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 infection | heart palpitations, lightheaded, dizzy, headache, jaw tightness | This is bad stuff. Thought I was having a heart attack for the last hour. Wish I'd read this website before taking - I would not have. Drinking lots of water and hoping these side effects go away. | F | 55 | 2 days | 3/29/2008 | 1 | sinusitis | swollen tongue; taste buds extremely sensitive; blurry vision and the last pill was taken 3/2/8, first one taken on 2/22/8. It has been almost a month since the last pill was taken and symptoms are not showing any signs of getting better. We ache all over and are extremely tired for no other reason. We continue to be extremely dehydrated. | The pills my husband and I took were samples given to us by my husband's regular doctor to be taken for 10 days. If these pills were bad enough to cause trouble to the intake and out put of our bodies, I hate to see what they did to our intestines, liver, kidneys etc. | F | 60 | 10 days | 3/24/2008 | 1 | Sinusitis/Bronchitis | Severe itch all over body, insomnia, decreased appetite, nausea | I have never had a reaction to any medication before but this was quite severe. | F | 25 | 8 days | 3/17/2008 | 1 | throat infection | bad insomnia,anxiety,pain behind legs and ankles | it took away the infection but caused all the other problems | F | 39 | 6 days | 3/10/2008 | 1 | pneumonia | three days after taking levaquin my arms hurt so bad tendons inflamed and still not rite still going to phycal theropy 3 times a week its been 6 months and can still barely lift left arm without pain. | DONT TAKE IT | F | 52 | 5 days | 3/2/2008 | 1 | UTI | anxiety, sleeplessness, ringing in ears, itchy/pins and needles in face and fingers, face turned red; long-term rash (6 weeks post-treatment) and pins and needles in face, fingers, feet | Was prescribed 250 mg. levaquin for group B strep UTI. After the first dose, I became anxious and had trouble sleeping. After the fourth dose, I got itchy and developed pins and needles in my face, and my face turned very red. Treatment was discontinued, but I've had a rash on my neck off and on since which is being treated with Allegra and topical cream. | F | 57 | 4 days | 2/25/2008 | 1 | upper respiratory infection | anxiety, palpitations, insomnia | Could not stand cipro either. | M | 58 | 1 days | 2/23/2008 | 1 | kidney stone; physician errors | permanent double vision, chronic tendonitis, severe rash, serious PNS and CNS effects that have continued for over eight years now, swollen lymph nodes, cystic formation on the liver and kidneys, hands so messed up that I can hardly bend my fingers,atropic heart valve and irregular ekgs, tremendous increase in white blood cell count as well as numerous lab results being out of range. Extreme fatique and suffered over three years of insomonia, depersonalization. Total destruction of the gastro system resulting in chronic gastro problems that defy treatment. The list of side effects I had suffered is endless. End result is that I have been both blinded and crippled for life by this drug that was not even used the way that it should have been. Treating physician just kept upping the dose even though there was no bacterial infection and I was suffer horrendous adverse reactions which he both failed to recognize or treat. | I strongly suggest that all who visit here log unto www.fqresearch.org where you will find well over 4000 medical journal entries, clinical studies, case reports, etc., that clearly document the horrendous safety profile of not only levaquin but all the other drugs found within this class. Recently Public Citizen had to file sue in Federal Court to even get the FDA to review thier petition seeking both "Black Box" warnings for these drugs as well as "Dear Doctor Letters". Suit was filed in January of 2008. The FDA has also failed to respond to a similar petition filed by the Attorney General of the State of Illinois. Bayer also issued a "Dear Doctor" letter in Europe (February 2008)citing to the horrendous adr profile of Avelox (liver damage and skin damage). Such letters were NOT issued in the United States, however. The fluoroquinolones are drugs of LAST RESORT and are not a first line agent for ANY disease state. They are only to be utilized wh | M | 54 | 2 months | 2/20/2008 | 1 | post-surgical | After only two doses: Severe, gripping headache, especially bad when shifting position. Vivid dreams. | I found this and other websites showing the connection of my symptoms to the levaquin. I am stopping immeditely. | F | 33 | 2 days | 2/19/2008 | 1 | sinus infection | INSOMNIA - took drug 4pm ... felt "high" after 1 / 1.5 hours. not euphoric but kinda wired. I thought maybe it was from my prednisone steroid shot. but that had been a while. didn't know anything about this drug. just read the bottle and popped one. Lay down at 10pm to bed like usual. mind is going all over the place and I'm not falling asleep. very uncharacteristic. I usually fall asleep w/in 15 mins of shutting TV. So then 12 comes around, 1 comes around.. I feel fine, but I'm wide awake. Then 2 am comes around and I say ok this is Fd. could it be the anti B?? Went online, found this site as well as 'http://www.fluoroquinolones.org/' . I'm not sure when I'll sleep as its 5am now and I'm still pretty wired. The levaquin was insulted by my 1 mg xanax I injested 2 hrs ago. The levaquin says to me cmon you are gonna have to do better than that who do you think I am? I will not be taking dose #2. | http://www.fluoroquinolones.org/It appears this substance is toxic to everybody. Some people have more of a tolerance but even those patients are very likely to have problems further down the road. | M | 28 | 1 days | 2/15/2008 | 1 | Sinus infection | Degraded motor skills, brain fog, "heavy" arms and fingers, difficulty typing, problem swallowing. Seems dangerous, stopped taking after these effects. | Prescribed 500 mg pills for chronic sinus infection. I believe this may be the second time I've been on this antibiotic in the last few years. After the first dose I felt "funny" but no real bad effects besides an upset stomach. After the second dose I began to feel significant degraded motor skill response. To describe it in one word my arms/hands/fingers feel "numb". This is bad as I work as an airline pilot. I have suspended the drug and hope my condition improves. I've started drinking significant amounts of water (>100 oz/day) and will start taking iron as it is supposed to reduce the effectiveness of the drug. | M | 26 | 2 days | 2/8/2008 | 1 | Sinus Infection | Extreme Diarrhea, formidable abdominal pain. | I understand that antibiotics can upset the stomach. Amoxicillin, and others I generally have to eat more than usual to keep my stomach from having a little pain, and this ok. Having an extra burger or burrito with lunch/dinner isn’t a big problem. However this stuff kicked my butt. | M | 27 | 3 days | 2/4/2008 | 1 | UTI | Achilles tendonitis and evntual Achilles Rupture followed by surgery and therapy to learn to walk again. The pharmaceutical company should be sued, as well as those who prescribe and dispense it with full disclosure to the patient. | All assocauted with the manufacture an distribution of this poison should be prosecuted and sued. DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE A KIDNEY TRANSPLANT PATIENT. | M | 61 | 5 days | 2/2/2008 | 1 | Pneumonia | Severe neck pain on one side, shoulder pain, nightmares involving my son dying, depression, loss of appetite, and severe moodiness. | This is one bad drug. There are others out there that can take care of pneumonia without giving you all the side effects. My neck/shoulder pain still hasn't gone away a week after my last dose, although all the other side effects have. I feel like my head weighs two tons. I often feel nauseated because the pain is so severe. | F | 38 | 10 days | 2/1/2008 | 1 | Bronchitis | I started on Levaquin two days ago for Bronchitis which had not been cleared up by the Z-pack. A couple hours after my first dose, I developed severe body aches (that felt like the flu) that I had not had before the Levaquin. I almost couldn't make it up my stairs. I then laid down and tried to sleep, but was wide awake until around 4 in the morning. The next day I got blurry vision in my left eye (which is normally 20/20). The body aches stayed all day. I took another Levaquin, and went to bed around 10pm last night. I stared at the ceiling, and tossed and turned and could not fall asleep until 5am. My body felt like it was on fire. My arms and legs had nerve pain like I have never felt before in my life. I was nervous, and nauseated, my heart was beating a mile a minute, and I felt like I was going to die. It was one of the scariest nights of my life. I called my doc today, and he told me to stop the Levaquin. It is now 24 hours since my last pill , and I still feel slig | DO NOT TAKE!! (I wish I hadn't.) | F | 35 | 2 days | 1/24/2008 | 1 | sinus infection | just about killed me. 5 trips to ER with BPM of 100-110, blood pressure of 165-175 over 90-100. I am a 23 year old male and this put me in worse condition of my life. it has been almost 5 months and i still don't feel myself. it started with anxiety and panic attacks, i thought i was dying because i had never experienced that before. then my arms started going numb and i kept feeling like i couldn't breathe. i would get lightheaded and confused. couldn't figure out how to use a can opener. dropped things. cried. shook uncontrollably. horrible dreams. would wake up sweating and shaking. doctor and ER said to keep taking antibiotics, but i stopped on my own and everything ceased except for anxiety which i still get today, headaches and muscles aches, occasionally i have memory problems or confusion. and tingling in my head. HELP. this drug is terrible | If you had these symptoms please contact me. I need help. Doctors won't talk about it. They just prescribe Xanax. I am constantly dizzy and have strange headaches, tingling. DONT TAKE THIS DRUG. it ruined the last 5 months of my life. i have hope i will get better... [email protected] | M | 23 | 7 days | 1/24/2008 | 1 | uti and tosillitis | I took Levaquin in Feb. of 2007 for a uti and in May of 2007 for tonsillitis. I will never take another fluoroquinolone again, if I have any strength left in my body to help it. Over the course of 2007, I suffered from panic attacks, heart palpitations, strange eye twitching, loss of strength in my limbs, chronic and debilitating pain in my muscles and joints, strange shots of searing pain starting in the center of my head and radiating outward to the top of my skull, bouts of being unable to properly focus visually (including while driving), and brain fog. I wish I had heard about the dangers of fluoroquinolones before I took the drug. It is now Jan. 2008, and I am still suffering from the aforementioned symptoms...oh, but the uti and tonsillitis are gone. Somehow I don't think the "cure" was worth the potentially life long side effects that I will now have to live with. | DON'T TAKE IT!!!!!! I am now in the process of trying to find a doctor who believes that fluoroquinolones can have this type of debilitating effect. I live in Ohio; if anyone else who has suffered from this drug knows of a competent doctor who understands the dangerous results of taking fluoroquinolones, please e-mail me his/her info. | F | 40 | 20 days | 1/24/2008 | 1 | Bacterial Vaginosis | The last day of the 10 day dose, both my elbows started aching, can't even pick up a glass of water. The Left elbow feels like it sunburnt. The doc said to take ibuprofen, not helping. It's been 6 days since I stopped taking them with no improvement. Going to the doctor in 2 days if I am not better. While taking the Levaquin I blacked out and was yelling at my husband, thought it was a bad dream, we never argue. | Has anyone had any luck where the symptoms actually went away? SCAREY! DO NOT TAKE! | F | 36 | 10 days | 1/23/2008 | 1 | Sinusitis | Throat tightness, dizziness, cold-sweat, backs of legs-upper and lower cramping, knee-joint pain, back pain, tingling in right arm and fingertips. | A Physicians Assistant prescribed Levaquin to me after Amoxicillin didn't work for sinusitis. She did give me a warning of, "On very rare occasions, this could cause tearing of the tendons". I quickly glanced over the side effects that came with the RX since this was something I had never taken. Honestly, they all seemed too ludicrous. I've never had an allergic reaction to anything and I thought, that's not going to happen to me. Stupid me! After paying $145 and taking only 1-500mg pill...I knew I had made a mistake. My throat tightened up (Benedryl gave relief), then followed with the other side effects that I have already listed. Pretty scary. The one that worries me the most is the pain in my legs. I would prefer to think that the drug (after 3 days)is still in my system and I will feel better as it works its way out. If the drug is already out of my system and I'm still having these pains, that bothers me. I would have to advise that unless you are REALLY REALLY sick, | F | 38 | 1 days | 1/20/2008 | 1 | Sinus Infection and Bronchitis | Headache, diarrhea, tightness in my chest, tingling/burning in both hands and both feet, dizziness, insomnia, I had all of these. I experienced the first panic attack that I have ever had in my life. | I will never take this medication again. I encourage everyone to read about the side effects and discuss them with your doctor prior to taking this medication. My doctor dismissed my concerns and symptoms, treating me as though I was some sort of histrionic hypochondriac. I'm a correctional officer. Tough is my middle name, and I don't scare easily. This drug scared me. | F | 44 | 1 days | 1/20/2008 |