Re: Class action lawsuit against Prednisone

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On 7/09/16, Nicole Parker -Boyd wrote:
> 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!