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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LEVAQUIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | MRSA Resistant Staph-Elbow | I ran a Marathon(6th) while on Levaquin, but have experience reduced range of motion in Achiles tendons, and sore stiff knees when I sit still. Before and after marathon. 2 weeks off and side effects are still present. Sleeplessness and elevated heart rate are gone | Cleared my infection. Glad to find a drug that worked. Obviously we need more reseach in antibiotics, and less in erection improvement. | M | 44 | 41 days | 11/10/2006 | 1 | sinus infection | relieved to see this site. On my 4th day of dosing, I started feeling extreme anxiety, paranoia, dizziness, mental disassociation, and irrational fears. | Can only be attributed to the Levaquin. I'm an American living and working in China and have NEVER EVER felt paranoid to face people or even leave my apartment. This is nuts. I'm discontinuing today. | M | 32 | 5 days | 11/10/2006 | 4 | Upper respiratory infection/BadCoff | So far - so good. On my second of five (750mg). I feel a whole lot better than i did yesterday. Some of the side effects I read on here, I already live with. I've had crappy sleep all my life. Actually, I slept better last night after the first dose. Joints were sore before I ever took this stuff. My ears have been ringing for 15 years. I did have a couple weird dreams last night. One was really crazy. Like a death thriller movie. I've noticed a bad taste in my mouth too. I still have a few days to go. I just pray it ends well. | M | 48 | 2 days | 11/9/2006 | 1 | sinus infection | sever joint pain about 1 day after starting,i have been off for 3 days now and still very achy joints. i was on 750 mg for 14 days NEVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | POISION!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE DON'T TAKE | F | 34 | 14 days | 11/8/2006 | 1 | Sinus infection | Calf muscles cramped so badly I could barely walk; neither muscle relaxants nor painkillers seemed to help. Quit after 4 days (and checking online, where I found others had identical symptoms). Also experienced the tingling, hot/cold sensations, nightmares, and difficulty sleeping, but muscles were the worst part for me. Gone in about 5 days, but not worth it b/c my infaction wasn't THAT bad. | I continue to have one problem; don't know if it is a side effect or not. Continuous pain in (nerve? muscle?) that runs thru/around upper neck and ear, sometimes muscle over shoulder blade seizes up also. Anyone else have this as well? | F | 58 | 4 days | 11/7/2006 | 5 | Elbow Infection | None | I took 500 mg tablets of Levaquin 2 weeks ago for 7 days. The infection in my elbow has disappeared after the first 3 days of treatment. I finished the medicine. My elbow has mild soreness from time to time when I lean on it. This soreness probably due to overworking it during the infection and lack of rest, but no infection has appeared and I am quite satisfied with this medicine. | M | 42 | 7 days | 11/4/2006 | 1 | i dont remember what it was for | the first time it was just charlie horses in the back of the legs the second time i had so much spasms in my whole body and still do to this day and i know that its been a few years they were so bad in the stomach legs feet hands i dont think there is a place i dont have a spasm and at this point no dr will help me with the problem the spasms were at a point that i would put my head to the floor in hopes that the spasms would go away as of this date they are still in the feet hands rib cage some in the upper part of the legs some times i cant write much because of the spasms some one needs to do something about this drug | if you take this drug i say dont ever touch it with a ten foot pole | F | 62 | 14 days | 11/3/2006 | 1 | Chronic Sinus Infection | None | I took it for the better part of 10 days but was not getting any better so I ended up in Urgent Care where they gave me a different RX and presto I got better in a few days. It just didn't do anything for me. | F | 46 | 10 days | 11/2/2006 | 1 | High Fever | worse than before, and heavy chills. Rash all over the body. severe weakness and feels very dipressive. | Better avoid this medcine if you can. | M | 35 | 7 days | 11/1/2006 | 1 | Urinary Tract infection | Two weeks AFTER I completed taking the medicine I began to have wierd Central Nervous System problems - couldn't remember routine names (our pet, the US president, neithbors), names of cities and streets, had blind spots in my vision that lasted about an hour, got dizzy driving or sitting by a pool. My confusion symptom frequency/severity peaked about 2 months after completing the drug, then the constant mild headache and ringing in my ears began too. It has been 4 months, and I still have a strange headache most days, have confusion and memory problems after I go outside without dark sunglasses, even on a cloudy day. One doctor speculated it was a photosensitive seizure (which I now see is one of Levaquin's adverse effects.) | The doctors sent me to over $10,0000 worth of tests for Multiple Sclerosis/Lupus but all tests were negative. Unfortunately, since the adverse reaction to quinolones can appear weeks after completing the course of the drug (someone wrote that it creates lesions in your brain like MS does) its difficult to associate Levaquin with the damage it inflicts. I have asked my pharmacy to document that I had an adverse reaction to quinolones, so that I can never accidentally take this class of drug again. This drug was poison. | F | 47 | 8 days | 10/30/2006 | 1 | Prostatitis | Severe panic anxiety, mucle cramps, insomnia, dizzyness, bad dreams, joint pain, leg cramps, night sweats, blurred vision, felling of no controll over your body. Felt like I was being pulled to the left. Sounds Crazy! It was!! | Drug worked well on infection if you can put up with felling like you belong in a mental institution. I would not use it again. After using it for 14 days, my doctor wanted me to take it for another 5 weeks, I said NO WAY!!! | M | 55 | 2 weeks | 10/27/2006 | 3 | Sinus Infection | The first few days my symptoms from my infection seemed to worsen. Then on my fourth dose i had a bruise and pain in my arm. By the sixth dose i had pain in my hands, arms, and kidney area. I did have restless episodes and weird dreams but ignored that until reading the postings of other users. The diarrhea came on the sixth dose too-boy did it come! Now i have pain in my shoulders. Damn what's next? My sinus infection does seem to be better now. But now i have to wonder, " Do i want a runny nose or a runny ass"? The doctor's should inform patients well prior to prescribing this medication so that people don't get scared out of their mind. The pharmacist said keep taking it. I called my doctor and i am waiting for a response. | F | 7 days | 10/24/2006 | 1 | Yeast Infection | Second night taking medication, developed a rash around nose area. Third day felt very tired, exhausted and doing alot of dreaming and developed flu-like symptoms as though I was about to develope a cold. I had started to get a slight run from my nose. I was also experiencing severely right leg cramps. Once again extremely exhausted, loss of appetite, cold feet, fever like feelings, chills. Fourth night taking medication woke up with a severe headache, swollen nose, nasal passage completely clogged and unable to breath through nose, constantly dreaming. | Complete insomonia. Not completely sure where all of the cold and nasal symptoms were coming from since I didn't have a cold to begin with. Fifth day nasal passage completely stopped up. I stopped taking medication after fifth night. The symptoms of the cold and nasal congestion continued for a few more days after discontinuing the medication. Since then I have the facial twitching, body itching without a rash, right leg cramping and unable to fall asleep without taking other meds. From reading all the posts I am still unsure why my doctor would prescribe me Levaquin for a yeast infection when it causes a yeast infection afterwards. I was also prescribe a yeast cream to go along with the prescription. But my main reason for taking it was to stop the yeast infection. Could someone tell me why I developed sever Sinus congestion and a sore throat while taking this medicine, because that bothers me. I was prescribe levaquin for 7 days and took only for 5. Thanks, & Wondering | F | 35 | 7 days | 10/24/2006 | 5 | Sinus infections, giardia, ulcers, | I am allergic to just about every antibiotic EXCEPT Levaquin. My Dr.(Internist) has prescribed it for everything from chronic sinus infections to giardia/cryptosporidiosis to diverticulosis to ulcers. I'm a flight attendant and it took a long time to figure out what was making me sick. Don't ever drink COFFEE, TEA (water comes from tanks & doesn't boil) or WATER on an airplane and don't wash your hands in the lavatory. (The tanks never get cleaned and they have parasites - treatment used on the water doesn't kill parasites) Use Purell or Germ X instead.The tanks are full of parasites on every plane - every airline. Many flight attendants don't even know this. I was in/out of the hospital for 3 weeks before a Gastroenterologist diagnosed me and I hadn't been out of the country. I can't say enough for Levaquin! | Because I have a sensitive stomach anyway, I always take Levaquin with a meal and I drink a lot of water while taking it. | F | 46 | 2 weeks | 10/23/2006 | 5 | Ear and sinus infrections | body wide itching | About 45 minutes after first dose I undergo a period of 30-45 minutes of intense itching all over my body. After that, no side effects noted. What I DO notice, however, is how quickly I return to feeling "like my old self." I have suffered ear and sinus infections since I was a child (now 36) and this stuff lets me recover faster and more completely than any other antibiotic I have been prescribed. The hardest thing is convincing my Doctor to start here, and not run me through a course of Amoxicillin first, which just prolongs my misery. | M | 36 | 3 days | 10/22/2006 | 3 | severe sinus infection | insomnia, agitation, mood-swings, upset stomach. the weirdest one: (for the women only) vaginal irritation, and very abnormal vaginal discharge. i'm sure a yeast infection is on the way. ask your dr for diflucan in advance! | F | 19 | 14 days | 10/21/2006 | 2 | Bronchitis | Insomnia | First, I'm shocked at the range of problems this is prescribed for, from a dog bite infection to tiny penis(?). After the third night of insomnia, not being able to fall asleep until 4:00-5:00 am, I went off this drug. I don't use caffeine, so maybe this was why my reaction was so severe. It was 500 MG, but insomnia was worse than the bronchitis. | F | 55 | 3 days | 10/19/2006 | 3 | bronchial and sinus infections | I only took one dose at noon. At first it was a nice change from days of feeling really ill, sort of like a double espresso. This got old about 4AM. I was unable to sleep for more than two hours all told, and the nightmares about my pets catching fire were pretty horrendous. My pulse and blood pressure were up as well. I also was vaguely itchy though no actual rash appeared. The crash when I came down from the hyper state was pretty bad too - I went from "WHEE" to "ugh - did anyone get the number of that truck?" in 45 minutes. | As I am also medicated for depression manifesting as anxiety and sleep problems, I realized that remaining on this medication was likely to cause a lot of major problems in fairly short order. My direct words to my doctor were "It's a very effective antibiotic but I need to not be on it any more". By this time she had gotten bloodwork and chest X-rays back, and felt safe in dropping me down to a less-intense antibiotic that I had tolerated will in the past. | F | 40 | 1 days | 10/18/2006 | 1 | Bladder infection | An hour after I took a HALF pill, I started throwing up. I threw up from 1:00Pm to midnight. Hot sweats, and then chills, couldn't sleep. There was a point when I thought I might have to go to the ER, but got through it. Got up, no strength, and can only eat light amounts of food. My stomach feels like it has turned itself inside out. I have layed down most of the day today, trying to get some strength back. It reminds me of when I had food poisoning years ago. I am dead, but my bladder infection did go away. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG!!! IT IS POISON. | DO NOT EVER EVER TAKE THIS DRUG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | F | 53 | 1 days | 10/17/2006 | 3 | Sinus Infection | Motion sickness, light-headed. | Will post final results after 7 days. First two days have been dizzy ones. | M | 30 | 2 days | 10/15/2006 |