Levaquin Question

Hi:
I have to take a high dose of levaquin for a foot infection. I read on another board how horrible of a drug it is. I had to take it once before. I did not feel great on it but there were no lasting effects. Does anybody have any opinion on it? I have to choice but to take it for this problem that I have. I know it can cause tendon tears, but does anyone else think this is a nightmare drug?

I was given Levaquin as a prophalactic after surgery, had

a hell of a bad response and would not touch the stuff ever again, under any circumstance. You can google "floxed" and you will surely find some more info on adverse reactions. Apparently floroquinolone's toxicity is cumulative, so you may be fine till a threshhold is reached in which case you will then have an adverse reaction. It causes far more problems than tendon issues. The following links document many cases of severe long term adverse reactions.

http://www.topix.com/forum/drug/levaquin/TONDJE7VOA3H95IMO/p18#lastPost

https://www.facebook.com/groups/191063714251094/

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Fluoroquinolone-Wall-of-Pain/209182505773463?ref=hl

 

summer16 said...
Hi tonesg,

Summer16,  

Sounds like you have a good LLMD, too bad more Docs arn't willing to take that position. I'm well versed now in

both being floxed and having lyme. I had lyme before being floxed, and if you have both it really complicates the symptom picture. One way to distinguish between the two conditions is

floxed people tend to get better over time, sometimes a long time, but watching the diet and maybe taking some supplements and with a little luck, floxed people will likely see improvements over time. On the other hand, if you have lyme and you don't address the infection directly along with some detox protocol, your going to get worse over time. All things being equal, time tends to heal floxed people, while time tends to allow the lyme and co infections to proliferate - unless one is directly treating lyme.

Summer16,

Had I not been floxed four years ago I would probably be doing fine. As it is, I have some lingering symptoms that just don't want
to go away, and unfortunately I really can't be sure whether it's lingering lyme or from the Levaquin or some hybrid combination of the two. On a positive note, i'm much
better than I was during the worst of the levaquin reaction, I wouldn't wish that experience on anybody.

I was prescribed cipro by my llmd for a uti that had apparently come about after taking a genova diagnostics test and the test basically said the flox class of drugs was one i wasn't resistant too so i took it for a week or so. Now when I was on it I didn't have much problems and I do have other things I'm dealing with like parasites.

Sometimes at night I feel weird pressures in my head which to date have come up clean on cat scans and an mri I got befo starting albendazole for parasites. Now I wonder if it could be the cipro that messed with my head somehow. Weird to think about and confusing how to even pinpoint it exactly. Hopefully an appointment with a neurologist can help figure things out.

I was put on Levaquin a few years back. The 2nd night I woke up in the middle of the night in EXTREME pain in my kidney area! My husband called the ER and they said STOP taking it at once and if the pain persisted to come in. I also couldn't walk AT ALL for about a week to even get to the bathroom. My husband had to go buy me a potty at the healthcare store to keep by the bed. It damaged my Achilles tendons and I continue to have major problems.

Thanks everyone for your responses. Unfortunately I have no choice. I must take this drug. According to the Infectious Disease dr this is the only drug that can attack this bacteria that i have in the foot caused by injections of cortisone for a neuroma. The infection is Pseudomonas. She wanted me to get a pic line of another abx but my insurance wont cover it. So i am stuck and if i dont get rid of this infection it can go into the bone and I will be in worse shape. Pray for me!! lol. I am a nervous wreck in addition to being APHYSICALWRECK!

Thanks tonesg. I will look into that.