Re: Class action lawsuit against Prednisone

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>On October 23, 2018 Mike Walgurski wrote:
had no vision problems my entire life going 59 now and was put on
Prednisone a short time ago and in that time my vision started to
vary.
Went to an eye appt today 10-23-2018 and was told i have cateracts
in both eyes and was assured with my past history that the steroid
Prednisone has caused this and will require surgery WTF.Help me
some sort of class action advice please
On 5/12/16, Maryann D0eGarmo wrote:
> On 5/17/11, debbie okane wrote:
>> On 3/02/11, Jose Fronda wrote:
>>> my brother was prescribed prednisone from June 2003 thru
>>> Nov 2006 for infections like bronchitis, pneumonia, COPD,
>>> asthma. He'd developed various harmful effects : fluid
>>> retention, increased blood sugar leading to diabetes
>>> (family W ent diabetes history), increased succeptibility
>>> to infections, easy bruising, thinning of skin, imcreased
>>> blood pressure, ulcers and bleeding, glaucoma and cataract,
>>> osteoporosis, insomnia and depressed, psychogenic, adrenal
>>> suppression, blood chemistry problems.
>>
>> On 5/17/11
>> I was put on prednisone for back pain developed
hyperglycaemia, critical
> blood
>> sugars in ER
>> Now off work vision decreased, visual disturbances, extreme
fatigue
>> Been told prednisone could have caused me to be diabetic, have
had lots of
>> tests, more medical visits with specialists
>> Bloodwork is all normal, can't find any cause for diabetes, 42,
120lbs, healthy,
>> no hx diabetes
>> I'm furious, took a drug and now have severe medical problem
>> Prednisone states possible diabetes with long term use +6weeks,
has anyone
>> else experienced this and if so what can be done.
> Maryann DeGarmo I was a full time nanny and after being on
prednisone for a
> year I started limping and my dr ordered X-rays and finally am
MRI after I went
> to stand up and couldn't sit or stand. The MRI revealed a fatty
tissue growth that
> had grown on my sacral area and exploded and squashed all my
nerves. My
> surgeon had to open me up and get all that growth removed and
free my nerves
> .she said it was caused from the prednisone and get off it
immediately. However
> it gave me a fractured hip. Tailbone, and my sacrel area of my
lower back. I was
> told not to lift over 3 pounds. I can't sit very long and I
can't be on my feet very
> long. I have had to be on pain meds ever since. I can't work and
I am
> I'm able to pick up and hold my first grandbaby who just turned
one . I can't get
> down on the floor to play with her. My doctor told me I can't
work as a nanny
> anyymore ever. I am in constant pain my bones are destroyed I
have
> osteoporosis. A doctor put me on prednisone to heal aspergillos
fungus . She
> never told me about how it caused osteoporosis . Funny how after
a year and I
> started limping she says oh we should get a bone density test
because this
> prednisone weakens the bones. Too late now I find her at fault
since she knew
> that for not bringing it up in the beginning and checking my
bones sooner and
> not telling me about taking calcium and Vitamin d to protect my
bones. I feel she
> knew it could harm me and didn't tell me until it was too late.
I think she knew it
> was dangerous and I could have been taken off it sooner. All she
said after the
> fact was sometimes the side effects are worse than what they
were treating. I
> am devastated that my whole life has changed and I can barely
walk with a
> walker baby steps while I am in rehab in the pool trying so hard
to get my nerves
> to work and the muscles in my legs to work again. I don't want
her to keep giving
> this drug to people like it is no big deal that it happened to
me. I have to live in
> pain every day now. Shouldn't a doctor be held responsible for
causing harm for
> a prescription they gave you that destroyed your life and they
didn't warn you
> about how dangerous it was? No mention of it causing this growth
it caused that
> it could give me Cauda enquina syndrome. No warning from her
about how it
> was destroying my bones until she knew it had when I could
hardly walk and
> limping finally decides then to do a bone density test . How
about the pledge of
> do no harm to my patients? Maybe do a bone density test before
you put me on
> something that you know is destroying my bones? How about
putting me on
> vitamin d and calcium and monitoring my bones instead of
destroying them. I
> had 3 fractures and had never even fallen when I went in for
surgury my bones
> are worse than my 81 year old mother. I have never been sick or
had a broken
> bone in my life.i thought it was ok to trust my doctor I have
never been sick
> before. Please help me to get prednisone for destroying not only
my life but not I
> have read so many stories of all the lives it has destroyed I'm
not the only one
> by far and so it is hard for me to believe that they don't know
how dangerous
> their drug is.