What is wrong with me?

[mia2002]

For the past year or so I have been dealing with on-going medical issues. It all started when I had a kidney infection in October of 2015. I was spiking to 106 fevers and extremely dehydrated. I couldn't walk and was hospitalized. The odd part was that they seemed to 'settle' on the idea of it being a kidney infection, although they began believing it was a blood infection. The reason they decided it was a kidney infection was because the doctor working my case he had worked a previous case of mine dealing with a UTI when I was a baby. My current doctor doesn't even believe it was a kidney infection. So, to treat this infection, they put me on levaquin. Mind you that levaquin should not be used by a young adult, such as myself. I was put on a heavy dosage for a little over a month and suddenly began getting odd symptoms such as a knee swelling to to the size of a melon. Next, I was bent over in pain and screaming because of stomach pain and hospitalized for both but results were un-conclusive  other than constipation for the stomach which eventually went away. The following thanksgiving, I spiked again to an 103 fever and was so tired all day everyday. My head hurt extremely bad and I felt confused and disoriented. We figured most of this was a levaquin side effect, but according to my doctors it is not. I then began experiencing nerve damage and loss of feeling in my feet and hands. It was hard for me to get out of bed due to illness and it hurt to walk. I later decided to switch doctors. Ive seen about 8 or 9 different doctors ranging from different specialties. I've had my blood drawn countless times and many MRI's and CAT scans done. I'm still tired and I sometimes feel really terrible to the point where I can't get out of bed. Now I feel drained, tired, confused, I have constipation, painful joints and achy muscles, trouble breathing, light-headedness, forgetting things i'm learning and not being able to focus. I feel like throwing up constantly. I'm also young and very healthy. I drink lots of water a day and exercise and eat healthy on a daily basis. So what's wrong with me? I can't even get out of bed because I feel like I'm going to die, although all I want to do is get out and see friends?

[Gemfly]

Get your Vitamin D and Vitamin B12 checked. Magnesium might be low too

[Paxiled]

Did a quick review of this drug on WebMD.  You can Google it and I suspect you have.  This drug causes kidney problems in some.  It can cause liver problems.  The symptoms you describe are all listed as possible side effects of this drug.  Most of them seem to be incurred while you're on the drug, but some can be lasting and you have those.  On the other hand, you've been tested so much I also suspect they would have found any lasting kidney or liver damage.  Joint and tendon pain is common in both adults and young people.  One thing doctors aren't very good at is knowing when a medication is responsible for your problems, largely because their culture is so pro-medication as taught in medical school.  Much of their training is written by pharmaceutical companies or professors in the pay of pharmaceutical companies, so this should be expected -- we can all be propagandized.  But another thing that antibiotics do is kill off your beneficial organisms that protect your digestive system and are a vital part of both your immune system and your mental health system.  One way to try to deal with this is to take the best multi-spectrum probiotic you can find in the refrigerated section of the best local health foods store you have while you're on the antibiotic and for a few months afterward to replenish your colony.  Some foods also help, particularly cultured foods such as kim chi and sauerkraut and the like.  Some people end up with chronic problems after taking a strong antibiotic especially if they don't take these precautions.  I have no idea what's going on with you obviously, but I hope this gives you something substantive to investigate with your doctors.  Oftentimes, seeing a natural physician of some type can be helpful in changing your diet to fix some of this stuff -- the first thing they do is eliminate the most common food allergens, for example, to reduce inflammation, such as wheat and dairy -- to make life easier on your system to give it a chance to fix itself.  Since you're young, if this is the problem, you're strong.  One sign of this being the problem is the kind of digestive problems you're having and if you have started getting yeast infections and other fungal infections, signs of a depletion of beneficial organisms.  Again, this might not be the problem, but it could be.