Levaquin and sick to my stomach

I was given Levaquin for a severe kidney infection. I haven't slept since taking it. I feel anxious, sick to my stomach, my lower back is hurting, blurred vision, sweat all the time and short of breath. I had trouble cleaning my bathtub on Sunday. I am not taking anymore of this now or ever again. It's not worth feeling this way.

I was just put on Levaquin today, for a very bad urinary tract infection.
My doctor prescribed a 5 day treatment, i was suffering terribly.
Let me say, that after just taking the first one, how much better i
feel. Yes, i had some naucousness(however you spell it) but let me
tell you, compared to how i was feeling, which was horrible, in pain
frequent urination, burning, like a knife going through my urethra.
Feeling a bit sick to my stomach from this medication, was well
worth it, compared to how i was feeling....this drug has helped me
and i only took 1 so far, i was on this antibiotic before, and it
also helped me...When we take any type of medication, none
will be without some kind of side effect, to me, the side effect
is worth it, knowing im going to be better from the horrible
suffering. Its only a 5 day treatment, its not like you have to
take it for 1 mth...im a trooper and hang in there, nothing can
be worse than a serious urinary infection, i couldnt take it
anymore...this pill so far as helped me tremendously, maybe
you all should just hang in there for 5 days, and give it a
chance, just my opinion...! Good Luck to All!

I decided to stop taking the drug when I became so sick to my stomach, I went to bed and slept 24 hours to escape the discomfort. The side effects did not begin until the end of the 3rd day. Really potent stuff.

I started a 5 day dose of 500 mg (UTI) last week right before I flew to Chicago for a weekend vacation. Before my flight I was a NERVOUS wreck! I hadn't flown in a while and couldn't believe the anxiety I was feeling. While there, on my 3rd day of levaquin, I went horse-back riding for about an hour, no biggie. The next day, I tried to go on a walk, and had to lay down right in the middle of the woods because my thighs were so sore and my hands were trembling. I had terrible fear of getting back on the plane sunday night, and wanted to write out a will! I was crying my eyes out. Not normal for me. When I got home, I awoke at 3 am extrememly sick to my stomach. I have now been off for 2 days, and the hot sweats and leg pain made me think I had something very wrong. I'm 37 female, healthy.

I am on day 8 of taking Levaquin. I had to leave work early today because I was severely sick to my stomach and could barely function. My arms feel so heavy and my chest hurts. My blood pressure was 140/100 and my pulse was 94. I am 33 years old and this should not be happening to me. I also take Wellbutrin, Lamictal, and Adderall! My PCP knows this and never warned me of any thing. Yes, I read the Walgreens printouts and nothing much there. I called my behavioral health doc and after 6 1/2 hrs of waiting (guess my health is not too important to her) her nurse calls back and tells to wait it out and if it continues after I am done with the antibotics call her! What for? She not once asked what it was or how much I am taking. She was useless. I am stopping the Levaquin now. I feel so horrible. I have already cried and laid down in the fetal position, but nothing helps! If we can't trust our doctors, who can we trust?

I have been on levaquin for three days 750 mg i feel horrible i cannot sleep i wake up soak and wet and then have chills my body aches and i feel as though i cant keep still. i have a constant headache, what i thought was going to make me feel better from a severe sinus infection has left me feeling like im gonna die. it is scarey that they allow this to stay on the market. iam not by any means taking the rest and feel like not only flushing the rest but burning it. oh yeah iam sick to my stomach and then when i do eat i have pain and nausea again. i hope it doesnt take to long to get out of my system this stuff is straight up evil. i will tell anyone who will listen NOT TO TAKE THIS MEDICINE. BEST TO ALL.

I went to the doctor Friday night worried that I had pink eye. He says "No, your eyes are fine, nothing wrong there, but your cough sounds awful." so he listens to my lungs and says I have bronchitis. Yeah, I had a sinus infection a couple of weeks ago and the cough never went away. So I say, ok, what can you do? I have no insurance, the place I currently work at is cheap. He brings me 5 sample packets of Levaquin, 750 mg. Says to me "These are really good. Take one a day for the next five days. They should do the job, they are $25 a pill." I think, wow, that's some expensive medicine.
ANyway, I come home and take a pill around 8. I have a second job that I work on evenings and weekends, so I have to get up in the morning to go. I can't sleep like usual. I wake up every hour or two. First I am sweating, I get up and turn the heat down. Second time I wake up with tears running down my face, I'd been having a nightmare about one of the kids I watch dying od SIDS (How twisted is that?) Then I just keep waking up.... I go to work yesterday morning and after about 2 hours I start to get real light-headed and nauseous and my ears were burning like someone had embarrassed me to the extreme. I came home after being at work 4 hours. I felt sick to my stomach all day but thought it was because I hadn't eaten. WHen I finally ate, I couldn't stop eating. Then I did, and 2 hours later I was feeling sick again.
Not thinking anything about it being the drug, I took another one last night at 6:30. When I finally went to bed at midnight, the nightmares started all over again. I wake up crying, my body wracked with sobs, tears rolling down my face.
I don't want to keep taking this medicine if it is causing all of this but I don't have the money to go back to the doctor for something else, and I can't afford to still have bronchitis. What am I to do?

I had BAD sharp leg pains and COULD Not sleep sick to my stomach w/ Diarrhea I felt like I was NUTS!!
I finally for some reason looked on Computer for Feed back and WAS amazed!!!
I WILL NEVER take this medicine again and only took it for 4 days!

Was out riding my horse and was thrown off and broke my front tooth, and it became infected, so my sister gave me some Levaquin. I taken it before for the same tooth but this time it was worst, pains in both knees, sick to my stomach, diarrhea, sore joints, and my heart rate was skipping and very fast at times. I had these systems before but never connected it with Levaquin before. But now looking back, every time I had these systems I was on Levaquin. I will never take this drug again!

I am a 45 year old female in generally good health. I took Levaquin for 15 days for chronic sinus infection. I was also prescribed prednisone. I felt sick to my stomach, hertburn, bad taste in my mouth, flu like symtoms, headach, leg pain, pain in general from my hip to my toes, foot pain, hand pain, wrist pain, malaise, knee pain. The first 10 days I felt mostly flu like symptoms but when I begain the second five days I immediately felt the muscle and joint pain to the point of not being able to sleep. Levaguin was prescribe for 45 days but after laying awake most of the night trying to figure out why my legs hurt so bad it finally hit me that I had read in the possible side effects that levaquin could cause pain. As painful as it is the flu like symptoms may be more troublesome because all I wanted to do was sleep...but I couldn't and when I did I would have very strange life like dreams....I could not do anything I almost felt like I had a major hangover times 100...When i would move my head it felt like there was a stribe light on in the room and I felt trembling sesations in my head. Do I need to be checked out some way like blood test or something to be sure there is no permenant damage?

I was prescribed levaquin for a sinus infection. I have experience acid stomach, sweats(no fever), sleeplessness, but I'm exhausted and way too much energy at the same time. Today I've been so sick to my stomach so I thought I'd look up the side effects and here I am...stopping this med!!!!

I am taking levaquin for a sinus infection. I have dizziness and a sort of motion sickness when I walk where everything "sways". My sinus problem is no better after almost a week of meds and I am sick to my stomach now most days.

I was perscribed levaquin when I started experiencing yet another sinus infection. I also had an extremely sore throat and my ear hurt really bad. I know it was all do to the sinus infection. I took the medication for about 2 to 3 days and then I started feeling sick to my stomach, my stomach would hurt so bad I could not operate. I had an emotional break down, anxiety, depression, light head, extremely dizzy, I sweat so much that I was sweating the antibiotic (very stinky), and I had the worst headache of my entire life.

I went back to the doctor and she suggested I go to the hospital and get a spinal tap. I said I don't think so. So she gave me a shot for a migraine. I slept and slept, but my headache did subside substantially. I was sick for 1 whole week. I have never been that sick in my entire life.

My doctor told me that she was never perscribing that medicine to me again. I don't know if it was a side effect or an allergic reaction, but I didn't like it at all.

I had a UTI last week and was prescribed Levaquin - a two day dosage. I was sick to my stomach with cramps and nausea, and as the day progressed, I found myself reaching out to the walls, to chairs, to anything that would keep me upright. All day I felt as though the room were spinning and that any moment, I was going to fall off the world. Thinking perhaps I had an inner ear infection, I went ahead and took the second day's dose of Levaquin. Again the same symptoms, but I added hot flashes in the night and poor sleep. The pharmacist did not mention the side-effects, and I was stunned to find this site online when I went looking for answers to my questions about this drug.

I TOOK LEVAQUIN LAST NIGHT AT 600 BY 630
IWAS TAKING TO THE ER I PASS OUT 3TIMES SWELLEN FACE
COULD NOT BREATH BIG RED WELTS ALL OVER MY BODY NOW TODAY
MY FACE IS RED RUNNING FEVER MUSCULES HURT BACK HURTS IM STILL SICK TO MY STOMACH HAVE APPOINTMENT TO SEE MY DOCTOR
TOMORROW I TOOK THIS LEVAQUIN ONLY ONE TIME WILL UPDATE
THANK YOU JOANNA BROWN