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    Did you take a fluoroquinolone type antibiotic (Cipro, Levaquin, Floxin, etc.) within a year prior to your Achilles tendon rupture?
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Antibiotics Poll

The topic of a link between antibiotic use and tendon ruptures has come up numerous times in the last few months.  Most recently, as daveleft pointed out, the FDA has ordered makers of fluoroquinolone drugs — a potent class of antibiotics — to add a ‘black box‘ warning to their products, which include Cipro, Levaquin, [...]