Nerve system symptoms and conditions

I sympathies with all the sufferers experiencing the severe side effects from Lisinopril. I have been using this Lisinopril for the last two days and it is getting my nerve system punchy every now and then. It is as if someone is pinching you on your arms.

Why is this drug being allowed to stay on the market and be prescribed by doctors? Where is the FDA regulatory role in ensuring the safety of this drug? Can any Doctor worth his/her salt give a direct answer to this question?

It is Fluoride Poisoning that has caused nerve damage!!! Natural vitamins that can be found anywhere are 5-HTP to help rebuilld the seretonin levels in your nerve system and Magnesium pills or magnesium rich foods will help quicken the process of ridding your body of the fluoride. It is mostly a waiting game, but these will help!!! My 26 year old wife was down for 2 and a half weeks before she stopped listening to the doctors and starting taking these supplements and felt better within 3 days and was back to normal within 1 week of starting these two natural supplements!!!

I have been on Diovan for about three months now, and it has lowered my blood pressure. Unfortunately, I am experiencing a side effect (I think) from the medicine. About eight months ago I had two inguinal hernias repaired. It was not until I started taking Diovan that I started having burning and a light pulling sensation in both areas. Is it possible that because the blood vessels in that area are being relaxed by the Diovan that I am having problems? My doctor thought it might be from an infection that is common with the mesh that is used. He prescibed an antibiotic, but this has done nothing to help. Any thoughts???? Thanks, Angelo in Kissimmee

After 14 months of suffering from Levaquin I am getting worse.

I have had sore ankles and achilles heels for months but last two days this has increased to where I can't walk on them. My shoulders, arms, hands, legs have incresed in pain 50 % in last two days. All I can do is moan, all night in bed and even during day now.

Just loaded up on Lorazepam today.

Also, my nerve system has been severely damaged.

I am over 50. I know what my body feels. Everything involving my nerves has changed from the first 24 hours I took this stuff back in Dec. 2005. My skin feels prickly. My sensitivity to cold and heat is so off and unbearable.

I get haywire feeling all through me all the time. My heart jumps. My ears pop. I feel extreme anxiety.
Everything connected to my nerves seems effected. I get odd bladder feelings. Penile soreness like a nerve twinge.
My intestinal tract is shot. Everything from gastritis to gerd to middle intestinal inflammation. I have diagnosed tendinitis, torn rotator cuff, fractured vertebrae, neck disc damage, etc.
I am low in B-12 to 100 level. Also low in Male Hormone.Have acquired bronchial asthma, sinusits, scarring in left lung.

I do not know how much more I can take. And it all started that week I took Levaquin and "no other medicine".

Hadn't taken any medicne for years previous to this.

I called Ortho-McNeill to complain and they asked what happened to me. I told them I was given this after being diagnosed with beginning bronchitis and low electrolytes at our local ER. The lady on the Ortho McNeil complaint line told me " they ( the ER ) should have never given you Levaquin when you had diagnosed electrolyte imbalance."

She also said they were aware of many complaints of tendon damage.

And no attorney will even touch my case. Go figure. This country is crazy.

Dear Ladies,
I am with you on all the side effects too. It is quite funny that every time I talked to my doctor about possibly changing the pill or getting off of it, he'd say, "just wait so many months, and it'll will all get normal." I waited, and the only thing that was changing was that I was somehow just getting used to the symptoms, but they were not going anywhere.
I had problems with my digestive tract, kidneys, had lot of headaches and migraines, ongoing fatigue, lost of motivation, PANICK ATTACKS (was paranoid about many things) etc.
I started pill April 2006 and stopped August 2006. One the many doctors I have been to was a kinesiologist/chiropractor, and after assessing my body he recommended that I need (without even knowing I was on a pill) complex of B vitamins, magnesium, calcium. These supplements along with a regular (!) exercise, plus some medicaiton like Valerian for soothing the nerve system really did help in the relieving the symptoms. Good luck ladies. I hope you all feel!
Will-o-thewisp