1: looked at it, the joints had gone back to normal,
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  Speaker 1: but the pain in this hand persisted, and so on
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  Speaker 1: adrenaline alone, Alex managed to use his other.
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  Speaker 2: Hand and got the car door open.
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  Speaker 1: He went inside, and that he could barely grip the
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  Speaker 1: steering wheel because one hand is now wrecked and his
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  Speaker 1: other hand is not much better. But he managed to
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  Speaker 1: speed to the doctor's office, and then when he got inside,
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  Speaker 1: he could barely fill out the paperwork because one hand
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  Speaker 1: was wrecked and the other wasn't much better, so he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't grip the pen. But after he gave them his paperwork.
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  Speaker 1: The doctor finally came out and they brought him back
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  Speaker 1: to an exam room, and that's when Alex explained that
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  Speaker 1: originally it was just his achilles tendons, that's why he
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  Speaker 1: had called for this appointment. But after making that appointment,
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  Speaker 1: not only had the pain in his achilles gotten much
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  Speaker 1: much worse, but there was also now pain and tightness
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  Speaker 1: in his hands, including one hand that had just fallen
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  Speaker 1: apart when he tried to open a door. Alex told
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  Speaker 1: the doctor that he had never experienced anything even remotely
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  Speaker 1: resembling this in his entire life. He led a very
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  Speaker 1: healthy lifestyle and really had no idea what could be
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  Speaker 1: causing this, although he did say ten days prior, he
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  Speaker 1: had finished a round of antibiotics. The drug was called cipro,
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  Speaker 1: but previously he had used this drug with no issues.
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  Speaker 2: But as a precaution, he told the doctor.
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  Speaker 1: Because he knew one of the side effects of the
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  Speaker 1: drug was tendon problems, and so as a precaution, Alex
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  Speaker 1: had actually brought the paperwork for that drug, Cipro, and
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  Speaker 1: he gave it to the doctor, and so the doctor,
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  Speaker 1: after hearing the story, he reads through the back sheet
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  Speaker 1: of the drug, and he tells Alex that he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: think it's a side effect of the drug.
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  Speaker 2: He thinks Alex is showing all the.
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  Speaker 1: Signs of having an autoimmune disease like lupis or multiple sclerosis,
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  Speaker 1: and that he needs to go to a rheumatologist and get.
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  Speaker 2: Tested for that. And so Alex is horrified by this.
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  Speaker 1: He can't believe that only a couple of days ago
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  Speaker 1: he was totally normal, and now.
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  Speaker 2: It felt like his whole life was falling apart. And
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  Speaker 2: so he left that appointment.
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  Speaker 1: He went out to his car, and he called a
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  Speaker 1: rheumatologist and he set up an appointment for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of days later to get tested.
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  Speaker 2: And then he went home, and over the next.
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  Speaker 1: Couple of days, as he waited for that next appointment,
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  Speaker 1: his condition only got worse. Every muscle, joint, and connected
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  Speaker 1: tissue in his body was either extremely tight or hurt
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  Speaker 1: or both. By the time he made it to the
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  Speaker 1: rheumatologist's office, he could barely move on his own. After
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  Speaker 1: the doctor had run several tests on Alex, Alex began
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  Speaker 1: mentally preparing himself to be told that he had an
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  Speaker 1: autoimmune disease. He believed at this point that that was
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  Speaker 1: the most logical explanation for what was happening to him.
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  Speaker 1: But when the test results came back in to Alex's shock,
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  Speaker 1: he was negative across the board.
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  Speaker 2: He did not have an autoimmune disease. And so Alex
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  Speaker 2: hobbled out of the office.
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  Speaker 1: He got out to his car, He sat down, and
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  Speaker 1: he was in pain and at a loss. He had
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  Speaker 1: no idea what was happening to his body, and it
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  Speaker 1: seemed like none of the experts knew either. And so
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  Speaker 1: when Alex got back to his house, he made his
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  Speaker 1: way into the kitchen and he sat down to do
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  Speaker 1: some more research. But he felt like he was at
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  Speaker 1: a loss there too. He didn't even know what to research.
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  Speaker 1: He had searched for every possable combination of pain tightness
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  Speaker 1: in your achilles, pain tightness in your hands and your fingers,
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  Speaker 1: and nothing was lining up with his experience. And so
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  Speaker 1: he thought to himself, you know, even though that pediatrist
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  Speaker 1: ruled out the antibiotic he had taken a cycle of
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  Speaker 1: before he started feeling the way he was feeling.
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  Speaker 2: Even though he ruled that out, I might.
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  Speaker 1: As well do some more research on it, because it's
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  Speaker 1: the one thing I can point to that was newly
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  Speaker 1: introduced to my life. Before I had all these things
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  Speaker 1: happened to me. And so he opened up his laptop
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  Speaker 1: and he typed in cipro side effects, and what he
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  Speaker 1: discovered horrified him. Cipro is part of a class of
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  Speaker 1: antibiotics called floro quinolones, and while it is a very
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  Speaker 1: effective antibiotic, it comes with extremely severe side effects, and
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  Speaker 1: enough people who have taken a fluoroquinolone have suffered from
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  Speaker 1: these side effects that there's actually a term given to them.
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  Speaker 2: They are said to have.
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  Speaker 1: Been floxed, and as Alex discovered in his research, there
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  Speaker 1: are many online communities for these floxed individuals, many of
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  Speaker 1: which used to be healthy and fit, but after taking
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  Speaker 1: these drugs they became bedridden or had to transition to
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  Speaker 1: a wheelchair. This is due to one of the nastiest
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  Speaker 1: side effects of this class of drug, ruptured tendons. As
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  Speaker 1: a reminder, a tendon connects muscle to bone, and so
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  Speaker 1: if you were to say a tendon has ruptured, what
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  Speaker 1: you're actually saying is the muscle has torn off of
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  Speaker 1: the bone, and apparently this is unbelievably painful and almost
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  Speaker 1: always requires surgery to fix, and in many of these
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  Speaker 1: floxing cases, the fluoroquinoline drugs caused these people's tendons to
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  Speaker 1: start dramatically tightening until they just start rupturing and there's
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  Speaker 1: nothing they can do to stop it unless they stop moving,
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  Speaker 1: hence becoming bedridden and transitioning to wheelchairs. When Alex read
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  Speaker 1: all these horrible testimonials of people who had been floxed,
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  Speaker 1: he realized their experience mimicked his own.
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  Speaker 2: He was floxed.
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  Speaker 1: But once he knew what he was up against, he
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  Speaker 1: began looking for a timeline how long would he have
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  Speaker 1: the symptoms, And what he saw was most people experienced
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  Speaker 1: these awful symptoms for about three months and then they
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  Speaker 1: fade away. So for three months Alex suffered, but he
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  Speaker 1: stayed positive. He was certain he was going to get better.
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  Speaker 1: But three months came and went, and he didn't get better.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, he got worse. All of his tendons continued
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  Speaker 1: to tighten and some of them ruptured, and he had
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  Speaker 1: to quit his job and had to move in with
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  Speaker 1: his parents, but he stayed positive. He went back online
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  Speaker 1: and he began reading about more severe flocks in cases,
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  Speaker 1: and he saw those people typically saw a big turnaround
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  Speaker 1: at the three year mark, and while that was overwhelming
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  Speaker 1: and awful and disheartening, he at least had something to
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  Speaker 1: look at as the light at the end of the tunnel.
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  Speaker 1: And so for three more years he waited and waited
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  Speaker 1: in pain. He eventually became completely bedridden and completely dependent
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  Speaker 1: on his parents. But then the three year mark came
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  Speaker 1: and went, and much like the three month mark, nothing
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  Speaker 1: got better.
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  Speaker 2: He just got worse.
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  Speaker 1: And that was when Alex realized he was in the
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  Speaker 1: range of people that suffered from their floxing permanently. In
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, so seven years after taking that fateful dose
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  Speaker 1: of cipro, he wrote a blog post on his website,
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  Speaker 1: updating the world about his condition. In it, he says
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  Speaker 1: he's only gotten worse and that his life effectively came
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  Speaker 1: to an end in two thousand and nine when over
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  Speaker 1: a six day period he swallowed those twelve sipro pills,
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  Speaker 1: and so now all he looks forward to is his death.
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