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This personal story was originally posted to the Quinolone Adverse Reaction Forum. If you are a victim of a quinolone antibiotic and need support or advice then please visit the Quinolone Adverse Reaction Forum (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quinolones/).

Avelox
Posted on 26 October 2001
Thank-you. I just want to say thank-you to everyone in this group and of course those that started it. Without this group, I would have dismissed myself as crazy and wondered why at 32 I was beginning to see my otherwise healthy body deteriorate.

I had pneumonia in the fall of 2000. After several antibiotics I was put on the wonder drug AVELOX from Bayer. The pneumonia cleared and I was healthy again after a 4-6 week ordeal. I did however develop heart palpitations and was an anxiety riddled wreck. I thought it was just the pneumonia and the fear of death put into me by a thoughtless doctor at a clinic.

Spring 2001, I contracted a Bronchial infection (may have been a leftover from the pneumonia). Again...the doctor put me on AVELOX. While I don't recall feeling as anxious, I do recall the heart palpitations. I also injured my foot walking off a raised floor in a shed I was building (an otherwise innocent activity). It was sore until approximately August. I played a full season of baseball with the injury, and the next mornings were filled with pain for about 5 minutes. Figured it was an isolated issue.

Mid 2001, I continued to have heart palpitations. Had an ECG and everything is fine according to the doctor. It is normal and nothing to worry about. The pain in my chest must be a pulled muscle because my heart is very healthy and BP is perfect. The palps continue.

Fall 2001 (Last week), I could feel the chest infection coming back, so I rushed to see the doctor to get more AVELOX immediately to clear this up before it became Pneumonia again. I have heard that getting it again is commonplace and didn't want to be spitting up stuff for the next four or five weeks. After taking about three days of a 10 day prescription my heel began to feel funny again. I can't beleive I didn't put the two together until now (a week into my 3rd prescription). I get a feeling like there is a pulling sensation in my left heel area, and my heart palpitations seemed to be worse again. I don't have any anxiety problems to speak of this time.

My symptoms seem rather small in relation to others, but I can't help but think what if. What if I didn't destroy the two pills I had left in the prescription and never related the symptoms with the times I took the medication, and took it again and again. I just hope the heel pain lessens over time, and the heart palpitations also vanish over time. Thanks again folks! John

Originally posted on the Quinolone Adverse Reaction Forum at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quinolones/message/5141