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I took levaquin 7 years ago and have been doing pretty well, but then had a terrible flare-up last June, with shoulder, arm, and leg pain. I'm still in pain but getting better, thanks to a wonderful functional medicine doctor and physical therapy. My recent problems started after taking amoxicillin, which I've taken many times before with no issues. But last fall I had a sinus infection that required amoxicillin (no reaction), a Covid booster (no reaction), a flu shot (got very painful bursitis in that arm, then had to have a steroid shot after putting up with the pain for 3 months), another Covid booster last spring, and then another course of amoxicillin because I got a terrible cough after the booster that lasted for 4 months. I think all these meds and vaccines were just too much for my poor floxed body to take. I'm not on several supplements and an anti-inflammatory diet, prescribed by the functional medicine doctor, and just finished PT for arm pain that was almost a frozen shoulder. Now I find I'm sensitive to several foods -- sugar, gluten, diary (except Greek yoghurt), wine, coffee. It's been really hard to follow this diet, and I assumed I could slowly reintroduce the foods listed above, but apparently not. I ate a hamburger bun last week and my arm and shoulder pain got worse and is still worse. This basically sucks, but I'm grateful I'm not in as much pain as I was last summer. I'll never get another flu shot, am probably done with Covid vaccines (I wear a mask everywhere), and will never take a steroid again. I hope I never need another antibiotic, but that would be asking too much.