[QUOTE=Rock Harders]Mongers-
I would not recommend that you take Cipro for the Clap (which is better known as Gonorrhea). You would be much better off taking either Amoxicillin or Cephalexin which are much less harsh on your system and would take care of the problem within a few days. Cipro should really only be used for serious issues such as Typhoid or other serious gastrointestinal infections.
Sorte,
Rock Harders[/QUOTE]RH,
Quite right my friend. I would like to reiterate the wisdom of your suggestion. While I am no MD, I have run the gamut of antibiotics due to what started out to be a harmless staph infection from a cut on the foot I received on the beach in Baja da Tijuica back in the early 90's. I started out with a prescription for amoxixilin but the infection proved to be too much because the infection re-occurred several months later. By now, I was back in the states and tried amoxicillin again with limited success so I graduated a Keflex. I don't remember the name of the other (stronger) antibiotics that were tried but eventually I got to Cipro. I don't even want to tell you how this infection was manifesting itself. At the time, I received a stern warning from the Dr that in the world of antibiotics, cipro was like a howitzer. He told that this may well mess up my intestinal system for a while which it most certainly did. It was alike having case of the "trots" for a week. That cipro killed every living organism in my gut.
But he gave me another warning telling me to be careful because once you get to cipro, there is not really much of anything stronger he could give me should it return. If I should develop (or the infection rather) a resistance to cirpo there would be nothing left for them to treat me with. THAT is one scary thought.
I was belly aching to a colleague at work who was a former Army Ranger and he told me that I should try a remedy that he learned in jungle training. He told me to go to the local Health Food store and buy a 6 oz bottle of Colloidal Silver. He told me to pour two teaspoons into a bottle of water and drink it down each day until the bottle was empty. Would you believe that the infection went away and that it has never come back. Was it the cipro? Was it the colloidal silver? Who knows? Just another interesting bit of trivia.
Here's my point (yes, I do have a point), there are ways around conventional medicine that are often more effective and less harmful to your system. Sometimes it pays to look into an alternative remedy. There's no way in HELL that you need cipro to fight a case of the clap or any other non-specific gonorrheal infection unless you have much, much bigger problems already. Again, I am no MD so don't go by what I say, but buying a ZPAK (Azitromina in Brazil, Sumamed in Russia and Ukraine) over the counter in the pharmacy will likely clear up the drip.
Be safe out there.
Jake