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I took Levaquin for a sinus infection March 26th... 5 doses of 75...

Posted at 10:13 PM on May 10, 2009 by uneasyone, #41369
I took Levaquin for a sinus infection March 26th... 5 doses of 750 mg. I felt slightly better initially but that lasted only a day. I think it was prescribed wrongly, I had a virus and was getting over it... not a bacterial infection. The problems started about a week after the 5 day course ended. I ended up in the ER feeling like I was going to die, some strangeness in my breathing and feeling as if I was having a stroke... like I was going to pass out. They found nothing wrong except an elevated blood pressure and did a d-dimer to see if it could be an embolism (at my insistence, I had no idea this could be from levaquin and thought I was having a stroke. After the ER visit, I just felt like I had the flu, but I didn't... weak, extremely tired with some muscle aches ... two weeks out I had a lot of pain in both legs, like charlie horses that didn't go away... that lasted several days to a week... the weird depersonalization and the anxiety has been intense throughout. Constipation (never ever had it before this drug) started about a month out from taking it. I still feel pain in my legs from time to time and a feeling like there is a tight band across the top of my left foot... like when you tie your shoe too tight and need to loosen the shoe strings, but I am not wearing shoes.
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Reply 6 months ago on May 12, 2009 by nottsfloxed, #19745

You have been poisoned by a quinolone antibiotic; there are literally thousands that have been damaged by these drugs. Just not everyone has made the connection to the serious adverse reactions. For the most part these reactions occur weeks, months or even years after the antibiotic treatment.
The drugs are
Levaquin (levafloxacin)
Cipro (ciprofloxacin)
Floxin (offoxacin)
Avelox (Moxifloxacin)

If you have not already file a med watch report to the FDA

Log on to these sites for more information and help.

www.favc.info

www.fluoroquinolones.org

www.fqresearch.org

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

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjpNGWgIylc&feature=fvsr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpDkN_KJmdA

Hope you have a swift healing process and above all never take another quinolone antibiotic.

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Reply 6 months ago on May 12, 2009 by nottsfloxed, #19746

You have been poisoned by a quinolone antibiotic; there are literally thousands that have been damaged by these drugs. Just not everyone has made the connection to the serious adverse reactions. For the most part these reactions occur weeks, months or even years after the antibiotic treatment.
The drugs are
Levaquin (levafloxacin)
Cipro (ciprofloxacin)
Floxin (offoxacin)
Avelox (Moxifloxacin)

If you have not already file a med watch report to the FDA

Log on to these sites for more information and help.

www.favc.info

www.fluoroquinolones.org

www.fqresearch.org

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

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjpNGWgIylc&feature=fvsr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpDkN_KJmdA

Hope you have a swift healing process and above all never take another quinolone antibiotic.

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