Ortho mcneill symptoms and conditions

Such severe lower abdominal pain, was forced to go to ER overnite. Wondering about possibility of a free class action lawsuit, or other RETALIATION against the drug manufacturer. Also need company CEO's name, home phone#, and cell# if possible.

-Thanx.

Anybody know if Prednisone and Levaquin are a bad combination together because that is what my doctor put me on and it almost killed me. No one seems to be able to find anything written that they should not be prescribed together. Doctors and pharmacies are all saying it is fine. I have so many side effects now that I don't think I will ever be back to normal. All I had wrong was a sinus infection.

TO GUEST 29274
IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR'RE TALKING ABOUT, PLEASE KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT. I HAVE PERMANENT DAMAGE FROM THIS POISON. HEARING LOSS, TINNITUS, TENDON DAMAGE, PERIFERAL NEUROPATHY, HEART PROBLEMS, INSOMNIA, DEPRESSION, ETC. I CAN NO LONGER WALK WITHOUT SOME HELP. I WAS POISONED 3 YEARS AGO. THIS POISON DOES SOME SERIOUS DAMAGE AND A LOT OF IT IS PERMANENT. PLEASE PEOPLE, GET ON THOSE WEBSITES AND GET SOME HELP. THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE THAT HAVE RECOVERED AND THEY THANK THESE WEBSITES FOR HELPIONG THEM. I THINK THERE IS SOMEONE FROM THE POISON MAKER (ORTHO-MCNEILL) TRYING TO MAKE SOME TROUBLE.
ONCE AGAIN, PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO REPORT THIS TO THE FDA BY GOING TO WWW.FDA.GOV SO THAT THIS POISON DOESN'T HURT ANYONE IN YOUR FAMILY.

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.

Why are doctors ignoring the fact that this family of antibiotics is hurting people all over the world? It doesn't make sense. If you read the prescribing information from ortho-mcneill you will see all of these complaints listed as side effects. Why are these doctors doing this????? And Medwatch, what's with them. I personally know that they have been bombarded with reports of these drugs and yet nothing is being done. Where can we get some answers?

I took levaquin(poison)for 10 days in Oct 2004 for pneumonia. I immediately had tinnitus. On day 2 I had pain under my ribs and thought I cracked a rib from coughing. I couldn't sleep and when I did I had nightmares. I was very depressed, had a mettalic taste in my mouth, my tongue was red and hurt terribly. The pain went from my ribs to my knee to my shoulders. I have had psycotic episodes where I've thrown things in my house and scared my husband and myself. After 5 months, I'm sleeping better and I've recently got most of my taste back. The pain moves from place to place and I have pain almost every day. The tinnitus is as bad as it was 5 months ago. I've been to a ent for the first time in my life and he said I had fluid in my ear. He tried togive me an antibiotic but I'm scared to take anything. I have some hearing loss in that ear. I'm depressed most of the time. I'm angry at my dr. who never warned me about this drug, the pharmacy who also didn't warn me. I was taking aspirin and advil and later found out that those drugs with the levaquin could damage my central nervous system. Of course by that time it was too late. I have filed with Med watch, contacted Ortho-McNeill. Ortho-McNeill sent me a registered letter asking me tosign a medical release form. I told them that the only thing I would sign is a check from them to help me pay my medical expenses (have no insurance). Of course, I haven't heard from them again. Tell everyone you know never to take a chance with this medicine. A reaction to this poison is not like any other. This stuff does damage. It doesn't go away when you stop taking it.

I was given 500mg of levaquin for a sinus infection.
A few days after I started feeling very lightheaded and couldn't concentrate. ..very weak ..feeling of unreality.
I continued taking it. Then decided to check on the side effects. I had two tablets left and threw them away. Tomorrow I go back to the ENT that gave them to me. I'm printing out all the information I'm finding about the effects of this terrible drug and showing it to him. THIS DRUG SHOULD BE TAKING OFF THE MARKET.
I called Ortho-McNeill..I was told that some people have complained of dizziness and lightheaded, and that in a few days after stopping it, it will be out of your system.. I sure hope so. My arms and legs have been so weak since I've been on this drug.
Good luck to all of you that are suffering from the side effects of this TERRIBLE DRUG....