I had bacterial pneumonia a few weeks ago they gave me Levaquin a...

Those of you who are suffering these horrendous side effects as invited to join the fqresearch forum hosted by Yahoo that deals with this. You will find others who have suffered these same COMMON reactions to this class who may offer some support and ways of dealling with this; Here is the address:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/fqtoxicity/

Hopefully you will find something of value there.

regards

David T. Fuller
Director
Fluoroquinolone Toxicity Research Foundation
www.fqresearch.org

Maria, please send in a Medwatch report to www.fda.gov and then go to www.fqvictims.org and you'll find a lot of help there. Helen

Have any of your doctors looked for blood clot or anureysim?

Sorry to say this but time seems to be the only healer here. I took this stuff in the form of Cipro many times off and on, the got a major kidney infection and was blasted with Levaquin by I.V. and then orally. I was never the same. My fingers don"t move the way they used to and after 8 months am finally walking downstairs like a normal person. The pain in my joints was unbeivable and not even on exertion, just lying in bed at night my knees would throb. My dr. said it was "sudden onset arthritis". Imagine, now it is almost gone but the side effects still linger. It will be better later so hang in there!!!!Marsh