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I took a few weeks of levaquin last year for illness. should i worry about long term affects? because i see it was a chemo drug
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If your exposure...: ...was limited to a 2 week prescribed course of directed antibacterial therapy that you at the time tolerated well, then please worry less regarding such use of Levaquin.
Answered 5/10/2017
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