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 | UTI | I was first on Bactrim (a sulfa antibiotic) when I started getting an allergic reaction. Feeling of pins and needles all over my body (parenthesis) and I had a rash. Went to Urgent Care and they switched me to Levofloxacin. He also gave me Prednisone to help with the rash. Once I switched to Levofloxacin it was all downhill. Felt like my body was getting electrocuted all over and I couldn't sleep. Went to the ER and they told me to take Benydryl which just made everything worse. Anything I took would make the pins and needles worse. I stopped taking the Levofloxacin the next day and just as the parenthesis started going away I began to get a sore upper and lower back which now has turned into sore knees, feet, and hands. My muscles are achey and I'm now left wondering when these symptoms will leave. I can hardly walk. I can't keep up with my house or my 5 five year old. I'm only 28. It's hard to sleep at night and get comfortable. The one thing that helps is sitting in a warm bath tu | I will never take another flouriquine drug EVER. Now that I found out I'm allergic to sulfa too I'm not sure what options I have left besides never getting sick again. | F | 28 | 1 days 750mg 1X day | 7/25/2013 | 1 | persistent lung infection | severe joint and muscle pain especially legs. Severe sleep disturbance. Urine retention. Depression. Dizziness. Confusion. Itching. | I find it hard to believe that Doctors are prescribing these drugs to patients. I am sure they must be aware of the serious side effects. Patients need to be made aware of the risks before taking them. Other than that, they should be banned. | F | 58 | 11 days 500mg 2X day | 7/21/2013 | 1 | Sinus Infection | Both achilles tendons are painful, even to the touch. Calves are taught and sore and I am having problems making my way down stairs. Trying to be very careful when walking for fear of a rupture. | F | 42 | 10 days 500mg 1X day | 7/15/2013 | 1 | Colitis | Terrible pain in both legs - hard time walking, can't stand long. It's been 3 years and still no relief. Had 6 mri's and they show torn muscle in calf. I will never take this medicine again. Feel like I have a cold achy feeling in lower legs. Heels are sore, ankles swollen,knees hurt. Legs are stiff. Torn tendon below knee. Definitely changed my life!! | F | 66 | 7 days 500mg 1X day | 6/28/2013 | 1 | UTI and ear infection | I started experiencing mild pain in me knees 3 days into prescription. By the next day extremely painful walking up/down stairs. Swelling began in Rt knee and Lt elbow. By the end of script (7 days) my knee was huge extreamly painful. And pain begain in my achillies tendons. Seen doctor on day 8 due to my concerns. Was told I was having an extream allergic reaction to LEVAQUIN. Given steriod shot on the spot and a prednisone pack. And dr said he heard my heart racing when listening with stethoscope (I didn't notice). But did a heart ultrasound. Seeing heart dr. In the a.m. . Precautions due to my having lymes disease. Would NOT recomend LEVAQUIN. Please read the side effects they are terrible. | 45 | 7 days | 6/26/2013 | 3 | Sinus infection, ear infection | I stopped taking Levaquin after two dosages because of Hallucinations during the night time while in an in-between awake/asleep phase. Very scary. Taking Levaquin was the only variable in my routine. It was helping my sinus infection and ear infection, but I will not take a medication with such severe and scary side effects. | M | 40 | 2 days 500 1X day | 6/18/2013 | 4 | staph infection | None initially, then started experiencing weird muscle & joint aches all over my body about a month afterward. It did stop eventually. | It worked where the Augmentin failed to work. I wouldn't take this for any non life threatening infection, but I had staph climbing up my arm fast - really didn't have a choice. It cleared it quick. | M | 51 | 10 days 500 1X day | 6/14/2013 | 1 | Bronchitis and sinus congestion | Insomnia both nights after taking drug. Third and fourth days (drug not taken those days) had bad neck stiffness, arthritis in my knees was badly aggravated. Appetite greatly suppressed. Constipation. | Struggling through a respiratory sickness for 12 days, I visited my Dr. to make sure I did not have strep,pneumonia, or something else. Received a prescrip. for Levofloxacin 500mg one/day for 10 days. After two nights of bad sleeping, I stopped the drug. The next day I felt like I had been in a car accident, and the day after that I am still moving at the pace of a turtle--in much aching discomfort in neck, knees, upper arms, hip. I DO NOT recommend this drug. If you need an antibiotic, ask for something else. | F | 58 | 2 days 500mg 1X day | 5/25/2013 | 1 | Stye on the eye | My mama was prescribed this for a stye on her eye. She started taking it around 2/11. She took 7 pills and ended up in the ER 3 times. Her tongue was swelling and her gums were sore. She passed away on 2/22 in her sleep. I think this drug contributed to her death. She had a lot of medical issues; COPD, diabetes and high blood pressure. The doctor should have never prescribed this and the doctors at the ER should have taken this more seriously. She just turned 60 on 1/25 and not even a month later she was gone. They did not do an autopsy because her primary care physician signed off on the death certificate. I talked to her the Tuesday before she died and she said she had been having hallucinations and she was really depressed. This drug scared her and she stopped taking it but I think it had caused such a strain on her heart that she did not make it. Do not use this medicine. | F | 60 | 3 days 750MG 1X day | 5/24/2013 | 4 | The 1st few days I had some slight arthritic pain in my knees and feet but that went away. Otherwise no other side effects. | I was concerned when I read the side effects other people experienced and put off taking this rx. I finally gave in and was anxious. However I did not experience anything terribly bad at all, thank goodness. No nightmares, no long term effects and no insomnia at all. No stomach issues either and I have bad GERD. I gave this a 4 since it did not help but that might be due to the fact that my sinus congestion has nothing to do with a sinus infection which is why I initially was put on this RX so its a bit unfair to rate Levaquin's effectiveness due to a misdiagnosis. | F | 35 | 14 days 700 1X day | 5/10/2013 | 1 | UTI | Headache, fever, nausea, joint pain, body aches, muscle cramps, nightmares and fatigue. | I took this Rx approximately a year and a half ago. It immediately made me more sick than the UTI I was being treated for. When I checked side effects I had every one except tendon rupture. The nighmares were horribly violent and lasted a year. I have been dealing with extreme fatigue, brain fog and bouts of anxiety ever since. All new and unexplained since taking Levaquin. I stumbled upon a blog about this drug and found I was not alone. Levaquin has ruined my day to day well being and I feel duped by doctors. Levaquin is now listed as an allergy for me and it should be taken off the market. I just want to feel good again! | F | 43 | 5 days ? 1X day | 5/9/2013 | 1 | Sinus Infection | This drug should be pulled off the market!!! I only had a sinus infection and this drug is a last line drug for someone who is critically ill. I was on the 2nd day of my 10 day dose and I started having a burning pain in my arm along with seemed like tendon issues. I also had really bad pain in both of my knees and in my Achilles tendon. Luckily, for me I used to work for a pharmaceutical company and remembered that quionlones could cause tendon rupture in rare cases. I called my pharmacist and he told me it was not rare and quite a few people have terrible tendinitis and torn tendons. I stopped the drug immediately, called my doctor and told him that I was reporting my adverse drug reaction to the FDA (Medwatch). It is two years later and I still have knee and shoulder problems on and off. This drug nearly ruined my life and after research many people have had horrible reactions to Levaquin,Cipro, etc. this drug should be pulled as some of the other quionlones have been pulled | Be very careful with this drug and ask for another antibiotic, unless you are critically ill. Also do NOT tak this drug with steroids as it makes a quinolone reaction much worse. There are many posts/blogs on the Internet that are frightening regarding this class of drugs. I now have a new ENT who said he never gives this to his patients for the reason that I stated. | F | 55 | 2 days 500 mg 2X day | 4/25/2013 | 1 | pneumonia | Got this in the hospital after open heart surgery when there was a touch of pneumonia...on second day in middle of night left foot started tingling...doctor got called...blew me off...by morning right foot was also tingling...walking down hall, my left foot felt like a block of ice and my left knee buckled...looked up this drug on this site and then went and saw the black box warning and FREAKED!!! Insisted on another antibiotic and made the doctors quite irritated. Over 2 years later, and my left foot is halfway normal and my right foot healed overnight. Got lots of acupuncture treatments to get it this far...hope someday to get all the feeling back in my toes. This stuff is DANGEROUS and should be used only in life and death situations (not my case) and the doctors need to pull their heads out of the sand and stop denying patients' experiences! Thank God for this site...i shudder to think what might have happened.... | F | 61 | 3 days ? 1X day | 4/24/2013 | 5 | Sinus Infection and Bronchitis | Some right and left crunching shoulder pain - not unbearable. Some sleep issues. Some diahrea. Most issues resolved after three days post medication ingestion. | Cured my chronic sinus infection and acute bronchitis conditions when initial antibiotic (Augmentin) failed. Grateful to have clear nose and lungs so quickly after taking Levofloxacin! | M | 62 | 10 days 500 1X day | 4/22/2013 | 1 | Suppposedly for a mastoid infection | tendonitis, brain fog, dizziness, loss of balance and coordination, trigeminal pain, MS-like symptoms, muscle and joint pain, weakness, extreme fatigue, yeast infections, UTIs, tingling and numbness on one side of the body | This needs to come OFF of the market! | F | 41 | 30 days 750 mg 2X day | 4/17/2013 | 1 | possible prostate-related infection | MY doc put me on this casually, guessing t might help if my pain was related to infection (?) On the fifth day, I mentioned to my wife, who is very knowledgeable about medicine, that my hamstrings were hurting terribly, and that I must have somehow strained myself, but didn't recall doing anything. She asked, what was that drug your doc put you on? and when I told her she started yelling... "didn't you read the black box warning?" Heck, I didn't even know what one was! | I went off immediately, called doc to explain symptoms, they said, "oh well" or its equivalent, and I got better in a few days. I feel lucky my wife warned me about the exploding hamstrings, because no doctor or pharmacist ever did. | M | 60 | 4 days 1X day | 4/16/2013 | 1 | Sinus infection | Nausea vomiting , diarrhea thought I had severe case of the flu on top of my sinus infection. I ended up in the hospital dehydrated bedding two bags of fluids. Thought I was on my death bed. It was not the flu it was levaquin making me very sick. | F | 35 | 5 days 750 | 4/7/2013 | 1 | Sinus Infection | My body feels as if it were hit by a truck as I am experiencing severe pain and cramping, even my toes and fingers hurt. My calves cramped so bad last night that as I was getting out of bed I fell to the floor from the pain. I am supposed to take this drug for 10 days but am stopping as per my ENT's orders. | I had taken this drug two times last year. Had pain last year but not as severe as this time. Never taking this drug again they need to take it off the market,. | F | 21 | 6 days 500 MG 1X day | 3/26/2013 | 1 | SINSUS | iT SUCKS JOINT PAIN LOST SENSE OF SMELL AND TASTE AND i ONLY TOOK IT FOR 3 DAYS TAKE IT OFF THE F KING MARKET | F | 65 | 3 days 500 1X day | 3/25/2013 | 1 | M | 1X day | 3/11/2013 |