Laryngitis symptoms and conditions

I have been on Biaxin for 3 days now (for laryngitis & sinusitis) and BOY does it leave the worst metal taste in my mouth and especially on my tongue. Seriously. I feel like I have quarters in my mouth. Gross! It also makes me dizzy and nauseous.
Luckily, I've had no problems sleeping.

I went to the doctor on 3/12/07 (Monday) for a cold. I had laryngitis for several days. I started taking Levaquin 750 mg. on Monday. By Wednesday, I had severe pain in my joints in muscles especially my legs. It was so severe I was in tears and ready to go to the hospital. On Thursday I called the doctor and he told me to stop taking it and prescribed a new antibiotic. On Friday my pain started to subside somewhat, but it was still uncomfortable. BY the time I went to the doctor on Friday afternoon I had red blotches all over my arms and face. I wish I had done more research on this drug before taking it! I had to cancel a hair appoitnment that week and my hairdresser said she had the same exact symptoms and they only stopped when she stopped the medication.

I have been on Advair for a couple of years now with resulting excellent control of my asthma. I have struggled with this control since childhood using my rescue inhalers frequently. I don't need them at all anymore. However, I have severe hoarseness of the voice, now need to see a special voice doctor, and it has even affected my job. The hoarsness is so severe at times that it is complete laryngitis with no voice at all. What do you chose, control over your asthma, or being able to communicate with others using your voice? It's a tough choice.

i recieved 3 kenalog epidural injections for herniated disc, 2 weeks apart, followed by a decompression nucleoplasty, also with Kenalog injection. after the first epidual. i began having extreme irritablity which i reported to the pain management doc. he said he couldn't prescribe anything but could refer me to a psychologist, which i declined , realizing i was having a reaction to something. after the 3rd epidural, my irritabilty had increased to the point where i was shouting and screaming, and had completely lost my patience. my face had blown up, and cheeks were hard to the touch, and my neck skin was swollen and hanging down. i described my appearance as "looking like a blowfish".

on the day of the nucleoplasty, i agreed that the doc should go ahead and use it again, since it was important for the procedure, and it was not a "true (anaphalctic) type reaction.

after this last injection of Kenalog, i had a terrible terrible reaction. my face became even larger, with big dark circles under my eyes, and my eyes partially closed, appeared like slits. i was frightened by my reflection in the mirror.

my feet, ankles and legs swelled up to the point where it was painful and difficult to walk.

i also i developed insomnia.

at the same time i was "off the wall" with irritability, anger, impatience, and could not stop crying.

during the day i had a general ill and sleepy feeling, and fell asleep driving, without notice.

throughout this period of Kenalog adminstration, i also had flu like symptoms every morning. sore throat, laryngitis, loose cough, muscle pains. i noticed black and blue marks on my extremities as well.

now i have a full blown flu and full blown bronchitis, and i feel so very very ill.

my feet and calves, hands and fingers are experiencing very painful cramping, intermittantly throughout the day and night. it's happening right now in my left hand, so i have to stop typing. i wait for one minute and try to continue typing, but that causes the painful spasm to return. i try again 2 more times, waiting a minute in between spasms. finally it stops and i can continue typing.

there are probably more symptoms, like the irregular heart beat, and these little bumps on the skin of my right cheek, but i need to rest now.

generally, i feel sicker probably than i can ever recall feeling in my life.

would appreciate hearing from anyone with similar symptoms, and especially how long before my face returns to normal. i live with the fear of what will i do if it does not?

I have been taking Advair Discus 250/50 for about a month for bronchitis. I have severe laryngitis and can hardly speak, particularly later in the day. Otherwise I am feeling pretty good but this lack of speech is really getting to me. I am an elementary school teacher. Could this possibly be related to this drug?

I have been taking Advir 250/50 for about 8 months. I have noticed my mouth and throat have been burning and my voice feels and sounds like I have laryngitis. I have had cancer, so I went to a specialist to get my throat checked and they could find nothing wrong. I have seen another asthma doctor and he suggested it could be the Advair.

I have been on Advair for about 1 month. It has helped my asthma but I am concerned about my throat. Sometimes it is such a strain to speak. At first I thought I was getting laryngitis but then I came to the conclusion that it was a side effect of the Advair. I do not get soar throat symptoms but I am really concerned about the possible damage this drug may have on vocal cords, larynx or the throat in the long term. I just assume go back on an albuterol inhaler which helped my asthma just as well. I have used singulair (the directions say to take at night) but I have to make sure that I'm practically asleep, otheriwise, it makes me sick to my stomach and horrible acid reflux.

I had bronchitis, they gave me something called a "dosepack" which was steroids, it did terrible things to my voice... swollen throat, croaking, almost laryngitis.

With advair, it's just a swelling in the throat, but it's annoying enough that I want to reasearch alternatives.

unrelenting laryngitis...it didn't go away until I stopped the drug. I have not taken it for around a month. I had multiple side effect taking the full adult dose. However, Singulair was very effective at halting my allergy symptoms. Allergy-wise it was one of the best summers since childhood. It also seemed to clear things up for the month after I quit. They say there is a fungal infection usually at the root of chroncity with sinusitis...well, maybe, just maybe Singulair cleared that up for me. I am, once again, experiening symptoms so, I have decided to give it a go once more. I am going to see if I can take it for a couple of days full strength and then go down to half or the pediatric dose. I was going to chuck it for good because I had headaches, laryngitis, muscle cramps, stomach and chest pains, extreme tiredness, dizziness and I became a very angry and unhappy depressed woman and that really is bad if you're already female and over fifty!! I'll post the effects of the new regimen I am going to try with the reduced dose and for a smaller length of time of use of the medication.

I cannot believe just how bad the moral decline in the world is. I know this may sound crazy to some but let me tell you it is not. The drug companies are absolutely criminal. It seems long-term studies are a thing of the past. Long-term studies were conducted to protect the consumer. If a drug proved dangerous in it's side effects, the drugs would either be not marketed or used under strict advisement and strict monitoring. Today, medicine is all about the money. I am a retired nurse. The many and varied crimes I have witnessed in my career would scare any sensible person into doing everything to maintain health without physicians, hospitals and medications. To find a good doctor who cares, who used his/her gift of discernment is nothing more than a hunt for something very, very rare. I am an allergy sufferer and was prescribed Singulair. I have been taking it for six weeks and for five of these weeks I have had laryngitis. Never have I had it before. I have been depressed. I feel like I am socially inept, I have had feelings of self-loathing, I am dizzy, clumsy, extremely forgetful, I feel like I am in a dream and that is just too weird a feeling when one is wide awake. I am sleeping long and hard, when I am on my way to bed I am afraid I will fall down because I am unnaturally tired. I am tired throughout the day. I have leg cramps. I am experiencing headaches. I sometimes have an unsteady gait upon walking. I experience pains in my abdomen. I am short of breath. I have had cardiac-like pains to my chest two to five times daily. I am touchy and angry all too easy. After reading the complaints listed on this website, I wonder if caring will ever, ever come back to the professions of medicine? This is a sad, sad state of affairs. Civilization needs to be recivilized and humanity needs to become humane. The wars aren't only in Iraq and Africa, we have wars everywhere....in our school systems, and in our health care systems....look and see who wins....it's always those who have the most to begin with.

I was diagnosed with Mild Asthma 2 or 3 years ago (I'm having trouble remembering things right now). My main problems are when I have to 'pant' - then I have problems with my asthma. So summers can be rough for me.

I was placed on Advair 100/50. I had no problems, I noticed that I didn't need my inhaler and life was good.

I stopped using it while pregnant, I noticed that my asthma went away. Which can be typical while pregnant. But it started back up after the delivery.

One of the PAs gave me a prescription to start in July, it was for 250/50, I didn't notice the dosage increase until I filled it out. I've been taking it for 5 or 6 days now. Yesterday, I noticed that my voice is very hoarse, like laryngitis with no other sinus/allergy symptoms. And today I feel like I'm about to have an asthma attack. I've already used my inhaler once and I'm still feeling short of breath and light headed. Plus I noticed major anxiety this morning...

I have an appointment with my doctor this afternoon. I'm so glad that I found this website - these symptoms are ridiculous...

It is my 10th and final day of Levaquin 500mg qd. I began taking it for sinusitis that became pharyngitis/laryngitis. Since beginning the drug, I have experienced decreased mental acuity, lightheadedness, food and drinks taste salty, extremely bizarre & lucid dreams -- sometimes 5-6 per night that I can remember or at least can remember how strange they were. Also, I have experienced everything from diarrhea to complete cessation of BM, bloating, and extreme nausea.

I have taken Avelox, Cipro and Levaquin within the past two years - all with side effects:
CIPRO: (Rx for diverticulitis) Dry raspy cough, irritated throat, sneezing - all started shortly after each daily dose and eased off until next dose. Poor sleep, wakeful and unable to go to sleep. I did not continue the medication as prescribed and the symptoms were gone within 24 hours.
AVELOX: Dementia - something like Alzheimers - I could not do a simple crossword puzzle, knowing that I knew the answers at one time. I could not think or function and, again, stopped the medication early. Symptoms went away.
LEVAQUIN: Confusion, sleeplessness, anxiety, frequest urination.

My husband is currently taking Avelox and is having some strange symptoms: Hallucinations, strange dreams, confusion, raspy cough and laryngitis. He was put on Avelox two days before he came down with Influenza and the cough and laryngitis may be a result of the flu - but I am recovering from the flu and he is not, and should be.

I will no longer take any quinolone and may need to change doctors if he insists prescribing them. He wants my husband to continue taking his last two doses of Avelox. I just hope he survives this!

I'm a 42 year old woman who started taking Omnicef 8 days ago for Laryngitis.
On the third day I started having and still have soft, mushy stools.
Still have laryngitis. No relief at all.

I WAS ON LISINOPRIL FOR ABOUT A MONTH. I HAD A CHRONIC COUGH, A VERY DRY THROAT WITH A CONSTANT "TICKLE." I AM A TEACHER AND BY THE END OF THE DAY I FELT LIKE I HAD LARYNGITIS AND COULD BARELY SPEAK WITHOUT COUGHING. I ASKED TO BE GIVEN ANOTHER BLOOD PRESSURE MEDICANTION.

Hi. I have been on Advair for about 2 years. I started at 100 level, had a bad cold in Jan. and went to 250. Got another cold and laryngitis in April and went to 500 level. The laryngitis went on for 7 weeks. I still have a raspy, rough voice, always clearing my throat. By chance, I decided to look up side effects of Advair. My gosh, I can't believe what I've seen here! I've put on 10 pounds since spring, have been going to voice therapy weekly since June. I have pain in my hips so bad it wakes me up every night. I've been eating ibuprophen like candy, along with Tylenol PM every night just so I can get to sleep. So, I've gone back to the 250 level that I had. So far, so good. I'm going to try to get off of this. My brother, also an asthmatic, began running last year. He has increased his lung capacity to the point where he no longer needs his flovent, just albuterol before running. A co-worker told me about a book he has, How to become a Former Asthmatic, that helped him come off steroids by following a series of breathing exercises that also increase lung capacity. Anyway, that's my plan of attack to get off Advair. Unfortunately, like the others, my asthma has never been in better control. I can even be around cats for the first time in my life. Life is full of choices. I choose to live without the side effects of Advair.

After about 2 treatments, I got laryngitis. Using a laryngiscope an inflamed upper esaphagus was seen, no g.i. side effects. Digestion is fine and no food aggravates the condition.
No one says it is a side effect of navelbine, but I am taking no other medication.

I'm 29... My doctor prescribed Advair 250/50 after I had a difficult case of bronchitis that left me short of breath for some time after. I used the Diskus properly and rinsed well after each use, but still had problems with mouth ulcers and laryngitis. I also experienced:

Tightness in my chest

Severe heartburn & acid reflux (which I've never had before)

Dry, flaky skin as well as periods of severe acne

Muscle & joint pain

Jaw pain & tooth sensitivity

Menstrual disruption (My first period on Advair was very short and light. Then it stopped altogether. I've been off Advair for over a month and am still in this menopause state.)