Table 5
Duration of Non-Abating Adverse Events
| Drug | Duration | Adverse Events Reported |
| Avelox | Five weeks | Flashes of light floaters |
| Avelox 10 days | Permanent | Loss vision left eye permanent severe adrs to fqs |
| Avelox 5 days | 30 days then stopped | Twitching left eyelid severe adrs to fqs |
| Cipro | 3 years non abating | Dry
eyes 30 day duration flashing lights Vitreous detachments floaters droopy eyelids |
| Cipro | Non abating |
Posterior Vitreous
Detachment Clouding and debris in eye |
| Cipro | Non abating | Spots in eyes |
| Cipro 1998 | 5 years | Blurred
vision left eye blurred peripheral vision Light sensitive fasciculation |
| Cipro
250 mg 6 days / 500 mg 3 a day 0 days |
17 days and continuing | Eyes out of sync severe adrs to fqs |
| Cipro 4 scripts in the last Year | Non-abating | Dry eyes light sensitive heart murmur acute angle glaucoma |
| Cipro
500 mg 2 a day For 6-8 weeks |
60 days
past cessation
of therapy |
Floaters Spots |
| Cipro 500 mg 5 weeks | 6 months non abating | Floaters Dots in eyes |
| Cipro
500 mg twice
a day for 6-8 weeks |
Non abating | Floaters Spots in vision |
| Cipro 9/2001 | 1.5 years | Black spots flashing lights |
| Cipro 90 days | Non abating | Macular degeneration vitreous detachment |
| Cipro eye drops 2 days | Non abating | Tingling, pricklies, numbness weakness heaviness stiffness all extremities burning palms |
| Cipro
two years
Ago (1999) |
2 plus years | Water retention in eye |
| Floxin
2 times a Day 7 days 11/1993 |
8 years | White
blindness Cloudy vision Visual disturbances and distortions severe adrs to fqs |
| Levaquin | 3 months non abating | Vision problems |
| Levaquin | 90 days plus | Eye movement causing dizziness uncomfortable feeling when focusing severe adr to fqs |
| Levaquin | Dry eye
and pink eye
Resolved veiny eyes Continues |
Dry and pink eye red and veiny |
| Levaquin | Four years non abating | Macular degeneration Cataracts |
| Levaquin | Intermittent | Vision graying |
| Levaquin | 9 months non abating | |
| Levaquin 11-2000 | Non abating | Reading glasses to bifocals |
|
Levaquin 500mg
For 10 days |
Non abating | Vision was blurring Vision problems |
| Levaquin 1 dose | 3 years non abating | Burning eyes |
|
Levaquin 14 days 4-14-03 |
Two weeks | Eyesight deterioration |
| Levaquin 2 days | Continuing | Severe drug reaction to the Levaquin swollen eyes decreased vision right eye only |
|
Levaquin 28 days In summer 2001 |
Non abating | Vision problems |
|
Levaquin 3 years
Ago (1998) 10 Days worth |
Permanent injury | Cataracts Casilar cell carcinoma |
|
Levaquin 4 days
1999 |
Non abating | Dry eyes |
|
Levaquin 4 days
4/2000 |
Non abating 1.5 years | Eyesight has Deteriorated |
| Levaquin 5 doses | 7
months continuing
to abate |
Eye pressure sore eyes diplopia blurred vision floaters |
| Levaquin 5 pills | Non
abating six years
Plus |
Loss of peripheral vision diplopia muscle damage to left eye |
|
Levaquin 500 mg
3 days 6/1999 |
Non abating | Shimmering brightness blurred vision left eye light sensitivity left eye severe adr to Motrin/fq combination fluorescent lights bothersome |
|
Levaquin 500 mg
3 doses |
Ongoing
and getting
Worse |
Blurred vision visual distortions sensitive to light |
|
Levaquin 6 days
2-2000 |
3 weeks non abating | Difficulty focusing |
| Levaquin 6-2000 | Non abating | Eye floaters |
|
Levaquin 7 day
Course but only Took 1 dose |
3-4 weeks | Vision problems liver damage |
| Levaquin 9 days | Non abating | Double vision (diplopia) inflamed eye muscles possibly inflamed optic nerve |
| Levaquin 9 doses | Non abating | Double vision |
|
Levaquin 9-2002
5 days |
Non abating | Fasciltations, flashing lights eye pain Floaters Halo effect |
|
Levaquin approx.
1 week |
Non abating | Vision problems |
|
Maxaquin
2-18-1994 |
1994 to date | Deteriorating vision Light sensitive now requires glasses chronic adr to maxaquin |
| Noroxin | Over one year | Vision deteriorated |
| Noroxin 7-2000 | 1 year plus | Left eye deteriorating vision now requires glasses severe adr to fqs |
| Tequin | 4 months non abating | Left
eye lid drooping Dimmed vision |
| Tequin
2-2001
5 days |
4 months / continuing | Floppy eyelid left eye Twitching right eye Dimmer vision both eyes severe adr to fqs |
| Tequin
6-2002
7-2002 |
Some
improvement
But continuing |
Vision disturbances Extremely blurry sight went dark dead spot on optic nerve |
| Unidentified quinolone | 3 years non abating | Burning eyes left eyelid is droopy right eyelid tight left pupil dilated blurred and fuzzy vision |
| Unidentified quinolone | 11 days non abating | Right eye partial Vision loss |
| Unidentified quinolone | 7 months | Eye floaters |
| Unidentified quinolone | Non abating 6 years | Narrow angles |
|
Unidentified quinolone
Iv antibiotic |
4 years plus | Eye twitching |