Rush symptoms and conditions

I was prescribed levaquin 750mg for 5 days. I took my first dosage and within 2 hours I was feeling itchy, tired, anxious and felt as if my skin was burning. On the first night I had a panic attack and felt my heart rush and couldn't breathe normally. The very next day I felt as if I was exhausted and believed it was the medication, so I called my doctor to ask if I should discontinue. Fifteen minutes too late she called me back and old me to discontinue, sadly I had just taken the second dosage. Within fifteen minutes of the second dosage my body started to undergo an extreme amount of itching, burning and pinching sensation. I was disoriented and depressed. I suffered sharp pains all day and night and just tried to focus on the next day. I figured after 24 hrs I wouldn't feel the pain and the medicine would be out of my system. I waited a day and a half. When I woke up on the second day after being off the medicine I was feeling extreme pains and nothing had gotten better my husband had enough and took me to the ER. I was admitted and stayed three days. Three horrible days of lab tests, xrays and lots of pain. The doctors could not manage my low blood pressure and had mo idea how the levaquin was attacking my body. I've been out for 2 days now and am still in pain and at time I still feel disoriented.

A few years back I severely injured my back. As part of my treatment my doctor gave me prednisone. My joints, especially my knees hurt beyond belief. I even had go to my parents house because I couldn't move, it hurt too much. I called my doctor and you know what he told me?!?! it was all in my head.He accused me of trying to get pain pills from him. The joint pain got so bad that I had to be hospitalized. You know what they told me at the hospital. I was having a allergic reaction to prednisone. No S***t!??! anyway, since that time I have not taken prednisone. My concern now is that my doctor wants me to get a cortisone injection. . . I am scared I would get the same reaction. from the research I have done so far, it looks like it is from the same family. Does anybody know?

Thanks
B.

I have been taking Warfarin for 3 months after an Infarct Kidney. (blood clot in my kidney) was ordered to start taking Warfarin, within a week I started getting a very dry mouth like as if you would get after a good night of drinking! After about 2 months the dry mouth started to go away and is only slightly bothersome, however, now I am experiencing a light headed and a dizziness feeling, not to the point where I am gonna pass out, but very uncomfortable. I have a hard time concentrating, when I turn my head quickly to look or because I hear something is when I will experience a quick rush of dizziness. I have been taking about 7-9 mg per day depending on my INR level. Anyone have any ideas that could help me with this?

Hello! My name is Angelita and I am so happy that I found this website. I had the Mirena put in about 4 months ago. Thank "GOD" I had it taken out today. I've been dealing with headaches, fatigue, hair loss, acne, mood swings, upper and lower back pains, insomnia, cramps that felt like contractions, weight gain, hot flashes and joint pain as well. I seriously feel as though the "DEVIL" lives with in me, because I have been so mean towards my family. Taking all the strength with in me that at times I don't even want to get out of bed. I don't even want to leave my house to spend time with my family, because I am to tired to get up and get ready, and I feel ugly due to my weight gain and acne out breaks. For 4 months Mirena has stolen my life! I demanded yesterday that my doctor take it out! I told him that if he did not have the time to send me to another doctor who did because I wanted it out! He called me in the morning and asked if I could be there at 2:00, with a big smile I showed up. It didn't hurt when he took it out, but I did feel like a rush around my pelvic area. I felt like a drain sort of speak. Pressure like a period was about to start, although I have not started to bleed. Does anyone know when I should expect to bleed and when will all the other symptoms go away?

I am a 72 yrs old female. Put on Lisinopril-HCTZ 10-12.5mg 2 yrs. ago. Took Cozaar until drug provider (AARP) wouldn't pay for and told my doc to use Lisinopril. For a while I was ok...then the trouble started. Nausea, dizziness, headaches and swelling of legs and feet. All slow to happen. Then shortness of breath, cough and itching. Leg cramps got me up pacing and in agony several time nightly. Had a creepy feeling in the back of my neck, joint aches, tiredness, stomach PAIN, hot tingles in feet and toes late in the day. Slight weight gain, a runny nose and sneezing in the AM.. Hot one minute, cold the next. At some point I realized I had a feeling of ill-health, a def. loss of my usual feeling of well-being. I was edge, nervous and finally got depressed enough to call a psychologist. That's when I found this web site. Therapist told me to tell my doc and maybe get another BP med. instead of L. Ten days ago I stopped taking it and went back on the Cozaar...I will pay for it myself. I just want to feel good again. The mental anguish this drug has produced shouldn't happen to anyone. Also, I shouldn't have to find a web site that tells me I'm taking poison either. Last night I slept straight thru the night w/o awaking. First time in God knows when. Still some nausea but I can tell the effects of Lisinopril and lessening. Take hope all u people who have posted here...I think it will get better for you now that u don't take that snake juice anymore. I think it's good that we all stopped it before we started slithering through the grass of our front lawns. This too shall pass. Thanks for posting here for me so that I could finally feel good again. I owe you a huge debt for my sanity.

I was given solu-medrol for an allergic reaction to something unknown. I was given benadryl just prior because of my itching hives.
Immediately after the RN injected the solu-medrol into my IV I started choking, I couldn't catch my breath, I felt as if I had a rush of adrenaline but at the same time it felt like my heart was fluttering. My blood pressure and my heart rate jumped up considerably. I was unable to speak and had a hard time swallowing. My vision was effected and I had light sensitivity, everything suddenly seemed very bright. My thought process was very distracted, I would try to speak and within a second forget what I wanted to say. I had to concentrate extremely hard just to get out a single word.
I also had slight numbness or loss of sensation in my hands.
I don't want to know what would have happened if I hadn't been given the benadryl first! I felt as if someone was inducing brain damage onto me and instantly turning me into a vegetable.

I think it is interesting the symptoms that you mention here. I have been on birth control pills since the age of 19. I am now 28. Over the past year I have had similar symptoms. I have been on so many different BCP's that is is hard to keep count. They don't seem to work the way they claim to. The last BCP I was on was orthotryciclen. While taking these I began to experience severe heart palpitations. So bad that they would wake me up at night. Because I wasn't sure if it was an anxiety attack or just being in my head I decided to ignore it. Four months passed by and it seemed to get increasingly worse. I had enough and decided to go to my PCP. She wasn't really much help either. Although I was tested for Mitral Valve Prolapse, which I was told affects younger women my age. There was nothing found. What I thought was interesting is I really felt that it was the birth control pills, but I couldn't find it as a side affect on the information that was provided in the box. The tech who was doing my echocardiogram began to tell me she also experienced the same feelings and found out it was her BCP. Once she confirmed what I thought was right, decided to stop taking them. After three months the symptoms began to disappear. I figured it was just the particular brand. I began to take loestrin 24. I started to feel the same symptoms again, just not as severe. I would feel my heart beat when I would like down in my back and my stomach. My heart rate would reach 90 to 100 sometimes. I know this is not normal. When I visited my gyno yesterday she told me it was impossible that it was a result of the BCP. Maybe it was just anxiety and or perhaps I should get checked out by a cardiologist. That is serious stuff when you are talking to a young person about getting there heart check out. I think if there are any other women out there who are experiencing any similar symptoms should speak up. So these doctors won't keep telling us it is all in our heads and help to take care of this problem.

i have been on warfarin since April 2008 when i had a clot in my left leg. since, i haven`t really had much going on until last week. i was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. i got dizzy and had a very cold wave rush up my body twice. when it was over, i couldn`t hear anything and my temples were tingling and my heart rate was elevated along with my bp. the er drs didn`t seem concerned with any thing that had to do with the dvt or the warfarin. their response???????? you drink too much coffee. WELL. i haven`t had a cup of coffee for almost a week, and have also quit smoking. i am still dizzy. my head feels heavy. i get little cool rushes that almost take my breath away, i don`t feel like ME. i feel like someone has taken over the me i knew. my family doctor has done liver, mono, hepatitis, b12, folic acid profiles, all negative. had a ct scan yesterday, normal. having an echocardiogram next week and having a holter monitor put on for 24 hrs to monitor my heart. i have done nothing but sleep since this episode. my husband is scared to death i`m gonna die during the night, he wakes up just to check on me. i haven`t been sleeping very well, as i`m afraid i`m not gonna wake up. i am only 40. i am not ready to let my life go to pot because of a drug that all the doctors insist is "safe". well i don`t know. call me stupid, but if its so safe, why do they kill rats with it????????????

I have been on Fastin for 6 days now. Have not lost 1 lb. as yet. What it has done is stop my cravings for sweets, which is good. The thing I have noticed though is that twice now at night after eating something around 10pm on, I have thrown up. Very strange. Feel sick to my stomach, which is keeping me from eating.
Now, I've been on Phentermine in the past and lost weight. With Phentermine I also had dry mouth and lots of energy. I feel a little bit of a rush, but not much, and no dry mouth.
Has anyone had this experience of upset stomach?

I have been taking Topamax, 25 mg. for one week. Today was the first day I took 2. My doctor prescribed it for migraines, which I was having several times a month. The past few times I thought I was having a heart attack! I read about the side effects before I began the medicine so I have been waiting on everything to begin. So far the only thing I have noticed is I have a weird sensation in my mouth and sometimes in my throat. The only way I can describe it is if I have been breathing something caustic, such as smog or smoke, or a lot of dust. One thing I am going to try is a mouthwash called Biotene or Biotene. It is for dry mouth. Maybe it will help. Has anyone else experienced this and/or tried Biotene?
I read with interest what everyone has written. I drink soda all day and will be integrating more water because of one of the posts. So far though, my cokes taste the same. Is it only Dr. Pepper that tastes differently? I have also been getting winded easily and thought it was just me. The one side effect I am READY for is the weight loss. I gained 20 pounds in a year after I quit smoking. Anything to help with that is welcome.
So far though I have not had any migraines and I always have one with PMS. No increased anxiety but I have been on Zoloft for several years for depression. Maybe the Zoloft will offset the Topamax in that respect. I can be somewhat scatterbrained at times and as an assistant principal, I have to stay focused all day. Now that it is summer I will be able to relax a bit and it's ok if I am more absent minded than usual. Except that I have to work on a research project. But hey, does anyone really read that stuff??
Thanks everyone for sharing and I will check back in if anything changes. I am curious to see how things will go.

i have been taking vicodin for 2 years and have abused it rather extensively.
1 year ago i started taking somas also. i would take 25- 7.50mg tabs while i was at work throughout a normal day, when i would leave work i would pop 8 vics and 5 350mg somas..........on weekends about 40 vics and 10-15 somas a day.this is the type of abuse that causes constipation. 2 weeks without a bowel movement was not un common. So now the hard part i decided to stop taking these things and so far ive gone 11 days i went thru all of the symptoms you guys have listed and now i have no idea what to do about the diarrhea which will not stop.ive taken over the counter anti diarrhea meds, went to the hospital got an iv, had a test which came back showing my liver was swollen which turned out not to be a big deal because the damage is not to a vital point yet.but anyways the main thing i cant get over is the diarrhea....heres the weird thing if i eat a lot of food i don't poop but if i don't i have diarrhea all day. sorry this is so sloppy and porely punctuated but im in a rush when i figure out what will help me with this problem i post it

Took it out today after being on it for only 2 weeks. Noticed a change in my personality after one day. Have become increasingly withdrawn from friends and family, extreme irritability, complete loss of sex drive, can't sleep, loss of energy, increased appetite, aches in my legs and vagina, headaches, and zits like you wouldn't believe. The worst is the anxiety and depression which led me to this site after doing a search on side effects. I was on the pill for years and had some irritability here and there but nothing like this.
Had a baby 2 months ago and have been freaking out that I was just now getting post partum depression but I believe it is the ring!!! To those who will argue, the ring becomes effective after only 7 days which means that the meds rush into your system almost immediately after insertion.

Thank you all for sharing. I thought I was all alone.

I have chronic sinusitis and last year I came down with a really bad infection. My Ear Throat Nose Specialist was on vacation so I had to see a "Family Medicine" doctor and he gave me ketek. I had to rush to the emergency room and the doctor there took me off the ketek immediately. I had an EXTREME reaction to it, the scariest effect being the pain in my liver and sudden jaundice (which are the beginning signs of acute liver failure.) There have also been lasting effects, the worst of which being on my heart. My heart rate has always been below average, and ever since the reaction my heart rate has been recorded as abnormally fast.

I have been on Synthroid for few months and had to rush to Emergency twice , due to heart palpitation and gained like 10 pounds in 2 weeks and stopped it for 2 months now , my blood test were normal, my heart palpitation went away, I am no more bloated... everything seems to be fine, but I feel warmness in my face and little warm throughout the body with itchy feeling, please help to get rid of warmness and itchy feeling...

After my father's office was flooded by an AC backup at his workplace in June 2006, and as a result mold grew in the carpeting & walls. He got very, very sick & his doctor put him on Prednisone for almost a year. No local doctor nor specialist told us of the dangers of being on a steroid for more than a few weeks. My father kept getting sicker & sicker until one day in March of 2007 we had to rush him to the ER. There his doctor arrived, put MORE prednisone directly into his veins and as my father grew weaker & sicker we knew we had to get him out of there. We took him to Shands in Gainesville and they immediatly began their magic. It took a good week or so to undo the immediate damage that Prednisone had done to my father. It took until this month (October) until his liver & vital organs started working properly again and reached safe levels. In fact, he's still being carefully monitored by his Shands doctor to ensure his body will continue healing itself. His new doctor told me that if we hadn't taken my dad to Shands that day, he would absolutely be dead. Prednisone is a very lethal, dangerous drug if perscribed for more than a few weeks at most! Please, if your doctor wants you to take this steroid any longer than that, go see another doctor immediatly! It will save your life.

I had a PE 2 weeks ago,ended with cloths in both lungs,had injections for first week,now just on warafin 10mg daily.Only yesterday I thought I was going to black out,like a huge rush thru my body,and always feel light headed,like most the doctor said these are not side effects of warafin,but prior to taking warafin I never had dizzy spells.Just like to thank all you people for sharing your thoughts,as I feel now that at 42 I have to live like an 80yr old,and its comforting to know im not the only one.

I took my first dose at 9:30pm and an hour later felt wierd and a little shaky for two hours. The second day I took it at 10pm and by 11, I was shaking, cold tingly hands and feet,dizzy, throat swelling at the base inside out, breathing trouble,chest pain and heart palps, diareah, stomach pain, and my forehead was numb. By 4am I had to wake up my husband to rush me to the ER. I could not walk by myself... felt like I was going to black out. I still felt most of the symptoms only milder for the next few days.

OK I have a weird side effect to ask about. After a few hours of taking this, I noticed a rush of heat starting from my butt and going down my legs. I thought, "What the h#ll?" I have read on here about the hot flashes and I'm going to attribute that to this drug.

Here's the thing that I haven't yet read and was wondering if it has effected anyone else like this.. This sounds funny but is not. My "boodyhole" goes like in and out at will sometimes. You know, and I hate to be graffic, but when you use the restroom and having a bowel movement and you finish; everything kind of goes back in. It's that sensation that of going "in and out".

Anyone? Anyone?

I've been taking synthroid for several years due to radiation caused thyroid damage. I appear to be quite sensitive to Synthroid. I get a total rush from a 77 mcg, but have no such effect when taking a 50 plus a 25. I've been told it is due to the dye in the 77. If my doses are too low (50 mcg), then I feel great for a week or two, but become foggy mentally and after a few weeks have sharp pains in the joints and muscles. At higher doses, I become irritable, have shortness of breath (77 mcg) and have burning sensations in the kidney area.

I find that regular exercise (walking 1-2 miles/day) moderates these effects greatly and stabilizes the emotional swings. The amount of medication that I need to balance between these two extremes varies depending on the amount of exercise I get.

well I read alot of the coments and I'm having a lot of the same side affects with the thigh numbness and tingleing and also burning I had to be rush to hospital due to the burning that I could'nt get it to stop.

My significant other took Doxycylene, 100 mg, twice a day for two weeks to treat a swollen lymph node under his arm. During the treatment he experienced nausea, stomach pain, rash and cold sweats, nothing too bad. 3 days after the last dose everything got significantly worse. It started with sever chest pain, so bad we went to the emergency room thinking it was a heart attack or blood clot. They found nothing and discharged him. Over the next 3 weeks he started vomitting, diahrea and developed jaundice. Constant queeziness and chest pain. After numerous tests, ultra sounds, MRCP, the doctor has ruled out various hepatitas's and every other disease he could think of. He's also rulled out any kind of bile duct blockage after the MRCP. Its now been 7 weeks since all this started, my friend has dropped 40 lb's (190 down to 152) and still dropping. Our doctor (gastro interologist) has admitted he's stumped and is currently contacting a professor in Miami as a last hope. The only thing our doctor keeps comming back to is the Doxycyclene and that my friend may have had that one rare acute reaction. We're frazzled and don't know what to do next.

The first night I took Sulfameth, I took it before bed without eating something first. BIG MISTAKE! I woke up at 1am throwing up and didn't stop for over an hour! it was so bad my mother had to rush me to the E.R. by the time I got there I was throwing up blood and pieces of my esophogus because it was so raw from throwing up so much! They put in an IV and i went through 2 bags of liquid and was still so dehidrated it was after 5:30 am before i was able to give them a urine sample! NOWHERE on the bottle or the paper given to me did it say to take with food!

Been going to doctors for extreme muscle weakness and pain, but no diagnosis was made. Some days I can barely function. Two weeks ago I was so weak I could not get out of bed (very abnormal for me) and when I tried to call the doctor, I began to vomit violently and they called an ambulance to rush me to the hospital. Tests there did not show anything significant, so I was sent home with antibiotics for a "slight bladder infection". I hurt worse than with the worst kind of flu, but no sign of fever. Off and on during the past weeks the pain gets so bad I can barely function. I decided to investigate side affects to various meds I am taking and have now found all these warnings for Lipitor, which I have been taking for about a year. The blood tests were all fine, but I suppose those are to determine kidney damage. Can I stop taking this immediately?!?? I cannot bear these symptoms another day......

In the evenings, my legs become exceedingly heavy feeling as I try to walk around the house or whatever. Also, I feel a hyperactive presence although my pulse and heartbeat don't necessarily rise. I also experience some angina. I am mainly concerned with the heaviness in my hamstrings and the body rush.
I am also on plavix, ace inhibitors (metoprolol), beta blockers (enalapril) and prevacid.
I had a heart attack July 5 and have been on this medication since then.
Thank you for a response.
jerry tuckwin