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Getbig Bodybuilding Boards => Training Q&A => Injury and Rehabilitation => Topic started by: yates fan on October 10, 2011, 04:23:14 PM

Title: antibiotics and muscletears
Post by: yates fan on October 10, 2011, 04:23:14 PM

is it true when on antibiotics you are more prone to muscle tears?

Title: Re: antibiotics and muscletears
Post by: jbflift on March 11, 2012, 06:36:45 PM

On the package insert for Levaquin it talks about ruptured tendons.

Title: Re: antibiotics and muscletears
Post by: oldtimer1 on February 02, 2018, 05:56:34 PM

Quote from: jbflift on March 11, 2012, 06:36:45 PM

On the package insert for Levaquin it talks about ruptured tendons.

Yes, it weakens tendons making susceptible to rupture. My joints hurt when I was on mega doses of it when I was getting in the hospital intravenously for pneumonia.