Re: Class action lawsuit against Prednisone

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On 5/12/16, Maryann DeGarmo 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 have no 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.

I definitely feel that the side
effects of Prednisone was more
detrimental to my health than
beneficial. Now I'm dealing with
diabetes and dependent on medicine to
help me manage my sugar. I think that
the manufacturers of prednisone should
be held liable in some kind of way for
the negative effects that results from
taking this dangerous drug!