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I was hospitalized about four months ago for a total of three day...

Posted at 9:11 PM on Aug 21, 2008 by mamacali, #33688
I was hospitalized about four months ago for a total of three days due to a massive kidney infection, during three days in the hospital I was pumped full of Levaquin. I began suffering what the doctor believed was a migraine on the second day, let me tell you it was far worse than any other migraine I had ever had. So not only did they send me home with a prescription for Levaquin they sent me home with a migraine prescription. I took Levaquin for a week after my departure from the hospital, I am young and very naive when it comes to doctors and hospitals and I had faith in my doctor that the medicine they prescribed me was good for me. After suffering from a migraine for almost two straight weeks I began to suffer from blind spots in my eyes, and a kind of slowing down effect. I would get up and it would cause my head to feel like it take my mind and my eyes a couple minutes to catch up to my body, vertigo. Well I returned to the hospital and was told I was suffering a migraine, once again, no migraine I had ever had caused blind spots. They referred me to a neurological ophthalmologist who took the time to look at my eyes, and diagnosed me with Pseudotumor Cerebri. He told me that the medicine had caused pressure to build up in my head and caused hemorrhaging in the back of my eyes, hence the blind spots. I have a scheduled MRI to validate the doctors concerns, but the treatment he is telling me may reverse the affects is a long term treatment, and has a possibility of not being successful. So for a medicine I was given to treat one thing I acquire something far worse and all for trusting a doctor to have my interests in mind
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Reply about 1 year ago on Sep 05, 2008 by pattyk, #12010

I too suffered from the migraines. My insistance at the ER that it started after taking Levaquin was dismissed. I was in the hospital and started to feel better- all tests were negative- so they gave me another dose of Levaquin and the pain and symptoms started all over again! It took me 4 days and multiple tests to show the hospital that it was a reaction to the medicine. You sound like a lawsuit case- I bet the lawyers will be calling you soon! Good Luck!

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Reply about 1 year ago on Sep 26, 2008 by mark300, #12796

My mother in was pumped with Levaquin also for infection in the hospital. She suffered from the same side affects as you. She felt severe pain in one side of her head way worse than a migraine. They gave her neurontin medication to control the nerve damage and Vicodin for pain. The pain imediatly returns when the vicodin wears off. Have u been successful in treating yur symtoms? Did your neurologist connect your symptoms with the Levaquin drug? Cause are doctors are stayin quiet and not talkin! Please get back to me a.s.a.p. Im also talkin to attorneys about this!

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