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Beware of side effects of drug Levaquin
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Oct. 3, 2009 12:51 am
Please be careful of the drug Levaquin, an antibiotic. One of the side effects is tendinitis; it is written on that long page we are all handed when we receive a prescription.
Patient beware. Four days of using this drug and the pain was like a knife slicing through my flesh. I ended up in the emergency room with the diagnosis of tendinitis throughout my body. One month later, I still have spasms of pain, numbness in my limbs; my fingers hurt when I write or type.
Google this drug and check out the number of lawsuits against it.
Alice DeRycke
Belle Plaine
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