Go getter symptoms and conditions

I was prescribed Avelox 400mg for 10 days for a sinus infection by the nurse practitioner in my doctors office.
By the 8th day, I was having side effects that were :insomnia, muscle pain, confusion, rapid heart beat, tremor, dizziness and feeling like I was going to pass out.
I went back to doctor-saw a different nurse practitioner and she said, I needed to stop talking the Avelox and ordered a x-ray for the wheezing and rattling in my lungs(that were there the first visit, but they never ordered a x-ray).
She also put me on a steroir-med pack 10mg-step down for 6 days.
Within 24 hours of STOPPING the avelox I was itching and various spots on my body were developing a rash.I was over heated and shaking non stop.I was afraid to drive or even walk at this point.I called my doctor at home, it was a Sunday morning.He said, take benadryl and stop steroids and I should feel better soon.I started the benadryl and stopped the steroids.
By Monday morning I was out of my mind-literally.Everything was itching,but mostly I felt as if I was going to have a heart attack, filled with anxiety and blood pressure was up, face was bright red, rashes on chest, short of breath.
After my kids got on the bus for school I tried to get ready for an appt I had, but the room was spinning.I called 911 on myself-the rest is blurry-
Long story short-I was in anaphylactic shock, and I ended up in the ER, then transferred to hospital.I woke up after the first day and they were transferring me to the cardiac unit because my heart rate was too low.
I stayed in the cardaic unit for 5 more days hooked up to the heart monitor and only remember the allergist and cardiologist coming in and asking me questions and then talking amongst themselves.
I was discharged after day 6 afet cardiologist did an echo cardiogram and many other tests.He then told me I needed to wear a heart monitor after I got home because I have something called bradycardia-could be from Avelox, could be that they just "caught" it while I was in the hospital.
Now I am home 2 weeks , I had been on heavy doses of prednisone(nightmare,but I'm stepping down and will be off today) and other meds including anxiety meds that I never needed before, but if I don't take them , the whole process of feeling like I am going to have a heart attack, pass out and shaking starts back up-racing heart, nervousness etc.....all the symptoms that I had after taking the Avelox to begin with are still here.....and I am at the allergist or cardiologist office for "testing".So far no word on the status of the bradycardia, there has been talk of a pace maker, but I will not have any answers for a few weeks.
The allergist said I have asthma and possible something more serious in the pulmonary department and the next week is filled with 3 days of testing for various different things, hoping to come up with answers.
I am also allergic to tetracycline and eurythromicine, and the allerggist said we need to find out what is causing all the sinus infections as well find an antibiotic that I can take if I get sick again.Obviously, I can not take Avelox or anything in that"family" again.
But honestly, despite all that, I am more worried about the side effects that no one in the health profession seems to care about or is really hearing me on.
I feel like my central nervous system has been totally damaged! I still have at least 2 bouts per day of a total meltdown...out of nowhere I will start feeling overheated and start shaking uncontrollably, heart starts racing and I feel like I am going to pass out.I get so scared I have had to have a friend here with me almost 24/7 since coming home from the hospital and have to sit here and talk to myself and tell myself I am not dying and it will calm down eventually.
I feel totally out of it and by the time I take a shower and attempt to do some chores I need to go lay down.
I think the doctors think I'm just "wound tight" as the allergist put it and since the start of all of this I have yet to see my primary care physician, as he never has any openings and I had to set an appt. for my hospital follow up almost 3 weeks out.I will see him this Wed. for the first time.
If he treats me like I am nuts, I will be looking for a new doctor ASAP.I do not think doctors want to look at these types of side effects and I do not think they know what to do about them anyway.
I spend most of my day praying that this is temporary.I think I would want to give up if this is the way I will have to live the rest of my life.
Allegist said that the Avelox should be well out of my system by now and that some of this could be my body and adrenal glands trying to balance and normalize again, but I'm convinced it is the Avelox because this is how I felt when I first stared taking it.....this feeling has not left.I still have random itching of hands and feet and chest,insomnia and anxious feeling.I am afraid to drive , feel like my coordination is all off.Feel like my head is on the other side of the room-Feet and ankle hurt and have body aches that I have never had before.
Please someone tell me that this will go away eventually.........

Tearful within hours of inserting the ring. Since, a constant sense of dread; dark thoughts, foggy, sluggish thinking, no motivation (and I'm a go-getter in a highly competitive profession), contact lens intolerance/changes in vision, vaginal dryness (UGH!!) irritability, fatigue, flu-like aches and pains with chills from time to time. Puffy like the Michelin Man. Yuck. Just threw the damned thing in the trash and couldn't be happier. Paragard, here I come. No more synthetic hormones for me. I quit.

A constant sense of dread; dark thoughts, foggy, sluggish thinking, no motivation (and I'm a go-getter in a highly competitive profession), contact lens intolerance/changes in vision, vaginal dryness (UGH!!) irritability, fatigue, flu-like aches and pains with chills from time to time. Puffy like the Michelin Man. Yuck. Just threw the damned thing in the trash and couldn't be happier. Paragard, here I come. No more synthetic hormones for me. I quit.

Mom is 80 and was always a go getter. Now her life has been in shambles with taking the Lisinopril. This drug is made from Brazilian poisonous snake venom. Hard to believe that this is being out to treat folks. Anyway, Mom went down after three months on this stuff. Her mind was always good and her memory sharp until her Physician put her on this stuff. Now, her hands go numb, mainly at night. Her breathing is hard and extreme fatigue. We almost lost her last week from a spike in her blood pressure, she was still on the Lisinopril by the way. 911 was called and they worked to get her blood pressure down. She was hauled to the hospital twice. The doctor could not find a thing. Ha ha. They never once thought to take her off the Lisinopril, even though it showed no effectiveness against the blood pressure spikes. She is scared to get off this mess. They now have upped the dose double and put her on an additional blood pressure patch, dizzy pills and an anti anxiety drug. All this due to this venom that she is ingesting. Has anyone had stroke like symptoms with this medicine? Also, her hands go numb and she cannot sleep. She has had hallucinations of people sitting and talking during the night. What a terrible thing for the FDA to approve!

For eight years I was on Ortho Tri low - no problems until my doctor suggested I change because of the length of time I was on them. I have been taking Yasmin for 4 years now and have had the following side effects which I did not contribute to the Yasmin until I am now looking back after reading these posts:

When I first starting taking Yasmin I had a SEVERE personality change. I used to be a go-getter, confident, aggressive, hard worker, perfectionist, never procrastinated, and an over-achiever. I didn't understand why, but I just stopped caring about how far I got in my career, whether my house was clean, etc. I thought I was just depressed or something? Although I didn't really feel depressed, but more of just a lack of motivation. I started to get diarihea and then an anxiety over being depressed or "not normal" I finally went to the doctor after losing a bunch of weight and he prescriped be with an antidepressent. I never took the antidepressants because I really wanted to try to deal with the issues myself before going to that extreme.

Four years later I'm the same way. I've never been the same since, although the diariahea has subsided. I thought I had just changed when I met my now husband, until I found this site and have read some of these posts and realized it was also the exact time I started taking Yasmin.

Over the last three years I have developed anxiety and a needy, clingy personality, a total anxiety and irrational fear of losing my husband. It started to get so bad that when my husband was away I would get sick to my stomach and at times vomit and become fatigued or have irrational thoughts and panic attacks that I had no control over. It has disrupted my relationship enough that I started to see a therapist and the stress of it all has had horrible side effects on my body.

I am wondering now if this was all because of Yasmin? I am 28 years old and never have had a history of depression, anxiety, etc before this.

I also now have dark spots on my face around my eyes and on my cheeks and forhead, which I new were a side effect of the birth control. I asked my doctor if switching to some other brand would help and he said that any birth control can have that effect if you are in the sun. I just decided if I wanted to be on birth control that I had to start wearing sunscreen while in the sun.

In the last two years I have been to doctors and ENT's for a ear infections and sore throats, which they contribute to allergies. That was something I never had before either. I've never had allergies in my life, but doctors would insist that I had developed them. I never would have linked this to my pills, but I am now!

I found this site only because I was thinking of soon having children and wanted to find out what effects of discontinuing the use would have on my body. I wish I had found it 3-4 years ago!!!

I am going to stop taking Yasmin and maybe birth control all together. I'm afraid switching to another pill would just cause a whole new slew of problems, because lets face it, there is nothing natural about them.

I only hope that I can recover and I thank god for such a wonderful husband because I know at times I was unbearable to deal with: fighting, crying, feeling depressed and insecure. All things that are NOT part of my personality 4 years ago. Hearing that it could all be from my pill is both encouraging (that there is hope for me to stop this behavior now) and heartbreaking that I have basically lost the last 4 years of my life.

Thank you to all who posted to this site!