Until I read some of these stories, I didn't know it might be the Levaquin tearing my whole body to pieces. I have been on 750mg. once daily for 2 weeks now for a severe sinus infection. I have 9 more days of it, but I'm calling my doctor in the am. I've had diarrhea for 2 weeks, and increasing muscle and bone pain that started in my lower back, now down through my legs, hands and fingers swollen and going to sleep all the time, tho this seems to have stopped...not the pain in every joint in my body is excrutiating. I really can't walk anymore, can't pick up my legs, have tremors in my hands, fingers, unbelievable pain in every bone in my body! I also have an active infection in my gall bladder and now a gall baldder attack. My gall bladder has to be removed asap. My potassium dropped to critical, 2.4 and my Internal Medicine Dr. can't seem to get it back up. I take blood tests every day to check my potassium level.
My sinus specialist prescribed this med for me. My hips and legs keep locking up and I'm afraid of what's happening to me. I have to have surgery now, and my body won't function. I will talk to both doctors tomorrow...and to my cardiologist. This medicine shouldn't be on the market. I hope there's a lawsuit...My neice went into kidney failure from Levaquin a few years ago. I didn't have any idea it was the meds until I found this site.
Is this reversible or permanent?