Levaquin and psychiatrist

Well, I this isn't a new side effect by what I've been reading here. But it does convince me that the severe pain I've been in since I started Levaquin is a result of the side effects associated with it.

What doesn't help is that I have Bipolar Disorder and any pain medication I've tried has caused Depression. I've been to the emergency room two times in one week because I would be trying to work and would feel completely drugged and out of it.

My psychiatrist is now taking me out of work for a week to try and get my system back on track.

May 26th? You got it.

And soon we should also address the unprecedented actions of more and more MD's twho are too often immediately suggesting depression as an answer for anything they can't diagnose. As if to say their failure to find anything can't be due to their lack of experience or training or talent...and that it just must be that the patient is making this all up and or exaggerating his or her symptoms simply because he or she is depressed.

I am hearing from so many people now that I have been through a traumatic experience like this that are saying and sharing their own doctor stories and hearing the same thing more and more from their doctors...that their doctors are mentioning "depression" so often about almost every unexplained symptom and almost pushing them into seeking psychiatric care and getting them onto anti-depressants.

I had never seen a psychiatrist in my 54 year old life until this Levaquin nightmare. I had never had a problem with drugs or alcohol, never been arrested, married once for 24 years now, two kids in college...but suddenly I am a loon who will not accept that I am so depressed that this is causing all these unprecedented symroms like body pain, and all the rest?

This "depression" excuse and diverting by doctors is becoming so common now that it is almost an epidemic.