So apparently the antibiotic drug, Levaquin, I have been taking for a total of four weeks now (5 days- 1000mg & a week off the drugs & 10 days - 500mg)has some pretty serious side effects including tendinitis. Which is lovely because for the past 5 days my legs, particularly my knees, have been really sore, making it almost impossible to stand up from sitting without pain and if I am on the floor then I have to crawl to a couch to get up or hopefully someone is nearby to help me up. Walking was even painful today. Yeah and working with very hyper 4 year olds this physical malady is not a very ideal situation. I cried tonight because it hurts so bad. It is mainly my joints and the muscles and not so much my tendons and I haven't had any swelling. Lots of sources said online that tendinitis from this medicine needed to be taken care of with emergency medical assistance. After reading this online, we called my doctor tonight because I was kinda freaking out, but he said I just need to take it easy for several weeks, avoid weight training, and the pain should subside over time. I have been off the drug for a day now so the symptoms are just manifesting themselves more, because of the amount of them in my system, but over time these should reduce in my system and because I am still a "young adult" (yippee) my muscles and tendons should recover much faster than someone in their later adult years (these individuals may never recover from the tendon pain). I am hoping he is right, he is a pretty smart guy. :) But I am still kinda scared. This pain hurts so much, and I know alot of people out their with rheumatoid arthritis and chronic fatigue syndrome so I can't imagine what they go through on a daily basis.
Anyway if you happen to read this please pray for me. I never knew a simple sinus infection and the drugs you are given to treat such a condition could be so serious! Please pray I am able to move again without pain and the other abdominal side effects lessen in the days to come as well. Thank you!!!
And since I was in such pain, nothing really got me too excited today, but I did have to laugh at this post on failblog. Seriously if I'm having a bad day nothing cheers you up like
Cake Wrecks or
Failblog :
Enjoy!
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