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 | Within 1o mins. of the very first time I had ever taken Levaquin I was anaphalactic. My face sweeled bigger than a basketball and my lips and tongue swelled hugely too. I was able to place the 911 call, but after that my airways were completely closed. As I looked in the mirror while I talked to the 911 dispatcher I could see my face get bigger. Bt the time the EMT'S arrived I was passed out and unalert and would have died if that call was not placed when it was. I needed Epinephren and steroids. My body was not the same after that for many months. I lost a lot of hair too. I have panic attacks just thinking of taking any other antibiotics. | DO NOT TAKE LEVAQUIN!!! | F | 33 | 1 days | 4/25/2007 | 1 | Prostitis | Insomnia | I feel I have no desire to sleep. I'm thinking I've had two-three hours total sleep in the last two days.I'll doze for 15 minutes or maybe a half hour if I'm lucky then I'm just wide awake. I'm talking to my doctor today. I have to get off of this stuff. | M | 36 | 2 days | 4/25/2007 | 4 | shoulder and knee tendonitis, weak arms, periodic hand numbness. | F | 62 | 10 days | 4/23/2007 | 2 | kidney infection | all over body rash, but cures infection well; doc said I can never take it again though; one of the few antibiotics that didn't cause severe diarrhea in me | F | 36 | 7 days | 4/21/2007 | 1 | bronchitis | Prescribed in December, low blood sugar, aura, light sensitivity while taking drug which had to be stopped on day 7 of 10 days. Weeks after stopping had joint pain, eye problem, some low blood sugar problems, and aura problems. Today am left with knee problem and walking problem 5 months after taking LEVAQUIN 500mg. In December walking 2 miles with no problems, now walking 200 to 400 feet with pain. | Found in a book called THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ARTHRITIS By Doctors Stein and Taylor, copyright 2004, a drug-induced rheumatic disease, such as Arthralgia, Arthritis, and Tendinitis, comes from taking QUINOLONES such as LEVAQUIN. The authors say it should not be prescribed to pregnant women and seniors. Doctors should explain the side effects or better yet the FDA should take it off the market. I asked for a different drug but was told this was the only one and it would not bother me. Would not take LEVAQUIN or any of the QUINOLONES again and wonder why doctors insist on prescribing something so harmful. | F | 50 | 7 days | 4/20/2007 | 1 | bronchitis | Five months after originally taking levaquin and still not able to walk as I did in December. From walking two miles easily, now walking in pain for 200 to 300 feet. Stairs are difficult. Originally had ankle and knee pain, now it is mostly one knee, so perhaps it will get better. No more low blood sugar. But have problem with one eye and lightning aura. Eating more vegetables, fruits because I think it's the acidity left in the body by the levaquin that is causing the problem. Doctors should know this and know what they are prescribing. They should be helping and caring not causing more pain. | worst antibiotic ever taken. Had to stop on day 7 of the 10 days prescribed because of low blood sugar, aura, sensitivity to light. | F | 50 | 7 days | 4/19/2007 | 3 | Sinus Infection | I have not slept in 2 days. The first day I took it, I had to take benadryl to fall asleep. Also, I've been experiencing extreme dry mouth, and incrased irritability. | Cleared up the sinus infection, I'm just not able to sleep. | F | 21 | 5 days | 4/16/2007 | 1 | *Potential* prostate infection. | Knee joint pain after 2 days, hamstring pain after 3 days, calf and hamstring pain after 5 days (both legs), extreme leg pain walking, especially up inclines/stairs. Note: I stopped taking levaquin after 5 days (5 of 10 days, 500mg) and after 5 more days, I still have leg pain and cramps. | Be sure to talk with your physician about the side affects. If he doesn't mention the potential problems or alternative medication to quinolone medication, then *run* and find another physician! | M | 53 | 5 days | 4/16/2007 | 1 | gastroenteritis | Elevated intracranial pressure. Peripheral neuropathy, tendinopathy, joint pain, abnormally high blood sugar, anxiety, profound insomnia, elevated liver enzymes, tinnitis. | I am a physician and have personally seen numerous patients with severe long term reactions to levaquin and experienced one myself. Most of these reactions are associated with CNS and Peripheral nervous system, joints and tendons and endocrine abnormalities. The drug company refuses to ackowledge that these occur. They are common. Because of the delayed nature of the onset and the long term course of disability they have dodged any onus for these disabling adverse reactions. | M | 44 | 6 days | 4/12/2007 | 1 | prostate infection | muscle and joint pain. I can hardly walk. | Should be off the market. | M | 67 | 16 days | 4/12/2007 | 1 | I had the worst headache I've ever had in my entire life after only one dose. I felt like my entire head was going to explode. I called my doctors and he said to STOP taking immediately. I will never take this drug again. | F | 46 | 1 days | 4/7/2007 | 2 | sinus infection | Insomnia!!! First night: Watched a movie, ate, pushed fluids, went to the bathroom, pushed fluids, ate, went to the bathroom, read a whole book. Two hours of dozing per night for a couple days until finally exhausted and slept the whole night. Didn't take one last night because I felt I had to sleep. Will take one tonight because tomorrow is Saturday and I don't have to be alert. Then tomorrow I'll take the last one. I did call my doctor and he said to break the nighttime tablet in two--take one half with dinner and the other half right before bedtime. That seemed to help a little. The sinus symptoms are maybe a teensy bit better but I'm running a temp at the moment so I don't know. This hasn't been a good experience. | F | 61 | 4 days | 4/6/2007 | 1 | broncitus,sinus infection | Headache,cold,shakey, couldn't sleep, very out of it,very weak | F | 68 | 1 days | 4/5/2007 | 1 | sinus infection | debilitating joint and muscle pain all over with severe fatigue. | don't take it !!!!!! | M | 47 | 3 days | 4/5/2007 | 1 | Pneumonia | My Father had pneumonia and took Levequin for 7 days. Now he is in the hospital with severe leg weakness. His legs are fine when he is lying, but when he stands, his knees buckle under him. I am heading to the hospital to talk to the doctors! All of his tests(bloodwork, CT scans, etc.) have been normal, so I think the Levequin did this. He is normally very active, and has been a couch potatoe for over 2 weeks. He has no appetite, and has lost 12 pounds. As a nurse, I am shocked that so many patients are having severe adverse effects from this drug, yet it is still commonly prescribed! | M | 68 | 7 days | 4/3/2007 | 1 | bronchitis | I have been taking this for 4 days and have experienced extreme insomnia, averaging 2 hours of sleep a night, weakness, and a feeling of disconnection from my body. I began to feel severely depressed on the third day with crying jags, etc. I threw the remaining pills in the trash this morning.. | F | 53 | 4 days | 3/31/2007 | 1 | Sinus Infection | After having a sinus infection for almost three weeks, and being on ammox. for ten days and multiple nose sprays nothing was working. I went back to the doctor and he prescribed me levaquin. After one dose I woke up in the middle of the night sweating and thinking I was going to die, I had extreme anxiety. My legs were tingling and I thought I had a brain tumor. After going to the ER I had a cat scan showing I had sinusitis. The doctor told me to continue the medication so I did. I continued to have sleepless nights, neck pain, and muscle spasms. I called the ER and told me that I was crazy and it wasnt the medication. After my 5th day I found this web site and was so happy but terrified at the same time. I stopped the medicine and had my first good night sleep last night. I am afraid that I will have long after affects of the medication and am praying. I play college basketball and have not been able to drive or walk for weeks. Wish me luck! and I wish everyone the best! THIS MEDICINE | DONT TAKE THIS MEDICINE! And if your doctor says your crazy print him out this web page and tell him he's not doing his job very well. | F | 20 | 5 days | 3/28/2007 | 1 | Bronchitis | Dr. gave my fiance this for bronchitis (which it didn't help). My fiance is the most easy going person I've known. This medication caused panic attacks, paranoia, and suicidal thoughts. His doc told us to go to the ER on day 3 of the meds, when I looked up the adverse reactions and called him. My fiance has been given anti-anxiety meds now, and he hates taking them. He is miserable, and the panica attacks still happen. This behaviour is completely and tatally out of character, and was most definately cause by the levaquin. And for the people who have posted rude comments about these reactions not being because of the drug, or being in the literature for the Rx, you are either morons or working for the cash cow company who keeps this toxin on the market. The literature my fiance was given does NOT list all of the adverse reactions, but THE levaquin site, it's own home page, DOES. So no, it's not in the paperwork, no the Drs. don't wanr you, and yes, this crap does cause these reactions. | Never take this. Ever. It may work, or not, and it's not worth the risk when there are safer things to use. We still don't know how long the side effects last, but in some people it has been years with no change or improvement. | F | 23 | 3 days | 3/26/2007 | 5 | infection in lungs | F | 58 | 5 days | 3/24/2007 | 1 | Bronchitis | I have to describe the side effects because my wife has very little recollection of what happened. The side effects were, Needing less sleep, Being more active, Feeling unusually happy, irritable, or energetic, Making unrealistic plans or focusing intensely on a goal, Being easily distracted and having racing thoughts, Having unrealistic feelings of self-importance Becoming more talkative, and the many other symptoms that go along with a MANIC EPISODE. This is not including the severe headaches, leg pain, and HYSTERIA. | DOCTORS and PHARMACISTS need to be alerted and better educated about this drug. They were getting ready to diagnose my wife with Bipolar Disorder and would have had every reason to do so. Well I did not want my wife tagged with a label to follow her the rest of her life. I cancelled the next appointment based on one comment she made the morning of the appointment. It was a rational thought, "I am trying to figure out why I sound like a little girl." This tiny breach into reality was what I discerned as a break in her transformation form a 40+ year old woman who was acting like a teenager. This is the worst reaction to a drug I have ever seen. The lady I had known and been married to for 11 years was gone. "IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH" became a reality for me. I placed my sole faith in the Only God and Lord Jesus Christ. I have my wife back with serious lessons learned. How to be more loving and more protective. Everything I did other than work took a backseat | F | 42 | 6 days | 3/23/2007 |