I am a healthy female with little to no history of adverse reacti...

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I am a 40 year old woman with a grade 2 astrocytoma glyoma that cannot be removed due to it's location in the brain; which basically means a low grade malignant brain tumor that can not be removed due to its' location. Not only am I taking high doses of steroids, but was receiving radiation/chemotherapy and now just chemotherapy. I was given Levequin 500mg for a sinus infection and found that by the morning of the second day was involuntarily pushing my feet as hard as I could into the floor while sitting down. That evening, as my husband witnessed, I stretched and flexed involuntarily my legs and especially my ankles/feet all night long and experienced a great deal of anxiety never experienced before. I woke unable to walk. Any bearing of weight or movement was impossible and my ankles were swollen with hard knots at the bottom of my heals. Immediately I stopped the levequin. However, to this day, some four weeks later; I wake every morning unable to bear weight without extensive stretching and find my self involuntarily stretching and flexing my legs and feet at various times of the day. Understanding that I have this tumor and where it is located, obviously could intensify this particular side effect. However, I do have a very close friend who just recently told me that her sister was also given levequin for a sinus infection and within three days all of the tendons around her ankles had ruptured. Obviously, this is a very serious side effect and must be given every consideration that levequin and all of the drugs used in its family be called off of the market!