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

Posted at 4:58 PM on Feb 16, 2007 by jb7th, #19872
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.
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