I was prescribed Avelox along with Prednisone by my allergy docto...

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/medwatch/medwatch-online.htm

On the right side it says begin. File your report to the FDA then they will know something isn't right with this stuff. PLEASE!

Here is Bayer- the makers- contact information. If we email them too they can't claim they didn't know..... They need to be responsible.

http://www.avelox.com/scripts/pages/en/home/contactus.php

Interesting response, however, saying that it should not be approved based on one persons negative side effects may be quite rash. I had a very different experience...I had trouble with my lungs, which I have asthma and get chronic lung infections such as bronchitis and pneumonia and won't heal due to the extensive asthma response I get, I was in the hospital a few of years ago and almost died, I couldn't find anything to make me better (Avelox was not prescribed at that time) I ended up having a lung issue like this again and was prescribed Avelox this time, and thank goodness he did, because not only did it clear the lungs immediately, it also cleared up a serious chronic urinary tract infection, I had been treating for months with no ability to get any antibiotic to clear it up for more than a very short time, AND I had also just discovered that I probably had a dental infection that had also been active for several months (I thought it was a broken root after a root canal and tooth removal, but it ended up being diagnosed as a chronic infection as well... now my pulmonary doctor decided to give me the Avelox to treat the lungs, and lo and behold, my lungs and both other infections cleared up within a few days...NEVER to return!!! AND I had NO side-effects whatsoever...and I am the queen of side-effects, I have NUMEROUS side effects with almost every medicine I take, so I am a HUGE believer and I recommend it when I see someone fighting similar issues, I just told a friend fighting a chronic serious dental abscess, to ask the dentist to prescribe it for him when the penicillin failed and he was so sick from it he was unable to take it anymore. I guess like any drug, the experience varies based on the individual, which is why it is necessary to have so many different kinds to compensate for different physiology. It is also important to expand many of these type of antibiotics that are not resistant yet and are not causing the problems like MRSA. These drugs will save many people because of this factor alone, even though it didn't work for this previous individual, it is still worth having, I will definitely use it again, I am very grateful to have found something so effective especially with my having become very resistant to all other antibiotics and having so many serious and reoccurring long-term health issues. Now I have to have two very extreme surgeries and was very afraid of how I would deal with the possible problems with asthma and bronchitis and urinary tract infections plus the possible post surgical infections, now I feel like there are alternatives that I can turn to, being I am no longer having any response for all the usual alternatives, this will be the answer to deal with whatever may come up. Hope other people have good experiences too, I would hate to see it removed from the market.