"I'll be filing a lawsuit the second week in January!"
Posted on 12/20/2004 4:07:11 PM PST by NautiNurse
WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration Monday issued a warning to patients taking the painkiller naproxen [snip] for increased risk of heart problems.
Patients taking naproxen, [snip] should not take it for more than 10 days unless directed by their doctor, the FDA said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
The FDA can take a flying 'Ef' at the moon. I get up in the morning, I hurt, I take naproxen, I'm fixed. Stomach pains or bleeding don't seem to be a problem, at least not for me. Tylenol wasn't supposed to be good for you either, messed up the liver or sumpin.
I am blessed to be so healthy, but I'm very glad that I have always refused any medicine that the doctors shove at me. As it turns out, the side-effects of most meds are worse than the ailment they are meant to treat. My doc wants me to take meds for high cholesterol. I've read the warnings on all those meds. Tell me why I should risk liver and kidney disease just to lower something that occurs naturally in my body? I'm never sick and I feel great, so I think it would be foolish for me to take anything chemical. I see my doc twice a year whether I need him or not.
With Vioxx lot of people died and the reason they yanked it was the documents are out there showing they knew about it from the beginning. There were approxiamately 180,000 heart attacks while taking the drug. The rate of heart attack was 2 to nearly 4 times higher than the people not taking it. You do the math. Even if those numbers are off by an order of magnitude it is EVIL.
I know I couldn't make the decision to hide that kind of thing. You obviously could. I don't envy you. These people stuck their company's wallet in a noose. Unfortunately the people who made the callous decisions cannot be jailed or sued personally so the investors will have to pay. Hopefully the payment will be high enough that these slugs lose their jobs and ethical responsible people are put in stopping this kind of behavior in the future.
The really horrible thing is they could have been honest about the potential side effects in a subset of their market and limited distribution and prescription length and a remarkably effective drug would still be on the market making them money. But hey they chose to market it to everyone like SSRIs and statins.
I hope in the afterlife they reap what they sowed.
Mobic. Ask your doctor.
Every drug company has an iron in the statin fire. It will take some major evidence before the first negative study comes out on them.
Time to ban water.
Well now, there ya go. You're a grandma after my own heart. Vit C for everything. Do not, I repeat, DO NOT trust doctors. They have agendas. I only resort to my family doctor (good Christian) for a six month check-up. I'm never sick so I have to re-introduce myself to him when I do go. LOL.
I like hearing stories of good medicine that began with animals and have great respect for vets. My Keeshond is still tap-dancing at 13 with nary a creak. She gets some, but not much, glucosamine in her Nutro crunchies. If she ever needs more, I'll try green-lipped mussels as a source. I have a cheap online source for such things, http://www.beyond-a-century.com
I learned to trust vets 234987 years ago when I took my dog in with a terrible triangular tear in his cornea inflicted by a cat. While the vet removed the afflicted triangle, I read a vet magazine in the waiting room, which praised Vitamin E for healing wounds. Vet said "come back in a week for further treatment, but the dog will always have an opacity in that eye." So I took him home, kept flooding that eye and his food with E I squeezed from capsules, and voila! The next week there was no trace of opacity or any damage to the eye.
A couple of years later, a cat I loved got lost and into caustic substances. When found, the vet said, "Oh oh, this is death." Cat had gangrenous tongue, paws, and ears and who knows what damage inside from trying to lick the stuff off. I left him at the vet's for two weeks, then prepared meals for him including raw liver ground up with copious quantites of E and other nutrients. He would not eat the vet's food, but lapped up the stuff delivered daily from home. He recovered, minus the raspies on his tongue and literally regrew part of his ears. Went on to live 19 years!
So my first line of defense -- and offence -- against disease has always been extreme nutrition. Works for me!
I took Lipitor for three months and it dropped my cholesterol 100 points. Doc wanted me to keep taking it to balance LDLs and HDLs but I said no. I can do it nutritionally. I took tocotrienols and changed my diet. Three months later, all was in perfect balance. I'm posting on a physicians board about Lipitor, and several docs have contacted me to see exactly what it was that worked for me.
The Protein Power Plan diet reputedly lowers blood pressure and cholesterol. It's a very easy diet to follow and you might find that it works for you too. The book, The Protein Power Plan, is available at amazon.com and all over the place. Written by two physicians, Mary and Michael Eades, who have had excellent results with thier patients.
First and foremost the liver. Be very careful with Acetaminophen if you consume alcohol.
Anti-depress. script overwriting is one of my pet peeves. That could be another thread. My idea of the worst offender...the remarketing of Prozac as (sp?) Serafem. Same compound but with a daisy on the box. For PMS symptoms. I know of some GPs who practically talk their pts. into SSRIs (which are great when indicated...but not for everyone).
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Sure enough, just let the subject turn to painkillers and Rush Limbaugh has to come up! (grin)
He is, however, currently unemployed with a new home in Chapel Hill, and lots of Wendy's Biggie meals to pay for...the drug company lawsuits could hold him over until he sues Wendy's.
I almost never have headaches --- but sometimes certain wines --- just one glass --- will give me what I think could be a migraine. Coffee cures that and any minor headache I get so I don't need the unhealthy chemicals.
I think you're giving good advice --- the "cures" are worse than the disease --- best to eliminate the root cause.
LOL. WAIT they are indicated for everyone! Just watch the commercials!
Zocor is also for everyone. Diabetic need Zocor, Normal cholesterol Zocor, normal cholesterol normal blood sugar you guessed it Zocor, or whatever the statin of the day is.
I hope statins live up to the press but I don't trust anything printed about them.
I had an internist tell me once that his recommendation for OTC pain relief was to mix medicines so as not to build up a tolerance and to "bomb" it with 2-3 times the recommended dosage (the recommended dosage is what they put on the bottle so practically anyone will have no adverse reactions but it is often not enough to effectively deal with the pain).
IOW, take 2-6 ibuprofens one day, 3-4 naproxins the next day, 2-6 tylenols the day after, etc. That way, you get the maximum out of each medicine without suffering from their longterm problems.
I must add, of course, that I am not a medical professional and the recommendation is for general pain, not intense pain.
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