Mum had five-month headache and thought she was dying after common pill

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A mum suffering from an agonising five-month headache feared she was dying and wrote goodbye letters to her kids - but it was a reaction to a common antibiotic. Victoria Abotorabi was prescribed a course of antibiotics to treat a suspected ear infection in June 2024.

The 50-year-old began taking a three-week course of ciprofloxacin, which belongs to a group of antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones that are often used to treat a variety of bacterial infections. But five days into her prescription, the mum-of-two began waking up in the night with heart palpitations and numbness in her hands.

According to the NHS, in very rare cases fluoroquinolone antibiotics can cause disabling, long-lasting or per