Eye involvement symptoms and conditions

I had a similar and horrifying reaction to Avelox after taking only ONE PILL. I took one pill and within four hours had to crawl into the room to my husband to get me into the ER. For probably five months I suffered severe reactions all caused by this ONE LITTLE PILL. I couldn't walk or move without pulling muscles and tendons, my tendons felt so stretched that merely moving my leg felt like I would snap my tendon. I literally could NOT WALK or STAND. I also had eye involvement, chest pain, bone pain, shortness of breath, and just extremely odd and random different reactions to this ONE pill and I can only THANK GOD that I did not take more than that. I was told this IS a very rare possible side effect and NEVER to take any FLOROQUINOLONES again. I have the bottle marked POISON - DO NOT TAKE in my counter to remind me never ever to take anything like this again. Luckily, by 6 months and I was able to gain full motion again in my limbs after rehabilitating myself slowly and carefully without pushing myself to cause any further damage. If you have similar reactions DO NOT PUSH YOURSELF, wait and listen to your body, because you can snap tendons like rubber bands. I have also come to find out that this side effect was not as rare as they made it out to be, just do a search "levaquin and muscle pain" "avelox and muscle pain" "floroquinolones serious side effects" - and you will see that you are not alone. This was over 4 years ago when I had my reaction and at that point they statistically knew and had documented that 70,000 people had this severe reaction (not to mention the countless others who probably went undocumented.) Tell everyone you can and everyone you know about this drug. I do. Be careful with Sulfa drugs as well. Many people who cannot take Floroquinolones cannot take Sulfa drugs, and the worst thing about that is, you might take them successfully three or four times and on the fifth - get bad reactions. I can now not take Floroquinolones, Sulfa or Macrobid. Please take care of yourselves, I sympathize with everyones situation. If anyone has any questions, feel free to write me at ****** my name is N. What's worse is you feel CRAZY when you tell people "I took one pill and I can't walk...." But it is a FACT that's what it can do to you!

I posted my reactions to Avelox yesterday (they were quite severe) but I would like to add other symptoms that, while less severe, have proven more persistent than the initial and very frightening reaction I had to ONLY ONE PILL of Avelox (see below).

Yesterday I had strange pains in my jaw and left hipbone and I pulled my left forearm muscle with very little movement on my part.

Last night my eyes were spasming followed by brief flashes of red light. When I closed my eyes the spasms continued, but followed by flashes of white light. Today my eyes are sore and seem to have difficulty focusing.

I only took one pill and am still feeling effects two days later. Avelox is a terrible drug and it baffles me that my doctor did not know that these side effects were possible.

I experienced a severe, exceedingly painful scleritis after my first dose of Fosamax. The ophthalmologist treated it as as "allergy" with prentisone drops. I was prevented from taking a second dose and the eye cleared up but recurred in full force after resumption of the medication. I accidentally noticed "Rarely, eye involvement" in the brochure that comes with the drug. But who associates Fosamax with the eye? My doctor didn't believe it until I was able to find several medical reports of such instances. The reports emphasized that the affliction did not clear up until the medication was stopped. I have not taken it again and have had no further trouble. I suppose I should try it once more,but no thanks! It hurt too much!