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What is the usual dosage for levoquin? I am taking 750 mg once a day. With other abx, I was usually taking them twice a day.
Is once a day the norm with this abx?
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I'm not positive but I believe Levaquin is a once a day dosed ABX. (I've taken it that way.)
I'm curious to see if anyone else has taken it differently.
Once a day... sure is convenient, isn't it?
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Please be very careful with levaquin- I was floxed-
it can also cause achilles problems and rupture. I still have foot problems. it's been about 5 yrs.
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Watch for deeep soreness in your legs its different than lyme pain its deeper and longer area's it will hurt when you move similar to inflamed muscles after working out to long. If you get that stop immeaditly and call your LLMD because you donot want to tear any tendons I have torn three 2 from levaquin and 1 from lyme.
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If you weigh around 150 lb 1x750 mg/day is the dose usually taken, assuming that your liver is able to metabolize levaquin correctly. That dose will likely cause extremely long lasting or permanent injuries if taken for more than a month or so. The majority of injuries will appear some months AFTER drug cessation, so one tends to blame the borrelia for them. Of those damages, only tendinitis or tendon rupture seems to be known by most lyme sufferers. However, tendinitis is one of the least severe side effects caused by levaquin, nerve damage being the worst (brain injury, nerve pain, muscle pain, palpitations, intolerances, cold extremities, etc..)
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Lymeflox,
The side effects sound aweful. Should people be taking this abx at all? So far after about 14 days, things seem ok. So serious side affects yet.
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Its one of the deep reaching abx's penitrates well I just went to long before noticing the pain being different and in the beginning of lyme treatment I really wasnt reading the symptom lists pamphlets the pharmacy hands out with it.
When I tore the first tendon. I was on vacation in new england on mount washington I had picked up a 20lb rock and was heading back accross the road and a car came so I hurried and snap in left calf it hurt bad at that time I was not on levaquin, but I was definatly run down in all the physical sences, like my body was wore down from lyme since 1988 and no treatment till 2001. That was all the lyme nothing else. But later after treating 4 or 5 months I started levaquin somewhere around the end of the third month I tore my first one and called LLMD he said stop immeaditly which I did. In about another week past and I tore another one in opposit leg it took almost a year to get over the torn tendons the one in the rightleg in the quad rolled up to my groin it hurt but not like the left quad it rolled clear up to my butt and stayed swollen a long time.
The only thing I can say is watch for any NEW tenderness down deep and dont move fast and dont pick anything heavy up for as long as you are on it {levaquin} and extend that for at least 3 more months.
Other than that I had no other symptoms from levaquin at all.
All abx's have side effects but not all side effects to each patient
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The toxicity to levaquin normally shows up when it is far too late, and stopping the medication does not stop the damage, that usually goes on, mounting to a maximum for many months, and then starting to heal partially or completely over the course or a few or many years.
If you sleep worse since you started the levaquin, or notice small itchings, specially in the groin area, or feel any twitch or colder hands or feet than usual, your body is about reaching the tolerance threshold. The damage done by the toxicity of levaquin is cummulative. If you are physically active, you have to watch out for any sign of tendinitis. If detected early, the tendinitis can heal in less than two years. If detected after a full reaction develops tendinitis is a permanent injury, and the chances of complete healing are almost non-existent.
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