TEQUIN , LEVAQUIN
We lost my brother 4 days ago, he went to the hospital for breathing difficulties and he was put on Levaquin IV for 6 days As soon as the IV was in place he was hallucinating, sounded drunk when he was awake and very weak. I complained to the nurses that he obviously was having a reaction to the medication, I was told I needed to talk to the Doctor that never came to the hospital room or returned calls either well after 3 days my brother got up to go to the bathroom thinking he had diarreah and he didnt make it to the bathroom so all over the hospital room floor was blood and blood clots, the nurse stated that she had never seen so much blood. After that happened his blood count dropped from 16 to 9 The hospital started doing bleeding scans, mri, cat scan xrays, barium enema, and all the results were negative. After 7 days of that hospital my brother signed himself out without doctor releasing him and immediately signed into another local hospital. The second hospital did give him a unit of blood and a colonoscopy which came back negative. He stayed in that hospital 4 days and was released with a 7 day supply of Tequin after taking 1 pill of Tequin he was so weak he could hardly move,or breathe we did not know that tequin and levaquin was in the same family of drugs at that time. After 5 days my brother stopped taking tequin and was so weak he could hardly lift his head, 4 days later he passed out and we called 911 who took him back to the 1st hospital that had poisoned him with levaquin and my brother died 5 hours later. He was 46 and had no medical history at all. The doctor that was treating my brother in the emergency room said that all his major organs had shut down, white cells elevated, low sodium and he had to be intubated 2 times and they lost him the 2nd time. The side effects from Tequin are deadly. My brother was given prednisone with the tequin and that should have never happened. We are waiting on an autopsy report we had to pay for ourselves since the hospital refused and we are putting this on the news, we have notified the FDA, and we will complain in any manner we find about these medications.
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