Medical training symptoms and conditions

I have taken three 500mg doses of Levaquin since Saturday. They were prescribed by my urologist for a "possible" minor prostates that might be affecting my PSA (2.2). The very first night I was unable to sleep, tossing and turning all night. Thought nothing of it, and blamed it on diet or too much sleep the previous day. However, insomnia has continued for three straight nights and last night I woke at 4:30 AM with shortness of breath (had to take long deep breaths to feel like I was getting enough oxygen) that felt like an anxiety attack. Although there was no pain, I felt like my heart was pounding and rapid. Finally got a little more sleep and woke up feeling OK in the morning, but blood pressure was elevated. I continually feel like I'm on a caffeine high. I never associated it, but, I woke up second and third days with a sore throat and have had a few minor muscle twitches in arms, legs and abdomen.

I feel fortunate compared to others on this forum. I have stopped taking the Levaquin and have an appointment with my family doctor tomorrow. As a side note, I had an acute prostates this time last year and took Cipro for over one month with no similar side effects that I can recall. Does anyone know if two drugs from the same group can have such different side effects, or can I expect the same problems if I start taking Cipro again?

I have been on Cymbalta for about 6 months now and I have had to learn to live with at least 7 days a month of yeast infection symptoms. I know this is a side effect of Cymbalta, as I advocate against using medication whenever possible. I have only had this condition since starting this med, and over the counter creams and suppositories don't affect it or help at all.

Has anyone else had this? My doctor does not believe there is a link but I know this to be my truth.

SIX POUNDS IN FOUR DAYS!!! (AND I'm NOT PREGNANT!) I was in bed thinking to myself how could I have gained six pounds in four days???? For an average 35 years old, I'm pretty active mother of a soon-to-be-four year old son. I was diagnosed with chronic sinisitis and along came the weazing!!! My primary MD was the first one to give me the sample during about with bronchitis. You trust doctors because their the ones with the medical training right? what did he know??? But I could have easily researched this drug online. Needless to say after a very scary incident during a step class- I was completely out of breath- what an awful feeling!!! I usually would have reached for my inhaler (albuterol) but I was out of it- so I grabbed the advair. Now since I was only a once-in-awhile user, I didn't see any side affects. But after a soild month of using this drug- I did feel anxious jittery--needless to say - my husband thought I was pre-menopausal (we're trying to have baby #2) I begin to see the awful light of this drug- PLEASE DO NOT TAKE IT!!! I AM VERY FRIGHTENED OF THESE SIDE AFFECTS!!
What a relief to have this posted today!!

Does any one start bleeding when you lift or do workouts.I have had my iud since July 2006.Is this normal?I also have weight gain ,breakouts on my face,body always aches and is sore.I have had to go to a chiro to help with the pain in my body also!Help is this the iud?I am almost 49 years old do i need this at all now???

I had my Mirena inserted 8 weeks after having my 3rd child. Everything seemed fine for the first 3 months but then I began to develop severe pain in my finger joints, wrists, ankles, elbows, back and neck. I was shuffling around like a 90 year old woman. At first I thought I may have developed arthritis and then my mother suggested I give up the breastfeeding as it might be 'taking it out of me'. Then the other symptoms seemed to creep up on me - foggy brain, severe mood swings, feeling sad and depressed for no reason, SEVERE headaches, night sweats and extreme fatigue. I couldn't complete tasks like washing the clothes and general cleaning of my home and I never felt refreshed after a long sleep. I remember saying to my husband on 3 or 4 occasions 'I feel like I'm going crazy!!' I think he thought the same thing. It was only by chance I revisited a forum I had bookmarked earlier when I was trying to find out how long after initial insertion the bleeding lasted that a post containing some similar side-effects to the ones I was experiencing caught my eye - well what an eye-opener, I would never in my wildest dreams have connected my symptoms with my IUD. The cause of my debilitating symptoms became so clear and that night I squatted down in the shower, found the strings, gave a tug and took the damn thing out myself! That was 3 weeks ago and I've felt a little better every day. I'm hoping to be back to my old self as soon as possible. Thank you so much to everyone who has shared their experiences. If it wasn't for you these debilitating effects on my body would have continued for I dont know how long.

hi all,
quest 36376, i am not sure what the verification email thing is all about,please try to register again it may just be a glitch,i will look into it for you.
i think some of the ladies have gone straight onto other pills but not sure which. i had an email from a lady the other day saying that she was put onto a high dose pill after yasmin as her Dr said yasmin had messed up her system by dropping her hormones too low.she said she felt fantastic on the older higher dose pill. may be something to research???

guest 36377,
i have no medical training at all just my own personal experience. i only had an ecg,my docotr agreed to do it after much pestering,i was sat at my pc one day when i felt really light headed and my vision went,my heart started to race then flop about in my chest like jelly,i seriously thought i was about to die! the nurse rigged up my ecg and she saw something (to this day i have no idea what) and she went to get my Gp who took a look at the tracing and just said it was just anxiety nothing to worry about and he sent me on my way. i find the flopping sensation and the palpitations are worse when i am tired or if i eat anything really sweet or if i have to many carbs. the chest pain comes along a day or 2 before my period and feels almost like i have been punched or have a cracked rib,sometimes i cannot get a full breath if that makes sense. i take a daily supplemet of magnesium,vitamin b6,b12 and zinc as well as calcium. calcium can be very good for the heart and muscles. i had chest pain when i was on yasmin,it was a stabbing sensation,now it is just a dull ache a couple of days a month. i have been off yasmin for 8 months. hope that helps a little. please try not to worry too much, i know it is scary but stress will make your heart beat more irregular.

guest 36378.
thank-you so much for your kind words,i hope that the new forum will be of great help to all ladies who want to post there and share their experience. we are yasmin survivors because we are looking for answers and we are fighting back!

best wishes to you all.

sarah

Reynauds (cold hands & feet), weight gain, joint pain, just plain feeling lousy! Over two years had gradually ramped up from 12.5 to 50 mg.. Since January tapering down, presently at 12.5 mg., on the way to zero.

As of this writing, it hasn't hit the main stream media in the U.S. yet, but earlier today the Brittish press was reporting the fact that in the U.K., doctors are being told to STOP prescribing Beta Blockers. Toporol is a Beta blocker.

Almost everyone corresponding here (including me) apparently has had problems with Toporol. But before whipping out their prescription pads, how many of your doctors have ever asked you anything about your diet, and things like stress in your life which effect your own individual requirements for nutrients and trace minerals??? Probably next to none, because nutrition has not been a part of their medical training.

I am not going to claim anything more than the following might be something you ought to look into.
By any chance has your doctor ever suggested that you take calcium? Even if they haven't, in recent years, calcium has become the darling of the supplement and food industry. Calcium enriched this, and calcium fortified that; it's become a food industry mantra. Calcium is good and very necessary, but simply taking Calcium is not enough. Ca needs helpers if it is even going to do YOU any good. Calcium needs the presence of Magnesium in the proper balance. It also needs the presence of the sunshine Vitamin D. It also needs an acid environment to be properly absorbed. Minerals frequently work in tandem. An excess in one mineral can cause a deficit in another.

Anything in the form of a pill, capsule, tablet, or caplet is something that I dispise having to take. But two days ago, when I woke up in the early morning noticing an attention getting arrythmia, I recognized that I had been neglecting what I shouldn't have been for too long. I got up and took a dose of Ca, balanced with a dose of Mg in the ratio of 2:1, and within a couple hours, there was no further fluttering, and I haven't noticed any irregular fluttering since. Just remember, whatever the cause of my heart's hop, skip, and jump may not be the same cause as that of your's.

Basicly, the heart is a muscular pump whose action is regulated by electrically charged minerals in solution called electrolites. When those electrolites are out of balance, it doesn't work like it should. Period.

Back in the sixties it was noticed that people living in hard water regions (high levels of Ca & Mg in their water supply) had less heart disease. Those living in soft water regions (lacking minerals), had more heart disease. This is not rocket science.

I am not a doctor, I am not a nurse, I have had no medical training to speak of...but...my opinion is this - just don't take this junk!! it isn't worth what might happen to you as a result. There are plenty of antibiotics out there that can help you. If you have any chice at al in the matter, tell your doctor. particularly if you are in the high risk catagory, that you just don't want levaquin.

Someone I know was on lipitor for a year taking 10 mg. a day. He is 40 years old. Prior to taking lipior he was in excellent health with no medical problems. After 2 months on lipitor he started experiencing severe back, neck and leg pain and pain in the head which he described as head fog. He reported this to his doctor who couldn't find anything wrong with him and his doctor not making any association with it being caused by the lipitor referred him to a specialist. The specialist couldn't find anything wrong with him and he started going from specialist to specialist for 9 months for a total of 6 different doctors where none of them could find anything wrong with him and none of them ever made the association with lipitor even though they all knew he was taking it. From my own experience on lipitor and all the problems it caused me I immediately made the association and told him to stop the lipitor. He was very skeptical about my advice since I have no medical training whatsoever and 6 experts along with his own doctor whom he highly trusts never said a word about lipitor being the possible cause. Anyway he followed my advice and to his amazement the head fog immediately cleared up and his back, neck, and leg pain is nowhere near what it was after 2 months off lipitor even though he still has some problems. His doctor said it was impossible for lipitor to be the cause as it has a proven safety record and he never heard of such problems being caused by lipitor and told him he probably never had any problems to begin with is the reason why he got relief and that he should just learn to relax. This just goes to show you that only you are responsible for your own health and you better do your own research before blindly following professional advice as you will be the one to suffer the consequences while the doctors just look the other way denying everything as I found out for myself the hardway.