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 bladder | pain burning shaking | F | 43 | 1 days | 8/23/2008 | 1 | Diverticulitis | Severe joint and muscle pain. Very debilitating. Blurred vision, tingling in arms and legs, severe hip, ankle and foot pain. | I immediately started having ankle pain and shooting pain on tops of my feet the first day after I started taking Levaquin 750mg. The pain started to work its way up my body. I now have severe pain in the knees when I walk steps. My hips hurt and every muscle and joint aches in my neck, arms and legs. I have tingling in my arms and fingers and sometimes my hands tremor. I have also noticed blurred vision. I did not immediately associate these symptoms with Levaquin until I Googled my symptoms / side effects and the name came up. This is a very debilitating drug which I am very concerned about the side effects and if and when they will subside. I am 48 years old and walk around hunched over in pain as if I am in my 90s. The pain is most noticeable if I sit for too long or after I get up from sleeping. It takes about 5 mins for me to start moving normally but the pain is still there and I am far from normal. I feel as if I could fall when walking because my muscles are weak. | F | 48 | 7 days | 8/18/2008 | 1 | post-op bursectomy with staph infec | pitted edema in both legs. severe muscle and joint pain in knees, feet, legs, hips, and butt.insomnia,severe sweating and chills also.pain soon traveled to hands and wrists and back. big toes started to go numb, and all toes went numb if i sat for any given amount of time. digit 3-4 went numb with use also..after i quit drug, terrible nightmares began, but have started to reduce now after 3 weeks. toes are permanently numb and tingle. | dr. just looked at me like i was crazy when i mentioned this is why i had to stop antibiotics and request a new drug. after 2 days my aches and pains were much less severe. big toes stayed numb and are still numb today. i did a colon cleanse, took vitamin d and b, also drank alot of water. i asked for this drug because in the past it worked great with staph infection that only certain drugs would work for.however, i took for over 1 month. symptoms came and went. then remembered i filled my script at kaiser, and i filled it at savemart sometimes.one place produced symptoms, while other stores meds. did NOT cause symptoms. i do not remember which store caused symptoms to came back. savemart bottle says "levaquin 500mg" kaiser bottle states"levaquin 500mg for levofloxacin". i have read that levofloxacin (which is levaquin) caused more severe symptoms.we should do another pole to see how many peoples prescription was marked levofloxacin instead of strictly levaquin. it | F | 45 | 35 days | 8/18/2008 | 1 | sinus infection | extreme dizziness, inability to focus, read, watch tv, feelings of immense anxiety, inability to sleep, perhaps due to fear and worry or due to drug | i took the first pill in the evening and will NEVER take it again. I have never felt so, so very dizzy in my life. I was afraid to walk to the bathroom. I called a pharmacy and the pharamacst said that if I had Dramamine it might help but I didn't have it, couldn't drive to get it and was afriad of taking yet another pill. After I finally fell asleep I woke up and was afraid to get out of bed, but seemed OK since. | F | 55 | 1 days | 8/17/2008 | 1 | sinus infection | rapid heart rate,high bp,ringing in ears,dizziness,tingling in feet and legs | should not be prescribed | F | 59 | 2 days | 8/4/2008 | 1 | Prostate | Excessive fatigue, Joint pain (hips, knees, shoulders). I am unable to workout and have pain in the mornings when I get up. | I paid a lot for this medication and nobody mentioned these possible side affects. I initially thought that I was working out to much and backed down. Eventually, I had to stop working out because of the pain and fatigue. I have been taking it for seven weeks and quit this morning when I found how many people have reported similar reactions to the drug. I have never experienced this type of joint pain before. I feel like I have OA in my knees, hips, and shoulders and I can feel it in the morning when I get up. It is terrible. | M | 30 | 7 weeks | 8/2/2008 | 1 | Sinus Infection | dizziness; sleepiness; foggy feeling; nausea; rapid pounding heartbeat; fatigue; joint pain; unable to think clearly and speaking out of context | After Amoxicillin didn't knock out my sinus infection my Dr. prescribed Levaquin 500mg X 10 days along with Nasonex. He encouraged me to take it with food in the a.m. which I did. However, he did not inform me that I would not be able to take it 2 hrs (before or after) taking anything containing calcium or magnesium. I started experiencing dizziness, sleepiness, nausea and a general foggy feeling after the initial dose. I thought maybe the side effects would go away with time but when I began experiencing a rapid pounding heartbeat after the 3rd dose I started to worry. I also found myself speaking out of context and being quite blunt which is not my general character. After the 4th dose I started experiencing joint pain and fatigue. Finally after the 5th dose and feeling as though it took all my effort to get through the day I decided to quit taking the med. I know that's a no-no and a possibility at building up a resistance but I suppose that's a chance I'll have to take. | F | 36 | 10 days | 7/29/2008 | 1 | UTI | within 24 hrs of taking first dose, severe sore throat, throat ulcers, thrush, nausea, stomach discomfort, trouble sleeping. | This drug is poison. I will never take it again. The sore throat and throat ulcers are very very painful. Stopped taking Levaquin after fourth dose when I realized that it was a reaction to Levaquin. One week later, throat still sore but almost better. | M | 36 | 4 days | 7/28/2008 | 1 | Pnumonia/Broncitus | Sore feet, joints, muscles, & no sleep to start within days/weeks. | Then a couple months the sore feet turned into full blow Peripheral Neuropathy - absolutely horrible PAIN I'm stuck with the rest of my life!!! I would give this drug a NEGATIVE if I could and tell everyone to never take it! I'm just 53 now and disabled, can no longer work, use a cane... all because of Levaquin. | F | 53 | 5 days | 7/25/2008 | 1 | sinus infection | SEVERE, DEBILITATING muscle aches and pains as well as nerve pain so severe - tingling, burning, numbness, shooting pains that felt like knives. In the morning I would wake up with numb hands. Scary! It has been 5 weeks since going off Levaquin and I STILL was having these side effects. Thankfully, my holistic Dr. recommended taking Magnesium Glycinate 400mg - I take 600mg - and my pains started going away several days ago (the first day I took the magnesium, I noticed a 90% difference in my pain!!). Apparently, the magnesium helps to remove the fluoride out of the body. My Dr. also recommended glutathione drips to help with these side effects. You can read the article here: www.MedicationSense.com/articles/jan_dec_08/toxicity070508.html | See the new black box warning the FDA just put on Fluoroquinolones. http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/InfoSheets/HCP/fluoroquinolonesHCP.htm and here's a tendon damage lawsuit - STAY AWAY IF POSSIBLE FROM THESE VERY DANGEROUS DRUGS!!! http://www.schmidtandclark.com/Levaquin/ | F | 35 | 20 days | 7/21/2008 | 1 | sinus infection | all over rash, pain in hands, wrists, neck, & shoulders, dizziness, depression, suicidal thoughts | I wish I had been warned. | F | 55 | 2 days | 7/19/2008 | 1 | ischemic colitis | Constant aching and burning in calves, thighs, gluts and heels, starting as soon as I came hame from hospital. I was being given 1000 mg constantly thru IV for 7 days, | This is a killer drug,The FDA needs to take it out of the hands of the physicians not just put a black flag notice on the box. The doctors are still going to prescribe and deny that it is serious. | F | 65 | 11 months | 7/19/2008 | 1 | infection | tendon rupture. My right foot is so bad that I am in a walking boot and on pain meds. This hurts so bad that it keeps me awake at nignt. | It turns out that there have been reports on this drug since 2005 especially regarding tendon ruptures! I want to know why 3 different doctors said nothing to me while prescribing this drug especially the pharmacy that filled the prescription. | F | 57 | 4 weeks | 7/15/2008 | 1 | sinus infection | Brain fog. severe pain in joints. extreme fatigue, could barely move | This is a very bad drug!!! | F | 69 | 38 days | 7/14/2008 | 1 | Kidney Infection | Bad joint pains!! Metal taste in my mouth. Hope it goes away :( | 30 | 5 days | 7/6/2008 | 1 | Lung infection | After just one 500 mg pill -- increased heart beat, inability to sleep, terrible thoughts, unable to think clearly, mind racing, migraine, upset stomach, terrible paleness to skin. (All this within a couple of hours, lasted 24 hours.) | Took the one pill, and one pill only. I've had many health issues - including cancer - and never had an issue with a medicine like I did with Levaquin. Now that I'm feeling better have been doing research and discovered that others with only a few dosages are suffering terribly, especially with joint and vision problems. I question why Levaquin is on the market, and why doctors and pharmacists who I've always trusted, were not aware of such issues with this drug. | F | 47 | 1 days | 7/2/2008 | 1 | urinary/pneumonia | Within a day of last dose, I started with knee pain on one leg that then moved to both, to weakness, to all body joint/muscle tendonitis problems. Got to where I could not get up by myself. Became very sick. It is now 4 weeks past nmy last dose and I am still having pain and problems with fatique and weakness in muscles and knees still hurt. | It is difficult to know if this medicine caused these problems, but the exact time I stop is when all this came on. | F | 48 | 7 days | 7/2/2008 | 1 | Intestinal infection & diarrhea | Symptoms started on day 2 of a 7 day course of treatment. Loss of sensation in my toes on one foot. Extreme vaginal itching. I Had blood drawn from my arm on Friday; Sunday night the site is bruised though it was perfectly normal when I removed the gauze on Friday. | M | 51 | 7 days | 6/30/2008 | 1 | pneumonia | 500 mg for 5 days. On day 2, I experienced extreme hip pain and attributed it to lying around for so long. Day 4, I could barely get out of bed because of hip, ankle, knee pain. Now, over 5 months later, I still have pain in my knees and ankles, but the worst pain is in my shoulders. My Dr. said it couldn't still be from the levaquin because it would not still be in my system. I have never had joint pain prior to taking levaquin and was very active, jogging 3 miles a day. Right now, it hurts to hold my hands up to the computer! I am taking Celebrex for the tendonitis that my Dr. says I have, Lortab for the pain and Motrin every 2-3 hours. I'm alternating heating pads and ice packs constantly, but no relief EVER. I am considering a lawsuit...it feels like my life is over. | F | 50 | 5 days | 6/30/2008 | 1 | upper respiratory infection | muscle weakness/soreness, pain, tingling My doctor is trying to do a study on these side effects for a medical journal article to get the word out. Please e-mail me at [email protected] if you have had such a reaction and would like to share your case with my doctor. | M | 35 | 6 days | 6/25/2008 |