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I WAS a very healty 45 year old. I walked/ran 3.5 miles a day and...

Posted at 8:18 AM on Sep 17, 2007 by getitright, #23669
I WAS a very healty 45 year old. I walked/ran 3.5 miles a day and did weight training 3 x a week. Ate healthy. No medicines at all, never sick. Had a mild sinus infection and hot flashes followed by freezing that we thought might be from the sinus infection. Dr. gave me Levaquin. Within a couple of days, I felt like both of my hamstrings were pulled and could barely walk. Bear in mind, that I had not been excercizing due to work circumstances. I had a shaky feeling inside that you could sort of see in my fingers. Anxiety. Depression. Mild nausea. Fatigue. A month later, still having the hot flashes and freezing and worse than ever (seems like constant), doctor thought the sinus infection hadn't cleared up so he prescribed cipro - 15 days 500 mg along with a steroid. Everything got even worse. Rash on my hand/arm the first or second day that I blew off as from an ant bite. Nightmares the first 3 nights. Hot flashes often accompanied by racing heartbeat, sometimes slight chest pain if the hot flashes came one right after the other. As I write this I am dripping in sweat. Headache. Also, all my joints started, and continue to hurt. Knees, ankles, even fingers and toes. I've never had arthritis, but I imagine this is what it would feel like if you had it in your entire body. Also, I feel STARVING right AFTER I eat. A relative emailed me a scanned copy of her pharmacy's warnings for levaquin and it mentions hypoglycemia and lists many of these symptoms. (not the muscle ones) My dr. is attributing most of it to 'anxiety' but I didn't have the anxiety until after the meds and the symptoms. He did a host of bloodwork to rule out infection, lupus, hormone problems, thyroid, etc and they all came back normal.
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Reply about 1 year ago on Sep 18, 2007 by sereney, #1887

I've found many people on this website complaining of similar symptoms from fluoroquinolone antibiotics. You received TWO cycles! When I was researching my own problems I came across this website, I strongly urge you to check it out!
www.fluoroquinolones.org
Good luck and sorry for your troubles.

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