LEVAQUIN Reviews (LEVOFLOXACIN)Average Rating: 1.7 (2159 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare LEVAQUIN with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LEVAQUIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | upper resperitory infection | Severe loss of appetite, nausea, lethargy, muscle weakness, chronic low-grade fever, elevated heart rate, edema in wrists and ankles, lassitude, general malaise | NOT recommended for elder patients! (Submitted on behalf of my grandmother.) By the fifth day on Levaquin, she had no appetite, refused all therapy, and constantly complained of weakness and feeling "lousy". She is a retired nurse, and does NOT complain unless it's a "9 out of 10". I was starting to worry she was dying for no apparent reason. I suspected depression. The sixth day I realized her symptoms and the Levaquin started at the same time. I researched the side effects (on the Web) and hunted down her doctor the same day. He switched her to Rocephin and her symptoms were subsiding the next day. I have my charming, cheerful (and once again hungry) grandmother back, and the side effects seem to be almost gone now (five days on). | 100 | | 2/13/2007 | 1 | UTI, congestion | My client was a 98-year-old woman who had an allergic reaction to Levaquin that she was given via IV in the hospital. When returned back to the nursing home, the nursing home doctor disregarded the allergy to Levaquin. Gave it for congestion. Client suffered facial rash, abdominal pain, stroke-like symptoms (weakness in arms, unable to speak). He then gave her another 10 day course of the drug, and on the final day of therapy, client was unable to swallow. The inability to swallow led to aspiration and acute bilateral aspiration pneumonia, which killed her. | If any of you have had swallowing difficulties that can be tied to Levaquin use, please contact me at [email protected] I'm fighting the good fight for everyone who has suffered adverse effects of this very toxic antibiotic. I need your help and input. | M | 98 | 10 days 250 MG 1X day | 10/21/2011 | 1 | cough | My poor 91 yr old mother~in~law took one pill. Within the hour, her blood sugar spiked to over 300, she was shaking, having trouble breathing & having trouble swallowing! Very expensive, awful pill! | F | 91 | 1 days 500mg 1X day | 2/8/2011 | 1 | Pain in joints mainly ankles & lower back | I could walk before levaquin (first week in December 2010 I have not walked since without assistance. My Dr said it will go away but it is still here and worse. | M | 91 | 7 days 500mg 1X day | 6/15/2011 | 1 | Bladder Infection | My 91 year-old mother was given this drug for a bladder infection after recuperating in a nursing home from hip replacement. Medication worked good, but she has suffered from severe itchy blistering rash since. Dermatologist gave her some ointment to put on the rash, but does not give her a lot of relief. It has been almost 8 weeks and she just has to wait for this medication to work its way out of her system. It started in her chest area and has now spread to her ears and scalp and is going down toward her ankles. She is so miserable. Never again! | This rash started after her course of treatment was over. | F | 91 | 2 weeks | 2/9/2009 | 1 | My 91 yr. old mom was prescribed this medicine for UTI and possible other infections. She had multiple side effects: Vomiting, insomnia, monster water blisters on legs (she has venous stasis cellulitis), the previous sores on her legs and pressure sores on her fanny had healed up ... but Levaquin really messed her up with the water blisters and muscle weakness. She is having trouble getting back on her feet because of this muscle weakness. Only three weeks or so ago she was walking all the time with her walker and getting up and sitting down from a chair, bed, etc. Now it's this very bad muscle weakness and her appetite is very poor. NO, IT'S NOT ALL OLD AGE ... SHE WAS DOING FAIRLY WELL UNTIL LEVAQUIN and other antibiotics the doctors were feeding her over a period of a year. | I call this a DIABOLICAL ... OVERPOPULATION antibiotic that is meant to make people very sick and eventually kill them. You know doctors today ask if your loved one should have life-saving measures if they have a heart attack, etc. When you say, "Yes." and then we will go from there YOU GET THIS OVERPOPULATION LECTURE CRAP or they try to talk you out of life-saving measures. This is Las Vegas so I don't know if what I am hearing is peculiar to this city or if it's all over the country ... but I am SICK OF THIS LIBERAL GARBAGE. The doctors out there have a responsibility to make their patients well. The HMO's should just shut up and let the doctors do their jobs ... LIKEWISE THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD BUZZ OFF WHEN IT COMES TO HEALTH CARE. The doctors know what to do, period. | F | 91 | 1 weeks | 10/18/2009 | 5 | urinary infection | F | 89 | 5 days 500 mg. 1X day | 12/13/2010 | 1 | uti | disoriented and severe hallucinations | F | 89 | 3 days 250 | 6/27/2012 | 3 | for pneumonia but it's not over | She hasn't been able to sleep, as she's up right now since 11:45pm and 2:35am now and has TV on. She's been slurring when speaking, disoriented but has improved and I am not sure if it's because of the 2 protandims a day and probiotics as I wouldn't want to know if she didn't take these supplements, yet I am kinda interested to know if protandim and probiotics are making the difference. We are not out of the danger zone yet as she had taken her 10th levofloxacin last night. | After looking at these fluoroquinolone class antibiotics, esp. levofloxacin 500 mgs, I been very uptight about her outcome as she has an appt. with doctor on Monday | F | 87 | 10 days 500 mgs | 4/12/2015 | 1 | possible UTI | My 87 year old mother was given this drug for a possible UTI (which she didn't have). She took one pill on Tuesday morning and it made her feel "weird". When I visited her on Wednesday morning she had passed away overnight. This drug is extremely dangerous!!! Do not take it and do not let anyone you love take it. The medical examiner in our state has done an autopsy and will let us know what he finds in 8 weeks. This is a nightmare that shouldn't happen to anyone. My mother is not the first one to die from taking this drug. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT TAKE IT!!!!! | extremely dangerous drug that will KILL you! | F | 87 | 1 days | 12/15/2008 | 4 | UTI | None. | I have a lot of reactions to drugs, including Cipro. This drug helped after three days. I would recommend an open mind about Levaquin. | F | 86 | 4 days | 6/13/2009 | 1 | pneumonia | This stuff is poison! I wouldn't give it to my dog. | levaquin gave me stomach upset, vomiting, gagging, terrible insomnia, nightmares, heart racing. After reading about tendon damage, irreversible, I couldn't risk it. My doctor prescribed a different antibiotic which so far I can tolerate. | F | 86 | 2 days 500 mg. 1X day | 1/7/2011 | 1 | Sinus infection | Pain in calves of both legs started on the 2nd day of 10 day prescription. Had difficulty walking. Left salty taste in my mouth. Copius amounts of phlegm. Very drowsy. Sleeping 10 hours a day for several days and felt very weak. Had to use cane. | Do not take this medicine. It's dangerous. | F | 85 | 3 days 500 1X day | 5/23/2010 | 1 | pneumonia | 12/03....numb lips and tongue, weight loss, fatigue, tenderness in mouth...symptoms still persist today 8/05 | Symptoms began on 2nd day of taking levaquin, but medication was continued. My mother has seen many doctors since the symptoms appeared..no one thinks it is a result of levaquin...but, none can give her a diagnosis. | F | 85 | 7 days | 8/22/2005 | 1 | Pneumonia | combative, nonresponsive, hallucinations | my mother stroke vicitim who was diagnosed with dementia was given Levanquin for pneumonia in ER. She started being combative to her home care aides and family members. Did not recognize us, each time we gave her the medication. Asked her doctor about Levanquin and was told it was safe. We thought we were putting the medications to close together. Took her back to ER because we were sure the medication was the problem. The question was not answered. We missed a couple of days of a 7 day course when she went to the hospital and when we tried to space the drugs. Have decided not to continue the drug. She has only been home for a month since having the stroke and we are all adjusting to the challenges. The last thing we need is more diabilities. | F | 85 | 7 days | 10/18/2009 | 1 | To alleviate prescription allergy | Itching, redness and rash-- added to more & worse allergic reactions | Levaquin was prescribed in 2007 to alleviate rash from another medication. However, it compounded the existing allergic reaction causing more itching, redness and another rash. Late last year, I was diagnosed with a torn rotator cuff. | F | 85 | 6 days | 8/11/2009 | 2 | suspected urinary tract infection | During hospital admission for another problem, Levaquin was given through my IV. I had severe itching around the site on my hand and going up my arm. The Levaquin was discontinued and the itching disappeared. | Because it was taken for such a short time, we were unable to evaluate the effectiveness of this medication. | F | 84 | | 8/11/2009 | 1 | respitory infection/flu | The first day I took this 500mg.dose I experienced severe pain in my thigh and knee. My doctor thought it was not related to the levaquin. After day three I was unable to walk and dragged around hovering over my walker. I stopped the medication after day five and hope to walk freely sometime soon. At age 84 with rheumatoid arthritis I didn't need this and would rather have had the cold/flu hung on longer than lose my ability to walk!. | I would not recommend this because it sure caused a terrible week for me, I thought I was having a stroke. I wish my doctor would have pulled me off it after my first complaint!!!! | F | 84 | 5 days | 2/28/2005 | 1 | urinary track infection | Five days after I started taking levaquin I experienced pain in right calf, next day the pain very bad. Saw doctor. Diagnosis tendonitis. Too late, I now learn this one exposure to Levaquin can be responsible for tendonitis in many parts of my body the rest of my life. Bad news. bad drug. | F | 84 | 6 days 500 mg 1X day | 3/5/2011 | 1 | for a urinary tract infection | THE ACHILLES TENDON IN RIGHT ANKLE RUPTURED ALSO A TENDON IN THE SHOULDER RUPTURED. HEARD A LOUD POP WHEN THE ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURED. DOCTOR DIDN'T BELIEVE ME UNTIL I SHOWED HIM LITERATURE GOTTEN OFF THE INTERNET THAT PROVED MY CLAIM. | HAVE HAD MANY MEDICAL PROBLEMS SINCE TAKING THE DRUG ONE YEAR AGO AND THINK ALL STEM FROM THE LEVAQUIN DO NOT THINK THIS DRUG SHOULD BE PRESCRIBED TO ELDERLY PEOPLE. WOULD NOT RECOMMEND IT FOR ANYONE.... | M | 83 | 7 days | 8/2/2009 |
LEVAQUIN (LEVOFLOXACIN): Levofloxacin is used to treat a variety of bacterial infections. This medication belongs to a class of drugs known as quinolone antibiotics. It works by stopping the growth of bacteria. This antibiotic treats only bacterial infections. It will not work for viral infections (such as common cold, flu). Using any antibiotic when it is not needed can cause it to not work for future infections. FDA Approval Date: 1996-12-20 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)