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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LEVAQUIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Food Poisoning | Anxiety, aggravation, disassociation, nightmares, blurred vision, bad taste in mouth, tingling in fingers/toes/skin, muscle cramps/tremors | The comments on this page are listed in descending order by the Rating Number. So all the "happy, good" comments go to the top of the list. Scroll down to see the whole story. Ignore the drug company shills saying you're just a hypochondriac. This is a very powerful drug and shouldn't be taken lightly. I still have side effects a week after stopping the med. My wife and I were both given this for food poisoning, and both had all of the side effects listed. We both have a high tolerance for medications and are rarely bothered by side effects. | M | 46 | 3 days | 1/5/2006 | 4 | chronic sinus infection/pseudomonas | I have had chronic sinus infections for over 20 years. I am currently on 7 weeks...yup 49 days! of Levaquin. I finally had a culture done and pseudomonas was discovered in sinuses. From what I'm told this is a very difficult strain of bacteria to clear. I'm at the end, only 5 pills to go. I have experienced aches all over, and insomnia. | The first pill I took at 8:00 pm...i was up all night. Fast heartbeat, sweating..never slept. Called the Dr. he said that was not a side affect. I have been taking the pill around noon each day, which has helped. But the joint pain is horrible some days, others not so intense. Just happy to find this forum, to know I was imagining all these side affects, which they told me didn't exist. Sinuses are better, but for how long? | F | 44 | 49 days | 1/4/2006 | 1 | SInus infection | At day 7 playing tennis left achilles suddenly seized up, followed later by right side. Over next 7 days tendons tightened in hamstrings, knees, elbows & hands (esp.thumb). Called Ortho McNeil & they said it's an ADR, treat like injury. Been 15 days and no improvement so far. | Despite what pharm confirmed my doc is still clueless. I would take if it were life or death, but that's it... | M | 7 days | 1/4/2006 | 1 | Lung infection and sinus infection | The medication should be banned. Pain behind eyes. Extreme fatigue. Confusion. Pain in joints. Pain in shoulders.Did not relieve throat infection. I have been a paramedic for twenty five years and believe this is the most toxic antibiotic everprescribed. If your physician prescribed this find another physician. | M | 59 | 5 days | 1/4/2006 | 1 | Lung infection and sinus infection | The medication should be banned. Pain behind eyes. Extreme fatigue. Confusion. Pain in joints. Pain in shoulders.Did not relieve throat infection. I have been a paramedic for twenty five years and believe this is the most toxic antibiotic everprescribed. If your physician prescribed this find another physician. | M | 59 | 5 days | 1/4/2006 | 1 | Post bladder surgery | Insomnia - but I could tolerate that. The evening of the third day of Levaquin, I fell going up the steps due to weakness and dizziness. Then in the evening of the fourth day of 500mg., I stood up from my computer and immediately lost my balance in a sickening swirl of dizziness. Fell to the right, into the wall. Tried to walk, but by balance was off so badly that I couldn't stand up. Was helped to bed, but during the night my head spun. I have had vertigo before due to inner ear problems, but this was different. With vertigo, I experience nausea spinning. With Levaquin, it seems that I had no balancing mechanism. Today (Jan 2,2006) I woke up with the same imbalance, nausea, headache. Spent the day lying down after taking Meclizine ad Diazepam ordered by the doctor. Took my Levaquin at 9:00 pm tonight and sat down at my computer to look up interactions of meds. I'm also on 5 mg. prednisone a day. Found this discussion of quinalone meds. Just finished making myself vomit up | F | 58 | 5 days | 1/2/2006 | 5 | upper respiratory infection | I had a severe upper respitory (can't spell right now, not trying) infection (fever, feeling like I was dying of the flue, crying from being so miserable, and coughing) when I was prescribed this medicine. I started feeling better within about 4 days. Of course there were side effects, but what drug now adays has no side effects??? The options was to die with pnemonia or have nightmares, few leg pains, and little depression. Just understand that when you are taking this antibiotic that it is to save your life and to get you well. i work with people that are unhappy, hyperchondriacs (not spelled right and dont care) that blame and are looking to blame their life problems on something. Some in here are in lawsuits, THAT IS CLEAR. If you have a brain and can read between the lines here, there is good info. but dont let the ones in here scare you too bad, just remember that most are really exaggerating and looking for money in a lawsuit. And if you get their medical records they have prob | It has healed me with minimul side effects. Glad to be off it, but also glad to be "not sick" From someone who knows and understands that every medication on the shelf has a side effect. Even Pepto Bismal can have a side effect, like constipation. Try something different next time if it doesnt work for you the first time. | F | 39 | 10 days | 1/1/2006 | 1 | uti | Very very bad diarrhea for days had to go back to er several times and my poor daughter is sick of cleaning up stool.. | F | 82 | 6 days | 1/1/2006 | 1 | SINUS INFECTION | Levaquin given for 15 days for sinus infection that became bronchial problem following a Pulmonary Vein Ablation, 5.5 hr. Cardiac procedure to stop Atrial Fibrulation. (6/3/05) 5 months after taking the drug and having on-going problems that could not be explained, a "backward" search has focused upon LEVAQUIN. Within 2 weeks of the drug, severe, unexplained bone and muscle pain occured in arms and legs. (Not arthritis in joints.) Prednisone for 6 weeks did not ease the pain. Add to this, about 4 weeks after taking Levaquin, I tore my right Rotator Cuff when pulling on the kitchen counter. At the age of 69, have bypassed surgery for PT. During this time I have also been extremely fatigued. Everything is an effort! "I am tired of not feeling good!" It is now the end of Dec., about 6 months out from the drug and I feel like I am beginning to feel normal again. Bone pain is gone with other drugs. Working with Physical Therapist to gain back body strength along with | I WOULD NEVER USE THIS DRUG AND URGE THE FDA TO EXPLORE THE ADVERSE REACTIONS. Printed warnings are given out with the perscription, but that is too late!!! | F | 69 | 15 days | 12/28/2005 | 1 | Bladder Infection | Two weeks after taking Levaquin I developed an intense body itching that was relieved by Benadryl. I also still had the bladder infection and had to be placed on a different prescription. It did not work on my particular infection. | F | 40 | 5 days | 12/28/2005 | 1 | sinus and ear infection | Took 2nd dose of levaquin and could barely walk next morning because bottom of feet burning so bad and extreme right leg calf pain. Called Dr. office and told to continue med because it was not causing problem. By 7th dose was in so much agony that I could not function and hands and arms so numb and tingling that could not properly grip anything. I stopped med on my own and after 1 week started getting a little better. Still have daily pain and numbness and weakness in all extremities. It has now been over 2.5 months. I am very tired all of the time and have had neurology work up for this. Dr. stated it was side effect from levaquin>hopefully will eventually go away. Dr's need to know about the possible side effects from this med because it doesn't seem to go away like most. | I have never had any neuropathy before this and considered myself a young 50 year old physically. I now am feeling older than my 50 years. | F | 50 | 7 days | 12/27/2005 | 1 | after mastoidectomy (ear infection) | I would not recommend this medication. I began taking Levaquin following surgery in my middle ear. Lost 5 pounds in 8 days, no appetite, confusion, jittery, nausea (btw, this was my 4th ear surgery and I did not feel like this after the first 3). Had a horrific night in the emergency room. | I am a healthy (aside from ear problems), mentally stable, active young woman. During my 5th night after beginning my 10 day 1x a day dose of Levaquin 500 mg, I woke up in the middle of the night with a tightness in my chest. I felt really strange, couldn't figure out why, freaking out! I began hyperventilating, leading to muscle spasms, chills/sweats, tingling/numbness in my extremities, I felt like I was going to die, seriously (my fiance almost had a heart attack himself!) Ended up in the ER, where they diagnosed me with an anxiety attack (the first I've ever experienced). The ER doctor did not link the attack with the medication, so I continued to take it, and continued to feel strange feelings, lightheadedness, freakish thoughts, of my future in a mental ward. No joke. Last night, I began feeling like the night I went to the ER, but regained my sanity with help from my fiance. Today, I decided to look online about Levaquin and saw some similiar side effects. I am discontinuing thi | F | 25 | 7 days | 12/27/2005 | 1 | pneumonia | Horrendous eye pain by the second pill. By the third pill my right ankle felt like it was crushed and broken. I've had 5 limping episodes and one crushed wrist episode within the first week alone! It is one month and I am still suffering with pains that move from place to place all over my body. Some mental disorders, such as confusion, depression, detachment and insomnia with extreme fatigue. Many unnatural feelings, such as believing a cool liquid was running down my leg under my skin. My whole system seems to be racing, at times, and feels hotter inside. My body temperature has changed and my blood pressure went up. Pains in my tendons will range from 2-9 and are present every single day. | Levaquin is the worst poison ever made. I am disappointed in the medical community for not recognizing the dangers of this pill, and in fact not even being able to connect the side effects to the pill at all. We are in a crisis over this family of medications containing 'quinolones' and no one seems to even know it...except us, the victims. PLEASE EVERYONE ON THIS BOARD - FILE A REPORT WITH THE FDA!!! LET'S GET THIS OFF THE MARKET!!! | F | 36 | 10 days | 12/26/2005 | 1 | UTI | chronic achilles tendonitis, muscle weakness, SOB, joint pain, stiffness, fevers, fatigue, brain fog, POS ANA rising, trouble speaking clearly | I took this after my son was born I am 34 and took it 20 months ago. I can't walk and it has ruined my life. NEVER take this unless you have no other choice in a life or death infection. I don't think I'll ever get better. No other autoimmune disease antibodies come back positive, This happened 3 days into a 7 day course | F | 33 | 7 days | 12/21/2005 | 1 | infection | Upon completion of levaquin, I developed hives from the vast majority of foods that I ate. Went from 210 lbs to 175 lbs in 2 months. Developed an anxiety disorder and started experiencing panic attacks. It has been a little over a year since first taking this drug, the only residual affects are depression from time to time. | I will never take this drug again!!! | M | 54 | 7 days | 12/18/2005 | 1 | Acute Bronchitis | it's 4 am can't sleep I have leg pain and bottom of feet hurt feel swollen also bad headache day 4 of med | before going online called ER where I was givin the prescription to ask if any of these symptoms could be from levaquin nurse said ABSOLUTLY NOT !!! They should read these postings | F | 45 | 4 days | 12/16/2005 | 1 | Sinus Infection | Insomnia (I finally fell asleep around 4:30 a.m.), headache, ears ringing, mental fog including some short-term memory loss. | I have taken Levaquin several times in the past with no side effects whatsoever. I thought it was a Godsend, because it would clear up a sinus infection that other antibiotics wouldn't touch. However, this time, things were much different. As my wife said, "It messed you up in the head." I never realized that an antibiotic could cause cognitive problems. By day three of a ten day prescription, I was feeling so weird that I started doing research on the internet to see if there was something about the drug that could be causing these strange symptoms, and I came across this site. Needless to say, I did not take anymore. It has been four days since my last dose, and I still have a headache, and I still don't feel quite right in the head. Maybe the FDA considers this a "safe" drug, and maybe it is safe for the vast majority of society, but I'll never take it again. | M | 45 | 3 days | 12/14/2005 | 1 | UTI and Respiratory Tract Infection | EXTREME fatigue, muscle pain (esp. in legs and hips), racing heart, can't stay awake (having a hard time filling out this questionnaire), eye pain, difficulty thinking (brain fog), orange oily stools. Went to ER after 3 days on drug. | I can only take amoxicillin, but the doctor at the clinic decided he could knock out two illnesses with one drug, and since I had never tried this drug (or one in its class) before, I agreed to try it. It did NOTHING for my UTI, even though I went back to taking the drug after the ER incident (I left the hospital AMA, because it was the only thing new in my life, and I knew it was the drug--doctors don't listen to me, despite my having two PhD's; I live a mainly rural area where most patients don't question doctors or think for themselves when it comes to their health), but I lowered the dose and didn't take it as quickly (I stretched out the number of days--I was supposed to be on it for 14 days), in hopes that it would work for me. I have been nothing but miserable since I have been on it, and it's not curing ANYTHING. I still have the UTI and mucus in my lungs. As soon as I can get some energy back, I'll go see my primary care physician (I went to a walk-in clinic, as I had to | F | 44 | 3 days | 12/13/2005 | 4 | Sinusitis | none to cause concern. | I was in a tremdous amount of pain and discomfort and within 1 hour of taking this medicine I got relief I hadn't felt in a week. Stopped intake of vitamins and any over the counters until treatment is complete. Drinking 8 glasses of water a day is highly recommended. | F | 42 | 4 days | 12/6/2005 | 1 | pneumonia | When I got diarrhea, the doctor said it was from the antibiotic Levaquin, and he stopped the drug immediately. I have had the diarrhea for 5 weeks. I believe it is a bacterial infection, and I don't want anymore drugs, so I am using alternative remedies. I also broke out in a terrible itchy rash while I was hospitalized for the pneumonia. | They should take it off the market! | F | 67 | 4 days | 12/6/2005 |