Update on my post of Aug. 11th. I did see a neurologist who was ...

I to have pain in my feet, hands shoulders and calves. I experienced the first set of pain when I stepped out of bed on Aug 12 2006. I have now looked back on my anitibiotic ingestion and have relized that I would get these joint pains after each bacterial and or virus infection and that the dr. would either give me Levaquin or factive. I too have been to a Rheumatologist for the past year in a half and have had every test under the sun. The symtoms would go away after about a month after I took the factive but when I took the Levaquin in March 08 they have stayed for good. I see my Dr. Wed. and will tell her what I suspect but I feel like everyone else on this site that I just found today they don't like to believe in things that they don't understand.. I to hope that as before the pain in my shoulders, feet and hands will disapear if only for a month like before, but i have my dobts since it has lasted so long. I am affraid that the damage is permanent.

I took Levaquin in December and I am happy to report that finally my neuropathy is better. My muscles and joints are also so much better than they were for the first 5 months, but not totally healed. All of the symptoms I had been having are much much better after 8 months, but now I have new problems. I have to have gall bladder surgery. I just know that this is also a result of the Levaquin. I also have started having high blood sugar and have to have a glucose tolerance test to see if I have diabetes, which I also blame on the Levaquin. This drug messes with your system..all your organs. It's been a living hell that I hope ends soon. No doctor has admitted that my problems are from the levaquin. I will never ever take this or any other fluoroquinolone again even if I'm on my deathbed. I hope you feel better soon.

I wish I could say something good. I was reading along and hoping to hear something good myself. My mother is the one suffering and I'm so worried since her joint pain and and muscle weakness has not subsided for months now. But reading your last reply gives me a little hope, i hope for you too.