Fourth day symptoms and conditions

As I write this, I'm on my fourth day taking Levaquin 500 mg. prescribed by my doctor for severe nasal congestion, sore throat, difficult cough. I have bouts like this on a yearly basis that start around Thanksgiving till late spring. I do remember taking Levaquin before though didn't notice anything bad (yet). As I read through different messages, I now come to realize that maybe I should go back and check the time I took Levaquin because I've been suffering from so much muscle aches and pains for a quite a very long time now. Since I started taking Lipitor 3 years ago, I'm inclined to think my pains were due to side effects of Lipitor. That's just another issue.

As of yesterday afternoon, on the third day of taking Levaquin, I was informed by my pharmacist that I OVERDOSED since Friday and Saturday by 2000 mg. I was prescribed 500 mg. one tablet per day. Whoever typed "Take one tablet every day by mouth after meals" in the pharmacy must have too many "ssss" in their pockets. "After a meal or after meals" are definitely not the same, don't you all agree? I didn't just read the label and followed instructions as I understood it. The pharmacist confirmed what I read back to him as typed. I thought pharmacists know how a certain drug should be taken. But that's another story to tell. I'm too concerned learning about the bad effects of Levaquin for me to find time and question a pharmacist integrity.

I called my doctor first thing today and told them of this oversight (should it be mine or the pharmacist?). I was told to continue with the medication and call them how I'd feel in a couple of days. So I took just one tablet today. That was easy.

Now after reading all these different bad things happening to people taking Levaquin, I am thinking of the future. Should I be worried about the bad side effects of Levaquin taken exactly as prescribed? What about those 2 days of overdose? I guess, I have to find that out myself in due time as I will not stop from finding out more about this drug.

I don't think I will continue taking this drug tomorrow. I don't know what will happen but I'm sure my doctor will find a way to fix my upper respiratory problems. He must have heard about other patients complaining about Levaquin. I will make sure he will take my opinion seriously.

To all of your valuable inputs and opinions and warnings about the harsh effects of Levaquin, thank you very much and may you continue on passing to one and all your valuable insights. Count me in!!!!!

Tomorrow will be a new day and I will be on my toes making sure I will fight the harsh side effects as early as I could. I know it will be worth the fight if I kick these damaging effects at its early stage, hoping I will be lucky to do so.

God Bless to all!

I started taking Levaquin for strep throat. I am 22 years old and it good health. I was supposed to take it for 5 days. During the 5 days my stomach felt a bit uneasy, but I was expecting that because i usually have a small stomach ache when taking anti-biotic. On the fourth day i ended up bed ridden. I woke up with severe diarrhea, and threw up. I attempted to go to work, but my symptoms got worse. I ended up in bed with severe stomach and body pain for the rest of the day not able to move or hold anything down. If i tried to drink or eat anything i either threw it up or had diarrhea. It was worse than the flu. I then looked up side effects of Levaquin and found the following: feeling restless or anxious; nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach pain; headache, drowsiness, dizziness;sleep problems (insomnia). I fell under each of those categories. This drug is evil. They said keep taking it but consult with your Dr... yea right. I was DONE with it. I'd rather get strep again than go through that again! DON'T TAKE LEVAQUIN!

I've been on Biaxin for bronchitis for four days now, following a trip to the ER for breathing problems. I thought it was allergies. The first two days weren't too bad except for the extreme thirst and not being able to sleep (and the gas). If I happened to go to sleep I would have weird dreams and wake up again. I don't know if was the Biaxin or the hydrocodone cough syrup. With the third day, I couldn't think straight and I couldn't remember words. Could be lack of sleep, I guess. Conversations were difficult. I felt spacey. At the same time, I felt like I was on fast-forward: hurry up, hurry up, gotta go, gotta go, gotta get it done, faster, faster! This is the fourth day. I'm still on fast-forward and still dizzy and spacey. My blood pressure is up and my heart rate is down. My pulse is 55. It's time for another dose, but I'm not taking it. In fact, I'm going off all my meds except the blood pressure pills in case it's a drug interaction that's not mentioned. I'll call my own doctor in the morning and talk to him. I trust him more than the anonymous ER doc.

I began taking Doxycycline after hospitalization for MSRA. I am currently one week into Doxycycline after five days on IV Vincamycin in the hospital.

Since being home from the hospital I have had bouts of extreem dizziness with an overwhelming feeling of being disconnected from reality.

I am normally a motivated, high functioning person, now I feel overwhelmed, depressed and on verge of tears ( I am not a crier) almost constantly.

The MSRA responded well to the Vincamycin. I experienced extreem dizziness on the fourth day of Vincamycin, but it passed quickly. The dizziness I am experiencing now lasts for a long time.

I was put on Prednisone for 7 days 50 mg/day and lowing dosage every 2 days by 10 mg for what my specialist called sudden nerve hearing loss. I suppose it was supposed to help shrink any inflammation with the hearing nerve.

After being on it for 3 days, I noticed a few of the usual side affects mentioned here. Extreme appetite, insomnia, thirst, etc. By the fourth day, I had severe mood swings and by the fifth day, I felt like I literally could hurt someone bad. I was very irritable and full of rage. It's about as close to a pyschotic episode as I ever want to be and I'm glad I talked to my family dr about getting off this med immediately and since I wasn't on it very long, quiting wasn't a problem.

People and their loved ones need to be very carefull if they are taking this med. I'll never take it again.

My daughter has just started taking Femcon FE. On the second day she took the pill she thought she was starting to get a urinary track infection. By the fourth day she had a pain in her lower back, vomiting feeling terrible. The doctor is saying the pill has noting to do with it. Has anyone else had these symptoms with this pill?

I recently started Macrobid and my right hand started itching and it broke out in hives. On the fourth day I forgot to take the medication and my hand felt a little better, however when I started again it got worst! I am stopping Macrobid. It is awaful and the doctor did not say anything about this. I had gone back for my hand three days later after starting Macrobid and the doctor did not say anything about side effects!

I started taking Macrobid 100mg for 5 days and my right hand broke out in hives and is very itchy! On the fourth day I forgot to take the pills and my hand was not that bad, however when I started again it got worst. I am stopping Macrobid!

i'm glad i found this site. I had fluid in my ear drum. went to quick care and they gave me a prescription for levaquin 750mg. On the fourth day i woke up not able to close my hands. The pain and stiffness in my joints was severe. unable to hold on to anything. I also have pain in every joint in my body or it feels like it. What can i do to get this stuff out of my body? I ache all over. Need some feed back, please help if you have info on this.

I was diagnosed with bilateral ear infections and was prescribed 500mg Levaquin ( because I am allergic to most penicillin-based products) once a day for one week. On the fourth day I began to experience stiffness and pain in both feet, especially the heels, and also in my calves, and knees. I also had pain in my neck, at the base of my skull.These symptoms proceeded to worsen to the the point that I could barely walk on Sunday and had to go up and down stairs two feet at a time. I worked from home yesterday and took a Naproxen because the pain and stiffness was so debilitating. Today the symptoms have somewhat subsided, but I still feel stiff and can't walk or climb stairs very well. I was so deparate to figure out what was wrong with me and entered all search words that applied to my problem to Google. My search return included numerous sites connecting these symptoms with Levaquin. I found the PI and it is true. I have to say I feel better just knowing why this happened. I never suspected that the antibiotic was responsible. My question is this: has anyone else ever had this happen to them and what were you advised to do to "get back to normal"? I hope that these responses to the medication will go away now that I have finished the prescription. Please advise.
Ruth

After 12 days, my bronchial spasms and cough were gone for three days. On the fourth day, spasms and cough returned, this time with clear or white phlegm. After a few days, I developed dysphonia, which persists, along with a less productive cough. It has been 23 days since the first dose, and I didn't use it today.
I used Advair for one month about a year ago for the same condition, and the only side effect I had was loss of taste, and that dissipated after I finished the medication.

hello. my 27 month boy was prescribed omnicef for pharyngitis. he has had six doses (once per day) and started having brick red stools 3 days into taking omnicef. we were extremely worried at first to see the red stools but finally found out it was a side effect and not blood in his stool. on day 6 of omnicef he started having diarrhea. i hope this doesn't persist for the four more days of omnicef!
BEHAVIOR - starting on his fourth day of taking omnicef he has developed a very cranky, fit-throwing behavior that we hardly ever see out of him. his appetite has gone down considerably also. our little 27 mo. boy usually is a hefty eater but hasn't even had the desire, really. throughout today (day 6) he has been unable to even play his favorite games due to his grumpiness. i'm relieved to have read other parents noticing these same issues with their little ones.
good luck - mommy

I am a 29 year old nursing student that bartends on the weekends, I was given this medication by my doctor for an infection on my finger near the nail and on my cutical.

The first day I was on the medication I had swollen hands that felt like little needles were stabbing me all over them, which honestly I could deal with as a side effect. The second day I was vomitting within 45 minutes of taking the medication. The third day was the same, I threw up in the trash can at work. By the fourth day, I experienced the worst pain in my chest I have ever had. Being a nursing student, I seriously considered going to the ER (mind you I have never had heartburn or anything like it). I thne looked up the medication on the web and found this website.

Thank you everyone for shareing your stories with us! I looked up heartburn from some health sites and determined that was the side effect I was experiencing...sever heartburn that made me sleep sitting up, but hey I wasn't dying : )

I have stopped taking this medication and I will be calling my doctor.

Oh yea, I woke up with itchy/blotching skin, everywhere...good times.

HI, I was prescribed Levaquin for a sinus infection. I took it for 9 days. I could not sleep but worse than that I got pain in my knees. It started in the back of the knees and felt like a pulling sensation. Then the pain moved into the front of the knees and limits me to how I bend. I can not kneel down or squat since taking this medication. It has limited me considerably on how I do things. It has been 2 months since I stopped the levaquin but I still have the symptoms. Does anybody else have these symptoms and if so does it ever go away????

Wow. I wish I would have known that my fingers and my feet were gonna tingle if I was out in the sun. I am an avid surfer and while after the first two days I had no side effects whatsoever, by the fourth day, the burning pain in my face, hands and feet was excruciating. The prescribed me this because I had been with someone who had been diagnosed with Chlamydia so they automatically treated me anyway and by the fourth day when I found out I was negative, I stopped taking it. The burning sensation was so abnormal I couldn't sleep. DON'T GO IN THE THE SUN WHATEVER YOU DO!!!

This is the first time in my life i take any OCP. I started with Yasmin and took my first pill on my first day of my period... first three days i was in heaven, my period wasn't heavy and i had no pain (which is unusual for me) Unfortunately tho on the fourth day i began having painful cramps and they've been with me ever since, this is my 6th day!! cramps are still here and so is the bleeding! i thought it should make the period better and not worse! Is this normal for newtimers or should i get worried?

I was given Sulfameth along w/ Flagyl for what my Dr. thought was diverticulitis. The pain (diverticulitis) went away by the fourth day of meds but on the fifth day I had other things going on. I thought I had the flu. I kept getting extremely hot (but didn't have a fever), then cold chills. My lower back ached terrible along w/ a major headache and I had never been so nausious in my life w/o vomitting. I couldn't even look at food or even sip water w/o feeling extremely ill. I was constipated as well. I kept making excuses for it all saying I must have the flu instead of suspecting the drugs I was on. On the 8th day I returned to the doctor and by now I was completely broke out and my face, ears and back of my upper arms felt like they were on fire. He knew immediately that it was a reaction to this drug! He advised me to stop taking both meds I was prescribed but didn't offer me any options for relief from the burning. I found spraying Solarcaine on my arms helped alot. I feel for everyone who has ever experienced this type or any type of reaction and for those who haven't...may you never have to.

I was not happy when I was prescribed the Sulfameth. I get sinus infections often, and am usually prescribed Amoxil, but I had a different doctor. The first three days I didn't notice anything, not even a change in my symptoms. The third day I woke up with pain in my left wrist. As the day progressed my right wrist started hurting too. Neither pains did I attribute to the Sulfameth. That night I couldn't get cool, but the weather was very warm, I just it was the weather. The fourth day I had body aches all over and my sinus infection felt worse, my glands were swollen, and I had a fever over 101 degrees. (I never have fever.) This is the fifth day, I can barely walk across my apartment without breaking a sweat, my hands feel like every bone in them is broken. I decided to look up the side effects after a phone call to my pharmacist didn't give me any answers. It is so good to find out I am not alone.

I received a drip of levaquin in a hospital ER for a infected dog bite. I was given a prescription after that and took 1 dose of 750 mg for four days. On the fourth day I was doing some minor physical work and started experiencing what felt like cramps in my calfs. It got worse after a few hours and started to spread slightly into the hamstring area. I went directly to my Dr. who said he didn't think it was a reaction from the drug even though muscle pain and sudden pain in the legs is listed as an adverse reaction. He gave me a muscle relaxer (Skelaxin).
I am taking Tramadol (Ultram) for back pain and knew that some muscle relaxers, such as cyclobenzaprine, can cause fatal respritory failure. I had to mention this and have them check to make sure there would be no adverse reaction from mixing the drugs. This is the office that prescribed the Tramadol.
I was told to discontinue the Levaquin and given a prescription for Cephalaxin. When I got home from the pharmacy and read the printout in the package I find that the drug should not be taken by anyone who has had allergic reaction to penicillin type drugs. I am highly allergic to penicillin which is in my medical records at the doctor's office.
UNBELIEVABLE !!

I am an otherwise healthy 38 yr/old male. I was taking Levaquin (500 mg/day) for possible prostatitis. Within 72 hours, began feeling numbness in my left foot, leg, and arm. Was traveling for the holiday, and during air flight my leg felt as if it was developing an internal pressure. As I can nearly describe it, it felt as if someone had connected a bicycle tire pump to my leg and was steadily inflating it. Was nearly convinced that I was having a stroke, until I began to suspect the Levaquin. I was unable to reach my physician, who was also traveling for the holiday. After my 5th dose, I elected to discontinue taking the levaquin. On that day, I developed pain in my left calf. Later, the pain also developed in the hamstring area. After a fitful night, the pain began to subside into a dull fatigue (now ~24 hours since last dose). The fatigue and numbness remained at that level for another 24 hours. Finally, by the 3rd day following my last dose, the fatigue and numbness began to fade. On the fourth day, the fatigue was gone, though a slight numbness persisted, though only in my leg (arm numbness was gone). Travel on that same day went fine (no sensation of pressure). Today (fifth day since last dose), just a slight numbness in my lower left leg.

I have been on Bupropion SR for about a month now. I had severe depression stemming from past incidents that I was unable to get over on my own. I started at 150 mg once a day and the first 2 days I felt nothing. The third day I caught myself grinning and laughing! However, on the 5th day, my doctor upped it to 150 mg twice a day. After the fourth day of that I started feeling irritable and tired. After a week of it I started feeling dizzy, nausea, anxiety, shaky, and just generally weird. I went to a different doctor and told her the symptoms and she reduced me to 100 mg twice a day. The dizziness is gone but the irritability is still present although manageable if I just think before I speak. I also have lost about 5 pounds. I notice that some days I have no appetite and others I am ravenous. The worst side effect so far is the anxiety. I have never had it before and now when the least little event or conflict is present I start getting a churning feeling in my stomach and restlessness. As for insomnia, I do stay up too late but once I force myself into bed I pass right out. I get sleepy around 2:00pm which is when I take the second pill and sometimes can't stop myself from falling asleep at my computer at work. My dreams were more intense and lucid when I was on 300mg a day but they seem to have gone back to normal now.

hi silke

i feel really awful today. it is my fourth day on my period and the panick attack i have felt coming on today and right now is really bad. i am trying to control it but have nearly called the ambulance so many times.
i hope i get through tonight without having to go into the hospital ER.
was it like this for you too??

i was also wondering where i could get the valerian from and what does it do??

i really hate what this pill has done to me. i dont feel in control of myself, it awful and im so scared of that nasty feeling.

i hope you are ok and doing well and am sorry if i am bugging you.

sophie xx

I am on my fourth day weaning off Wellbutrin after two weeks of every other day. (I have been on 150 mg.) I went on it to combat sexual/lack of energy side effects of Paxil. Went off Paxil (which was HELL) in Sept. Liked the energizing effects of Wellbutrin, but in the past few months I have been very, very irritable, argumentative, prone to road-rage, etc. I am getting married in four months and want to make it to my wedding day! I also have been getting heart palpitations, itchiness and insomnia. But the killer for me is the mind racing and irritability. I am incredibly fatigued without my "speed," but I'm looking forward to being a sweet, if a bit sleepy, person again.

I was given a five day course of this drug, levaquin. I did not have problems for the first 3 days. On the fourth day i experienced sleeplessnes, all over muscle pain, i was so tired that i could hardly put one foot in front of the other. When i did sleep I had such vivid awful dreams they would awaken me. The last time I had this reaction was when i took the drug that was to help you stop smoking. To add insult to injury the prescription cost me $67.00 on a fixed income.

Hi guys, just wanted to give an update. I'm on my fourth day not being off Yasmin. I was feeling better, however this morning I woke up with pins and needles in my face, arm and leg. Then while I was taking a shower I got really dizzy and almost fell over. I was driving and, I had some sort of an anxiety attack and had to pull my car over. I almost went home, but after I got off the freeway I started to feel better so I got back on. I'm still really dizzy, I had a banana hoping that would help me out. Anyone had these things happen to them, either while on Yasmin or post? Thanks, it's kinda freaking me out.