Sudden movements symptoms and conditions

i so happy to have found this forum. i'm 47 was given 25mg of Toprol XL by doc for high blood pressure approx 9 weeks ago. also have history of panic attacks and rapid pulse rate and have been under alot of stress. first week on med, found my B.P. dropping too low 90's/50's, feeling dizzy and extremely tired in the middle of the day. called doc and was instructed to keep taking it, i'll get used to it, and don't make sudden movements!!! i didn't take his advice and cut pill in 1/2 to 12.5mg. then got extreme muscle and joint aches (a feeling very much like lyme disease) this was accompanied with profuse sweating upon minimal exertion and just no energy and shortness of breath even during an easy moderate walk. i think my heart beat has become more irregular. 2nd month into this low dose noticed chest pains so i tried the pill every other day. this weekend got the scare of a lifetime, however, got out of bed and entire left side (arm leg and foot) were numb. i had a major panic attack. this stuff is poison. i haven't taken a pill since. i'm going to find a different doctor this week (a D.O./MD) and hopefully devise a hollistic approach before i try another drug. ps also weight gain, but that's seems to be the least of the bad side effects.

I was prescribed a month course of Levaquin for a sinus infection I had for 2 months that did not go away after 3 courses of 3 different antibiotics. Within 1/2 hour of taking the drug, I experienced severe hives along my jawline. I should have stopped taking it right away, but the hives went away, so I continued.
That night, I had terrible insomnia and anxiety attacks. I felt like I wanted to jump off the roof or drive my car into a tree.
The following few nights I slept a bit better because I took the pill in the morning, but my dreams were vivd and strange.
I experienced some nausea, but thought nothing of it. My second week on the drug, I started to get a severe pain in my lower back, then between my shoulder blades. As the week went on, into my third week, my body flet as though I had been hit by a truck, and that it was riddled with arthritis from head to toe. I had previously suffered from planar facititis which was now again in full force, my ankles burned with pain, shooting pain in my knees, calves and lower thigh in extreme pain with hot burning - itching on my chest and when I developed severe neck pain and headache, I called my doctor. I had found this site and realized it could be the drug. It was the only explanation. PS my sius problem was worse than ever!!
My doctor told me to immediately stop taking the drug and not to exercise, stretch, lift or make any sudden movements to protect my tendons.

I was livid. He prescribed Augmentin, and I don't know why he didn't in the first place. NO ONE TOLD ME how serious the potential side effects of this drug are. I can't tell you how much work and how much of my life I have missed being in so much pain. I cannot sleep at night with the pain.

What is worse is that no one knows or can imagine what I am going through and therefore are not sympathetic, nor do they allow me to rest. They expect me to be my old self which is currently impossible.

I have been off the drug a few days, but I do feel the symptoms subsiding a BIT. Not a lot, but some. I hope it won't take too long to get back to normal.

God bless us all in the hands of these doctors and drug companies.

What is worse is that my husband works in the Pharma industry and looked up the drug in his drug reference. Even there, it makes only a brief passing mention about tendon ruptures with this drug. Something has got to change.

My advice? Don't even risk taking it. Maybe you will be free of side effects and it will work beautifull for you. But try everything else first, and no matter what you take, read boards like this and become educated before youtake anything. It is oUR responsibility - since we cannot rely on doctors or the drug companies to come clean.

Pray for me...

I forgot to add that by Day 13 I was incredibly weak and in so much pain that I could barely walk which was why I was in tears.

I also remember that the research at that time indicated that you were susceptible to tendon rupture up to 6 months AFTER taking the drug and to be careful not to do any sudden movements, etc.

Susan