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And I’ve extended my allergy list to all fluoroquinolone antibiotics since I found that Levaquin also caused it.

Fluoroquinolone antibiotics carry a black box warning that encourages health care providers to avoid prescribing such drugs unless there is no alternative treatment.

However, fluoroquinolone use, and resistance remains at very high levels around the world.

He continued in this vein until the late 2010s, when he put his career on hold to deal with the side effects of being “floxed,” a bad reaction to a fluoroquinolone antibiotic.

Current fluoroquinolone users had a 240 percent higher relative risk for valve regurgitation than amoxicillin users, and a 75 percent higher risk than people who took azithromycin.