Healing Levaquin Tendonitis
Since Your Doctor Doesn't Have Anything To Help

There is almost nothing out there on the internet about Healing Levaquin Tendonitis.

And there is certainly nothing useful coming from doctors and the medical community (that is still prescribing Levaquin and Cipro, btw).

There is, however, a lot of information about the side effects of the Levaquin medication on tendons. Unfortunately, that won't help you heal from them.

What Exactly Causes Tendon Rupture from Levaquin Use?

I wonder...do scientists and researchers really not know exactly how and why the Levaquin antibiotic causes tendons to get damaged so quickly? That's scarey.

It seems that cytotoxicity from the Levaquin medication causes inhibition of fibroblast proliferation. This means that the cells that constantly produce the cellular matrix of tendons lessen or stop producing.

This means that the constant breakdown of tissue is no longer being replaced.

The pathologic mechanisms responsible for Levaquin induced tendonopathy seem to be multifactorial. Studies have implicated ischemic, toxic, and matrix-degrading processes.

Certainly, part of the cytotoxic effects could be from Levaquine somehow blocking tendon tissue from absorbing nutrients and/or oxygen.

If it could quickly block a tendon cell's ability to absorb nutrients, Tendonosis would start to happen instantly, and quickly progress.

Tendonosis is a deterioration, degeneration, and cell death due to lack of circulation/nutrients. Pain is a symptom, and rupture becomes a possibility.

Regardless of the cause, this degeneration is happening. Cell damagage and pain have been reported as quickly as 2 hours after starting Levaquin dosage. Something bad is happening in there.

It also appears that Levaquin causes DNA damage. This would mean that as new cells are produced, they are produced with damage/problem such that the body doesn't actually -heal-.

Levaquin Tendonitis
What to do about it

As I find more information to counter Levaquin side effects I will add it here.

I'd like to be able to give a 'sure thing' answer, but the Levaquin antibiotic has the potential to really mess up your body/tendon tissue with lasting structural deterioration and doctors, scientists, and researchers don't yet know the cause of Levaquin Tendonitis.

Until they identify a 'cure', I can think of several things that may help heal Levaquin Tendonitis, tendon pain, and Levaquin Tendonosis.

Obviously, stopping the use of Levaquin is a mandatory first step. Stop the source of the damage, and then try to counter and repair Levaquin side effects issues.

I saw on a forum today a person say "I'm taking Levaquin but I'm being careful."

There is no 'being careful'. There's either taking it, or not. Taking less may be safer than taking more, but ultimately, if you are taking any Levaquin dosage, you're at risk for Levaquin Tendonitis.

The problem here is that the agent in the Levaquin that causes the damage may get absorbed into the tendon, and hang out in there. This could be a factor in 'permanent' damage, in that taking it once can set you up for ongoing pain and damage.

Still, stopping the use of Levaquin is a required step to preventing more damage and beginning the process of helping your body heal itself.

Not taking it in the first place is the only certain way to avoid damage. Unfortunately, it's too late for too many people that have already trusted their doctors and taken their prescriptions.

Maybe there is no cure. Maybe the DNA damage is irreversible.

Maybe we just haven't found it yet.

I'm not saying that the following is a cure. And, these are very healthy things to do, and can only help.

1. Increase your protein and mineral intake. You want to get as much building blocks to the tendon. Use Bone Broth as the best Tendon Supplements to get all the collagen and mineral nutrients your body needs to heal and repair the damage Levaquin causes.

It is possible that the damage doesn't heal because the body isn't getting enough of the necessary building blocks. Our western diet is seriously lacking in the nutrient department.

It is possible that Levaquin mostly affects people that are already protein deficient and/or have weak collagen.

Not everybody is affected, and nobody knows why.

2. Do the Ice Massage from the How To Reduce Inflammation page.

This will get waste product out and new blood and nutrition in.

Alternate heat and cold for a bigger circulatory effect. This will also help get any Levaquin antibiotic out of the tissue if it is free floating. If it is bonded to tendon tissue, it won't help so much.

It's unfortunate that no one can determine what is causing Levaquin Tendonitis, nor if the Levaquin medication factors are free floating or if they bond to tissue and then damage it.

Inflammation is of of the most serious indirect side effects of Levaquin, in the sense that where there's damage, there's inflammation. Icing will help knock out the inflammation process if you -overwhelm- it with cold.

It is possible that in the case of Levaquin Tendonitis, the damage results in never-ending Inflammation. If this is the case, then icing will temporarily decrease pain.

Along with dialing down the Inflammation response, equally as important is getting waste product out of the tissue, new blood, nutrition, oxygen, and protein TOO the tissue.

It would be great if the body could quickly heal the damage. But it can't if you don't help it get circulation directly to the affected tendon.

3. Take Magnesium for Tendonitis.

Magnesium is vitally important for many many functions of muscle function and optimal health (and in the ER is used for several life saving nothing-else-will-work emergency situations).

When you get damage and pain, your muscles will tighten up.

This becomes a problem, as it puts more tension on damaged tendons, which causes more damage. Which makes muscles tighter. This dynamic in no way supports your body fighting and healing from Levaquin Tendonitis

Magnesium helps relax muscle tissue. This helps with circulation, and in taking tension of your tendons.

This source says that Magnesium interacts with Levaquin and can possibly leech the Levaquin bad stuff from the tendon. www.medicationsense.com research article.

David Fuller at www.fqresearch.org points out that such is not the case. That Levaquin is out of the system in 3-4 hours.

For a long conversation between David and myself where he shares a wealth of information and his experience (including personal experience as a Levaquin Tendonosis sufferer) see this page of our side effects of Levaquin conversation.

4. Take the test as described on the Levaquin Tendonitis Treatment page.

I believe that we can heal almost anything that causes pain in our body. Healing Levaquin Tendonitis is one of those things, we just haven't yet found the RIGHT way.

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