Leukemia symptoms and conditions

I was prescribed 750 mg. Levaquin, one a day for 14 days for a severe sinus infection. We left to visit my son and family in Texas two days after starting the medicine. The entire time we were there I could not sleep. The second day we were there I was walking down the stairs when a pain hit me in my left calf that was so bad I thought I had surely torn a muscle or something worse. It continued to be painful for several days. We returned in four days and I noticed that I was aching all over. I have arthritis and some other problems, so didn't think too much about it. However, it continued to get much worse. My feet hurt so badly that I could hardly bear to walk. My heels are especially painful. I cannot bend my toes without terrible pain and my feet have been swollen. I have sharp tingling pain in my toes as well. My hips and knees are very painful. I am shuffling around just trying to walk and get up and down. I started having a strange pain in my right shoulder area. Am still having insomnia. This is very scary and after reading all the posts it is even more frightening since you don't know what to expect even further down the road. I have an appointment in the morning with a neurologist. I don't know what they can do and I don't want to be put on a bunch of other drugs. I just hope he acknowledges that the Leviquan caused this and doesn't try to come up with some excuse. I have absolutely no doubt the Leviquan caused this as it was immediate and continued to get worse as I took it. I stopped after 11 days and only wish I had stopped sooner, but you just keep making excuses for the weird things that are happening until you finally realize there is something very wrong. I have experienced a lot of pain in my life, but nothing like this. My brother has acute leukemia and has horrible neuropathy in his hands/arms, feet/legs caused by a clinical trial with two chemotherapy drugs. Now I am afraid I may have it in my feet, or something as bad. If the doctor has anything worth reporting I will let you know. Good luck to everyone and thanks for listening.

I started taking Lotrel in January and was thrilled because my bp was down from 165/97 to 100/70. Atenolol caused extreme fatigue to the point where I thought I had leukemia or something. I couldn't bend over to pick up something off the floor without feeling like I would pass out, my heart pounded at night, I had a weak pulse. And my bp was 165/97.
My former doc said this was all "anxiety".
My current doc is pleased with the lowered bp.
HOWEVER, I can't lose weight, and I have the "crickets" sound in my ears most of the time. Needless to say, I have leg pain, swollen extremities, and insomnia.
This is a vicious cycle-- lose weight to lower bp, lower bp to have energy to exercise to help lose weight. Between that and the crickets, I'm feeling pretty "anxious".

Have any of you developed Leukemia after taking Yasmin? Or do you know some one who has developed it and they just happened to be taking it at the time? Any feedback would be appreciated.

I had a kidney transplant a year and half ago, and had to take Prednisone as one of my post-transplant med's. I was on it for about 2 months and I went through a lot of the same side effects mentioned by other people, increased appetite and weight gain in odd places, sleeplessness, and acne. Then recently I had an allergic reaction to an antibiotic and was again prescribed prednisone for three weeks, but this time the acne is so bad it looks like a rash, and it's all over my back, chest, neck especially, and on my face. I can deal with it because I realize it's what I need to do, and I am grateful that there is a drug that can treat the symptoms from the allergy, but I am wondering how long it will take for the acne to clear up once I finish the 3 weeks? Does anyone know how long it takes when you've been on it for that amount of time? Any thoughts would be helpful. Thanks.
Megan

My friend got CMV retinitis because her immune system tanked during chemo for leukemia--ALL. After the chemo was finished she still had problems with the eye and the ophthomologist gave her an injection of Kenalog right into the eye. A few weeks after that my friend started to gain weight, sometimes as much as 10 pounds a month. At the time of her injection her TSH was normal. Yesterday, 35 pounds heavier than she was 6 months ago, the TSH was > 100!!! Basically, she has no thyroid.
This is a very serious situation. Please be aware of possible side-effects before you have a Kenalog injection.

My husband takes prednisone for bronchiolitis obliterans residual from two bone marrow transplants for leukemia. On and off this steroid for nearly a decade now. The emotional roller coaster; the poor management by some of his previous doctors; the easy bruising; the effect on his sleep and his mood stability. This is a horrible medication that saved his life. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. Before his last crisis where he had to go back on it, he actually told me that he'd rather die than start it all over again. He changed his mind, but what a toll it takes! Weight gain and the devastating effect on his body, his self image and his self esteem is the absolute worst. Before the leukemia hit, my husband lived in the gym lifting weights and staying trim effortlessly. He missed the exercise as a coping mechanism during his treatments. When he was physically able to exercise again after two hip replacements, two shoulder replacements and leukemia in remission - he developed the lung problems and started thsi prednisone cycle of submission. He is still trim but lives with this globe of abdominal fluid and weight that seems to have migrated from the rest of his body to his navel. Years ago all of this abdominal girth seemed to resorb back into his body leaving just stretch marks when his steroid use decreased. Now despite a decrease, it remains stubbornly in place and seems to be growing. It profoundly affects his breathing as well. If he eats too much at all, he can't breathe well. He has tried calorie reduction, Atkins, glycemic index diets and nothing seems to work. He can't get aerobic enough to tackle the weight. I have searched for a personal trainer or a nutritionist or anyone who might help my husband with an indvidiualized plan. Any ideas how best to xupport him?

I was on Alesse for four years and felt I had reached maximum bloat, so decided to discontinue the pill altogther this fall. Unfortunately, my acne problems surfaced again (after a year and a half after a six-month course of accutane). My skin got really bad and was getting oilier and oilier. I thought I'd better get back on the pill again to get my skin at least somewhat under control. I also considered going to my derm and ask for spironolactone to help with my skin's over production of oil. While doing research on BCPs that were purported to be good for acne, I landed upon Yasmin, and asked my OBGYN for it and she prescribed it to me. Yeah! It's been a godsend.

I started around the holidays this past December and it addressed my oily problem within the first week of taking it. And it doesn't make me bloat! I swear I've lost 10 pounds of water weight that I was carrying before. I still have to keep a lot of attention to my skin to control breakouts, but not being so oily helps out a lot.

My only complaints are with the diuretic effect, I'm up in the night having to go to the bathroom, sometimes as much as three times. And if it's rather early in the morning I can't get back to sleep. I'm a little moody, but it seems to be the case with birth control pills. The moodiness is nothing excessive. I'd be a lot moodier if I had my old icky oily skin back and had to go back on Accutane.

I have not experienced the fatigue or other negative side effects that people have mentioned here. In fact, it seems that all the possitive side effects that Yasmin was purported to have have worked for me.

I'd be very upset if Yasmin was taken off the market. If you find that a birth control pill is not working for you, go back to your doctor and try another kind. I remember a friend in college who had started taking the pill and she had terrible side effects, like bad headaches, terrible moodiness, felt like her heart was palpitating, and I told her to go and get it switched. Evidently the one that she switched to was perfect because she's been on it ever since. Works out perfectly for her, no bloating, etc. Maybe a little crabbiness, but seems hard to avoid that one.

At any rate, I've been very happy with Yasmin. As birth control pills go, it's practically perfect for me.

my dad, who took orinase for a long time due to diabetes, believes it may have been the root cause for the destruction of his red blood cell production ability in the bone marrow, a blood disease which has now lead to leukemia

My dad is taking Dapsone only on weekends before Chemo., because he is allergic to sulfur drugs. As soon as he takes the medication, within one hour time he is weak, stomach pain, nausea, vomiting. The doctor cut the dosage down to two in the morning from four in the morning on Saturday and Sunday. He still is unable to take it without these symptoms. He has had Chronic Lymphocetic Leukemia for 8 years and has never had a problem like this. Has taken Chemo several times. This time he has started a new drug Fludabarine and now has hemolytic anemia or so they say. They told him that his ldh levels were normal during the whole ordeal so they are now confused. He had severe stomach pain. They gave him 4 units of blood and he seems to be doing well now. Do you think that Dapsone could be the cause of the Hemolytic anemia?