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 | Sinus infection | I took Levaquin for a resistant sinus infection. By the third day I noticed unusual changes in my mouth -cotton mouth, loss of sense of taste, then vision problems, and then extremely painful joints. My thumbs and upper arms feel like they are broken. I can barely type on the computer. I have called my M.D. and am going to bed. My pharmacist said his wife had this kind of reaction. He told me to call the M.D. and get in bed because a fall in this condition could be disastrous. I just started a new job and don't know how I am going to work. I also have a young daughter who is disabled and really concerned as to how I am going to take care of her. How long do the reactions last??? | F | 55 | 10 days 500mg 1X day | 2/11/2012 | 1 | sinus infection | Legs and thighs hurting,unable to sleep,can't eat,worse medication I have ever taken | F | 40 | 2 days 750 | 2/9/2012 | 1 | chronic prostatitis | Pain in neck, shoulder and arm, and not able to straighten or lift arm above shoulders or head | M | 40 | 6 days 1000mg 2X day | 2/6/2012 | 1 | Ear infection | Hallucinations, suspiciousness, high blood pressure and blacking out. | F | 51 | 2 days 750 1X day | 2/6/2012 | 1 | Infection in lungs-asthma related | Fever, facial flushing, trembling, heartburn, insomnia, dizziness,confusion, exhaustion, flu-like symptoms, muscle pain, and rapid heart rate. After 3 out of the seven days, I stopped taking it realizing it DEFINITELY WAS the drug. Had to go to the hospital finally to be checked out due to the drug continuing to cause dizziness and pain even after 2 days stopping it. VERY ANGRY about this. There was no EXTRA information given since this is such a POWERFUL DRUG. This medicine SHOULD be removed from pharmacies. You take an antibiotic to get BETTER, not to try and CAUSE harm. I cannot BELIEVE this medicine is dispensed so commonly. This was their FIRST choice for me. Just cannot understand the doctor's office's stupity in prescribing this horrible DANGEROUS drug instead of something else. | SAVE YOUR LIFE....DO NOT TAKE THIS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS DRUG. DO NOT LET THE DOCTOR'S DICTATE TO YOU WHAT DRUG YOU WILL TAKE. ASK QUESTIONS. RESEARCH IT. ASK THE PHARMACIST. YOU HAVE TO BE YOUR OWN MEDICAL ADVOCATE. THINK. THINK. THINK. | F | 40 | 3 days 500 mg 1X day | 2/6/2012 | 1 | Sinus infection | Confusion, stuttering, insomnia, hallucinations, joint pain, stinging & burning of skin from the inside of my body out, loss of muscle control, loss of brain function, severe pain in muscles, joints and tendinitis in entire body. In wheelchair twice. I'm 39 and was perfectly healthy except for sinus infection. Now after 6 months, still disabled. | Unless you are going to die, do not even consider taking this drug. If I were dying and had to choose with what I know now, it would be a difficult decision. I don't think I could voluntarily put myself through the start of this hell a second time. | F | 39 | 5 days 500 mg 1X day | 2/6/2012 | 1 | Bad sinus infection | HORRIBLE hives, sleeplessness anxiety. Stopped taking it because of the hives per dr's orders. | This drug is DANGEROUS, i know 2 people personally who have had tendon ruptures from it. One was a teenager at the time and the other was a fully grown adult woman. STAY AWAY! | F | 30 | 1 days 1X day | 2/5/2012 | 1 | Sinus Infection | Weakness, ringing in ears, body aches, joint pain, muscle pain | I was prescribed levaquin after two rounds of antibiotics did not cure my ear/sinus infection since November. I just stopped taking this drug 4 days ago. Now I have joint and muscle pain. It is not brutally bad YET! And I am praying it never gets worse than it is now. DO NOT EVER TAKE THIS MED UNLESS IT IS A MATTER OF LIFE OR DEATH! My doc should have NEVER given me this poison for a sinus infection due to the chance of crippling side effects. I should never have taken the 2nd pill. Side effects after 1st pill should have been warning enough. Listen to your gut instint! If it's saying don't take it... DON'T TAKE IT! | F | 43 | 2 days 750mg 1X day | 2/4/2012 | 1 | Bacterial post surgical infection | I was dizzy, nauseous, tired and confused. I lost control of my bladder and had horrific gas and diarrhea. My whole body hurt. I had blood clots. I had ruptured tendons and unexplained cartilage damage. My blood pressure was all over. My prostate bloated up. I had insomnia. I had pulmonary edema. My stomach hurt and I had terrible heartburn. I had a hematoma and huge varicose veins erupted on my leg. I had rashes all over, and mysterious bruises, and my wounds wouldn't heal. My skin felt like bugs were crawling around underneath it. I had tingling sensations in my back that went all over my body. I had unprompted sharp pains all over that appeared and disappeared. My joints hurt and they began popping loudly. I had ringing in my ears. I had wild crazy panic attacks. I couldn't understand what I was reading, or make sense of signs, or follow a TV show, or even tell time. My vision deteriorated rapidly. My blood oxygen levels were low. I was really depressed and suicidal. | DO NOT TAKE LEVAQUIN!!!!! This is the worst thing that ever happened to me. 4 1/2 years later I'm still in and out of the hospital because it DESTROYED MY BODY and my life. I wouldn't give this horrible crap to my worst enemy. The makers of this drug belong in prison for the rest of their lives! | M | 49 | 21 days Unknown 2X day | 2/3/2012 | 1 | Sinus infection | Anxiety, insomnia, paranoia, dizziness | After feeling like a space cadet for 3 days, I stopped the medication and felt better after 24 hours. Found out later that Levaquin counteracts benzodiazepines...and I am a long term benzo user...wish I would have known before...so it basically threw me into severe withdrawals. It's probably an effective antibiotic but too many side effects. | M | 36 | 3 days 500 2X day | 2/3/2012 | 1 | viral lung infection!! | peripheral neuropathy, tendon ruptures, tendinitis, insomnia, anxiety, vision problems, GI problems, angioedema, hypoxia, swollen veins, confusion, memory loss, muscle cramping, muscle pain | I would not take this medication even if it could prevent me from dying. It has caused me immense suffering and has ruined my life | F | 48 | 7 days 500 mg 1X day | 2/3/2012 | 1 | Sinus/Resp infection | The first day, i felt my blood pressure drop and had a massive panic attack, but since that happens every so often, i didn't think it was the medication. Then for 3 nights I kept jumping out of bed running to the bathroom, felt like a was going to throw up. The nausea was out of controll, but I still grit my teeth and went to work and so on. Then on the forth day, I felt like my body was bruised, everything that touched my skin, hurt esp cold things, if I held a cold drink the pain would radiate and linger. The next morning I couldn't get out of bed, I felt like a truck hit me. Not only did my entire body hurt,but every now and then it was like i was getting stabbed with a tooth pick (even in my eyes). This medication should be taken off the market, my children missed school because it debilitated me so bad. Not to mention, my doctors know I already have nerve and joint problems, now what do I do it this drug has long lasting effects to add on to my pre-existing problems? | Also, just found out my Aunt had very similar reaction to this medication just before I did. | F | 33 | 5 days 500mg 1X day | 2/3/2012 | 1 | Sinus Infection | I have suffered severe tendon damage to both Achilles, both knees, both hips, both hands and wrists, both elbows, both shoulders, and my jaw. I have suffered nerve damage in my face, arms and hands. It also damage my gut as well. I am now 10 months out from taking it and STILL have not recovered. Previously, I was very healthy and active, working out 4-5 days a week. Thus drug has SEVERE altered my life, my ability to care for my family and enjoy my friends. There are so many other drugs on the market that could be used for routine, minor infections. Why would you want to play Russian Roulette and take this one. IT IS NOT WORTH the pain, lost time and thousands upon thousands if dollars spent desperately tryIng to recover. | F | 34 | 8 days 500 mg | 2/2/2012 | 1 | Bacterial infection | Extreme nausea, insomnia, excessive belching | Why in the world is this drug still on the market? I started my descent into hell last night around 8:00. My side effects are not nearly as bad as some of the other ones i have read but they are bad enough to interfere with my life. I have felt worse than the actual illness has made me feel. I feel like throwing up constantly. I have this weird feeling in my throat that is hard to describe. I feel like crap warmed over. I will not take another dose of this poison again. I have 2 kids and can not function with this drug. | F | 37 | 1 days 500mg 1X day | 2/1/2012 | 1 | UTI/bladder infection | Administered via IV in the ER. Redness near port, itching, swelling.Administration was stopped, port flushed twice, another antibiotic administered instead. | F | 64 | via IV 1X day | 1/30/2012 | 1 | bronchis | joint pain in rt shoulder, elbow wrist and fingers. | F | 70 | 2 days 1X day | 1/29/2012 | 1 | Sinus Infection (Also have mono) | Constant nausea, night sweats, extreme headaches | I was given Levaquin for a sinus infection while also trying to deal with mono. I have the normal symptoms of mono which multiplied 10 fold when I started taking Levaquin. Due to the night sweats, I also ended up with low potassium which I had to be treated for in the ER. The nausea and headaches were so severe that I had my parents take me to the ER. They did not say anything about the Levaquin even though I mentioned that my symptoms were not as extreme before taking the drug. After 6 days (6 pills), I stopped taking it and will never take the drug again. I felt like I was dying. Like so many others, I have been healthy throughout my life working out 3-4 times a week. I am still recovering from mono and 5 days since I took the last Levaquin pill...I am still dealing with side effects from that. | F | 39 | 10 days 500 1X day | 1/26/2012 | 1 | Upper respiratory Infection | Severe pain in upper back, shoulders down to wrist in right arm to wrist, and left arm to elbow. Numbness in left leg comes and goes but is not consistent. Tendons swell and insomnia also. | I completed the doseage the end of December and pain is still continuing. I did find a forum where conditions are even more severe than what I am experiencing and has been effecting them for years. This family of drugs should not be given unless a last resort, and better yet, pulled off the market! | F | 56 | 10 days 500 mg 1X day | 1/24/2012 | 1 | Pneumonia?? | Burning at IV port, after 2 days - hand was inflamed, lost the use of my thumbs, could not lift a glass of water, too weak, then legs went out from under me, extreme insomnia.By the 5th day I had lost over 10 pounds. I found out later what drugs I had been given - Levaquin along mega doses of Predinsone, NSAIDS, antacids. You see, I was not crippled in any way prior to ER visit and the stay in hospital. Released crippled and they told me 'bad infection'. I suffered horrific pains in all organs of my body at home - scary, felt like I was 100 years old and going to die. It took forever to get my records but when I did and researched - there it was. I am 20 months out now. I have a ruptured rotator cuff, PN, CNS. I am still home bound, unable to walk. This was so unnecessary - there are plenty of other antibiotics without the known risks and to not be consulted or even told what drug for such a long time really added to the misery and worry of what had happened to me. | I was an active healthy person on no medication prior to being given Levaquin along with prednisone, NSAID's - it has been painful and demoralizing to go to doctors who deny any knowledge of the risks. It's taking everything I loved about my life away and added unbelievable pain. Please do your research - please never take this drug unless it is life or death and NEVER concomitant with predinsone, NSAID's, antacids. | F | 60 | 5 days 750 mg IV 1X day | 1/23/2012 | 1 | UTI/Kidney Infectiom | Pain in arms, elbows, knees, legs, and sternum. Tremors in arms and hands. After 8 days of taking leviquin 250mg I researched the drug due to my own side effects. Now I'm horrified and pray I do not develop any additional effects and hope the side effects I have now will disappear. The leg aching started after dose 2. I will be crushed if I develop serious and permanent effects since I'm already disabled with another issue. It's been 2 days since my last dose and I'm still experiencing the side effects listed above. I'm currently flushing out my body with over 5-6 liters of water daily. 1/2 the time I'm adding cranberry juice for my kidneys. I'm taking probiotics twice daily and detoxing with chia seeds. Chia seeds are loaded with omega vitamins, B vitamins, magnesium, calcium, potassium, fiber, ect... Hopefully, by flushing out my system and using chia supplements I'll be able to avoid any further side effects. I was prescribed 17 days of leviquin for a kidney and UTI infection. The leviquin did nothing to help my infection. Day 8 I called my doctor and she agreed to discontinue the leviquin. My doctor did not know how severe the side effects were. I have an absolutely wonderful doctor that I fully trust. Next time I will fully research any new medications I put into my body. | F | 38 | 8 days 250 | 1/21/2012 |