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Note & Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional, this is just my experience with this medication. YMMV
File this under the heading of 'It pays to read the drug sheet...'
Last summer I was swarmed by bumblebees and was stung multiple times. Landed in the ER - the next day, thankfully it wasn't due to anaphylaxis.
So when they went to admit me they of course did a chest x-ray, and found that I was still suffering from bronchitis.
On top of steroids and diphenhydramine, they gave me levofloxacin antibiotic to treat the bronchitis.
About a month later I was opening the truck door with my left hand and BAM, shooting pain through the back of my hand. Well it turns out that one of the
side effects of the fluoroquinolone class of antibiotics is 'tendon rupture' among some other nasty side effects.
Fast forward to this month when I sliced up my finger on a fan and with the finger in a splint it has exasperated the tendon to the point where doing anything
with my left hand is rather painful. From holding a coffee cup to cranking a handle or using a wrench.
Bit of a PiTA for those of us who enjoy working with our hands.
I know that this is nothing like arthritis or other types of joint pain, it's more of an inconvenient painful condition that could have been avoided with a different medication.
And then also, just this month the FDA strengthened it's Black Box warning on this class of drugs. Seems it can also adversely effect blood sugar levels.
These medicines include ciprofloxacin (Cipro), gemifloxacin (Factive), levofloxacin (Levaquin), moxifloxacin (Avelox), norfloxacin (Noroxin), and ofloxacin (Floxin)
File this under the heading of 'It pays to read the drug sheet...'
Last summer I was swarmed by bumblebees and was stung multiple times. Landed in the ER - the next day, thankfully it wasn't due to anaphylaxis.
So when they went to admit me they of course did a chest x-ray, and found that I was still suffering from bronchitis.
On top of steroids and diphenhydramine, they gave me levofloxacin antibiotic to treat the bronchitis.
About a month later I was opening the truck door with my left hand and BAM, shooting pain through the back of my hand. Well it turns out that one of the
side effects of the fluoroquinolone class of antibiotics is 'tendon rupture' among some other nasty side effects.
Fast forward to this month when I sliced up my finger on a fan and with the finger in a splint it has exasperated the tendon to the point where doing anything
with my left hand is rather painful. From holding a coffee cup to cranking a handle or using a wrench.
Bit of a PiTA for those of us who enjoy working with our hands.
I know that this is nothing like arthritis or other types of joint pain, it's more of an inconvenient painful condition that could have been avoided with a different medication.
And then also, just this month the FDA strengthened it's Black Box warning on this class of drugs. Seems it can also adversely effect blood sugar levels.
These medicines include ciprofloxacin (Cipro), gemifloxacin (Factive), levofloxacin (Levaquin), moxifloxacin (Avelox), norfloxacin (Noroxin), and ofloxacin (Floxin)