My mum is experiencing Fluoroquinolone-induced peripheral neuropathy

Hi everyone. I’m writing to ask for advice on what has worked best for managing your peripheral neuropathy pain.

About 4 months ago, my mum started experiencing serious burn/pain in her legs, especially her knees, and despite all her medical exams coming out normal she traced it back to extensive use of Ciproxin family antibiotics that she used to treat recurring UTIs. We live in Italy and unfortunately here doctors do not keep up to date, and no one warned her about this very serious potential side effect of the drug.

For context, she’s an anesthesiologist and has done her own research on this, but despite strong medications she’s really struggling to get better so I thought I’d ask here. From what I understand PN caused by Fluoroquinolone is a particular one and there is very limited knowledge online other than warnings.

Any personal advice or referral of doctors with knowledge in this field (specifically Fluoroquinolone PN) would be much appreciated.

Thank you all so much.