Floxin has also a distinctive profile: many times floxin causes extremely delayed reactions at around the 18 months mark. Many persons take floxin without clear side effects, but after one and a half years, a full adverse reaction develops with plenty of floxing symptoms, in many cases of similar intensity to an intermediate reaction.

(Note that Levofloxacin is the same chemical as Ofloxacin, the atoms and chemical formula is exactly the same, only that Levofloxacin is shaped to be almost double in potency)

I took Levaquin 2 months ago for a UTI. After the third dose, I went from a healthy 34 yr old to a 100 yr old woman. I had myalgia, extreme anxiety and panic, insomnia, tremors, neuropathy, tinnitus, blurred vision, and joint and tendon pain. Most of the symptoms have either diminished or gone away except for the joint and tendon pain, tinnitus, blurred vision, slight neuropathy, and some anxiety.

Since this experience I have had intermittant chest pain in one area only, EXTREME fatigue, and tinnitus. Most days are spent in a haze. I am so tired all of the time, but have difficulty falling asleep because of the ringing in my ears. I have not had one moment of quiet. There is no peace or quality left to my life.

Just a note to let you know I am doing much better. It was scary for a couple of months after taking two weeks of Levaquin. I had sudden joint pain, extreme muscle weakness, extreme fatigue, rash, headache, mental confusion.

I was tested for Lupus, Lymes, Arthritis, MS, ALS, etc, etc. I kept telling the Doc's it was due to the Levaquin because my symptoms started while I was taking the Levaquin for an "infection." There never was any "infection."

The phototoxic effects of quinolone antimicrobial agents on mouse auricular skin and retina were examined histologically. Sparfloxacin at 50 or 100 mg/kg, which alone causes no histologic change, was orally administered to albino Balb/c mice, which were irradiated with ultraviolet A for 4 hr immediately after administration. In the auricle, degeneration of basal epidermal cells was sporadically observed at 2 hr (during the irradiation). Foci of slight edema with degenerated fibroblasts were seen in the dermis at 4 hr.