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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 1 | UTI | I have 2 torn rotator cuffs, torn tendon in my foot and both knees are swollen and all painful. | I was given Levaquin in the hospital for 3 days via an IV also a perscription for 500 mg for 10 days. I took one pill before reading the BLACK BOX WARNNING. This stuff needs to be taken off the market!!! | F | 56 | 3 days IV 1X day | 3/6/2013 | 1 | I had flu like symptoms | The next day when i got up I felt like every bone in my body was breaking. All my joints were popping and cracking. I could barely walk. My feet hurt so bad at night I had even worse insomnia. I tried to walk all night to stop from killing myself due to such pain. Day 3 I vaccumed for a few mins and felt a terrible pain in my shoulder. I said to my friend I think I just ripped my shoulder off the bone. My friends looked at me like I was crazy. I started having extreme charlie horses in my legs and arms. It looked like balls were under the skin moving all around. I was screaming in pain. Day 4 I took the dog out for a little walk around place and my knee buckled under and felt like it bent backwards. I told my friends again . | Oh my gosh the pain is so bad I think I just tore my knee in half. I called and went to 3 Dr.s over the next few days and no one ever said anything about Levaquin. The pain was so bad I hadn't slept on days and I thought I was going to die soon from the pain. I was crying all the time and my daughter thought I was nuts. I found out later after many surgeries I had ripped my tendon off the bones. I live in terrible pain. I have peripheral neuropathy which is permanent. I need to have 5 disc repaired in my neck after receiving 3 rounds of injections for pain in my neck. My shoulder is still in bad pain after the surgery and hours of therapy. My back and hip is so painful it is hard to walk. I found out yesterday that i have numerous herniated disc in my spine along with a tear in my mid spine. At no time did my dr or pharmacist tell me that an antibiotic could destroy my life and most of all my life with my daughter,family and friends. I don't think that Johnson and Johnson would give this drug to their families knowing what they know. This drug is supposed to be used as a last resort. It was used on men and woman during the Gulf War and the poor victims were told they were crazy. I can't believe that they can just get away with hurting so many people to the point that they can no longer work or even function in life.They make billions hurting us with no recourse . They need to make it right for us who have lost our lives as we knew it. | F | 52 | 13 days 500 2X day | 2/28/2013 | 1 | Sinus infection wouldn't go away | Horrible ... Within 24 hours the heel of foot was so tender and painful, i couldn't walk and was told not to do anything impactful on my feet for 6months due to risk of tendon ruptures .. | M | 47 | 1 days | 2/28/2013 | 1 | sinus infection | Tendonitis in both shoulders and arms.Called doctor, described symptoms,nurse called back and told me Levaquin was not the cause. | F | 74 | 5 days 500mg | 2/24/2013 | 1 | Sinus and UTI infection | First day had reflux like chest pain. Took tums...got some relief. Started feeling better from sinus and UTI infection and decided to get out of the house. Took my med and began to feel completely exhausted with head spinning, dizzy, heart rate elevated to 106 while resting. Second dosage did same thing so I just decided to rest so heart rate would not go up. Today, I took third pill, oh my goodness. Heart rate went up with strong feelings of dizziness, head felt like it was shaking every step I took. Panic and anxiety set in. Thought I was having a nervous breakdown. Scared to move because of the crazy feeling in my head. It has been eleven hours of pure hellish feelings. Will not take another pill and calling my doctor tomorrow morning. I will never take this drug again. Scariest feeling of my lifetime. I took the generic brand. | F | 65 | 3 days 750 1X day | 2/21/2013 | 1 | sinus infection/laryngitis | Tiredness on first day. Second day had a bad muscle spasm in upper right arm that radiated down to my fingers...muscles ached in my hand and arm for about 30 min. Never had this happen before so it was quite terrifying. I stopped the Levaquin and will never take it again! | From what I personally experienced and other reviews I've read this a dangerous drug! | F | 43 | 2 days 250 mg 1X day | 2/20/2013 | 1 | Infection prevention after surgery | Had a nightmare of falling off a cliff backwards and feeling my back break on the rock. Went back to sleep and had the same nightmare. Went back to sleep and had the same nightmare again. So, I staid awake the rest of night. Started with a terrible headache. Then had the nightmares, so I never took another pill. Thank God, because I had tendon problems for the next four months. I cannot imagine how bad the tendon problems would have been if I had completed the treatment of three doses. | M | 50 | 1 days 1 pill 1X day | 2/12/2013 | 1 | bronchitis and sinus infection | extreme shoulder pain. In both shoulders. Knees have tendernotis. Have one knee replacement and that hurts just as bad as the other knee. Hard time moving around and getting out of chair. | Will not take this medicine again. I only hoping it will go away. If anyone has had something work for this please contact me. | F | 70 | 18 days 500 1X day | 2/5/2013 | 1 | Sinus Infection | I'm allergic to the penicillins and sulfa drugs, and now this. After the second dose I noticed how sore my right knee was feeling and it was swollen. I have had "runner's knees" which was extremely improved after taking glucosamine/chondroitin over the years only with occasional pain. But, wow - after the 3rd day of Levaquin, my R/knee was so swollen that I thought I must have injured myself somehow. I had trouble bending the knee. Then my left knee followed suit, and then my hands and wrists. I have carpel tunnel in both wrists, but noticed increased swelling, stiffness and pain. I realized that it was probably the Levaquin causing this and stopped taking it after this past Friday. I called the doctor yesterday (Saturday) to report this and he prescribed Biaxin for another 10 days instead. Levaquin also caused a metallic taste in mouth, esp noticeable when drinking water. Today, Sunday - only a couple of days since stopping Levaquin, the swelling in my knees have gone down | Always take a good probiotic when taking antibiotics. Esp. as you get older, your stomach has a harder time breaking down food due to less concentrated gastric juices, so don't drink too much fluids during a meal - only enough to wash it down and drink most of your fluids between meals. Also, antibiotics kill the good bacteria as well as the bad esp. in the small intestine, so probiotics taken in between the antibiotic doses help to replace the good bacteria that you need in the small intestine and this will help to prevent or mitigate diarrhea and upset stomach. So important! PB 8 made by Nutrition Now! of Vancouver, WA is gluten free and comes in Vegetarian and regular formula (not sure of the difference) but it's very good and reasonably priced (120 caps on sale for $15.99 at the Vitamin Shoppe in northern VA) and take 1 cap 2x daily compared to Sustenex which has a 30 day (1 cap per day) regimen at a higher price. Probiotics (PBs) good for kids too and we have always escaped loose stools and upset stomach while we take the PBs during antibiotics and for another week at least afterwards. Don't take antibiotics and PBs at same time or PBs will not be as effective. | F | 55 | 4 days 500mg 1X day | 2/3/2013 |