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 | UTI | Severe - extremely severe body aches! My entire body hurt as if I were in a car accident. My head, neck, upper and lower back, arms, legs, hands and even fingers hurt. Awful pain. | I am a pretty healthy person and have had no allergies or problems with meds in the past. I would never in a million years take the drug again. It is worse than flu body aches. | F | 33 | 2 days | 5/27/2009 | 1 | sinus infection | Itching/swelling and redness of face and neck. Stopped medication and symptoms persisted. Allergist gave prednisone, mild relief-temporary. Visited ENT, GP, allergist again, and given extended course of prednisone again - same results. Two months later still suffering with extremely swolen face and neck, finally saw another allergist did chest x-ray and CT and found mass pressing on vena cava, causing blood flow restriction back to heart. Did not associate this at all with levaquin until doc in hospital said saw another case with same details recently... Could it be possible? growth triggered by reaction to levaquin? | F | 50 | 3 days | 5/26/2009 | 1 | urinary tract infection | very high heart rate that would not come down;perspiring at night; muscle and joint pain. Stopped after 8 days and was told by doctor not to exercise and not to drive a car. | This is a dangerous drug and should not be used. | M | 78 | 9 days | 5/26/2009 | 1 | Sinus infection | Took 1 750 MG LEVAQUIN PILL and have been in pain for a month. Woke-up after first dose with pain in right hand. Stopped IMMEDIATELY, and pain moved throughout my entire body. First in hand, then shoulders, neck, chest, back, knees, shins, forearms - FROM 1 PILL! | DO NOT TAKE THIS MEDICINE - My doctor is a famous ENT and had no idea the damage 1 pill can do. I have never had knee pain, shin pain, chest pain... and now I am praying I can recover from 1 pill. These side effects are real and damaging. Stay away from LEVAQUIN, and DEMAND you be given something over than a flouroquinolone antibiotic. It's your body - PROTECT IT!! | M | 1 days | 5/26/2009 | 1 | pneumonia | Could not sleep, rapid heartbeat, and horrible, horrible wrist joint pain ( I have had trouble with the wrist, but only after acute injury) | From all the warnings, I believe this to be a dangerous drug. I believe that it works well, but needs to be investigated fruther | F | 66 | 1 days | 5/24/2009 | 1 | Urinary tract/bladder infection | seizures, severe insomnia, new-onset catatonia, nausea, severe anxiety | I would never, ever recommend this drug. I found out too late that it can cause swelling in the brain and create severe side effects. They look "mental" at the time & that's what the doctors go with. It takes months for the damage to subside, if it ever does. Horrible drug; a visit to the abyss & I was only on it four days. | F | 39 | 4 days | 5/22/2009 | 1 | Sinus Infection/Fluid in Ears | I was initally on the medication for 10 days, and still was feeling not 100%, so the dr put me on it for an additional 7 days. The first day of the second round of medication I woke up in the middle of the night, chills, fever, vomiting. Next day did not take it I was fine---3rd day took it and was up at 3am with fever chills and night sweat, ended up in ICU for 3 days with elevated liver functions. | F | 30 | 10 days | 5/22/2009 | 2 | chronic urinary tract infection | I have chronic uti. This time I also had a bad cold/flu. I was going on a 3 week vacation overseas and wanted uti cleared up. Dr. Prescribed Levaquin b/c it would work on both and was a 5 day once a day course. Stomach pain, heartburn,stomach upset horrible nausea, weird drems, cold sweats and fatigue. I was really ill on the flight and even vomitted (never did that before). Developed severe pain in my back. Now 1 day off and I am beginning to feel somewhat better. Appetite is returning I've never had a reaction to medicine before. I will have to be really, really sick to take Levaquin again. | Drug probably interacted with Metformin. Morning blood sugars were much higher than normal. What a mess. | F | 60 | 5 days | 5/21/2009 | 1 | sinus infection | panic attack, dizziness, shortness of breath, cold/hot like flu for 6months, night sweats, rashes on my face, blurry eyes, pressure ears/senstive noises, insomnia and every joint pain. | I have been sick as much as I want to die since I took this poison. | 33 | | 5/19/2009 | 1 | possible infection from surgery | I had a spinal cord stimulator put in and the two surgery cuts were not healing...the doctor was afraid I would get an infection...after about 7 days I started experiencing extreme pain in both knees..by day 10 I could hardly walk...called dr and she said to stop medication...the pain continued to get worse...went to dr and got a cortisone shot in both knees...the right knee feels great now....the left knee is in so much pain...I can hardly stand it...I am being sent to a sports medicine dr to review...I had a xray today...cannot have an mri because of the spinal cord stimulator...will the pain every go away...I was on 500 mg for 10 days of my perscribed 15 day | F | 53 | 10 days | 5/18/2009 | 1 | viral pneumonia | weak tendons, muscle pain to the point where is fealt like they were tearing, difficulty grasping anything with my hands. overall.. very weak and sore muscles | in my opinion, this is a very unsafe drug with huge side effects. it does not surprise me that lawsuits are coming out against it. I dumped the remaining 8 pills in the trash. I would have much rather been prescribed amoxicillin or penicillin to help fight off any bacteria infections that could have come on from viral pneumonia. | M | 39 | 2 days | 5/17/2009 | 1 | Infection from surgery | Horrible aches all over even after stopped taking it, which was over two weeks ago. | This drug was presribed to prevent infection after ankle surgery from broken ankle and stretched tendons. Stopped taking it after five days and I'm still in pain all over. My percocets don't even help. I explained this to the doctor who just looked at me as if to say "I'm the doctor, not you." And he said this can't be coming from the drug. So frustrating because this is the ONLY change I made. Even the drug pamphlet that comes with the RX listed common horrible side effects. | F | 61 | 5 days | 5/15/2009 | 1 | Chronic Sinus Infection | I'm normally a very healthy individual. I've never had a history of muscle, knee or tendon problems. I've had a bad sinus infection and this is the 6th antibiotic I've tried to get rid of it. Yes, I'm heading in to the ENT soon. Anyway, I just took my fifth pill of Levaquin and ended up calling the doctor. Today and yesterday I've had strange pains shooting about my body. My left shoulder was throbbing for about a half hour and I feel like I have shin splints. Last night my left calf started to ache. Today my wrists and thumbs are hurting. I'm a young, healthy person. I'm not allergic to anything and I take my vitamins daily. My doctor told me to quit taking Levaquin and they put me on Bactrim as a follow-up. I wouldn't advise this drug to anyone. I'm just hoping I also don't end up with a tear or other worse problems down the road because of this. | I do need to say that it seems to be helping with my sinus infection, but it's hard to tell because every night when I take my pill, I get a horrible headache and have problems sleeping. Read all the stories. I thought I would be exempt from it but of course, I'm not. Don't take this unless it is life and death and this is the only medicine that will save you. It's just too harmful on the body. I read that 60% of all medicine-related tendon injuries reported to the FDA since 1996 were from this drug. Ask for a different antibiotic. This one simply shouldn't be on the market. | M | 28 | 5 days | 5/15/2009 | 1 | BRONCHITIS | DID MY USUAL EXERCISE ROUTINE ON THE 7TH DAY OF TAKING LEVAQUIN. IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS MY BICEPS HURT, THEN SHORTLY AFTER THAT MY SHOULDERS HURT, ACHED, WITH SHARP PAINS WHEN I MOVED CERTAIN WAYS --- RESTED, USED HEAT THINKING IT WAS MUSCLE ACHE, 2 WEEKS LATER A NEIGHBOR TELLS ME HOW TOUGH HER HUSBAND HAS HAD IT FROM AN ACHILLE'S TENDON TEAR, SURGERY THE WHOLE PAINFUL EPISODE TRACED BACK TO CIPRO. TELLS ME ANOTHER DRUG LEV..SOMETHING...CAUSES TENDON DAMAGE. WHAMO. LIGHT GOES ON...I WAS FEELING LIKE MY BODY WAS FALLING APART. MY UPPER RIGHT CALF FELT LIKE IT CAUGHT WHEN I WALKED, MY UPPER ARMS AND ROTATOR CUFFS HURT AT 3 SPECIFIC POINTS, MY BICEPS HURT IN THE MIDDLE OF MY UPPER ARM --- ALL TENDON AREAS. MY KNEE REPLACEMENT THAT HAD FELT TERRIFIC, REMARKABLY TERRIFIC FOR MONTHS, SUDDENLY FELT STRANGE, UNSTABLE WHEN I WALKED, OR MOVED. IT WAS CRAZY. READING LEVAQUIN FDA INFO, IT WAS CLEAR...IT WAS LEVAQUIN THAT CAUSED THIS. DOCTOR SHOCKED..SAID IT COULD NEVER BE...NOW OTHER TE | IF ANYONE HAS TRIED ALTERNATIVES THAT HAVE HELPED RELEASE THE TOXINS, AID HEALING, STOP PROGRESSION --- PLEASE SHARE. I KNOW NOT TO EAT MEATS OR DAIRY PRODUCTS THAT HAVE BEEN TREATED WITH ANTIBIOTICS. | F | 61 | 10 days | 5/15/2009 | 4 | UTI | Headache, dizzyness, insomnia and strange dreams at night, fatigue during the day | It worked pretty well, and the side effects, while annoying, weren't terrible. | M | 42 | 7 days | 5/13/2009 | 1 | ear infection | I took Amoxicillin 3 days and no results, so my doctor prescribed Levaquin. After 5 days I thought I had hurt my left knee while exercising. On the 8th day both knees were hurting and I was sore all over. Felt like I had been hit by a truck for about 5 days. | After I finished I went to my doctor because I was aching all over. I had fluid on both knees and had trouble walking and my shoulders were hurting. Blood tests didn't reveal arthritis. Mri on knees revealed a possible tear in menuscus of left knee. Tendonitis in right shoulder. I'm doing phys. therapy for shoulder and doctor keeping eye on knee. I hope I don't have to have surgery. Soreness and acheiness are gone. I'm sure now all of this was from the Levaquin. | F | 60 | 10 days | 5/11/2009 | 3 | tooth infection | Was in the hospital with the drug I.V. for 2 days then took 5 more days orally. Shoulder and arm started hurting bad. I just thought it was from the needle being in my arm or the way I laid. Still hurting constantly and it has been 2 months since I took the drug. I am going to the doctor this week to see what is going on with my shoulder all the way down my arm. If this is a side effect I don't know if the trade off was worth it. | F | 45 | 6 days | 5/10/2009 | 1 | RECURRENT SINUS INFECTION | Weird dreams, calf and severe ankle pain (achilles) with swelling, overall joint and muscle ache--after 6 weeks still not feeling "right" and vision is still not what it was. I now am attributing this to the Levaquin I took. | On the 4th day of treatment, I had some kind of severe reaction to the Levaquin (taken with lunch) and had to be wheeled out of my workplace in a wheelchair--I couldn't see or even walk--everything looked white--sweating profusely--coworkers said I looked like "death". I tell everyone I know to NOT take this drug. I would rather have the sinus infection. Phoned the nurse and she said they prescribe it all the time, and have not had any complaints--when I asked her about the tendon pain, she said she had not heard ANYTHING about that--told her I would not finish out the prescription--Drs and nurses should both be aware of the damage this drug is doing and STOP prescribing it! | F | 55 | 4 days | 5/7/2009 | 5 | severe upper resperatory infection | two rotator cuff tears, both achilles tendons have micro-tears, possible tears in my left hip I have had two shoulder surgeries and suffer from the pain in my knees and hip everyday. not to mention the nagging back pain, and the loss of flexibility I have lost. | Levequin may be great for those suffering from alergy induced sinus infections as I am if they are NOT athletes. Athletes will need to find something else to help with infections in my opinion if they do not want to end their career. | M | 60 | 10 days | 5/6/2009 | 1 | Given in Hospital for Diverticulitu | Severe anxiety & bain fog. Just felt so SICK after they gave this to me. NOw I have a torn tendon in my rotator cuff (16 months later) and am persuing a LAW SUIT !!! I also experienced and continue to experience side effects! | DO >>>NOT<<< TAKE THIS DRUG! I just found out that it is from a class of drugs that are >>>TOXIC<<< and cause SERIOUS side effect for >>>UP TO TWO YEARS AFTER YOU STOP TAKING IT<<<. It can >>>TOTALLY RUIN<<< your life! I suggest you do a Google Search on "Levaquin Lawsuit" and further inform yourself! | F | 49 | 15 days | 5/6/2009 |