a reply to:
MrNeo
A personal thought, about drugs that haven't been on the market for more than five years.
My wife and I have both gone rounds with "approved by the FDA" medications new to the market. The side effects for life-altering, with severe personal
consequences.
Vioxx? *Raises hand*
This one caused unbelievable swelling in my joints which caused them to misdiagnosis a non existent immune disorder.
I was prescribed another "new to the market FDA approved drug" to treat my Pharma induced immune disorder".
This new to the market FDA-approved drug had a side effect of completely disabling my immune system. So I contracted a few bugs during treatment.
*shingles
*Bronchitis
*Pneumonia
*MRSA (foot wound)
*VIral spinal meningitis
The meningitis came on after the onset all the others. Not only was I fighting several serious health issues concurrently, meningitis swooped in for
the finale.
They say my saving grace(s) was the fact that I was 30 years old, in the prime of my life and had just put on a little weight after a summer pretty
intense physical activity.
I went from just over 185lbs to 145 in less than 2 weeks. After released from the hospital I lost another 20. I also lost my memory about for about
two a weeks before the incident and a month after I was admitted: Only remembering the vivid panic in the emergency room when I realized the words I
was saying to the doctor, in my mind, were coming out of my mouth as gibberish. I lost the ability to communicate.
It was over three months before I had enough strength and energy to cook my own TV dinner.
The rheumatologist would not even come see me in the hospital. She said that infectious diseases were not her specialty. She left that to the general
physician who was interning at the hospital.
Her suggestion was to restart the new drug as soon as I had recovered. (You have to cure that immune disease you know. Even if it kills the
patient).
I feel very fortunate that the negative effects to my immune system peeked at 3 weeks, and slowly waned over the next 6 months. Had it been a
permanent treatment I would either have been "a boy in the bubble", or succumbed to a failed immune system.
My wife's story, is even more terrible. I won't go into detail, however I will say they resulted two heart surgeries, an artificial heart valve, and a
left paralyzed vocal cord.
Ever try and take a drink of water when you can't close off your lungs? That's what vocal cords do, as well as give you the ability to speak.
I am not anti–vaccine. As a matter of fact I just received a tetanus, along with the pneumonia vaccine.
However I will never trust pharmaceutical companies trials to be open and honest. And I will use or inject ANY pharmaceutical without having time on
the market and a proven track record.
Had I not taken Vioxx, they may have caught and treated the torn left meniscus that started it all. That meniscus took another four years to diagnose.
One of the medications was pulled from the market, because it killed people. The other two are now "Black box" medication.
Two of my wife's medications were also labeled Black box after the fact. it's a shame the profits were probably a hundred times the class action
payout.
edit on 8-10-2021 by Skyman65 because: Fat fingers, bad grammar missing text