Levaquin May Cause Severe Tendonitis
August 6, 2008 by Herman Dorthchild
Filed under Drug Recalls, Levaquin
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.
I took Levaquin at the end of March. After 3 days of it I had to stop due to severe pain in my fingers, knees, and shoulders worse on the left than the right. This lasted for quite some time. I eventually had to get a steroid injection into my knee as i wasn’t able to get relief. Yesterday (5/29/09) I developed the same pain and ended up in the emergency room. It is my understanding that this can keep coming back on you for quite some time.The pain was so bad I was not able to lift a blanket off of my hands without severe pain. My physician checked me for all kinds of arthritis and all were negative and they do not have any answer than this being from the Levaquin. Have you heard of frequent epsiodes from this medication? I need to work and am not sure I can do that if this continues. I had difficulty getting out of my chair because of the pain in my legs and knees and hands.I would like any and all information that you can provide. I have not had surgery for it and I do not have a ruptured tendon although my left shoulder does bother even when I am not having the severe pain.
Thank You
Kathy Ricker
I was put in the hospital in December 12, 2008 for three days. They gave me intervenus doses of Levaquin for those three days for an infection. Late February to 1st of March I was painting my walls at the house and had a very severe pain to my right elbow. I stopped painting that next day and thought rest would help. It did not. So sometime in June the pain was so severe I went to my family physician and they said I had “tennis elbow” and because I am allergic to asprin they gave me a shot of some steriod or cortizone in my butt and told me I would probable need a shot in the elbow later on if it does not clear up. This is August, I still have major pain and I really am not wanting a shot in my elbow. Could this be caused from the levaquin. I have never had tennis elbow, I am very active in remodeling, painting, you name it I did it, but this has never happened to me before. I was just curious about this levaquin and my painful elbow. Please let me know what is the cause or if this is just a coinsedence and not the levaquin.