I was a fit and healthy doctor. Then I took a common antibiotic... and it nearly killed me. These are the horrific side effects I wish I'd known

EXCLUSIVE I was a fit and healthy doctor. Then I took a common antibiotic..

. and it nearly killed me. These are the horrific side effects I wish I'd known READ MORE: I'm the doctor on the cusp of an autism breakthrough.

.. we're using an everyday drug to reverse children's symptoms By DR MARK GHALILI FOR DAILYMAIL.

COM Published: 07:14, 28 February 2025 | Updated: 07:14, 28 February 2025 e-mail View comments I was just five minutes into my usual workout at the gym when my legs suddenly collapsed from under me. It was as though a bomb had gone off inside my body and I couldn't get up. After being rushed to hospital by my family, doctors performed a series of basic tests.

But they couldn't find anything amiss so I was sent home. It was December 2016, and over the next few weeks, my condition deteriorated fast. I lost 15 pounds of muscle mass and ended up confined to a wheelchair because I was too weak to walk.

The brain fog, intense burning sensations and debilitating pain made it impossible to work - ironically as a doctor, having started my job as an internal medicine physician at a Las Vegas hospital just three months earlier. By January, things had become so dire I wrote my will, unsure if I would survive. How could this be happening? I was a fit and healthy 32-year-old doctor who follows a good diet and exercises regularly - and suddenly I was living a nightmare.

Dr Ghalili pictured above (left) as a doctor and while healing from his injuries (right) After researching my sym.