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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LEVAQUIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | GIven through IV for GI infection | Given through IV for increase WBC due to GI infection. Reaction was immediate (July 2010) * extreme fatigue * muscle weakness/fatigue, most significant in upper body * muscle pain, joint pain (joints popping and grinding) * Numbness in hands, fingers, feet, and toes * A burning feeling in arms, legs (like being burned by acid from the inside-out) * Muscle twitches, spasms, cramps * Myoclonic jerks * Tremendous insomnia * extreme fluctuations in weight * inability to concentrate or stay focused (initially could not read, or follow TV programs, it has improved some) * emotional lability- cried uncontrollable for about 4 weeks straight.* heart racing and palpitation * hypersensitivity to sounds, light * nausea * shortness of breath, especially when really tired, difficulty producing a voice * numbness/tingling in face/lip * Raynaud's syndrome * Difficulty walking long distances, spasticity increases in leg muscles. * Decreased balance | * diagnosed with "drug induced neuromuscular disorder" 10/7/10 * neurologist noted decreased upper and lower extremity reflexes * confirmed damage to Peroneal Nerve in right leg from knee down, loss of movement in right foot, with atrophy of the muscles in foot and leg. (nerve conduction test). EMG--abnormal response of muscles in both legs. (9/24/10) | F | 43 | 1 days 500 1X day | 10/17/2010 | 1 | Bronchial infection | Intense and extreme pain in my left hip as well as horrible pain in the knees. I was unable to walk or get in and out of the car without horrible pain on the 8th day I was taking the medication. I have been off of it for three days and am just starting to see improvement. | F | 46 | 8 days 750 1X day | 10/17/2010 | 1 | pneumonia and an ear infection | Insomnia, dizziness, blurred vision, headaches, nausea, numbness, muscle pain espacially in my legs. I also woke up one morning and the whole right side of my face hurt! Even in my mouth! The right half of my tongue was swollen, my jaw hurt, and my throar hurt so bad (on the right side) that I could barely swallow. There's probably even more things but these are the one's that bugged me the most. Oh yeah, that same morning my other ear (the right one) was infected too so now I have hearing loss in both ears. | My doctor must be getting something from the drug company for pushing this on his patients. That's the only reason I could think of that would make him do this to people. | F | 30 | 10 days 500MG 1X day | 10/15/2010 | 1 | UTI | I am a runner. I was running 35-45 miles per week. After taking Cipro in May, I started having pain in right ankle tendon in June. I also started having ringing in ears. I was prescribed Cipro again for another UTI in August, saw black box warning and stopped after first day. Ankle pain got extremely bad, had to cut running down to 15 mi per week. | Horrible drug. Had to go to Podiatrist and had to cut running down to 6 miles per week. This started in June and even with ice, rest and milage cut backs, I am still having pain in tendon. I never had tendon pain ever before this, and have been running for 30+ years. Podiatrist confirmed that tendonitis was Cipro related. I am currently taking vitamin supplements, and continueing to ice. I am increasing running by 10% each week, but healing is very slow. I have continous ear ringing as well. Avoid this medication. I am very angry that it was not made clear to me by my doctor that this could cause tendonitis. | F | 48 | 3 days 500 MG 2X day | 10/9/2010 | 1 | psuedomonas | Severe Hip, Knee, and ankle pain. Inablility to stand-up without pain. Muscle tiredness after only a few steps which required rest to have the ability to walk more. Legs will hurt so bad that you can't continue walking after a short while. | I took the medication for 17 days due to a severa bronchial infection acquired during surgery. Initially had no adverse symptoms. On the 15 day I noted joint pain that increased daily by the 17 day I could not walk without help. I have improved some since the onset of symptoms. This was 9 months ago. I continue to struggle with joint pain, and the inability to only walk 200 to 300 feet with stopping and resting. I get extreme mucle weakness. My family doctor stopped Leviquan on the 17th day and said my symptoms were related to the medication. He told me he hoped and prayed my symptoms would improve. He has sent me to a pain clinic for chronic pain, which tells me he does not feel I will have improvement. I pray for this to go away, but doubt it every will. | F | 53 | 17 days 500mg. 1X day | 10/8/2010 | 1 | infection in finger | At first, I was nauseous, diarrhea, light-headed and couldn't sleep. After stopping this drug, I have stiffness behind both knees and walk like I am crippled! | This drug should be banned!!!! I just started with stiffness behind my knees. When I asked Doctor how to treat this he just said I had to wait it out. I hope this doesn't get worse but after reading all the other comments, it looks like I am in for the long haul!!! What really sucks is that this was the wrong drug to give me for my problem after test results came back!!! | F | 60 | 7 days 1X day | 10/8/2010 | 1 | sinus infection | Persistent muscle weakness, tightening, burning, tingling, joint pain that is crippling. My body cannot handle typical physical activity such as walking and standing. I am in constant pain and my ankles/achilles/calves are perpetually swollen and not functioning properly. Acute shoulder weakness. Initially I was so dizzy, I had to crawl, had no energy, pain all over my body, acute muscle weakness and joint pain, ringing of the ears, depression, lack of ability to focus, racing heart and hyper/nervous feeling while at the same time being severely exhausted. | This drug has robbed me of my life. Most everything I do revolves around being active. I am desperately trying to find people and treatments that can help me. I found a paper written by Dr. Greene from Emory University in 2002 re: a physical therapy program she designed for someone who had a similar issue. It required the man to be on crutches, she made special achilles braces for him and it took approximately 5 months to get him better. The school was going to do research on this several years ago however, as it required costly ultrasound imaging, the funding was not available. If anyone has found a treatment or practitioner that has helped them, please please email me with information. Also, perhaps if there's enough interest in more research and enough people contact Emory University (or another), perhaps they will find a way to do the research and help those who have been affected. I'm told the drug company has not followed people with longer term side affects. They don't know why it has this affect and they don't know how to fix it. Research to find help must be required. | F | 44 | 4 days 750 1X day | 10/2/2010 | 1 | Sinus Infection | uncontrollable crying, depression, feelings of negativity, tremors, thoughts of suicide | I only took this medication for 3 of the 10 days. Its clicked that 'this wasn't me' and I called the dr. for a new antibiotic right away, despite his disbelief. | F | 31 | 10 days 500mg 1X day | 9/28/2010 | 1 | BRONCHITIS | LEG MUSCLE WEAKNESS, TIGHTNESS & STIFFNESS | I will never take again - after 4 days - my legs were aching & weak to the point I could not sleep. My Doctor does not believe the drug caused this - but I had no problems until 4 pills had been taken. A month later I feel as though my legs are not straight when I walk - they are so stiff & tight as if they will not straighten out - my hip joints are also stiff & sore. I wish I had never taken this drug! | F | 54 | 5 days 750 1X day | 9/28/2010 | 1 | sinus infection | M | 40 | 7 days 750 mg 1X day | 9/28/2010 Patient History | 1 | Sinus infection | I took Levaquin at 8pm and tried to go to sleep around 10pm. I know it sounds crazy, but I couldn't remember how to open my eyes. I was having a conversation with myself about whether or not I needed to open them to be able to see (my husband was very worried). Eventually I did and I was restless and jittery until 6am. I will NEVER take Levaquin again. | F | 30 | 1 days 750 mg 1X day | 9/26/2010 | 1 | Pneumonia | While my pneumonia DID go away, I now feel like I'm 90yo. The ER doctor did warn me about the side affects. I told him I am an active horseback rider (I also compete) and his response to me was "well don't fall off". The stiffness in my ankles and knees are, at times, unbearable. When I get up in the morning I can barely walk. I PRAY these affects will go away | I work 2 jobs. One is a desk job. When I get up after sitting for an hour, I can barely flex my ankles. They feel stiff and swollen. My other job is a waitress at night. After 2 hours on my feet, I am stiff and cannot move quickly. Prior to taking this medication, I was extremely active (almost hyper) and worked out weekly. Now I feel like I belong in a nursing home. James, your post is encouraging and I pray this will go away. Just wondering if any one has filed a law suit. I feel as though neither my GP or the ER doctor listened to my concerns about not wanting to take this medication. | F | 51 | 10 days 500 1X day | 9/26/2010 | 1 | Sinus Infection | A couple of hours after taking the first pill, I felt like I had drank 10 cups of coffee & felt very hot/flushed. It is now 8:00am the next day (17 hours later) and I haven't slept AT ALL. I am weak, my muscles are sore & I still feel "overly-caffienated." I have panic attacks & am prone to depression and this one little pill really exaggerated my conditions. I spent the entire night anxious, jittery & cryin! | I'm supposed to be on this for 9 more days but absolutely REFUSE to continue. | F | 35 | 1 days 500 mg 1X day | 9/25/2010 | 1 | ear infection | symptoms stayed the same then ear infection lasted for a whole month | sucks | F | 34 | 5 days 30 1X day | 9/23/2010 | 1 | Prostatitis | anything you can come up with as a side effect, from anxiety to pain in every single part of my body including partial hearing loss | Levaquin and other quinolones are simply a way to speed up natural selection, in other words eliminating those susceptible to adverse reactions. Great job FDA, this drug cures your prostatits 100% by creating so many other health issues that you even forget about your prostate and sex life. My greatest 18th bday ever, celebrating in incredible depression and pain, just how I always imagined it. I would rather start doign bathtub meth than take this poison ever again. Quinolones cause CNS damage and alter your DNA, but who cares when pharmaceutical companies are earning so much money of it. Health comes after money right doctors and quinolone suppliers? | M | 18 | 2 days 400mg 2X day | 9/22/2010 | 1 | epididymitis | Nausea and vomiting that have continued, and even worsened, since stopping the drug. Nightmares that are brought on by, and somehow tie into, the nausea. | I started taking Levaquin because I was very nauseated after three days of a sulfa drug. After 5 days on Levaquin, I felt as if I were being poisoned and stopped taking it, 9 days short of the dose that was prescribed. I've continued to have worsening nausea and vomiting, and I can't stand the thought of eating or drinking anything. I've been to the emergency room twice this week for re-hydration and IV Zofran. If I need to go back to the ER, it will be to stay in the hospital until the doctors can fix what's wrong. | M | 66 | 5 days 500 mg 1X day | 9/19/2010 | 1 | Bronchitis | Irregular heartbeat, extreme anxiety, insomnia, tingling on skin, erratic mood, crying jags | This medicine scared me... I was never 'scared' of anti-biotics before this. The skin tingling and irregular heart beat was frightening but the insomnia and anxiety was hellish. I stopped after only one day. I was up the whole night, sleeping an hour at most, waking in full of fits of terror, certain that I was going to die. I clung to my fiance and had a literal sobbing fit when he said he had to leave for work the next day. The anxiety and fear was so bad I was terrified to be alone. (I've NEVER experienced anything like this)... He was so concerned at my odd full on meltdown (which I'd never had one before) he took me straight back to the doctor where I was taken off this drug. I would also suggest this as a last result. I have had lasting anxiety even a week later... I still fear being alone at night (never felt like that before) and my thoughts feel disrupted. I am not sure how to explain my state of mind... it does not feel 'at peace' just this looming feeling of discomfort, something not being right. This drug is terrible... I hope I return to normal after taking this. | F | 29 | 1 days 500 1X day | 9/17/2010 | 1 | bronchial infection | Severe stomach pain, unable to eat or drink. Nightmares, weak,unable to sleep,diarhea daily. | this is a dangerous drug. | 56 | 10 days 500mg 1X day | 9/15/2010 | 1 | sinus infection | Anxiety (which I NEVER have!), creepy crawlies on my legs and a rash on my neck. | This was my second time in a couple of years on levaquin, I noticed some anxiety like effects the first time. | F | 39 | 3 days unsure 1X day | 9/14/2010 | 1 | for a recurring bladder infection. | tendonitis in my feet, legs, back, shoulder and arm. I felt as if someone had beaten the shit out of me with a baseball bat. | This stuff is horrible. I took it for a bladder infection, and would as soon had the bladder infection. I now have to have surgery on my shoulder for torn tendons in by tricept and bicept. I don't know when this pain will subcide, and my doctor who prescribed it, only said he's so sorry.HE"S sorry? | F | 73 | 2 weeks 750 1X day | 9/14/2010 |