Levaquin Side Effect Lawsuit

Levaquin, a popular antibiotic, recently received a black box warning by the FDA due to the serious side effects it causes. A black box warning is the strongest warning the FDA can issue without completely taking a drug off the market.

Levaquin was “black boxed” due to the serious side effects it has been known to cause. These side effects include tendinitis, tendon rupture, and a number of other tendon related injuries. Levaquin has also been linked to other serious life altering side effects.

Those who have suffered Levaquin injuries often must undergo additional surgery, rehabilitation, and may not ever regain complete use of their joints/tendons again. Due to the severity of these injuries, there is currently several law suits pending against the makers of Levaquin.

The lawyers at McEwen Law Firm are taking part in the Levaquin lawsuit. Our Levaquin attorneys are dedicated to defending the rights of those injured by Levaquin, and are determined to help victims receive the compensation they deserve for their injuries.

If you or a loved one has been injured by Levaquin, contact McEwen Law Firm today. Our attorneys offer free, no obligation, consultations and work on a contingency - so you won’t pay a dime unless we win your case.

If you are interested in learning more about Levaquin or would like to get started on a Levaquin lawsuit today, please call (800)732-3070 or fill out our online contact form.

Common Uses For Levaquin

Levaquin and similar fluoroquinoline antibiotics have recently been black boxed because of the risk they pose for tendon ruptures, tendinitis, tendon damage, and other very serious side effects.

Levaquin is a powerful antibiotic which is given to patients suffering from serious bacterial infections.

Below is a list of infections Levaquin may be used to treat:

• Acute Pylonephritis
• Bacterial Prostatius
• Bronchitis
• Pneumonia
• Skin Infections
• Sinusitis
• Urinary Tract Infections

This is only a few of the uses for Levaquin, and the drug may be used to treat a number of other illnesses.

If you have suffered from an illness listed above or similar illness and are unsure if you have taken Levaquin contact your health care provider for more information. Levaquin side effects may occur immediately, or as long as 6 months after.

If you or a loved one have taken Levaquin and suffered a tendon rupture, tendinitis, or other serious side effect contact McEwen Law Firm today. Our attorneys are dedicated to providing you with the compensation you deserve for your Levaquin injuries.

To contact a McEwen Levaquin attorney today call (800)732-3070 or fill out our online contact form.

Levaquin May Cause Severe Tendonitis

Levaquin and other fluoroquinoline antibiotics have been linked to causing severe tendon damage, tendon ruptures, and tendonitis. These conditions are often so severe they require extensive surgery, therapy, and in some extreme cases these conditions may be irreversible.

 

Tendonitis is described as the inflammation of the body’s tendons causing extreme pain during movement. Tendonitis is typically found in healthy patients who are active in sports or other physical activities. Overuse of a tendon, for example shoulder or foot tendon, will cause tendonitis.

 

The exact reason Levaquin and other fluroquinolines cause tendonitis, tendon ruptures, and tendon damage is still unknown. What is known however is that Levaquin does cause tendon damage in otherwise healthy people.

 

If you or a loved one has experienced a painful tendon rupture, tendonitis, or other tendon injury contact McEwen Law Firm today. Our attorneys our dedicated to providing our clients with the support, knowledge, and compensation they deserve after a serious tendon injury.

 

To contact McEwen Law Firm call (800) 732-3070 today or fill out our online contact form. We offer free, no obligation, consultations to anyone interested in learning more about Levaquin.

 

Levaquin FDA Warning Attorney

Levaquin is a popular antibiotic given to patients to treat severe infections. This may include kidney infections, respiratory infections, or any other severe type of bacterial infection.

 

Levaquin has been popularized on the market since 1996 in 500mg – 750mg oral doses. Unfortunately, as early as 1986 doctors and manufacturers of Levaquin have known of the serious side effects fluoroquinolines may cause.

 

In 2004 private and nonprofit organizations began petitioning for Levaquin to receive an adequate warning depicting the serious damage fluroquinolines may cause. Now, in 2008, Levaquin and other similar drugs have received a black box warning by the FDA.

 

Levaquin is known to cause tendon ruptures, tendonitis, and serious tendon damage in patients. This damage often requires surgery, or may be irreversible.

 

If you or a loved one has suffered a Levaquin injury contact McEwen Law Firm today. Our attorneys are dedicated to providing you with the compensation you deserve after suffering a painful Levaquin side effect.

 

If you would like more information about Levaquin or want to get started on your own Levaquin case call (800) 732-3070 today or fill out our online contact form.

Levaquin Side Effects Cause Still Unknown

Levaquin and other flouroquinolene drugs (including Cipro) have recently recieved a black box warning by the FDA due to the serious tendon injuries they can cause. A black box warning is the highest warning a drug can receive by the FDA and remain on the market.

The tendon ruptures and injuries caused by Levaquin are commonly seen in active, young, adults who usually develop them as a result of participating in a sport. However, the tendon ruptures caused by Levaquin do not have this sports link and may occur at any time regardless of the person’s actions.

Scientists are still unsure of what causes Levaquin to create such devistating injuries. It has been discovered that the tendon ruptures are preventable if the person taking Levaquin (or Cipro) switches to another antibiotic as soon as symptoms present themselves.

If you or a loved one has suffered a Levaquin or other flouroquinolene injury contact McEwen Law Firm today. Our Levaquin attorneys are dedicated to providing you with the compensation you deserve after suffering a devestating Levaquin injury.

McEwen Law Firm offers free, no obligation, consultations to help you review all of your options regarding a Levaquin lawsuit. To contact a Levaquin attorney today call (800)732-3070 or fill out our online contact form.

Levaquin Linked To Premature Ventricular Contractions

Tendonitis and tendon rupture is only the tip of the iceburg and the least of the patients concerns!! The fluoroquinolone class of antibiotic is a toxic chemotherapeutic agent, which was developed to treat anthrax! The adverse reactions are not mere side-effects which go away after treatment, but often result in permanent and painful disabling conditions!! Please allow me to C&P my comment as follows:

In 2003 I ingested 20 pills total of AVELOX (moxifloxacin) and LEVAQUIN (levofloxacin), as prescribed by my doctor to treat a sinus infection. My life has been hell on earth ever since, w/ the progression of severe, disabling adverse reactions. Today as I post these words, I can add Premature Ventricular Contractions to the never-ending list of ADR’s, as well as neck pain so severe that I can hardly hold up my head and type this.

Every morning when I open my eyes, I awaken to this nightmare. There is a “sickness” that feels like my body has been poisoned. My hands and feet are swelled and sore…my entire body is stiff and painful…heart-palpitations, vibrations throughout my body…ringing in my ears…bleeding specks of sores on my skin…and a full, bloated feeling in my gut…I feel like I should be dead. It is only by the grace of God, and the love of my 2 children that I am able to pull myself up out of bed, and make it painfully down the stairs. Crying will do no good, as I know I must be strong to fight this horrendous ordeal that has become my life. Knowing that there are others who are living this nightmare gives me a sense of strength…and compassion. There are no more words to described what we are going through emotionally, let alone physically. How could something so unbelievably criminal have happened to us?? And why is this insanity being allowed to continue?? How many more innocent people will have their lives destroyed…how many more must suffer…how many more must die….before something is done?? Someone tell me, what will it take??

Diagnosed w/ arthralgia, trigeminal neuralgia, tendinitis both elbows, enlarged lymph nodes…
still seeing doctor after doctor, and specialists who can only treat the “symptoms”, not the cause.

The Black-Box warning for tendon damage is hardly sufficient and long-overdue.

The poisons that robbed my children of a mother were AVELOX and LEVAQUIN…20 pills. I traded a sinus infection for this life of pain and misery.

http://blog.garymoller.com/2008/03/my-doctor-has-poisoned-me-with.html

Thank you
~Shells~

Levaquin Side Effects Include Tendon Rupture, Tendonitis, and Severe Injury

Tendon rupture is the least of the patient’s concerns. This class is associated with irreversible peripheral neuropathy, fatal liver and kidney damage, fatal hypo and hyperglycemia, SJS and TEN, toxic psychosis, spontaneous ruptures not only of the tendons but also muscles, ligaments and cartilage, the list of serious adrs is boundless. More than half of the drugs found in this class have been removed from clinical practice due to severe and even fatal adverse reactions.

I just received a report of a 14year old male who tore the cartilage in both knees requiring extensive surgical intervention as a result of being on levaquin to treat a nail infection. Not to mention they young lady who has been in a wheelchair for the past decade due to the damage done to her tendons which rendered them beyond surgical repair. She was given cipro for an earache.

Within the NDA (new drug application) for levofloxacin we find clinical studies that revealed an adr rate in excess of 40% (one or more reactions) and a number of listed fatalities. We find these same numbers with all the NDAs for this class. This tendon issue we are now discussing was first revealed to the FDA back in 1982 (bailey et al). The FDA did NOTHING until Public Citizen filed a petition in 1996 seeking both black box warnings and dear doctor letters. The FDA did neither. Another petition was filed by the Attorney General of the State of Illinois in 2005 seeking these same actions. In 2006 Public Citizen once again petitioned the FDA. Rather than respond to these petitions as required by law, the FDA stonewalled the petitioners for more than three years. It was not until suit was filed in Federal Court by Public Citizen to compel the FDA to respond to these petitions did the FDA do anything.

And what they did was nothing more than a ’slap to the face’ to those of us who have had our lives destroyed by these drugs. It is far too little, far too late. And we would not even be tossed this ‘bone’ if this lawsuit were not pending. This is nothing more than a blatant attempt by the FDA to avoid full disclosure of the true safety profile of this class which will be required when they lose in Federal Court.

Bayer issued a European “Dear Doctor Letter” in February of 2008 in regards to fatal liver injury as a result of being on Avelox. Yet we see no such letter being issued here in the States, nor do we see the FDA requesting one either. This class has been crippling and killing patients since the mid sixties. For more than forty years now the FDA has hidden the true safety profile from both the patient as well as the treating physician.

Those who have an interest in reading this forty years worth of medical journal entries, case reports, newspaper articles, clinical studies, etc., that documents all that I state here are invited to log unto http://www.fqresearch.org The FDA is also grossly misleading when they state that the risk factor is one in one hundred thousand. The actual risk is .5% to 16% depending upon which citation you prefer to reference as well as the year in which it was published.

I find the manufacturers to be grossly misleading the patient and physician alike when they state that this class is a safe and effective antibiotic with minimum side effects. I have forty years worth of medical documentation that proves that they are anything but for those who care to read it, rather than this line of misleading and false information being provided by the FDA.

Blog comment we felt was insightful enough to be an article on this website.

Mr. David T. Fuller
Director
Fluoroquinolone Toxicity Research Foundation

Of further interest is the fact that over in Europe restrictions have recently been place on both Avelox as well as Norfloxacin due to severe adverse reactions.

Levaquin Tendon Rupture Warning

Levaquin and other fluoroquinolenes, including Cipro, have been issued a black box warning by the FDA. The black box warning is the highest warning level the FDA can issue regarding a drug, second only to a full blown drug recall.

Fluroquinolenes such as Levaquin and Cipro are strong antibiotics used to treat serious bacterial infections. Unfortunately, these antibiotics have also been linked to serious tendon ruptures, tendinitis, and tendon disorders. These tendon injuries may be so serious they leave the patient incapacitated and/or requiring extensive surgery.

Levaquin Recall Attorney

Levaquin levofloxacin may be found in oral or intravenous form. Each form may cause serious Levaquin side effects; however, it is the oral form of Levaquin that has been linked to the most serious problems including tendon rupture.

Oral doses of Levaquin is found in 500mg - 750mg doses. The popular antibiotic is usally taken for a number of weeks and then use is discontinued. Levaquin side effects may occur while taking Levaquin or months after.

Levaquin has been under suspecsion of causing serious injuries, including tendon rupture, since its creation in 1996. At this time, the FDA felt there was inadequate evidence to link Levaquin to tendon ruptures.

It wasn’t until 2006 that Levaquin began receiving the attention it deserves for causing serious side effects, tendon ruptures, tendinitis, and other tendon related disorders.

The attorneys at McEwen Law Firm have extensively researched Levaquin and Levaquin side effects and understand how damaging the drug can be. Our attorneys are dedicated to providing you with the experience, advice, and support you need to receive the compensation you deserve from your Levaquin injuries.

To contact a McEwen Law Firm attorney today call (800) 732-3070 or fill out our online consultation form.

Levaquin Tendon Rupture Warning From FDA

Levaquin is a popular antibiotic which is used to treat serious bacterial infections. Levaquin levofloxacin is a fluoroquinolone medication - a group of medication which has received a great amount of attention by the FDA recently. Fluoroquinolones are oral antibiotics used to treat infections, but have considerably serious side effects.

Levaquin has been linked to causing tendon ruptures, tendinitis, and other tendon disorders in patients; sometimes these injuries are so serious they require extensive surgery to repair. Levaquin also has a number of other serious side effects including seizures, hallucinations, and jaundice as well as a number of other side effects.

Levaquin (levofloxacin) has also been linked to very serious side effects in patients with the following conditions:

• Diabetes
• Spinal injuries
• Brain cord conditions
• Those with kidney disease

Patients suffering from these conditions may experience uncontrollable seizures, blood level irregularities, and slow absorption while taking Levaquin.

Levaquin injuries may occur at any time - 2 weeks into taking the medication or months after. The most common tendon disorder Levaquin has caused is injuries to the Achilles tendon and shoulder.

If you or a loved one has suffered from a tendon rupture, disorder, or other serious side effect after taking Levaquin contact McEwen Law Firm today. We offer free, no obligation, consultations to help you decide what the next step should be regarding your injury.

McEwen attorneys are available by phone at (800) 732-3070 or through our free contact form.

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