LEVAQUIN Reviews (LEVOFLOXACIN)Average Rating: 1.7 (2159 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare LEVAQUIN with similar:
Type: Rx Drug
|
Results are sorted by Satisfaction lowest to highest. Key to Ratings: 1=LOW (I would not recommend taking this medicine.) Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 |
More on LEVAQUIN: Reviews Summary | Drug Safety Information
| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LEVAQUIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Sinus Infection | Insomnia! After dose #1 I may have gotten 4 hours sleep. Thinking I should be quite tired after that, I now sit in the middle of the freakin' night searching "Levaquin" and "insomnia" and I guess it is "welcome to the club". This sucks, but so does the infection, which the Levaquin is taking care of. | I'd rather be sleeping. | M | 36 | 2 days | 6/24/2008 | 1 | sinus infection | Do not remember any side effects while taking it except vivid dreams. However after being off of it for a few days, had severe joint pain, tingling sensations in arms, fingers, legs, and feet. Broke out in a rash for a week. Still have joint pain, swelling behind knees and cannot exercise due to weakness in joints and general all over pain. Sometimes it hurts just to stand while washing the dishes! | Thought I was going crazy and that I was suddenly becoming chronically ill with severe pain everywhere, but now after reading all the posts, I'm assuming it was from the Levaquin. I will never take it again but I'm now wondering how long the side effects will last. I can't do anything- and I was an active, strong person...now I feel like a week old lady- this is horrible! | F | 36 | 10 days | 6/19/2008 | 1 | Brochitis | I have been taking Levaquin since 12th of June for brochitis. Since 16th of June 08, I have severe pain in my calf that I can hardly walk. I did not realize that this would be a side effect of the Levaquin until I searched on internet. I just called the doctor who prescribed the drug and they said they will call me back. | F | 44 | 6 days | 6/18/2008 | 1 | YES | Severe burning skin rash,leisions on hands,feet,scalp,tendon ruptures,eyesight damage,hair loss,joint swelling,sleep loss,depression,anxiety,finger nails falling off, swelling shut of eyes with fluid sacks underneath,etc.etc.. | THIS DRUG AS WITH ALL FLUOROQUINOLONES ARE POISON!PROTECT YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND DO NOT ALLOW ANY PHYSICIAN TO PRESCRIBE THEM TO TREAT ANY INFECTION YOU MAY HAVE UNLESS IT IS LIFE THREATENING!I was rushed to hospital from my home were I spent 12 days fighting for my life due to an adverse reaction to Levaquin an Ciprofloxacin.It has left me with a very rare autoimmune disorder known as Dermatomyositis which effects the skin,muscles and joints.It has been proven that fluoroquinolone based drugs can trigger many illness such as lupus,arthritis,reiters syndrome,fibromyalgia and many other related illnesses.For more detailed information visit the following sites,the information will shock you as to how devastating these drugs can be.www.fluoroquinolones.com - contains a 253 page report, www.fqsearch.org - contains an 82 page report, www.medicationsense.com, www.antibiotics.org, www.drugvictims.org, www.fqvictims.org, www.medications.com.Also,I am currently involved with a law firm trying | M | 48 | 35 days | 6/15/2008 | 1 | sinus infection | Tingling leading to pain in my calves and behind my knees. Sore knee joints. Anxiety and panic attacks with shortness of breath, heart palpitations, and high BP. Never had anxiety or panic attacks before! | I will never take this drug again. I've been off this for a week and I still have problems. | M | 43 | 12 days | 6/13/2008 | 1 | Kidney and Blood infection | severe pain in the muscles and joints, dizzy, vision problems, sooo soo many syptoms...I have been told it is permanent, to adjust my lifestyle to the pain!!! DO NOT TAKE | IT has been over a year and i am still in a huge amount of pain. I cannot play wii, walk a college campus or lift anything slightly heavy without being in dibilitating pain. this drug has truly changed and ruined my life. please do not take it, make your doctor listen to you...mine did not...they do not know your body you do! | F | 21 | 5 days | 6/11/2008 | 1 | potential prostatitis | I am an active 51 year old who continued to do what I have been doing for years - basketball, running, hand and arm strengthening training for rock climbing - at a reduced level while taking the drug for 30 days. Out of nowhere, my lower calves and achilles tendons started to hurt after low levels of excercise. I partially tore a tendon in my forearm. Joint pain in my fingers. I had specifically asked my doctor whether I had to worry about such activities while taking the drug, but he said "no." Research on the internet disclosed that sometimes severe tendon problems are a known side effect of Levaquin... but I elected to cut out all exercise rather than cut short the levaquin since I only had 10 days of treatment left. All tendon problems, except of course for the partial tear in my forearem, immediately cleared within a 1.5 weeks after I stopped taking the levaquin. With respect to the prostatitis, the antibiotic seems to have helped. | I intend to have a talk with my urologist - he should have known about these side effects. | M | 51 | 30 days | 5/28/2008 | 1 | kidney infection/UTIs | Continual (24-hour) nausea and associated (dry heaves, gagging, heartburn) were the most disturbing. Whenever I tried to lie down or get some sleep I got snorkel-boarded in my own vomit. But then also: amazingly spikey headaches; like a roofer set a roofing nail right at the top of your skull and then whacked it home with single blow; these do not go away with just an aspirin or two. And, muscle weakness, and then dementia in various forms (vivid, disturbing dreams and thought patterns, morbid thoughts, etc.) Then followed by exhaustion and insomnia. For those who know the term, it felt like a really bad attack of autonomic dysreflexia. For those who don't, well it's like the worst case of fever and flu you've ever had. In fact, chills and shakiness are something I should have mentioned earlier. | Consider that complaints at this website on Levaquin are greater by two orders of magnitude than for any other fluoroquinolone. Thank you; I no longer feel I'm going insane. The patient is always right. (Ask your urologist to take a course of this drug before he ever prescribes it again.) It felt like I was being poisoned. (I took three courses, with about a week's break in between to see if the UTI had been fixed.) It seems that my sensitivity to this poison has increased with each course. I will NEVER take this drug again. At first, I attributed the symptoms to my kidney infection, assuming that they had WAY failed, and that I was dying from the build-up of toxins in my body. Eventually, I was able to figure out that it was the Levaquin. I am amazed at the "self-similarity" of its few defenders on this website. They are rude and crude, and frankly idiotic. The tone is very hostile and they all carry the same message: you are a whimp and a wuss. I strongly suspect that they | M | 63 | 6 weeks | 5/20/2008 | 1 | UTI | trouble swallowing,tight throat, nasal congestion,cough, blurred vision, bad nausea, stomach and gastrointestinal problem, very bad headache, dry eye discomfort, vivid nightmares | I took only one 500mg. tablet and got those side effects. I had to take Benedryl to help with throat and congestion allergic reaction. I will not take this drug again or any drug in this family | F | 59 | 1 days | 5/3/2008 | 1 | Chronic Sinusitis | Within 3 days right knee pain, within 7 days could barely walk due to both knees and legs hurting so much. Some hand and wrist swelling, but not nearly as bad as the leg pain. | The drug did cure my infection, but I can barely walk. It has been only 2 days since I stopped the drug and feel no appreciable difference as of yet. | F | 45 | 8 days | 5/1/2008 | 1 | Severe Sinus Infection | Insomnia, shoulder joint pain, headache, sudden onset of extreme calf pain. On day 9 of taking levaquin 500 mg, I had a sharp pain shoot through my left calf as I was walking to my car. I hadn't twisted my ankle; I wasn't carrying anything; I didn't trip on anything. I had been walking normally before this and without any prior injuries to my calf. On day four after the injury, I called a friend who is a physical therapist. After ultrasound, light therapy, massage, ice and stim, I still had no pain relief. After two days of PT, my therapist has referred me to my ortho surgeon. | We initially thought my calf pain was a contracted muscle. But after days of intense pain when walking, and no sign of relief, I started researching side effects for levaquin. After reading so much about tendon ruptures, etc., I'm really scared. | F | 55 | 10 days | 5/1/2008 | 1 | Severe Bronchitis | Anxiety, sleep disruption, ruptured Achilles tendon. A minimum of eight weeks incapacitated, in addition, I get to learn to walk again. Hopefully, I will be able to return to the full activity level I had before this medicine. I still enjoy playing with my kids, and pray I will be able to after rehabilitation! | This drug was effective on the bronchitis. Dose was 750mg/day for 14 days. There is nowhere near enough warning of the negative side effects. I will NEVER take this drug again, nor will anyone in my family. | M | 61 | 14 days | 4/25/2008 | 1 | sinus infection | 750mg once a day. after 5 days of use, had sever knee pain, where I couldn't get off of floor, almost dropped my 6month old baby. still sever but have to hold onto stuff to get up.feet,ankles hurt and now shoulders.Hands swollen. Took for 7 days(out of 10)and stopped.Tried some gardening today and feel like truck hit me.Do not know why I was put on it in first place because I have a heart arthymia. Wished I would have read side effects first but wasn't thinking clearly. | DO NOT USE IF YOU VALUE QUALITY OF LIFE. | F | 33 | 7 days | 4/18/2008 | 1 | Sinus Infection from Prolonged Cold | Tingling in feet and hands. Ringing in ears. Progressing to tingling in legs, knee pain, tendon pain in left arm, now general joint pain. Progressing and not going away after 3 months..now contracted urinary issues..first time ever....and unusual bleeding, thus initiating medical help and testing. New doctor became immediately alert when I mentioned I had taken and stopped Levaquin after immediate side effects. Wish I had read this BEFORE I took a dose. | Scares me to read about how irreversible some of side effect damages can be and how symptons can still come on a year later. Have been an extremely lucky, active and healthly business professional.. till now. Can't believe this is on the market! | F | 49 | 2 days | 4/18/2008 | 1 | Sinus Infection | Rash and swelling of face, cold sweats and dizziness. | Will never take this one again. | F | 39 | 1 days | 4/18/2008 | 1 | sinus and ear infection | I just started Levaquin on Monday. While trying to sleep Tuesday evening I experienced major insomnia, auditory hallucinations, and intense dream sequences that led to frequent awakening. The experience was far worst than anything similar I've encountered from wearing nicotine patches to bed or from taking codeine-based Tylenol. At work today (Wednesday) I suffered a VERY sudden increase in my pulse rate, heart palpitations, along with a strong wave of dizziness and lightheaded feeling that almost led to my passing out at my desk. I got up and walked over to where there were other people so that if I did pass out someone would know about it. I recovered after about ten minutes, went back to my desk and searched on the Web about Levaquin side effects, which is how I found this site. After I learned how so many other people have suffered the same side side affects as me, I immediately called my doctor, explained my experiences, and told him I would not continue taking this antibiot | I will NEVER take Levaquin again nor can I recommend it for anyone other than as an antibiotic of last resort. | M | 52 | 3 days | 4/16/2008 | 1 | Staph infection | Took 750 mg for 3 days. Second day, dizziness and back of calves were stiff and achy, 3rd day, add to the aforementioned, numbness all over body. 4th day, did not take, but all aforementioned side effects remain, along with muscle weakness. As I type,I can feel that something is wrong with my fingers. When I stand up or walk, it feels as if I am tilting backward. Today, day 6, my body feels achy all over, I had trouble grabbing grapes with my fingers. | I am a healthy, active 50 year old woman. I walk my treadmill every day, 3 miles a day and have done so for the past 2 years. I wear wrist weights and do arm weight bearing exercises. I do the proper stretching exercises- so I know that any tendon problems that develop will be from this horrible drug. I am so afraid that this drug has changed my life forever. For the past 2 days I am drinking lots of water- even took a long hot bath to try to purge this garbage from my body. After reading all these posts, I am so surprised that this is still on the market. I hope that these side effects are temporary, but from the posts, looks like there's a possibility that they might not be. Good luck to all of you, I hope and pray that all of you recover from the terrible effects of this drug. | F | 50 | 3 days | 4/16/2008 | 1 | respiratory infection | Extreme ache in wrist, and finger joints; pain onset after four days of starting medication. Ache in wrists is the most extreme - painful to the point that it causes nausea; sore to the touch. | Prescribed 500mg twice a day for five days. No prior experience of pain in wrists and hands. Pain is relentless. Aspirin, Tylenol, ibuprofen, etc. all ineffective. After three weeks pain seems to be decreasing gradually. Infection appears cleared. | F | 58 | 5 days | 4/12/2008 | 1 | Sinus Infection | Headaches, cold sweats, nausea, vomiting, aching joints | Stay away. Day 1 was okay, day 2 got nausea and vomitted. Day three cold sweats nausea. Stopped taking it at that point. Might work for a few people, but seems that the consensus (including myself) have had very severe reactions. I'd rather have a sinus infection than take this medicine. | M | 32 | 3 days | 4/11/2008 | 1 | Sinus | On day 2, my right leg started to hurt, joint pain. Then on day 3, I felt very tired and sore (like flu) all over. I then got suddend pain in left wrist. Now wearing a brace. I can not lift anything and the pain shoots to my left elbow. I went on line to see if tiredness was caused by medicine and then found out about the joint pain and high risk complications. Does anyone know how long it will take before my left wrist/arm is better? Did you get better after stopping? Also, I took Advil for ear pain and my doctor did not say that would be a problem or cause additional risk for reaction. | DO NOT TAKE! SHOULD BE OFF THE MARKET. | F | 43 | 3 days | 4/1/2008 |