Posted by Maria gary on 10/25/09

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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.

Prednisone The Life Changer, 10/25/09, by Maria gary.

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