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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LEVAQUIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Sinus infection/Pneumonia | Took 1 pill at bedtime and woke up at 5 AM with severe leg pain. Over the next week, pain steadily got worse and spread through both legs and arms. After 1 week, I was unable to get out of bed. This lasted 1 week with the following 2 weeks being able to w Ork only 1/2 days. Since (it has now been 12.5 mos.), the pain has come and gone for periods ranging from 1 day to 1 month at a time. GP and Rheumatologist have been unable to identify any direct cause/dx or cure. CYM Alta (5 mg - 1x/day) has provided minor relief, as did PT. At it's worst, I cannot stand or walk, carry a coffee cup, etc. On the best day, it is a mild discomfort. I can no longer play with my kids like I want or exercise. I used to be very healthy but have gained almost 20 lbs over the last year due to the inactivity and overeating (to cope with the depression caused by the non-stop pain). Also, pain is very migratory in nature, even over the course of a few minutes and my needs have begun popping very frequently. | M | 34 | 1 days 500 MG 1X day | 5/30/2011 | 1 | sinus infection | extreme pain in left hand thumb and wrist,right hand also but not so bad.Nightmares and vivid dreams all night.confusion,pain in bottom of right foot and lots of tingling and needles in both hands and feet.bottom of feet hurt.Feel lethargic.pain in right shoulder. | This drug is horrible.It's been 5 weeks since I stopped taking it and I still have lots of pain in my hands and feet,right sholder,etc.Worse thing is I go to my doctor that gave me the pills and he says it's not the levaquin causing it.I felt fine just before taking it and symptoms started during treatment.I'm very upset with my doctor because he could have given me something else instead.He said nothing about black box warning and he is a cleveland clinic doctor so i trusted him.11 page medication guide is misleading also because it says side effects most common in people over 60.I'm 47 and many people on this forum are under 60.Something has to be done to take this drug off the market.The risks clearly outway the benefits.But since they made 2 billion last year and the fda is funded by these company's that's why it's still on the market.What's more important?Peoples well being or fattening these greedy executives pockets!I am going to do everything i can to get this off the market. i hope my symptoms are'nt permanent since this drug also causes permanent nerve damage also.And the pharmacist told me after reading the medication guide i should'nt worry.Sure since he's not the one taking it.I understand some side effects are ok,but not tendon rupture,nerve damage,peripheral neorapathy...Please!!How far is greed going to take us.Please fda take this drug off the market!!!!!! | M | 47 | 7 days 500 mg 1X day | 5/30/2011 | 1 | Sinus Infection | Nauseous; upset stomach | The doctor prescribed this instead of Z-pack. It irritated and upset my stomach; I felt terrible. Called to let him know, had to go back for an another appt to get a prescription for azithromycin (Z-pack), which worked great, no stomach problems. | F | 68 | 3 days 500 1X day | 5/28/2011 | 1 | Sinus Infection | F | 39 | 500 1X day | 5/26/2011 Patient History | 1 | UTI | Anyone who researches before they take a drug good job! This is the perfect drug to hear what ur pears are saying...... And that is overwhelmingly STAY AWAY!!!!!! And based on my experience i also agree. | To start, its been 1 year 1 month since i took this med and it still effects me. I've just come to find peace that at 22 I'm probably going to have issues for the rest of my life. :(... Insomnia, deep depression, anxiety, constant tendon pain, pakinsins like muscle spasms, clouded mind, depersonalization, loss of feeling on skins surface, and those are just the major ones. 1 year 1 month ago I was always happy, an athlete, an above average college student, and now I'm an empty sack of bones and flesh that barelly makes it through each day..... DONT TAKE PART IN THIS GOVERNMENT EXPIERMENT!!! THIS WILL BE IN MEDICAL HISTORY BOOKS ONE DAY, JUST AS HTLER'S EXPIEREMENTS!!!!!! | M | 22 | 3 days 500 1X day | 5/18/2011 | 1 | Bladder infection | Pain stiffness ankles - spreading to shoulders, elbows and knees. Started within 24 hours. | Took this drug for a minor infection nearly five years ago. Stopped after two days of terrible joint/tendon pain. For the first year post Quinolone (Levaquin) pain and stiffness was chronic - moving from one joint to another - mostly legs and arms - bilateral. Some days/weeks could not lift anything over a few pounds. Also had sleep problems and nightmares. The pain and stiffness would remit for a week or two - then return - often in different areas.. This trend continued for a little more than a year, then evolved in minor stiffness and mild aches for the next 3 years. 6 months ago it returned - worse than than ever. Now there is now complete remission of symptoms and it is spreading. First began in right elbow tendons to wrist. Then to the left elbow and now has spread to both knees. Additional sporadic pains everywhere. Very difficult to knee, lift even light objects (gallon of milk)l or climb stairs. Never had a joint pain in my life until a day after taking this poison. I know now that I will never recover as the 6 month trend has been worsening steadily. NEVER TAKE ANY OF THE QUINOLONES UNLESS RISK OF DEATH IS PROBABLE. | M | 57 | 2 days 500mg 1X day | 5/9/2011 | 1 | sinus infection/pnuemonia | I started to swell in my joints to the point where my rings had to be cut off when I got to ER. My ankles were so bad I had to wear crocks and I got weak and almost flat in bed for two weeks before hospitalized for 3 days. I was week and the pain was unbearable. This was Feb/March of 2010 and I am not over it yet. Still have some swelling and lots of pain in shoulders, muscles, knees and hands. Drs. say it has to be the Levaquin. lawyers say I can't do a thing. Even tho I expressed fear to the Drs. who gave it to me. So I am stuck with hospital/Drs. bills, plus I lost two jobs. I died twice in ER. was in hospital 3 days. | I would not take this pill again if it was the last one on earth and they told me I would die without it. I would die with it, I know that. | F | 73 | 14 days 500 2X day | 5/6/2011 | 1 | UTI | It slaughtered each of my body systems one at a time - I had a combination of Cipro and Levaquin - I am going on 9 years of pure hell of nothing but constant recovery and relapse cycles. I was a runner before this - 6 miles a day - after I could not walk for two weeks. I have had unexplained carpal tunnel that required surgery - I am on heart medication twice a day now from sever heart palpitations that left me with a bad heart valve ( the worst part is my social life is gone) having sex takes 3 days of rest to recover - my muscles exhaust to the point of nothing - I beg my legs to keep moving when I just can't take another step - the doctors treat me as if I am enjoying all of this. I am embarrassed and isolated from life. This should be a crime - someone should be prosecuted for this. | F | 45 | 6 months 500 MG 2X day | 5/4/2011 | 1 | sinus infection/strep/chronic cough | Muscle, joint pain and stiffness, tingling in legs especially at night, shoulder pain, skin numbness, muscle spasms, pins and needles, facial pain, ringing in ears, basically all side effects listed in the insert the FDA required the drug manufacturer to include. | There's a class action lawsuit against the drug company that makes Levaquin due to ruptured tendons. After reading this website there's a whole lot more reasons for a lawsuit. I was prescribed Levaquin over the last 12 mos. Always worked except always symptoms returned. Took 6 times in 9 mos! When dr, a GP, prescribed he did so along with a medrol pack. Clearly says in the drug insert (just read recently) NOT to take Levaquin and steriods! Started experiencing side effects 3 mos ago. Went to a specialist who ran blood tests checking for Lupus, RA, etc. I already have 2 autoimmune diseases, she thought I could have another one. Symptoms resemble that of many diseases including MS. All blood tests normal. Started reading about Levaquin. Found my symptoms were all same as side effects given. I told my GP, he added in my chart can't take flouroquonoline antibiotics, then prescribed a medrol pack for pain! Both my knees are shot. Had mri and have a torn meniscus/rt knee. I previously had no problems with painful legs, knees & muscles. Now I can hardly walk my leg muscles hurt so bad. Beware, always read the possible side effects insert before taking any drug! Levaquin's a dangerous drug & should only be taken in extreme cases. Be very careful I believe the side effects are permanent. I'm seeing an herbalist now. Trying the natural route. Good luck everyone. | F | 57 | 7 days 1X day | 5/3/2011 | 1 | UTI | Wound up in ER with a broken pelvis/arm. Was told I had a UTI after a routine urine culture and was put on Levaquin for 5 days. The UTI did go away and was confirmed with a second culture but by the time I came out of hospital and was done with 2 weeks of rehab, I noticed that my neck was making a severe crunching sound every time I turned my head and there were times where it felt like my head itself was being compressed, as in a vice. The Physical Therapist who treated me after I left the hospital said I had loose tendons in my arms and legs and very loose joints...everything was slipping around. It's now 8 months since my major accident. I'm left with a horrible tinnitus and almost a completely stuffed up ear. I can hardly hear out of my left ear which is something that occurred after I took this drug. Many of the side effects I'm reading here are my own. Anxiety, depression and the feeling that something is seriously wrong with my tendons all over my body. | F | 68 | 5 days 1X day | 5/3/2011 | 1 | I have had horrible fatigue, joint and muscle pain since taking this drug and was not warned at all of the potential side effects. | F | 41 | 14 days 2X day | 4/29/2011 | 1 | "just in case" | Was given one IV dose of Levaquin, "just in case" because WBC count was SLIGHTLY elevated following food poisoning. Reaction was immediate....felt I was being burned by acid for 8 days straight. Extreme pain through entire body for months. | Has left permanent damage to peripheral nervous system, right foot is atrophying. 10 months later still walking with cane, had to get hand controls for my car. Increased pain in all joints with activity. Muscle fatigue even doing simple tasks (ie folding towels, etc) Tendon pain in both feet. I never took meds, now on daily pain meds and anti-seizure meds for nerve pain/damage. This med causes pure hell. www.floxedbylevaquin.com | F | 43 | 1 days 1X day | 4/26/2011 | 1 | Pneumonia | BEWARE OF THIS DRUG!!!!! I am experiencing Fluoroquinolone toxicity. This drug has caused Whole Body Joint, Tendon and Muscle Pain, Tenderness, Joint Popping and Fatigue. I am also experiencing Migraines and Insomnia. | This drug should only be given in life or death situations. I am a 19 yo man, whose life has so far been ruined by this medication. I hope the side effects reverse, but so far nothing. It's been 10 weeks and I can't work, or go to school due to the pain, tenderness, popping and fatigue in my whole body. The pain is unrelenting. | M | 19 | 7 days 750 mg 1X day | 4/25/2011 | 1 | infection | Pure Hell for 6 years now. | Read fbook page under resources before you take a quin. [email for link] | F | 51 | 10 days 500 1X day | 4/25/2011 | 1 | I was starting my second round of antibotice for a sinus infection by the end of day one I was expericance sholder pain. On day two, I was woke up multiable times in the night from pain and couldn't hardly lift my purse, which hadn't even been a problem 3 weeks prior after a hystorectomy. One day 3 I was up at 530 am calling my 24 pharmacy to ask the pharmacist about it and checking it out online. | I am allergic to penicillin so the doctor thought this would be a good option for me as a Zpac had done nothing for my sinus infection. I will never be taking this again. | F | 40 | 3 days 1X day | 4/24/2011 | 1 | The Fluoroquinolone class of antibiotics (Cipro, Avelox, Levaquin) are widely known to be toxic. The side effects are not as rare as they would like you to believe. | If you have taken this drug and suffered side effects and would like to communicate with a caring group of individuals who have also suffered, please go to www.facebook.com/fluoroquinolonetoxicity | F | 17 | 1X day | 4/23/2011 | 1 | Prepare for surgery | Life changing severe pain started around joints and spine, then pain in all muscles accompanied by cramping. Severe migraine type headaches, with dizzyness, extreme fatigue. Muscle weakness continues 5 months later. Hands painful and could not hold silverware. My skin is now paper like compared to before takig this drug. My quality of life is deeply impaired and I fear I wil never be the same again. The neck, hip and leg pain is non-stop. | This is life threatening should be removed from market. | F | 64 | 7 days 1X day | 4/14/2011 | 1 | Bronchitis | Ear pain, throat pain similar to what I had when I was on avelox this summer. I spent 6 months on anti-seizure meds when it may have been a reaction to this class of antibiotics | Done with this class of antibiotics... | F | 44 | 4 days 750 mg 1X day | 4/6/2011 | 1 | peri-rectal abcess and colitis | i took this drug with flagyl.... the most deadly combo. flagyl alone is horrible, but mixed with this? WHOAH! i have had the worst experience ever. this medication has given me knee problems, diarreha, dizziness, nausa, yeast infection, kidney pains, restlessness. i also have been itchy all over. | Some things that have helped if you have had my symptoms: 1.) i did an at home kidney flush for the pains and used a heating pad on my back. drink half a glass of water mixed with half a glass of cranberry juice... and drink half of your weight in fl. oz. of that throughout the day. so if you weigh 100 lbs. drink 50 fl oz. of cranberry mixed with water all day long. after a day of this the kidney pains went away. i did have to repeat this after my final day of taking the meds. 2.) probiotics for my gut. i ate yogurt for snacks and took a probiotic pill twice a day. it helps to do this during and after to help with yeast infections. it may even prevent one from occuring. 3.) i did buy a liver cleanse herbal pill to help my body as well. the antibiotics harm the liver and kidneys the most. also no caffeine.... it will help the kidneys process the antibiotic and clean it out of your system faster. i hope this helps someone. hang in there. | F | 28 | 7 days 500 2X day | 4/4/2011 | 1 | Colitis | Caused golfers elbow in both elbows. Have it to this day. | DON'T TAKE THIS DRUG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | M | 33 | 7 days 500 mg 1X day | 4/3/2011 |