I am sorry to hear of the trouble and pain that you all are havin...

I have all respect for every person I have the privilege of meeting and knowing. Much more individuals who have gone through a great deal of educating themselves in their chosen profession, pharmacists included. Just 4 days ago, I dropped a prescription for Levaquin at a local pharmacy. Since I can't understand doctor's prescription much more read their handwritings, I leave this all to the pharmacists and entrust them with the task of interpreting it and writing them down in the bottle as simple and easy for people like me.

Please tell me how a simple person as I am would understand: "Take one table every day by mouth after meals". Is it one table every day only ? but what about "after meals". Is it one tablet everyday after meals? When in doubt, don't, is my motto. So, before I popped the first pill, I made sure to be clarified by calling the pharmacist. NO emphasis on how to take it but indeed if it says "after meals", that should be the case. After all, they were just following doctor's instructions as written.

Lo and behold. After 3 1/2 days, I need a refill cuz the 10 pills given to me are almost gone. I was given this look by the pharmacist wondering how that could have happened since it's should be taken once a day only. DUH? I was overdosing myself by 1000 mg / day!!!. They seem to forget that some people, me included, take 3 meals a day. They promised to change the bottle lable to "after A meal"..Sure, that would help a lot to future patients. Just pray hard nothing worst has happened to anyone due to "typing" negligence.

NO wonder I got more sicker than I was the day I dropped the prescription. This time I had to struggle with tons of different feelings from arrythmia, disorientation, insomnia (try sleeping at 5:30 a.m. everyday for 3 days), etc.

I hope I will be lucky and not develop any problems from hereon. I just wished that that pharmacist just didnt brush me aside and paid attention to my concerns. Maybe I was asking too much from medical professionals. After all, they are like all of us. They too deal with stuff like anyone does and sometimes bring it to their place of work.