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 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 | 1 | Kidney Infection | Bad joint pains!! Metal taste in my mouth. Hope it goes away :( | 30 | 5 days | 7/6/2008 | 1 | Lung infection | After just one 500 mg pill -- increased heart beat, inability to sleep, terrible thoughts, unable to think clearly, mind racing, migraine, upset stomach, terrible paleness to skin. (All this within a couple of hours, lasted 24 hours.) | Took the one pill, and one pill only. I've had many health issues - including cancer - and never had an issue with a medicine like I did with Levaquin. Now that I'm feeling better have been doing research and discovered that others with only a few dosages are suffering terribly, especially with joint and vision problems. I question why Levaquin is on the market, and why doctors and pharmacists who I've always trusted, were not aware of such issues with this drug. | F | 47 | 1 days | 7/2/2008 | 1 | urinary/pneumonia | Within a day of last dose, I started with knee pain on one leg that then moved to both, to weakness, to all body joint/muscle tendonitis problems. Got to where I could not get up by myself. Became very sick. It is now 4 weeks past nmy last dose and I am still having pain and problems with fatique and weakness in muscles and knees still hurt. | It is difficult to know if this medicine caused these problems, but the exact time I stop is when all this came on. | F | 48 | 7 days | 7/2/2008 | 1 | Intestinal infection & diarrhea | Symptoms started on day 2 of a 7 day course of treatment. Loss of sensation in my toes on one foot. Extreme vaginal itching. I Had blood drawn from my arm on Friday; Sunday night the site is bruised though it was perfectly normal when I removed the gauze on Friday. | M | 51 | 7 days | 6/30/2008 | 1 | pneumonia | 500 mg for 5 days. On day 2, I experienced extreme hip pain and attributed it to lying around for so long. Day 4, I could barely get out of bed because of hip, ankle, knee pain. Now, over 5 months later, I still have pain in my knees and ankles, but the worst pain is in my shoulders. My Dr. said it couldn't still be from the levaquin because it would not still be in my system. I have never had joint pain prior to taking levaquin and was very active, jogging 3 miles a day. Right now, it hurts to hold my hands up to the computer! I am taking Celebrex for the tendonitis that my Dr. says I have, Lortab for the pain and Motrin every 2-3 hours. I'm alternating heating pads and ice packs constantly, but no relief EVER. I am considering a lawsuit...it feels like my life is over. | F | 50 | 5 days | 6/30/2008 | 5 | sinus infection | depression, lethargy, weakness | I took this several years ago for prostatitis. The side effects were pretty terrible but subsided after 2 weeks of stopping treatment. I recently had a sinus infection and my ENT prescribe it. I remembered the adverse reactions but decided to take it anyways. I get very depressed, restless, and worse of all very letharguc. I decided to put a 5 as a rating because it seems there are a lot of positive comments that sound like drug sales rep masquerading as consumers and saying that this drug is a god send. I fear that people might just read the very enthusiastic comments and decide to take it. And yes, the very enthusiastic comments are fictitious...think about it, if you were a regular patient whose infection went away and was back to normal, would you be trying to post a comment online...these are drug reps!!!! I am not a looney nor have I had adverse reactions with any other drugs | M | 35 | 14 days | 6/25/2008 | 1 | upper respiratory infection | muscle weakness/soreness, pain, tingling My doctor is trying to do a study on these side effects for a medical journal article to get the word out. Please e-mail me at [email protected] if you have had such a reaction and would like to share your case with my doctor. | M | 35 | 6 days | 6/25/2008 | 1 | Sinus Infection | Insomnia! After dose #1 I may have gotten 4 hours sleep. Thinking I should be quite tired after that, I now sit in the middle of the freakin' night searching "Levaquin" and "insomnia" and I guess it is "welcome to the club". This sucks, but so does the infection, which the Levaquin is taking care of. | I'd rather be sleeping. | M | 36 | 2 days | 6/24/2008 | 5 | relapsing Lyme or Bartonella? | Don't confuse side effects with vigorous die off responses. Die off reponses mean it is working!!! Most die offs (herx) from a new antibiotic start at around the 3rd day of rx and this did also. This was a hum dinger...hadn't herxed like this since the early yrs of rx. | 2.5 weeks into what is supposed to be a 3 month regimine. Day 3-6: R side abdomen swelling/discofort & what felt like swollen kidney (punch sensitive) then that eased and Day 7-11 more familiar herx symptoms occured: flu like feeling, stabbing pains & other pains in small linear segments in all the old areas that were affected particularly on R side: R leg, R abd, R chest wall, R arm, R wrist (fingers & toes) R neck (R swollen tender submandibular glands) R jaw, R ear, R temple....now all feeling much improved after die off...glands back to normal. Now sort of feeling tender & bruised in all areas where die off symptoms (acute burning & stabbing) occured. | F | 64 | 2.5 weeks | 6/22/2008 | 1 | sinus infection | Do not remember any side effects while taking it except vivid dreams. However after being off of it for a few days, had severe joint pain, tingling sensations in arms, fingers, legs, and feet. Broke out in a rash for a week. Still have joint pain, swelling behind knees and cannot exercise due to weakness in joints and general all over pain. Sometimes it hurts just to stand while washing the dishes! | Thought I was going crazy and that I was suddenly becoming chronically ill with severe pain everywhere, but now after reading all the posts, I'm assuming it was from the Levaquin. I will never take it again but I'm now wondering how long the side effects will last. I can't do anything- and I was an active, strong person...now I feel like a week old lady- this is horrible! | F | 36 | 10 days | 6/19/2008 | 1 | Brochitis | I have been taking Levaquin since 12th of June for brochitis. Since 16th of June 08, I have severe pain in my calf that I can hardly walk. I did not realize that this would be a side effect of the Levaquin until I searched on internet. I just called the doctor who prescribed the drug and they said they will call me back. | F | 44 | 6 days | 6/18/2008 | 1 | YES | Severe burning skin rash,leisions on hands,feet,scalp,tendon ruptures,eyesight damage,hair loss,joint swelling,sleep loss,depression,anxiety,finger nails falling off, swelling shut of eyes with fluid sacks underneath,etc.etc.. | THIS DRUG AS WITH ALL FLUOROQUINOLONES ARE POISON!PROTECT YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND DO NOT ALLOW ANY PHYSICIAN TO PRESCRIBE THEM TO TREAT ANY INFECTION YOU MAY HAVE UNLESS IT IS LIFE THREATENING!I was rushed to hospital from my home were I spent 12 days fighting for my life due to an adverse reaction to Levaquin an Ciprofloxacin.It has left me with a very rare autoimmune disorder known as Dermatomyositis which effects the skin,muscles and joints.It has been proven that fluoroquinolone based drugs can trigger many illness such as lupus,arthritis,reiters syndrome,fibromyalgia and many other related illnesses.For more detailed information visit the following sites,the information will shock you as to how devastating these drugs can be.www.fluoroquinolones.com - contains a 253 page report, www.fqsearch.org - contains an 82 page report, www.medicationsense.com, www.antibiotics.org, www.drugvictims.org, www.fqvictims.org, www.medications.com.Also,I am currently involved with a law firm trying | M | 48 | 35 days | 6/15/2008 | 1 | sinus infection | Tingling leading to pain in my calves and behind my knees. Sore knee joints. Anxiety and panic attacks with shortness of breath, heart palpitations, and high BP. Never had anxiety or panic attacks before! | I will never take this drug again. I've been off this for a week and I still have problems. | M | 43 | 12 days | 6/13/2008 | 1 | Kidney and Blood infection | severe pain in the muscles and joints, dizzy, vision problems, sooo soo many syptoms...I have been told it is permanent, to adjust my lifestyle to the pain!!! DO NOT TAKE | IT has been over a year and i am still in a huge amount of pain. I cannot play wii, walk a college campus or lift anything slightly heavy without being in dibilitating pain. this drug has truly changed and ruined my life. please do not take it, make your doctor listen to you...mine did not...they do not know your body you do! | F | 21 | 5 days | 6/11/2008 | 5 | UTI | none | I did get a yeast infection right away form taking this, but most antibiotics do that to me. | F | 47 | 5 days | 6/8/2008 | 1 | potential prostatitis | I am an active 51 year old who continued to do what I have been doing for years - basketball, running, hand and arm strengthening training for rock climbing - at a reduced level while taking the drug for 30 days. Out of nowhere, my lower calves and achilles tendons started to hurt after low levels of excercise. I partially tore a tendon in my forearm. Joint pain in my fingers. I had specifically asked my doctor whether I had to worry about such activities while taking the drug, but he said "no." Research on the internet disclosed that sometimes severe tendon problems are a known side effect of Levaquin... but I elected to cut out all exercise rather than cut short the levaquin since I only had 10 days of treatment left. All tendon problems, except of course for the partial tear in my forearem, immediately cleared within a 1.5 weeks after I stopped taking the levaquin. With respect to the prostatitis, the antibiotic seems to have helped. | I intend to have a talk with my urologist - he should have known about these side effects. | M | 51 | 30 days | 5/28/2008 | 4 | UTI | None | I was prescribed this medicine after one pill of Nitrofuran made me feel like I was going to die and it cured my UTI and made me feel much better within a day. | F | 27 | 7 days | 5/27/2008 | 1 | kidney infection/UTIs | Continual (24-hour) nausea and associated (dry heaves, gagging, heartburn) were the most disturbing. Whenever I tried to lie down or get some sleep I got snorkel-boarded in my own vomit. But then also: amazingly spikey headaches; like a roofer set a roofing nail right at the top of your skull and then whacked it home with single blow; these do not go away with just an aspirin or two. And, muscle weakness, and then dementia in various forms (vivid, disturbing dreams and thought patterns, morbid thoughts, etc.) Then followed by exhaustion and insomnia. For those who know the term, it felt like a really bad attack of autonomic dysreflexia. For those who don't, well it's like the worst case of fever and flu you've ever had. In fact, chills and shakiness are something I should have mentioned earlier. | Consider that complaints at this website on Levaquin are greater by two orders of magnitude than for any other fluoroquinolone. Thank you; I no longer feel I'm going insane. The patient is always right. (Ask your urologist to take a course of this drug before he ever prescribes it again.) It felt like I was being poisoned. (I took three courses, with about a week's break in between to see if the UTI had been fixed.) It seems that my sensitivity to this poison has increased with each course. I will NEVER take this drug again. At first, I attributed the symptoms to my kidney infection, assuming that they had WAY failed, and that I was dying from the build-up of toxins in my body. Eventually, I was able to figure out that it was the Levaquin. I am amazed at the "self-similarity" of its few defenders on this website. They are rude and crude, and frankly idiotic. The tone is very hostile and they all carry the same message: you are a whimp and a wuss. I strongly suspect that they | M | 63 | 6 weeks | 5/20/2008 | 5 | tree bark in hand | None.. however did get a yeast infection, but that often happens while taking antibiotics. | fell and got a large piece of bark in hand. after initial piece removed and finished 5 days of treatment on another antibiotic, hand swelled up and absess started. started on levaquin and then had surgeon remove some remaining pieces. Then had to leave wound open (no scab) for 10 days while other small pieces "worked" themselves out. drug stopped initial infection and further infections while all this was going on. had NO side effects mentioned in previous posts -- previous antibiotic gave me terrible stomach cramps, but this one didn't. would take this again if need be. did get a yeast infection, but that's fairly typical with taking antibiotics for a long period of time. | F | 55 | 10 days | 5/3/2008 |