Someone needs to notify all people involved in this case that tendon rupture is one of the symptoms of fluoride poisoning, and that Levaquin is loaded with it. Practitioners in the US, however, are rarely trained in diagnosing fluoride poisoning. The “medical specialist” and chemists at Levaquin’s manufacturer, Ortho-McNeil, could not even tell me how much fluoride in a single dose was bioavailable after ingestion. They did not know, themselves, and answered (laughing), “None.”

What can one do for rutured tendons? My mother was on Levaquin for 3 months (yes, 3 months for complications with infection after hip surgery) and now has numbness and pain in both hands. Is there any way to repair tendons or ease the pain? Will it eventually heal?

I had an emergeny appendectomy in 2006, and just prior to my surgery, they started an IV and hung a bag of Levaquin to “prevent infections”! I knew what it was because my wife was put on it after her C-section! Shortly after I recovered from the surgery, I noticed that I had a hard time walking because of a sore achillies tendon. I don’t think that I have torn it (they both bother me, right more than left), however I am a very active individual and I am on my feet quite often all day long due to my job duties in the medical profession. I have been to the ER due to the pain and was prescribed naproxen 500 mg. Everytime I play softball, which is about 2-3 x/week, the next mornig I wake up and have a hard time walking to the shower….it’s only 30 feet away! Never before Levaquin have I had ANY issues with my achillies (bilaterally), and now I fear too much activity may jeopardize my career because I need to walk! I hope that no one else has to deal with this painful problem, however it seems as though it is pretty wide spread! Oh, I was never told anything about the drug other than it was to fight off infections!! “Ouch” is all I have to say, and sadly it is a daily thing!

I took levaquin about 3 years ago for an ear infection/sinusitus. Ever since, I have had pain in my achiles when walking(I have to stop walking a lot and wait out the pain). I don’t own a car, so I take public transit and have to walk a lot. And I stand and walk all day at work. It has slowed me down and I have a lot of pain. I am afraid it will effect my job.

I also immediately following the levaquin started to have tendonitis in my arm and cervical problems with neck. As if all my muscles and tendons are tightening up. And stomach problems. I really hope they take this off the market or only use it in life threatening cases. I’m 37 and feel 87!

I have been given this drug off and on for 5 years(starting in 2005) at different time lenght of IV’s, and some in which the doctor gave me samples since my insurance cost on this drug was way too much. One stretch of IV’s lasted 17 days in the hospital for pneumonia. I had no idea this drug was laying in my system as a sleeper drug. Well I am considered a high risk for surgery since I have a few issues, but I had no idea I was facing a life sentence from it. July 9th 2009, I had a (r) knee replacement, along with a (L) knee athro. 6 Weeks post op, I encounter a (r) quadricep complete rupture, so on Oct 20th, 2009 we went in and repaired it. The doctor said he had to shave a lot down to get to some tissue he felt might hold. 24 hours went by in the hospital and my lungs take a whammy.. So levaquin was once again pumped into veins as a standard protocol. Then by the 8th week, I felt pop-corn popping going off in my (R) quadricep, and it was confirmed on March 8th 2010, in which I found out the following.. the (r) quad was re torn completely, the (L) quad was in the process of tearing, both hands are affected, and both elbows suffer with severe tendonitis, and both my rotary cuffs are torn. My doctor who is an extinguished ortho-surgeon, stated that my tendon and ligaments have pin sized holes in the them, and I responded that I felt with what happened after the right tendon repair that I didn;t think my body would substain another surgery since I could die, and he clearly blurted out that under no circulstances would he perform any surgery on me at all. Now or ever would he. I was sent home with a customized wheel-chairl prescription and to follow up with my already existing pain-management doctor who is a stickler and a bit stingy on my meds. My hands are now getting to the point of needing specailized utensils to feed with. I am in my hospital bed here at home most of my days, except for doctor appointments which have become hystrical to watch them load me up. How long will this stay in my system and will the pin-sized holes ever straighten out. My legs (knees) look deformed with the muscles just hanging out where-ever, huge dents in my palms, and my elbows are that white out fainting pain, and my shoulders you can see the inside flesh just gathering with gravity. On top of that, I have severe bone marrow pain due to my polycythemia ruba vera. I am ready to load the 32, and just pray for forgiveness from God as I pull the trigger. Most likley this will happen soon.. who would know that the FDA would allow a medication that they knew had this Black Label Tag to it, and state that your doctor thinks the side effects are less greater that your need for the drug itself, I say come live in my shoes are sit and watch this horrible pain… I have bitten the bullut now as long as I could … enough is enough… perhaps if I take my life from it pain ,, it would cause others to see the danger and perhaps shut it down once and fore-all… whelp thanks for reading my post and maybe this life or its meer existance of a life should be shown on television for all to see, how dangerous the drug can turn out to be.

They put warning labels in the information your pharmacist provides. If you took it post july 2008 you should have read the warning and done your own research. I’m a bodybuilder so I pay close attention to what I put in my body. I was prescribed this for an infection and it went in the trash after I got it home and read the warning and did an internet search. This stuff is horrible and I feel sorry for anyone that blindly trusted their medical provider and didn’t care enough about their health to look at the warnings. Your mistake though.

It must be wonderful for you to be so astute, j quintana, but the truth of the matter is, not many people read the long white paper that comes with their medicine because if they did they would never take anything, as just about every medicine lists death, stroke, blindness, kidney failure, etc. So, some of us, who are desperate with a wound that will not heal and wish to avoid septic shock will take an antibiotic. I never take drugs unless I have to. I even rejected the tamiflu when I had swine fever and went home and bit my nails until my temperature went down to 104. So stfu and go build your body. You probably take half a million “herbal supplements” from the health food store that you know nothing about. I took levaquin for a brief period, and a year later after bilateral aquilles tears, tendonitis in both hands which has resulted in permenant arthritis and a broken shoulder, I continue to go to physical therapy five days a week, I spent two months in a hyperbaric chamber, I have the best physicians in my area trying to help me, and I’m in constant pain. As soon as I walked in my G.P.’s office and told him that I walk like a duck with much pain he asked me if I had been on Levaquin. Two MRI’s later I was casted on both legs and hands for two months. Instead of being grateful that none of these things happened to you, you are snarky and smug. Watch out for those human growth hormones. Who knows what the studies will show ten years from now, you jerk.

Had a severe stroke and was paralized on my right side caused from Levaquin. Lots of documentation to assist in this case !

This was given to my 84 year old Father who I take care of , I do not think he will ever recover , this seems pretty slick with no Dr’s giving a Warning , when he has been threw this treatment with terrible results before , he had an operation on his Achilles tendon .
But they uses the Latin name or a generic name , we are not sure what name was used , this time we are Positive

I was given Levaquin 500 mg/twice per day plus 50 mg of prednazone for 10 days to treat reocurring pneumonia in February 2010. It cured the pneumonia but at what cost? I started experiencing pain in my left heel in May. Consulted with a Foot/Ankle specialist in July when tearing pains were increasing with normal daily activity. I’ve been in a “boot” for the last 5 weeks and using Flector a topical adhesive patch daily hoping to prevent it from tearing. Only time I don’t wear the boot is when I’m sleeping. I see the doctor in 3 weeks – he says there isn’t anything else to be done – other than surgery.which he says will require a year-long recovery process! Side affects information provided with the prescription said “some” patients experience tendoniitis of the Achiles tendon – seemed really odd. Since seeing my doctor, I’ve talked with 5 other people just in my little world who have had the same problem after taking the drug. My internist said the incidence was 1 in 1000 who experience this problem. I think it is much higher than that!. He gave me levaquin because I’m allergic to penicillin. Next time I’ll take my changes with an allergice reaction!

In 2009 (California-SBCtny) I was given the drug levaquin iv in an ER. I came to during a induced 2week coma with a drainage coming from my chest. The dr’s Informed it was a pulmnary … then approx 7blood transfusions later…
It has taken me an entire year to present to cope with the drugs lingering effects. It will likely take a lifetime to recover from the oversights by those involved in administration…

Took Levaquin about 5 days in late December 2009 for sinusitis and have been dealing with bilateral tendon pain, swelling and weakness ever since. PT is important once rupture risk is past (especially eccentric exercise that loads the tendon but does not injure it) but it still takes a year I understand to heal. I hope that comes to pass – I am getting so tired of feeling so frail and having to do rehab and pay for it (only 50 and I was playing tennis before making the mistake of taking this drug). Neither doctor nor pharmacist told me about possible danger of this drug despite my expressions of concern about taking something I’ve never taken. I was also prescribed a nasal spray (corticosteroid) to use at the same time. Anybody else also take Levaquin and a steroid nasal spray at the same time for a sinus infection?

I had 2 major surgeries in Spet/Pct 2008 plus another two due to complications from one and exploratory for the other.
The hospital specialists prescribed Levaquin.
By mid 2009 I had, for the first time ever, very painful “tennis elbow” which after weeks of Physio ended up with a cortisone shot in late 2009. A year or so later it recurred and I had a second shot. Now it is back again and I don’t want any more cortisone. A couple of months ago I started experiencing pain in the opposite arm and shoulder. Initially it was mainly when I rotated or stretched the arm but now it is a nagging, almost constant, shoulder pain accompanied by random shooting pains down the outside of the upper arm. The latter are usually when the upper arm muscles are used. Range of motion is restricted (e.g. can’t reach behind my back). And now I am starting to send mild pain in the other shoulder (to which is attached the arm with tennis elbow).
The Levaquin was prescribed, I believe, for precautionary post-op reasons – I was pretty much out of it at the time.
I took Levaquin for at least a month (I need to find my records to be exact but I can tell from Quicken when I bought the refills).
I was 60 at the time and had never had tendon pains before as far as I can recall. My ‘sport’ is soccer refereeing – not tennis or squash or racketball or golf etc.

I fell and broke my tipia from my tipia plateau and my ACL and other tendons tore off with it. I was hospitalized and had surgery. I wasout of work for 6 months. The orthopedic surgeon said he had never seen a tea like that before. I was on levaquin many times for sinus infections, and after sinus surgery. do I have a claim that the levaquin weakened my tendons and casued this damage?

I was given levaquin by 3 drs. My right has colasped and now left is starting to have severe pain. I am presently seeing dr. about surgery. Have also been hospitalied several time so do not know if levaquin was injected in ivs.

Ive taken an RX Leviquine 4 separate times in my life and other quins along the way for this or that. I had a rotator cuff repair in 2004. Dec 2010 dx with mild tear to Gluteus medius .I am a 60 year old women 123 lbs of good health other wise. I have other back issues also. My very first dose of Leviquine was givin to me in 2001,for a Sinus infection.

I have been treated countless times over the past 10 yea s with high doses of levequin for sinus’ infections, 14 to 21 days of it. Last June, 2010 I had to have a modified Bronstrom , along with other repairs in my right ankle . I had been asked several times how I did “so much damage” to the tendons and gave the same answer. I never hurt my ankle or had an injury to it. Even after the surger, I continue to have problems with the tendons in the right ankle and both of my shoulders. I am a retried nurse and knew the side effects of the antibotic, there was never a “black box” on my bottle! I was forced to retire because of this. The pain I have suffered is enomorus. But life goes on. Yet, docotorsw continue to prescribe it!

I am a renal transplant patient and was given Loflaxacin to treat pneaumonia. It immediately 3 days after taking, started to affect my tendons, ankles. I am in constant pain, and struggle to walk. I fear the damage, and possible future damage it may have caused. Can anyone help me with natural solutions to counteract it’s affects ?