“Death by Levaquin” Brain/Body Toxic Drug

Another very sad fluoroquinolone story. I have talked on the phone to this very nice lady and her husband several times in the past. Their story is another example of the terrible injuries and injustice from fluoroquinolone antibiotic toxicity.  

Comment:
I believe that Cipro causes suicidal thoughts and acts. My husband took Cipro in 1998. In Jan. 1999 he tried to commit suicide using a .38 revolver. He had never tried to commit suicide in his life until after taking Cipro. There is a police report for this attempt. There were 3 attempts of suicide after taking Cipro in 1998. For several years there were no more attempts. In 2004 he took CiproXR. He started trying to commit suicide again. He has multiple ruptures of tendons including muscle along with nerve damage after taking these medicines too and a lot of other damages. No one has to convince me of the connection between suicide and quinolones. Seeing what happened to my husband did that.

Below is the re-editied video sent to me from Bob P. concerning fluoroquinolone toxicity. He has translated the video to different languages to broaden and expand its reach. Thank you Bob for your hard work and continued advocacy efforts to warn others about the danger of fluoroquinolones. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARS36eFbTbc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irqh2APTuoY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n08LQ1qpfok&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiUE7mBC63I&feature=related  

To begin with, I have several chronic diseases already.  I was diagnosed with COPD in 1992.  At that time I was prescribed Serevent and as a result I developed life threatening asthma. I took myself off Serevent five years ago.  Then as a result of being treated for heartburn with Propulsid and taking diflucan, I ended up in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit in 1997and I’ve taken digitalis ever since. I was taking Digitek too when it was recalled.

As you can see, I am already the poster child for bad medicine.  Prescription drugs have done more harm to me than good.  Nevertheless, I have never been part of a lawsuit.  I don’t think it accomplishes much.  Until now.  Because if my history with bad medicine, now I always question medications.  I report side effects. I complained about Levaquin starting in 2001.   Yet time and time again I was given this drug in spite of my complaints.  I began to believe that because I am already disabled my life isn’t considered valuable.  But I feel I’ve been a guinea pig.  I feel that what life I had – and held on to with both hands – was severely diminished by the drug Levaquin. 

In about April of 2001 I was treated at the Emergency room for respiratory infection and prescribed Levaquin.  I believe that is the first time it was prescribed for me.  Shortly after that I began complaining about not being able to walk.  I had multiple x rays taken of my feet and back.  I said that it felt like my feet were not attached to my legs.  I was told that there was nothing wrong. 

There were several more visits to the emergency room and on hospital stay in October of 2002 where I was again treated with Levaquin.  I think this is the hospital stay where the nurses noticed that one of the tendons in my thigh was “atrophied.” I was admitted with pneumonia and left in a wheelchair.  I have been in a wheelchair ever since.  There was one more hospital stay in March of 2004.  After this, I was basically an invalid.  I spent two years lying on the sofa. The doctors prescribed morphine and suggested hospice. 

In May of 2006 I was admitted to the hospital for pneumonia.  I was hospitalized for 18 days.  That was my last hospitalization. When I came home I had physical therapy.  I also had a friend who was leaning massage therapy.  She was concerned with the lack of muscle in my limbs.  She made it her mission to help me learn to stand alone.  In time and with her help I started leaning to walk unassisted again.  I also started doing tai chi from a chair to strengthen my muscles.  I now avoid doctors and have systematically taken myself off several medications. 

Levaquin took what little life I had from me.

Hey! I am 22 years old and in november of last year I was prescribed levaquin for a UTI that was very mild. I took 2 pills for two days as my doctor instructed me to. The first day was totally fine, but when I took the second pill, that entire day seemed different. I was having heart palpitations that were rather far apart. You know… One here and there. Well that night I layed down to go to sleep and began experiencing major panic and more intense heart palpitaions. I do not have a history of either one. In fact I was completely healthy before this antibiotic. I had a panic attack so bad, my face and ears were burning and it felt as though someone were trying to suffocate me with a pillow. I ended up in the ER and all they can tell me was that I was more than likely having an anxiety attack. For days this went on and eventually I began having out of body experiences along with severe depression. I hadn’t slept for days and if I tried, I would get this electric shock feeling  that woke me up in flight or fight mode as soon as I was drifting off to sleep, so I guess I was never actually asleep. I was so desparate for sleep I ended up being prescribed ambien. It did nothing for me. I also had to be put on Lexapro for depression which I think helped a bit, but when I went in to get it…. I was crying and absolutely devistated for no reason. Once again I was desparate. I Knew that day I took that second dose of levaquin that this quinolone was doing this to me. It was the only thing I had been taking. Plus I looked it up online as soon as I felt these noticable feelings. I’m almost 8 months in and nearly recovered other than my knees aching and tmj that develpoed from clenching in my sleep. I do have a very important question though. I may be pregnant and want to know if this would harm the baby? I am 99% recovered. I don’t have too much pain in my knees and jaw as much, but even if they snapped into pieces… I would be happy as long as the mental torture never returns.

Here is an interesting four minute video on pharmaceutical tactics. Glen Beck interview with former Pfizer VP of Marketing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNQJIyOZqtA&feature=related

Here is one additional comment on what happened to an individual when trying to explain that a fluoroquinolone ( Cipro ) caused him health problems.

This is a sad situation that unfortunately happens more often than most people realize. This exact thing happened to me. I was terminated as a patient by the very Dr. that prescribed me Cipro. As soon as I complained to that  Dr. that Cipro had caused me all kinds of health problems, and suggested that he file an ADR report to the FDA he went berserk. I couldn’t believe the change in his attitude as soon as I mentioned that Cipro had caused me problems. Instead of showing any concern for my well-being, he threw my papers on the floor (that I had brought in to show him Cipro and all FQ’s had been known to cause health problems)…and started ranting at me about how great Cipro was.

The apt. ended abruptly and a few days later, I received a letter from his office stating that I would no longer be accepted as a patient at his practice. No reason was given.

I think this happens more than most people think. It’s criminal.

How can a patient be injured by their Dr. and then dropped by that Dr. and left with no recourse? How can this happen in the U.S.A. in this day and age?  Unbelievable!