Levaquin and 18 years

My daughter took levoquin for 5 days because of a bad ear infection. it caused her to not be able to sleep. She went off of it and started sleeping again, but is having bouts of sleeplessness. Help. How long does it take for this to get out of your system? She is having sleeplessness again and it has been 5 weeks.

My 16 year old son took Levaquin 6 months ago and had a bad reaction to it. His symptoms were severe muscle weakness (he would get exhausted walking from the parking lot to a store and back, severe joint pain (in thumbs, wrists, elbows, knees, and ankles), dizziness (he felt like the room was moving away from him and would lose balance), and headaches (a severe pressure in the back of his head that was constant and then shooting pains in his his head that would come and go for no reason). I should say he was in top shape before this and wrestling in the 125 pound category. He took Levaquin to prevent an infection after sinus surgery.

Now 6 months later, his joint pain is completely gone except for his knees. They still hurt when he does squats and they are not good enough for him to go back to wrestling, but he can walk around pain free. His dizziness is also gone as well as his muscle weakness. His headaches are still there and still constant, but not as bad as they once were; however, he has had them 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for 6 months. He is on Lyrica which has helped make the headaches subside.

I have taken him to more than 16 medical doctors of all specialties, had multiple MRIs, CT Scans, blood tests, spinal tap, and an MRA. All come back negative. Thankfully, despite all of this, he still remains happy and positive that he will once again be 100% healthy; it will take lots of time, but he will get better. I know the first three symptoms (joint pain, dizziness, weakness) are clearly Levaquin related, but I haven't heard much about the headaches from people. Anyone else out there that has suffered from a constant headache after Levaquin? I REALLY want to hear about headaches from others!!!!

By the way, we have filed a medwatch already. I also know that Levaquin is not approved for anyone under 18 years old and he never needed such a powerful drug to prevent an infection, but there is nothing I can do about that now except to warn others. One of his UCLA doctors wants to write a case study on him to make this more known to others and I am helping him with that.

If anyone has questions, please feel free to ask. If you have had a headache from Levaquin, please let me know where in the head the pain was, if it is constant, what it feels like (pressure, shooting, throbbing), how long you have had it, and what, if anything, helped. THANKS.

I started taking Levaquin for 14 days for a culture they did of my nose which indicated a bacteria. After taking for eight days, I began shuffling my feet and could hardly walk. At work I walked very slow, which is not normal for me and I could not bend down. My kees and ankles hurt so bad I could hardly stand it. I asked the nurse about it when I went in for my allergy shot, as I thought it was the shot. She said no it was not the shot but the antiobiotic. I ignored the fact as I had never heard of that happening and the side effects weren't listed from the pharmacy receipt. I took Ascription and Ultram at the same time it hurt so bad.
I still have infection and called the Dr's office again and they gave me the same thing. When I went to pick it up, I asked to talk to the pharmacist and told him about the side effects I experience and he said they don't give the medication to anyone under 18 years of age because of tendon and ligament damage. He told me to take it easy while I am on it. I've decided I'm not taking it. I'll have to risk my infection.