Internal medicine specialist Dr. Mark Ghalili joins The Doctors to share about the side effects of fluoroquinolones, which can attack your tendons, commonly your Achilles tendon, as well as several other known side effects. He shares long-term effects do occur in most people who take this class of antibiotics. Dr. Ghalili has developed a regenerative medicine protocol that helped plastic surgeon Dr. Andrew Ordon, who is now feeling completely recovered after his Achilles tendon atrophied. Dr. Ordon stresses that ask your doctor if you really need an antibiotic and if there an antibiotic with fewer side effects that you can take.