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 | Pnuemonia | Took 20 days of levaquin for a very resistant pnuemonia, 5 years ago. Horrible pain throughout my body, especially my back, hips and hands. Fatigue; loss of sensation throughout, most severe in hands and feet; muscle pain and weakness; numbness, burning and neuropathic pain from my right elbow to my fingertip and both feet. I returned to my Dr. several times and was diagnosed with: depression, fibromyalgia, lupus, lupus- like syndrome, post infective arthritis, and, my all time favorite, pychosomatic pain. I am just now hearing about the side effects of levaquin. I am a healthy, very active person. For about a year and a half after taking this medication, I was barely able to move. To this day, the right side of my body feels like I had a stroke because of the weekness and I have approximately 40% of the feeling in my hands and feet (when they aren't burning, that is). The majority of the pain is gone but my hands still hurt terribly. I drop things and stumble all the time but | Think carefully before taking this medication. I will never take another medication without researching all side effects. | F | 38 | 20 days | 11/24/2009 | 1 | Sinusitis | Dizziness, nausea, panic attacks, insomnia, brain fog. | Just three days this medicine nearly sent me to the hospital. I got 3-4 panic attacks in 30 minutes, had a rapid heart beat, was very incoherent and fatigued beyond belief. DO NOT take this drug. Too many people have been killed or crippled by it. There are cheaper safer alternatives. Don't let your doc convince you to take it again as mine tried. It's your life and health. | F | 22 | 3 days | 11/23/2009 | 1 | Bronchitis | After taking Levaquin for 7 days I started feeling Muscle pain and fatigue. At first I thought I was getting worse but then I started thinking it was the drug. I went back to the Dr. he drew some blood and prescribed me another week of the drug. At this point I was in a lot of pain. I had run out of the first rx and not filled the second. Just one day off the drug I felt a difference so I called my Dr. and told him I wasn't going to take it anymore and to give me something else. He had gotten my bloodwork back and my liver enzymes were off the charts. He asked me to come back in. My labs had been drawn the month before for routine yearly labs and they were normal. After 2 weeks off the drug my enzymes went back to normal but I can't get rid of the muscle aches! He put me on an anti-inflammatory for 30 days and it helped a little. It has now been 4 months and by the end of the day my muscles in my legs and the joints in my hips hurt so bad I can hardly climb the stairs to go t | Don't take the drug! | F | 50 | 7 days | 11/22/2009 | 1 | e. coli infection in kidneys | hallucinations (while taking it), long-term chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, cognitive impairment and dozens of other randomly-occurring symptoms | This medication has cost me what could have been the most productive years of my life. I took it for two days over 8 years ago, and went from a basically healthy person to an exhausted person in chronic pain, which has gotten a little better over time, but not much. The serious, permanent side effects of Levaquin have been established for years. Why is it still on the market? Perhaps having the drug companies fund the FDA isn't such a good idea. I've spent some part of every day for 8 years trying to find out what happened to me, and today I finally found the answer. This type of information should be a little easier to find, wouldn't you think? Man, am I upset! | M | 48 | 2 days | 11/20/2009 | 1 | Cyst on Back | Quick onset headache/migraine, dizziness, light-headed, diahrea, weakness. | I would definitely recommend taking a weaker antibiotic first, and only take these in severe conditions. | M | 28 | 1 days | 11/19/2009 | 1 | pneumonia | severe stomach cramps and nausea; fatigue; trouble sleeping | F | 50 | 5 days | 11/16/2009 | 1 | Skin infection | Extreme pain in both shoulders and both biceps. Pain in finger joints. Indigestion, explosive diarrhea, dizziness and fogginess. | I will never take this antibiotic again! I have been off the drug for 4 days and still no relief from the pain and indigestion. | F | 55 | 7 days | 11/13/2009 | 1 | Pneumonia | My mother was the patient taking the medication. She is bedridden as I type. I received a call at work today that my mother had fallen out of bed and was in severe pain. Her legs were shaking, she was near tears. She told me she thought it was these pills. She only took 4 of the 500 milligrams. I looked them up and her symptoms all matched. I feel terribly guilty that I did not look this stuff up earlier and I let her take this poison. | You just assume there is a level of protection from the government, you know? Why in GOD's name does the FDA allow levaquin to be sold, or in this case given away as samples? Johnson and Johnson, the FDA and some quack have destroyed my mother's quality of life. My they all burn in hell. | M | 40 | 4 days | 11/13/2009 | 1 | UTI | Severe tendon pain , nightmares , insomnia ,ear-ringing and sound sensitivity , HELP !!! I took a month ago and just now feeling the effects ..... | Pure poison , take at your own risk !! Read these stories , they are all true !! Go to FQvictims.Org. to see the destruction they cause , wished I had earlier !! | M | 22 | 5 days | 11/12/2009 | 4 | pneumonia | my dosage is 500 mg daily; no adverse side affects; at this point I feel better but still have a bad cough; also taking generic mucinex (20mg dextromethorphan, 400 mg guaifenesin) 3 times a day; no other drugs at this time but prior to diagnosis was taking tylenol for fever and delsym for cough | I read the documentation from the pharmacy before taking this and was on the lookout for the slightest adverse reaction. Looks like it can have some very serious side affects. I'm supposed to take it for 14 days. | F | 50 | 3 days | 11/11/2009 | 1 | Bronchitis | After the day 5,I could not open and close my hands without it hurting and it was swollen. I could not walk without limping because my legs and entire body hurt. I am still itching after two months and my my hands still hurt. This medicine should be taken off the shelf. Definitely poison.!!!!Do Not Take this Levaquin!!!!Warning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 | F | 42 | 5 days | 11/11/2009 | 1 | Abscess | Taking 750mg Levaquin x7 days given as samples by my doctor so no label or side effects explanation attached. Severe insomnia, left knee swelling and pain, difficulty walking, feeling of detatchment and nervousness. I just found this site today after taking my last dose. I want to go and throw up the last poison pill in my stomach! | I'm really unhappy and scared as I was basically a healthy individual, physically active but now I can't even climb stairs without holding on to the rail for dear life. I want my life back! I'm praying these side effects will diminish, not sure where to turn. I don't want to get my MD in trouble, but he did give me a handful of sample blister packs so I had no idea what the side effects were. | F | 44 | 7 days | 11/10/2009 | 5 | Chronic bronchitis | Lethargy, aching arms, stiff neck, insomnia | I was given a 5 day course of the 750 mg. This after zithromax didn't help me for a big bad sinus infection and bronchitis. After a few days was feeling so much better. | F | 43 | 5 days | 11/9/2009 | 1 | Prostatitis | Disabling tendon, muscle, and joint pain and weakness all over my body, lasting 6 weeks so far. Major difficulty walking or standing, or doing any normal activities. Sudden, obvious increase in joints popping and cracking. Brief auditory hallucination. Generalized itching. | One 500mg dose of this dangerous drug attacked every tendon, from my jaw to my toes. Please, don't risk taking this or any other fluoroquinolone if there is ANY other, safer alternative. Fluoroquinolones have been shown in several studies to be TOXIC to tendon cells. If you do take it, STOP and tell your doctor immediately if you notice ANY joint, tendon, or muscle pain, or nervous system effects. Many people take this without problems, but be aware that it absolutely can CRIPPLE you with one dose, as it did me. I could not walk or stand for more than a couple minutes for several weeks. Six weeks later I am still extremely limited and in pain. A well-respected doctor who is knowlegeable of these reactions said my recovery could take 8-10 MONTHS. Also, realize that even Rx nasal sprays can be STERIODS, which will increase your chances of tendon side effects. Neither I nor my family will take this again unless it is do-or-die. Even then, I am not sure I would choose enduring months or more of disability and pain from taking this drug. | M | 35 | 1 days | 11/6/2009 | 1 | suspected pneumonia | nausea, stomach cramps, diarrhea, hand and arm tingling, muscle fatigue, confusion, headache, shoulder pain, popping noises in my feet, unsteady feeling when I walk. NONE of these symptoms were present BEFORE taking this medication. | My doctor doesn't think my symptoms are caused by this drug but I refuse to take any more of it. I react swiftly to drugs and I am very in tune with my body. The types of pains I am experiencing, I have never felt with any other infection. I was feeling 95% better when I was prescribed this medicine. He wanted me to take it as a just in case measure after having so much trouble with my asthma after probable swine flu two and a half weeks ago. I was still coughing up phlegm, but the cough was getting better and the amount of discharge from my lungs was becoming less and less. This medicine made me feel very ill... like I was coming down with the flu all over again. I took this medicine just 24 hours ago. I am not taking any more. I still feel nauseous and weak. I will never take Levaquin again. (I was only on the 500 mg dose.) | F | 33 | 1 days | 11/6/2009 | 1 | pneumonia | It has been nearly 11 months now since I took Levaquin. A week into it I developed severe knee pain, as if I had a bad muscle strain. It developed rapidly into such severe pain that I couldn't walk for days. Now, 11 months later, I still have the severe pain whenever I walk and I can't handle steps or hills. The orthopedic doc xrayed again today. Have avascular necrosis of the femoral head, along with osteoarthritis in the knee. Happened, literally, overnight while on the Levaquin. Now I will be facing surgery and hope that saves the knee. | F | 62 | 10 days | 11/5/2009 | 1 | Prostatitis | complete physical exhaustion, body aches, sore tendons, numb lips, pain behind eyeballs, general loss of focus. | BTW I am a real person that doubted taking this drug after warnings from my parents and reading so much on internet. I opted to try sulfates for my prostatitis after initially being prescribed 500 mg levaquin for 21 days. It did not work so I figured I would give this drug a chance and play Russian Roullete in hopes I would not be affected like all these other people I read about. I was wrong, I tried to weather the storm as a point of pride but after 16 days I quit. Yesterday on my day off I could barely get out of bed and it felt like my eyeballs were going to pop out of socket. Dealing with this drug is far worse than dealing with the pain I took it for. I am going to choose another doctor. I feel like the Hippocratic Oath in this day and age has become a joke and doctors are becoming no better than ambulance chasing lawyers out for a cheap buck. | M | 37 | 16 days | 11/4/2009 | 1 | infected toe | I had terrible knee pain which eventually went away. The more significant problems that are still with me are tennis elbow in the left elbow and a torn right shoulder rotator cuff. I felt the elbow pull when lifting a half full bag of trash and the right shoulder tore when I was startled and turned around quickly. Neither of these injuries should have happened. I had never has any problem with these two joints. The orthopedic surgeon wanted to do surgery on the shoulder right away but I stalled for a month and then he said that I might not need surgery. However, I think it is getting worse now. | LEVAQUIN IS POSION. Do not use it for other than a life threatening situation where there is no alternative. Also, CVS in June 2009 did not give me the FDA mandated medication guide. This drug was prescribed for me by a podiatrist (not a M.D.) who I went to because my doctor was away. When I called him he did not seem to know about all the recent controversy surrounding this drug. Even though the information is out there, I fell through the cracks. I didn't notice the new warning section at the top of the regular CVS paper and CVS never gave me the medication guide that is mostly about tendon problems. One CVS pharmacist I talked to at another CVS didn't think there was a FDA mandated medication guide for Levaquin. They appear to be relying on their computer system to spit these things out as needed and hopefully someone will put it in your bag. Knowing what I know now, if I was a pharmacist I would personally put it in the bag and personally point it out to the patient. I would have noticed the guide and stopped taking the drug at the first sign of pain. | M | 59 | 7 days | 11/2/2009 | 2 | urinary tract infection | I was on 750 mg dose for 8 days. NASTY metallic taste in mouth is still there a week after stopping. Also, the infection went away, but I've been lethargic and still have some lightheadedness | M | 52 | 8 days | 10/31/2009 | 1 | sinus infection | insomnia, numbness,vaginitis, severe back and neck pain, extreme fatigue, tendonitis was exacerbated, no appetite, fogginess, forgetfulness....and then some. | I would never take Levaquin again. It has debilitated me and I can only hope that it is temporary. | M | 58 | 2 days | 10/31/2009 |