Trish ended her life after years of agony… caused by these common antibiotics that are prescribed to thousands every year. Now, her heartbroken daughter shares a chilling warning

Just a few hours before his death, most of Trish Lightwood’s friends learned what they wanted to do. On August 14, the two of them were traveling to Pegasos -backed clinic in Switzerland on Facebook.

‘Goodbye,’ he wrote. ‘I will not suffer anymore. I will end my life today. ‘

In the mail, it was clear why the old teacher was making a one -way journey: inevitable chronic pain of a common antibiotic species called fluorokinolones.

59 -year -old Trish, ‘I was happy and healthy until I buy an antibiotic that survived but could not live. I’m constantly in cruel pain. I can’t work. ‘

‘I talked to seven GP, ​​three best professors, three pain experts, one neurologist, three psychiatrists and psychologists. There is no treatment for this. The medical profession knows that.

‘You can only protect yourself by knowing the risks.’ ‘

Trish was gone four hours after sharing the post.

Floroquinolones are among the most commonly prescribed antibiotics in the UK, which is used to treat a wide variety of potentially serious infections, including bladder and lungs.

For the majority of patients, drugs such as cefrofloxacin, levofloxacin and moxifloxacin are safe and effective. However, increasing research shows that a small minority – one out of 10,000 – may be exposed to severe and permanent side effects.

These may include tendon and joint pain, muscle weakness, burning or tingling, dizziness and brain fog.

Some patients also report serious psychiatric problems, including suicide thoughts.

Since 1990, the drugs and health products regulation agency (MHRA) have associated more than 10,000 adverse reactions and at least 100 deaths alone with siprofloxacin. In response to the assembly concerns, last year, NHS issued new guidance to doctors, Florokinolones warning should be prescribed only when other, commonly recommended antibiotics are not suitable.

Nevertheless, NHS numbers show that more than 20,000 fluorokinolone recipes are distributed in the UK every month.

Trish was first given to Trish from Liverpool in September 2023 Fluorokinolone antibiotic ofloxacin. Until then, he had never had health problems.

A 23 -year -old daughter, a care worker, said to Posta on Sunday: ‘He liked to exercise and watched a healthy diet. He was a very happy person. ‘

However, Jen claims that everything has changed after his mother has a hysteroscopy – a small procedure using a camera to examine the symptoms of the uterus. The test did not show signs of disease and Trish had no complications. However, as a precaution against infection, a relatively widespread risk-doctor prescribed the course of a nine-day fluorochokeyon oflynolone ofloxacin. In a day, Jen says he has begun to have side effects that his mother will never heal.

The weakest pain in his joints and tendons could not walk, and he could not even lift a glass of water without suffering. He also developed severe insomnia. As the months passed and the symptoms continued, Trish’s family – 21 -year -old son Sean and 59, 59 Koca Mark – had to adapt to their constant pain. When he had to leave the house, they would take him to the wheelchair.

Jen said, “If there was any impact on the road, he could really feel it from his body, Jen Jen says. Any jolt he feels in his tendons. He would define this as a constant feeling of pulling. And the fact that he couldn’t sleep made everything worse because he couldn’t listen to his body. ‘

As Trish explained on Facebook post, he visited numerous medicine experts in an effort to relax. Various scans and blood tests were performed, including a MRI that caused inflammation in Trish’s brain.

Two experts finally diagnosed Trish ‘disability associated with fluorokinolone’- a capture term for a set of severe side effects due to antibiotics. However, they told him that there was no effective treatment. Experts still do not know exactly what causes the situation. A theory is that drugs damage mitochondria – small power centers in energy -producing cells.

Trish’s only guide was that the symptoms of about eight of ten patients began to fade after about nine months.

But when the nine -month sign comes and goes, Jen says that his mother started despair.

“I will probably get stuck like this forever, I don’t want to be like this,” Jen said.

Trish was first given to Trish from Liverpool in September 2023 Fluorokinolone antibiotic ofloxacin. He had never had a health problem until then

Last year, Trish was thinking of taking his own life around Christmas, but was rethful at the last minute. Instead, soon after, he discussed his desire to travel to Switzerland with his family, where he could legally reach assisted death. Trish had chosen clinical Pegasos because he had read online that other disability patients associated with fluorokinolone online have finished their lives there. Jen says: ‘He knew what he wanted to do. Even when I was there in Switzerland, I said we could go home several times. But he was very determined to do it. ‘

During the day, a nurse prepared an intravenous drop containing Nembutal-a quick-influential fatal drug-and put it in Trish’s arm. Normally, patients turn a small wheel to release the infusion, but it means that Trish’s severe joint pain cannot do so. So the clinic set up a cord for his attraction.

When the moment comes, Jen says he’s calm. ‘I think it was very fast,’ he remembers. The last thing he told me was, “I will sleep now.”

Liverpool University Pharmacogenetic Specialist Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed, ‘If you are prescribed an antibiotic antibiotic, ask if an antibiotic is really necessary to the prescription. And if so, are there any other antibiotics that can be used instead? ‘

Jen believes that fluorokinolones should receive a significant health warning. He says: ‘This drug should be used as a last resort for life -threatening conditions.’

● Trish Lightwood’s family launched a petition calling for strict rules about the prescription of fluorokinolone antibiotics: chane.org/p/reule-fluoquinolone-ankibioTic-se

● Call the Samaritans on phone number 116 123 for confidential support or visit Samaritans.org.