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A member asked:
Can antibiotics (levaquin) cause hair loss weeks after you stop taking them? if so, will it subside at some point?
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It's a bit of a leap: If you are not limiting the action to when the drug is having effects then you cannot say it will ever subside. The more reasonable approach is if the effect isn't at the time of administration (cancer chemo within days of giving it for example), it isn't connected.
Answered 5/24/2016
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