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 | Suspected Prostatitis | After 5th day of levaquin 500 mg, had severe body pains and aches, insomnia. By 8th day, localized to severe right achilles tendon pain - I stopped the drug at that time. The scary part is that I am off the meds for 3 days now and I have developed moderate to severe neuropathic pain in my right leg (pins/needles/numbness). | I knew about the possibiliy of tendon problems but I had no IDEA that this could be progressive AFTER the drug stops and that these other problems may be PERMANENT. This is the worst medical decision I have made in my life. I pray this improves. | M | 42 | 8 days | 11/13/2006 | 1 | Pnuemonia | Stomach pains like,I have never had. Had horrible "shits". Really thought i was dying. It did help with the Pnuemonia but was suppose to take it for 10 days and i stopped it after 4 days because of the pain. I was up all night sitting on the potty crying cause i hurt so bad. When i asked the Pharmasist (spelling ?) what side effect just told me not to take any iron pills with it. Nothing about not being able to sleep the horrible stomach pains, the shits. I would take the pill in morning by afternoon I would be running for the bathroom and i would continue to run for bathroom for atleast 12-15 hours. Within 4 days i lost 9 pounds from all the diaherrea (?) I had. I will never take this pill again. | F | 43 | 4 days | 11/12/2006 | 1 | sinus infection | relieved to see this site. On my 4th day of dosing, I started feeling extreme anxiety, paranoia, dizziness, mental disassociation, and irrational fears. | Can only be attributed to the Levaquin. I'm an American living and working in China and have NEVER EVER felt paranoid to face people or even leave my apartment. This is nuts. I'm discontinuing today. | M | 32 | 5 days | 11/10/2006 | 1 | sinus infection | sever joint pain about 1 day after starting,i have been off for 3 days now and still very achy joints. i was on 750 mg for 14 days NEVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | POISION!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE DON'T TAKE | F | 34 | 14 days | 11/8/2006 | 1 | Sinus infection | Calf muscles cramped so badly I could barely walk; neither muscle relaxants nor painkillers seemed to help. Quit after 4 days (and checking online, where I found others had identical symptoms). Also experienced the tingling, hot/cold sensations, nightmares, and difficulty sleeping, but muscles were the worst part for me. Gone in about 5 days, but not worth it b/c my infaction wasn't THAT bad. | I continue to have one problem; don't know if it is a side effect or not. Continuous pain in (nerve? muscle?) that runs thru/around upper neck and ear, sometimes muscle over shoulder blade seizes up also. Anyone else have this as well? | F | 58 | 4 days | 11/7/2006 | 1 | i dont remember what it was for | the first time it was just charlie horses in the back of the legs the second time i had so much spasms in my whole body and still do to this day and i know that its been a few years they were so bad in the stomach legs feet hands i dont think there is a place i dont have a spasm and at this point no dr will help me with the problem the spasms were at a point that i would put my head to the floor in hopes that the spasms would go away as of this date they are still in the feet hands rib cage some in the upper part of the legs some times i cant write much because of the spasms some one needs to do something about this drug | if you take this drug i say dont ever touch it with a ten foot pole | F | 62 | 14 days | 11/3/2006 | 1 | Chronic Sinus Infection | None | I took it for the better part of 10 days but was not getting any better so I ended up in Urgent Care where they gave me a different RX and presto I got better in a few days. It just didn't do anything for me. | F | 46 | 10 days | 11/2/2006 | 1 | High Fever | worse than before, and heavy chills. Rash all over the body. severe weakness and feels very dipressive. | Better avoid this medcine if you can. | M | 35 | 7 days | 11/1/2006 | 1 | Urinary Tract infection | Two weeks AFTER I completed taking the medicine I began to have wierd Central Nervous System problems - couldn't remember routine names (our pet, the US president, neithbors), names of cities and streets, had blind spots in my vision that lasted about an hour, got dizzy driving or sitting by a pool. My confusion symptom frequency/severity peaked about 2 months after completing the drug, then the constant mild headache and ringing in my ears began too. It has been 4 months, and I still have a strange headache most days, have confusion and memory problems after I go outside without dark sunglasses, even on a cloudy day. One doctor speculated it was a photosensitive seizure (which I now see is one of Levaquin's adverse effects.) | The doctors sent me to over $10,0000 worth of tests for Multiple Sclerosis/Lupus but all tests were negative. Unfortunately, since the adverse reaction to quinolones can appear weeks after completing the course of the drug (someone wrote that it creates lesions in your brain like MS does) its difficult to associate Levaquin with the damage it inflicts. I have asked my pharmacy to document that I had an adverse reaction to quinolones, so that I can never accidentally take this class of drug again. This drug was poison. | F | 47 | 8 days | 10/30/2006 | 1 | Prostatitis | Severe panic anxiety, mucle cramps, insomnia, dizzyness, bad dreams, joint pain, leg cramps, night sweats, blurred vision, felling of no controll over your body. Felt like I was being pulled to the left. Sounds Crazy! It was!! | Drug worked well on infection if you can put up with felling like you belong in a mental institution. I would not use it again. After using it for 14 days, my doctor wanted me to take it for another 5 weeks, I said NO WAY!!! | M | 55 | 2 weeks | 10/27/2006 | 1 | Yeast Infection | Second night taking medication, developed a rash around nose area. Third day felt very tired, exhausted and doing alot of dreaming and developed flu-like symptoms as though I was about to develope a cold. I had started to get a slight run from my nose. I was also experiencing severely right leg cramps. Once again extremely exhausted, loss of appetite, cold feet, fever like feelings, chills. Fourth night taking medication woke up with a severe headache, swollen nose, nasal passage completely clogged and unable to breath through nose, constantly dreaming. | Complete insomonia. Not completely sure where all of the cold and nasal symptoms were coming from since I didn't have a cold to begin with. Fifth day nasal passage completely stopped up. I stopped taking medication after fifth night. The symptoms of the cold and nasal congestion continued for a few more days after discontinuing the medication. Since then I have the facial twitching, body itching without a rash, right leg cramping and unable to fall asleep without taking other meds. From reading all the posts I am still unsure why my doctor would prescribe me Levaquin for a yeast infection when it causes a yeast infection afterwards. I was also prescribe a yeast cream to go along with the prescription. But my main reason for taking it was to stop the yeast infection. Could someone tell me why I developed sever Sinus congestion and a sore throat while taking this medicine, because that bothers me. I was prescribe levaquin for 7 days and took only for 5. Thanks, & Wondering | F | 35 | 7 days | 10/24/2006 | 1 | Bladder infection | An hour after I took a HALF pill, I started throwing up. I threw up from 1:00Pm to midnight. Hot sweats, and then chills, couldn't sleep. There was a point when I thought I might have to go to the ER, but got through it. Got up, no strength, and can only eat light amounts of food. My stomach feels like it has turned itself inside out. I have layed down most of the day today, trying to get some strength back. It reminds me of when I had food poisoning years ago. I am dead, but my bladder infection did go away. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG!!! IT IS POISON. | DO NOT EVER EVER TAKE THIS DRUG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | F | 53 | 1 days | 10/17/2006 | 1 | Infection | I too would normally discount some of the commentary here, but I suffered severe pains in my feet after taking this drug. I did not connect the pain with the drug and started looking for an orthopedist. The pain subsided somewhat after stopping the medication, but is with me whenever I stand. | This was unexpected and scary. I was very active, and now cannot run and need a good five minutes after standing before being able to walk. I am hoping this is not permanent. I'm disappointed My doctor did not mention the side effects; I would have stopped the drug early. | M | 41 | 10 days | 10/13/2006 | 1 | Sinus Infection | Dizzy, ear pain, joint pain, ringing in my ears and racing heart. After finishing course I suffered from numbness in extremeties and brain fog. | Please note this is my opinion and has not been confirmed by doctors (although doctors have no explanation for what happened) While on Levaquin for the first time, I suffered an occular arterial occlusion (a stroke in the eyeball). I believe because of tachycardia my heart "threw off" a blood clot which lodged in the eye. 95 percent of the cause of an occular arterial occlusion is plaque in the carotid arteries (I had none) or heart murmer, tachycardia or irregular heartbeat causing the heart to "throw off" a blood clot. I suffer from none of the aformentioned until taking levaquin. After extensive testing and hospitalization there has never been a satisfactory explanation for this event. | F | 46 | 10 days | 10/12/2006 | 1 | Skin/Boil Type Infection on My Side | Severe nausea, vomiting, chills | Will not take this again. I only took two days and could not stand the nausea and vomiting. It was disabling. I'll take something less powerful please! | F | 40 | 2 days | 10/10/2006 | 1 | | 10/8/2006 | 1 | Chest cold | Interrupted sleep, throat tight, nervous, distorted vision, jittery, extreme feeling of fear, pain chest-neck-arms-hands, palpitations, tremors, numbness hands, tingling, weak, thoughts and head foggy, unclear and racing. Felt like I was out-of-control and dying. | Check web, many many others are experiencing same or similar side affects. Some write they have long term damage. This drug should not be sold over the counter and only used in a supervised medical environment as a last resort. | F | 40 | 1 days | 10/1/2006 | 1 | Bladder Infection | Flu like symtoms, headache, fever, lower back pain in joints and kidney area, could hardly get out of bed, difficulty walking. Experience started after 4 days but could not get back to the doctor until 9 days. I now have to undergo Lasix Renal Scan to check for kidney damage!!!! | This drug is dangerous!!! Doctors apparently are not being briefed on Levaquin's toxicity and extreme side effects on some individuals. I'm astounded that this drug is prescribed so casually. There should be some organized effort to get this off the market. | M | 64 | 9 days | 9/30/2006 | 1 | pneumonia | Took levaquin 3 years ago while in the hospital for 8 days and still suffer with various side effects especially dizziness. Also tendon pain while walking. Can no longer work out or go for long walks. | This drug should be banned. It should not be recommended for children. | M | 56 | 18 days | 9/29/2006 | 1 | infection in gland/ear | Racing heart, fuzzy head, major insomnia, thirsty, itchy, dizzy and jittery. having some trouble focusing when reading. Except insomnia, effects still continue after last dose 72 hours ago. Caffeine and smoking make side effects worse. | This drug needs to be pulled off the market. This was a free 5-day sample from the doctor. Came with no info. I took two 750mg tablets of the 5 given to me. Drinking lots of water - trying to detox. For the sake of your health, please don't take this drug. | F | 38 | 2 days | 9/27/2006 |