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Re: class action lawsuit against the makers of Prednisone
Posted by Maria gary on 10/25/09

    10/25/09, Maria Gary

    This Drug Is No Joke....... I really empathize with you all who
    have been through this with me. Please let me know when and if
    you get any further with this. I too have been a victim of this
    drug. I was born with a lung condition which they call
    Bronchiactosis. In 1998 I was ill with the pneumonia and a
    pulmonary doctor that I was seeing gave it to me as a treatment
    method to get me through the pneumonia, Unfortunately , from the
    date that he started me on it I was hooked until three months
    after when I was diagnosed with AVascular Necrosis. During the
    three months every time that I would weaned or get down to the
    20 mil from the 60 mil My body would go through withdrawals. I'd
    get really ill instantly, I would contact him and he prescribed
    me more pills to pick up from the drug store. Now obviously I
    did not know that this drug was so effective so whatever it took
    to make me feel better I did without thought that it would do
    severe damage. I never read or heard that it would cause such an
    offer side effect. I would call him every time I got down to 20
    mil for more pills. Now considering if the doctor knew the
    dangers of the side effects you would think that the pulmonary
    doctor would have been more cautious giving the drug to me also,
    he wasn't. In fact he stated then that I would not be able to go
    without the drug ever because of my health condition, We’ll he
    lied. However, three months of going back and forth on and off
    of the drug, One day I woke up and fell to the ground. Every
    time I'd get back up again to take a step, My right leg was
    giving out on me. The situation got worse before long it became
    totally lifeless. That went on for about three weeks finally I
    went to a neurologist and after examining me she immediately had
    me admitted into a hospital. Then a orthopedic specialist
    examined me and after a few days of test he came and told me the
    bad news. He told me that my hips had detieriated and needed
    immediate surgery called a deep compression to fix it. I asked
    what caused this problem he said Prednisone did this to you. I
    was in shock. Never in my life would I imagine at age 26 that I
    would have to go through so much. I had big dreams of becoming a
    model and actress, with this now I cannot. In fact I don't think
    that he had a clue to how much damage the drug caused because
    after he did the deep compression to try and savor the right hip
    the left hip collapse on me, Then two month later as the left
    side was healing the right hip collapse on me again so guess
    what? I had to get it replaced. That adds up to three surgeries
    and two out of the surgeries I have gotten my hips replaced. All
    because of this drug, It destroyed my dreams and hopes of doing
    a lot of things. I hired a lawyer to go after the doctor who
    kept prescribing me this drug he held onto my case until after
    statue limitations ran out then he had the nerve to tell me that
    it was not the doctor's fault for that happening to me. So it
    really wasn't anything that I could do about it anyway. I went
    to several lawyers after that and they all said that because I
    am asthmatic and have this lung condition and possibly have been
    prescribed this drug before many times maybe by other doctors it
    wasn't really much that anyone would do. To tell you the truth
    yes I had been prescribed the drug on more than one occasion but
    never did I ever follow through with taking the drug. It always
    made me feel bad when if I took it. I took it that time with
    that doctor because I was really ill and he told me that I
    needed it to get better. As for the makers of the drug everyone
    supports it. So what do I do? Well right now it's been ten years
    since I had the surgeries and it took me two years after that to
    get back on my feet. The doctor who did a very good job
    replacing them said that I should be okay with the hips for
    fourteen years, We’ll I don't think so about that neither, now
    today and I am starting to feel pain in that right hip again.
    And I am pretty sure that very soon I will have to go back to
    the doctor who operated on me and have him take a look and he is
    going to say that I will need to go ahead and get the surgery
    again. What A Life Right? and get a load of this... Its' been
    eleven going on twelve years since that I have not touched
    prednisone. I have been just fine with my dealing asthma without
    it all in a matter of three months time that drug has changed my
    life forever.

    On 10/25/09, Carolyn Delanoy wrote:
    > On 9/23/09, shannon wrote:
    >> On 8/15/09, Neal H. wrote:
    >>>
    >>> The drug Prednisone is literally death in a bottle,its
    >>> classification is a corticosteroid. It horrifying adverse
    >>> effects have been known to physicians for years, yet they
    >>> give it to patients anyway. They don't give a damn its
    >>> protocol and profit for Roxanne pharmaceuticals the
    >>> manufacturer. As a former PCT, I know how horrible this
    >>> class of drugs is. I have had my life destroyed by the
    >>> poison pill after transplant. It has caused me to have
    >>> severe osteoporosis, and in lieu of my congenital
    >>> scoliosis,it caused my spine to collapse and has reduced my
    >>> height so far some 7.5 inches. I read an article on the
    >>> internet that said the man who

     
     

 
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