An actor left with arthritis, a man so weak his wife has to help him get dressed and a mother-of-two left partially deaf and wearing hearing aids aged 36.
These are just some of the victims of a disabling reaction to antibiotics designed to improve their health. Instead, the drugs left them with irreversible side-effects that continue to wreck their lives.
Antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones, used to treat a number of bacterial infections including pneumonia and gastroenteritis, have long been associated with serious risks of tissue ruptures, affecting muscles and blood vessels.