Uh, I have read a number of postings where people are PROUD they ...

Are you for real? While I can understand what you are TRYING to say, this posting lacks any degree of understanding of the problem. Obviously you have not experienced what some of these people (myself included) have experienced.

Just out of curiosity, if someone starts taking a medication and it is determined they are going into anaphylactic shock, should they continue?

Also, your own posting references "last-line of defense..." and there lies the problem. The FDA is approving things based on political motivations rather than objective criteria, drug companies are legalized pushers looking to make a buck, and doctors are overzealous and overworked so they are handing it out like candy. Last-line?? Not quite.

Bottom line, this stuff is poison to some people and not only should they stop, they never should have started on it. Read "Bitter Pills", read the web, talk to "good" doctors, but get some information before running off at the mouth.

Am I reading this post correctly? a DISSERVICE to humanity???

I don't who you are, but the next time you get sick, feel free to grab you a handful of Levaquin tablets.

Do you have any idea how miserable it is to go 5 days and nights without a single bit of sleep?

How about having continuous nausea for months on end...anything you try to eat tastes like ground up cardboard and makes you violently ill.

Am I proud that I stopped taking levaquin? Yes...no one should take this poison!!!