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 | paranoia,yellowing of the eyes, it was awful will never take again! | F | 61 | 7 days 750 1X day | 6/3/2010 | 1 | pneumonia | moderately severe and worsening joint pain in knees, left achilles tendon, difficulty walking or bending. | F | 39 | 7 days 500 1X day | 5/29/2010 | 1 | bronchitis | Insomnia from day one. Day two, hallucinations and insomnia. Day three joint pain. (knees and ankles) day four anxiety, pain and insomnia, day five i stopped taking this pill. 1 week later severe anxiety, stomach pain, muscle pain so bad it feels like i have just worked out to the extreme, pain in my knees I(tendon) so bad I couldn't walk today. Today I came home fromwork and changed into shorts. My calves were so swollen I didn't even recognize them. They were swolllen, and hard, and had very little feeling. I have very thin calves and these things were monsterous. Swelling went down in right leg within a couple hours (after massaging and soaking in cold water). Had a very sharp pain in right side of abdomen several times today that took my breath away. Not sure if all of this is related to the drug, but sure seems odd that it started when I started taking it. Still, my muscles in my neck, back, stomach legs well everywhere are so sore. Chest pains and insomnia and anxiety | UNLESS YOU HAVE SOMETHING THAT IS GOING TO KILL YOU IMMEDIATLEY DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG. READ ALL THE INFORMATION FIRST AND MAKE AN INFORMED DECISION! WHEN YOU LOOK INTO THE MIRROR ON DAY TWO AND SEE YOURSELF AS MEDUSA WITH SNAKES COMING OUT OF YOUR HEAD, THAT SHOULD BE A SIGN TO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG!! | F | 37 | 7 days 500mg 1X day | 5/27/2010 | 1 | uti | terrible insomnia, short term memory loss, confusion, extreme depression, anxiety, achieles tendon pain but no rupture. | People i know how terrible these side effects are, and im sorry but there is no quick fix. Levaquin stays in your system for much longer than doctors and reseachers are aware of. This is because it dosen't metabolize in the digestive track, and actually deplenishes over time with cellular reproduction. It has been nearly three months for me and i just recently have seen dramatic improvement. I am sleeping without meds, i can walk/run (with slight pain), I'm happy again, and just about normal again... My only advise is to find god, go to church, surround yourself with happiness and hope. This helped the most actually. I also took two table spoons of milk of magnesia for two weeks since it can bond with the levaquin and help in the removing process. There is hope people, time and god are the only cures known of at this time. So god be with you and good luck. | M | 21 | 3 days 500 1X day | 5/26/2010 | 1 | Sinus infection | Hospital emergency room put me immediately on this drug & did NOT warn me about possible racing heart/irregular heartbeats. Just treated this as if routine antibiotic. I HATED this drug & have never felt this bad on ANY other medication. Racing heart (thought I was having a heart attack!), jittery, muscle twitching similar to RLS & could NOT sleep. My local pharmacist eventually told me what the emergency doctor SHOULD have! I believe routine prescriptions of SUPER-strength drugs are why we are experiencing drug resistant infections. | In my humble opinion, drugs in the quinolone family should NOT be given routinely before prescribing other safer options. If I had realized this was a floxacin, I would have questioned the doctor prescribing it. I have never had a bad reaction to a drug in my 50+ years of life until Levaquin! | M | 56 | 4 days 1X day | 5/24/2010 | 1 | Bladder Infection | Excrutiating pain in legs, can't walk without a walker, extreme tiredness | My son is a kidney transplant patient and on steroids. He was the LAST person this should ever have been subscribed to. He took one pill, just one dose!! Two weeks later he is still having severe cramps, pain in his joints, fogginess, woke up one morning and could not see. This drug looks like it is going to ruin his life. His progress is a little better over the past 13 days. At first he could not even stand up. He is using a walker. He's only 35. I pray we find a solution to this poison and the havoc it has wrecked on him. This is very sad. This drug should only be used as a last resort when all else fails and it should never, ever be subscribed to anyone who is elderly, has a compromised immune system, is on steroids or is a transplant patient. I just wished we had not trusted his doctor of eight years and had done more research. The man had always been very conservative when prescribing medication. This is devastating. If he's able to return to work it will be a miracle. Our whole family is beside themselves. Years of medical problems and now I have to watch my son go through this pain and hopefully a recovery process. It does not look promising. One fricken pill. As for the post that said the people complaining seemed like they were wacked. Shame on you. You consider yourself lucky you did not have a reaction to this. | M | 35 | 1 days 500 1X day | 5/23/2010 | 1 | Sinus infection | Pain in calves of both legs started on the 2nd day of 10 day prescription. Had difficulty walking. Left salty taste in my mouth. Copius amounts of phlegm. Very drowsy. Sleeping 10 hours a day for several days and felt very weak. Had to use cane. | Do not take this medicine. It's dangerous. | F | 85 | 3 days 500 1X day | 5/23/2010 | 1 | Respiratory infection & asthma | Unable to sleep for 5 days. Racing heart, jittery, muscle twitching similar to RLS & hip pain. | I was prescribed this drug for 7 days because I have been on two other antibiotics that didn't work. I was given 16 days of Prednisone along with the Levaquin. I've taken Prednisone many times & never had a problem with it. I stopped this drug today - last dose was yesterday but I feel like I've been injected with caffeine. It's a horrible feeling. Sleep deprivation is torture. | F | 73 | 5 days 750 1X day | 5/19/2010 | 1 | sinus infection | Muscle or tendon knot in upper left back, evolved to ACUTE pain in left shoulder and neck. Pain is disrupting sleep. | A new doctor prescribed this med, giving me a light warning about "rare" side effect regarding tendon rupture. She said I was OK to carry on with usual exercise, just shouldn't start anything new. My infection was gone in 3 days, and my skin looked radiant right away. Now looking back, i realize the fatigue I developed around day 4 was more than stress at work. Extreme fatigue and even some nighttime anxiety and sleeplessness. Thought work stress was just getting to me. On day 10 I did a light work out..I say light as I was unusually tired, but thought exercise was just what I needed. I pushed through my fatigue, but kept the workout light (less weight , etc). Within about three hours a painful knot began in my back, and by end of day I was in extreme pain. Now reading about this drug, I am SHOCKED it would be prescribed for anything less than a life threatening illness. I am hoping i recover, as these complaints do not make it clear if symptoms ever go away...and that has me scared, in all candor. I stopped taking the medication, 4 days short of recommended course. How are others doing with muscle pain? Any improvements? | F | 46 | 10 days 500 1X day | 5/17/2010 | 1 | Recurring Sinus Infection | I had been on 4 z-paks so they switched to this. It took longer to fight the infection and I now have severe pain in both my knees. Can't go up and down stairs without excruciating pain. No prior problems with knees. | M | 66 | 10 days 500 mg 1X day | 5/15/2010 | 1 | pneumonia | pain in calves, hip and shoulder | M | 51 | 4 days 1X day | 5/13/2010 | 1 | Sinus Infection | I took my first dose at 4 pm. By 7, I had pretty noticeable pain in one knee and then by 10pm in my shoulder. i had read the label which listed side effects as mostly gastro. The pain was so sudden and without cause I decided to check to see if there could be any link to the new medication. I think the doctor should have mentioned this! | F | 44 | 1 days 500 mg/day 1X day | 5/12/2010 | 1 | Diverticulitis | Severe pain and discomfort in my lower thighs and especially my knees. Knees "pop" when I attempt to walk, which I assume is caused by tendon problems. I can hardly stand up without assistance. I look like an OLD woman -- okay 55 is not young, but it's not that old! I also have pain in my finger joints and one wrist is affected. I'm very concerned. | I have four more days of this medicine. I started it with IV's during a hospital emergency room visit and subsequent admission. I was in such pain I didn't care what they gave me as long as it STOPPED! But after I was able to get up and came home from hospital, I'm miserable with the joint pain in my knees. CRAZY STUFF!!! | M | 55 | 7 days 500 mg 1X day | 5/12/2010 | 1 | UTI | Immediately after taking this antibiotic, my whole body felt like jello. I was very lightheaded and dizzy, constantly had bad waves of nausea. An hour into it, my lips and the right side of my face began going numb. I felt as if I had drank 5 shots of tequila and my whole body was starting to go numb. I attempted to sleep it off, because the first day I had taken it the symptoms weren't as bad. But I kept having muscle spasms that would wake me up and feeling very restless. The whole time I had the feeling that I was going to die, I was very anxious, and started feeling depressed. I was scared to fall asleep thinking something might happen. My whole body felt very weighted, the tendons in my legs felt sore, my knees and neck ache,d and I lost taste in my mouth. | I had been prescribed this medication after being admitted to the hospital for food poisoning, because they found I had a UTI after a urine test. I strongly feel that the symptoms of this antibiotic are not worth it to continue taking it. I will be speaking to my doctor about having an alternative medication that is much safer. All my other medications have not given me problems, but this one has. | F | 19 | 2 days 500 1X day | 5/10/2010 | 1 | Pneumonia and Sinus Infection | Very stiff and painful achilles tendons in both feet within 4 days of taking medication- hurts to walk! Itchy palms within 3 days of taking medication; slight vertigo; slight jaundice in the eyes; insomnia | I will NEVER take this drug again; having pneumonia was preferential. | F | 50 | 10 days 100 1X day | 5/9/2010 | 1 | I'm an RN so I'm aware that many drugs have side effects. I was prescribed this drug for a sinus infection. It hit the target and within five days and my sinuses were fine - HOWEVER, I discontinued the drug only after 5 days because of severe muscle tenderness and leg spasms. It's been over three weeks now, and I'm still walking like a zombie and unable to bend my knees without a lot of pain. Don't know when these side effects will end but the pain is terrible and I've got a fairly high threshold for pain. I'm a very active senior. I swim three days a week at the Y and attend yoga classes faithfully. I'm unable to do either because of this pain. I know for certain, I'll NEVER take this medication again. | Would advise anyone to weigh the benefits against the possibility of more pain than they can handle and still continue to lead an active life. | F | 76 | 5 days 1X day | 5/9/2010 | 1 | Pneumonia | severe tendonitis | developed severe tendonitis all over my body. i hurt every day all day and night. it has been almost 3 mos since i stopped taking levaquin. on pain meds because anti-inflammatory med(NSAIDS) cause me to bleed. praying that this in not irreverseable. | F | 39 | 9 days 750 mg 1X day | 5/8/2010 | 1 | Prophylactic treatment | SEVERE itching and rash all over body, Tendon pain behind knees, barely could walk. Burning hands and feet. Stopped treatment after 1 dose. | THIS DRUG NEEDS TO REMOVED FROM MARKET. ENOUGH VICTIMS HAVE SUFFERED. | M | 55 | 7 days 500 1X day | 5/7/2010 | 1 | skull base erosion from cancer | At first shoulder and upper arm pain,then thighs.Numbness left hand Severe upper abdominal pain | I only took it for so long because the dr. is very worried about me getting menninghitis due to the opening at the base of my skull I beat phase 4 cancer but I can"t handle levaquin Have stopped taking it 3 days ago and the stomach pains have eased Hoping other damage isn"t permanent Please DO NOT TAKE THIS STUFF | M | 58 | 110 days 250 mg 1X day | 5/2/2010 | 1 | bronchitis | My 80 year old father was hospitalized with bronchitis. He was put on Levaquin and Prednisone. By day 5, he had severe pain in his legs. On day 6, his right arm became very swollen and painful. He has now been diagnosed with TWO RUPTURED ACHILLES TENDONS AND A BICEP TEAR. He is basically crippled and was told by the Orthopedic Surgeon that he will be in pain and be disabled until he dies because he is not a good candidate for surgical repair. | This drug should be removed from the market. There are other antibiotics that can fight infections. Everytime someone takes this medication, they are rolling the dice for possible PERMANENT injuries. | M | 80 | 6 days 500 1X day | 5/1/2010 |