How Pharmaceuticals Came To Be The 4th Leading Cause Of Death In America

[TorchTheWitch]

180. Where in the PDA under Levaquin?

Because I'm not seeing anywhere that it's the antibiotic of last resort. Of course adverse reactions are listed, and there's a general warning about possible nerve damage either temporary or permanent, but I'm not seeing anything about it being the antibiotic of last resort. Under the clinical trials information for adverse reactions there's nothing even listed about nerve damage at all, meaning that in tests with over 7537 people that adverse reaction didn't even amount to 0.1% of them.

http://www.pdr.net/pdr-drug-communications/drug-alert/levaquin?druglabelid=271&id=1000005

This is just a bunch of hype. Meds like Cipro and Levaquin aren't causing permanent or even temporary nerve damage to scads of people or it wouldn't be on the market anymore just like other drugs have been taken off the market because of too high a number of people experiencing a serious adverse reaction.

I do agree though that doctors should absolutely tell you with any drug they prescribe what the most common adverse reactions may be as well as allow you to take a different drug that is much less expensive but that would accomplish the same thing. Both my dentist and my vet for my dog do that as well as recommend over the counter drugs that might be taken instead. They also always always always asks me what other drugs I (or the dog) may be taking in case there is an issue with drug interactions. Of al the doctors I've been too that prescribed any meds NONE of them said a single word about what they were prescribing, and because of that I've ALWAYS checked the PDR (my Mom used to be a nurse so we always had the current PDR at home when I lived with my parents) or called the pharmacy and talked to the pharmacist about any drug I was prescribed before I even filled the prescription.

The only antibiotic of the MANY I've tried is Levaquin since it's the only one that I don't get horrible gastric problems with that I can't go to work or school (when I was so young that I was still in school) never mind how disgusting they made me feel. The only thing that sucks about that is that it's expensive as hell, and for 10 years I've had to pay out of pocket - $200 for TEN 500 mg. pills (you'd think if was pure Heroin or something!). That's also DOUBLE what it cost only a few years ago out of pocket and almost triple what it was just before Bush The Younger.