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 |
| 2 | Chronic Bronchitis | Insomnia (initially only sleeping 3-4 hours per night, now, 4 months later sleeping about 5 hours per night) , nervousness, pain in left knee, nightmares, ear disturbances, disturbing thoughts, racing thoughts, could not smell or taste food. could not eat, Lost 10 lbs within three weeks. Extreme anxiety, Weird headache. Memory loss | My dosage was 250mg to be taken one time per day for only five days. I could not take the 5th pill, it just made me too nauseous along with the other symptoms I described. I would not recommend this drug to anyone. Please don't take. | F | 42 | 4 days | 10/21/2008 | 2 | sinus infection | I am on my 8th day of Levaquin. I was previously on amoxi/calv. I feel that Levaquin has made the pressure and swelling in my face more painful. The infection seems to have cleared up. My thoughts are this medication attacks weak joints and causes insomnia, burning joints, painful knees, painful feet, very dizzy and feeling of exhaustion. | M | 54 | 8 days | 10/12/2008 | 2 | sinus infection | muscle pain | I finished my two week supply about a week and a half ago. I have constant pain in my shoulders. It seems as though it will never go away. I never had pain in my shoulders before. I did have some pain in my lower back and legs which also got worse while taking the medication. However it is the pain in the shoulder that concerns me. I hope it goes away soon. | F | 80 | 14 days | 9/13/2008 | 2 | ear infections | Severe pain in my hands and feet. I still have the pain and I have been off the drug for one week. | F | 50 | 8 days | 9/9/2008 | 2 | Pneumonia | Joint and muscle pain in ankles, calves and shoulder. Crazy, vivid dreams. Insomnia!!! | I had NO stomach or nervous system symptoms from this medicine. I started on day four though with ankle pain and SEVERE calf pain in both calves. This usually started up about 4 hours after I took the pill. Was gone in the morning, to start over again after the pill was taken. After I found this site, I stopped taking it and went back to the Dr. Today, two days off the medicine, my legs are fine, but my shoulder still hurts. Nothing major, but still worried some. It did NOTHING for my pneumonia, I actually feel worse. I voiced my opinion at the doctor to everyone I came in contact with. | F | 39 | 7 days | 8/29/2008 | 2 | Sinus infection | I wake up feeling like I stayed up all night - complete exhaustion. | I have had a sinus infection since July 28, 2008. Dr. put me on Amoxicillan, had me do a CT scan and referred me to an ENT specialist. When my dr. read my CT scan, she changed my originial antibiotic to 10 days of Levaquin. I have since seen the ENT specialist who prescribed me 3 MORE weeks of Levaquin, a steroid pack, nasonex and an irrigation pack, hoping that all of this would work to sustitute surgery. My CT scan reads that I'm so packed with junk in my face that medication might not work because my face is still swollen and I have severe pressure on my eyes. I don't feel comfortable taking Levaquin for a month straight and would prefer having the sinus surgery because it'll be better in the long run! | F | 27 | 10 days | 8/23/2008 | 2 | Chronic Prostatitis | I am 29 years old and generally healthy. I am an avid weight-lifter and have been an athlete my entire life. I took this medication to help clear up a Prostate infection. It did so but the side effects have been terrible. My Achilles tendon hurts constantly. Mornings are the worst. The soles of my feet also hurt very bad..also the tendons. I feel like I am 70 years old every morning. | I am determined to fight these side effects. I still go to the gym and work out, and I make myself go on walks. I hope to start running soon. There are some new FDA warning for these antibiotics which essentially give them the strongest warning possible. Unfortunately I don't think we know the half of it. What are we doing to ourselves? I also took Amoxicillin (sp?)and lost most of the skin off my body. These drugs are dangerous. | M | 29 | 30 days | 7/12/2008 | 2 | staph infection | 500 mg - all over joint pain, insomnia, now tendonitis in right arm, tendon damage on left side of chest, tendonitis in arms and legs that comes and goes, blurred vision that comes and goes | F | 57 | 11 days | 3/23/2008 | 2 | Kidney infection | excitation, severe nausea, insomnia, muscle aches, depression, diarrhea | After taking this medication for a very painful kidney infection, I thought it was working well until the side effects were worse than the kidney infection. I've just completed a 5 day, 500 mg course of the drug and I will never take it again. It took a healthy, athletic 21 yr old to some one who could barely get up out of bed. I struggled heavily with nausea and ended up only eating enough to take with the medication. Had to miss team practices and games due to the muscle aches, which are more severe than a full day of training. My calves began hurting this morning which I equated to starting training again, but now I feel extremely weak. | F | 21 | 5 days | 11/26/2007 | 2 | UTI | Hours after taking dose I woke up in the night with both my forearms being numb from my shoulder to my elbows. Numbness in my leg. Extreme fatigue, nausea, tight chest with pain, increased heart rate of 95 bpm at resting, gurgling in my stomach and a feeling as if I had diarrhea but began having hard time passing stools, and black stools. | I'm very dissatisfied with how this medication made me feel. I felt as if my body was being poisoned. This is when I searched the web I found a lot of complaints that were like mine so I called my doctor and he told me the side effects were probably from the Levaquin and to stop taking it. I only gave this medicine 3 doses before I decided it was doing things to my body that it shouldn't be and my body couldn't handle. | F | 36 | 3 days | 11/22/2007 | 2 | Sinus Infection | After 2nd dose my legs felt very week...especially behind the knees. After sitting or sqatting I can hardly get up. | I called my dr before my 3rd dose, but was told this was NOT a side effect of Levaquin and was instructed to finish taking all 10 doses. I finally stopped after 8. I've been off of the meds for over 4 weeks and have not seen any improvement yet. | F | 38 | 8 days | 11/10/2007 | 2 | bronchitis | severe muscle aches, low blood sugar(nearly passed out), GI upset, It took 2 wks extra just to recover from side effects | any patient who has never taken this family of antibiotics, should be warned by both physician and phamacists. Neither would admit that there were any. I was visiting son in PA and came close to reporting to state pharmacy board | F | 57 | 10 days | 10/28/2007 | 2 | UTI | FIRST DOSE OF 500MG AFTER LIKE 2 HOURS HAD AN UPSET STOMACH AND WORST OF ALL STARTED TO FEEL A WEIRD PRESSURE IN MY HEAD. ALSO STARTING FELLING WEIRD FEELINGS OF ANXIETY AND NERVOUSNESS LIKE OCCURING JUST IN MY THOUGHTS. i DID NOT TAKE ANOTHER DOSE, VERY SCARY. | FIND ANOTHER ANTIBIOTIC | M | 30 | 1 days | 10/10/2007 | 2 | sinus and ear infection | nausea all day, extremely constipated, fatigue | i became nauseas the first evening of day 1 on this med. the next day still feeling nauseas but thank goodness no vomiting. horrible time trying to have a BM when normally i go every day. so took 2 laxatives and still nothing today. it did not hit me til today after being on this for 3 days that the antibiotic could be making me feel so tired and nauseas. found this site and am not taking another one tomorrow. if it wasnt the weekend, i'd call the doc. will have to wait til Monday. | F | 35 | 3 days | 9/29/2007 | 2 | Bronchitis | Headache specific to left side of my head, severe dizziness, diarreah | I only took the first dose out of a 7 day prescription. Within hours of taking the medicine I felt 10x worse than I did before. I went to bed with a headache and woke up with a bad pain in my head and severe dizziness.. nowhere on the bottle did it say it causes dizziness. I'm glad I looked up the side effects and saw a lot of the same thing with this medicine. I have some pain in my legs as well but not sure if its the medicine or not as I do have back problems as well. I stopped taking it and won't take it again. | M | 25 | 1 days | 9/6/2007 | 2 | chest congestion | always feel like I have to throw up and it's 3 o'clock in the morning and I can't sleep | M | 56 | 4 days | 9/2/2007 | 2 | pneumonia | I didn't notice any particular side effects. | For the past 6 weeks I had worsening bouts of breathlessness, where the only way I could really take a full breath was to yawn. I'd have good days with no noticeable problem, and bad days when I felt like I was gasping for air all day. Eventually, the ratio of good to bad days nosedived, and I spent a weekend with a fever and coughing up green sputum. I went to the doctor on Monday, had a 102-degree fever, and X-rays confirmed that I had pneumonia in my right lung. I took 500mg Levaquin that afternoon, then every morning thereafter for the next week. I felt a lot better on Tuesday, and better still on Wednesday (still coughing, but with the breathing problems fading away). On Thursday I went back to work, and nosedived. I spent the afternoon and evening yawning and gasping for breath. On Friday, the chest tightness was almost as bad as it had been on Monday. Things got a little better on Saturday, but went straight back downhill on Saturday evening and Sunday. On Monday (today), I went | M | 37 | 8 days | 8/27/2007 | 2 | bronchitis | swelling in knees and ankles, some trouble walking and a lot of trouble getting up off of floor and going up and down stairs or curbs, stomach pain, nightmares | I got over the bronchitis, but I took the entire dosage before I realized my swelling and pain might be due to the medication. Two weeks after stopping medication I still have knee swelling and trouble on stairs and curbs and stomach pain, still having trouble getting energy back. | F | 53 | 10 days | 8/27/2007 | 2 | Kidney Infection | Started with sneezing and tightness in my throat (I lost my voice), intense burning in my hands and feet, and itching all over. The symptoms subsided within an hour or so, but I asked for another medication from my doctor. I only took one 250mg pill. | I have used Levaquin before with no ill side effects. This is the first time I have ever had any real side effects from any medication! | F | 47 | 1 days | 8/11/2007 | 2 | bacterial endocarditis | weak, can't breath. | M | 4 days | 6/12/2007 |