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Levaquin: This Antibiotic Doesn't Leave You Aching for More

By Sam G. Nicholson and Harry D. Revell

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The Levaquin antibiotic is proving to be more trouble than it is worth for many patients, if one man's story is any indication. A host of Levaquin side effects is one of the reasons why the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has the wheels in motion for a black box warning for Levaquin.

"Doug" is a healthy 31-year-old man with no pressing health problems-until, it seems, he was prescribed Levaquin to combat a bad case of bronchitis. His doctor prescribed a 10-day regimen of Levaquin, 500 mg once per day. While his bronchitis appeared to be on the mend, Doug began noticing pain in his left knee after taking the Levaquin for only two days. Doug describes it as a dull ache that was almost a constant, regardless of whether he was walking, standing or sitting-however the pain would escalate sharply whenever he moved.

Full post as published by Nicholson Revell on September 25, 2008 (boomark / email).

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