Why are drugs with a 50% side effect failure rate allowed to be manufactured? That is an F in any one’s book!
All drugs have side effects. It sounds like you're one of the unlucky people who has a particular genetic makeup that causes you to be particularly susceptible to side effects. In any case, you can report drug side effects here. There are links to forms right on the website.
Nightmare to try to do so, have tried it. Yes I am that 2-5% who react badly to most of the newer drugs.
And I can’t get my doctors to stop prescribing the stupid things. So I just send them back to the pharmacist marked ALLERGIC, and cancel prescription! And add to my VERY long list of drug reactions.
Last one was Zetia...it was written off a cholesterol report taken during a Vertigo and Meniere’s attack when food and water tasted like cardboard....It hits all 4 of my auto immunes for just it’s common side effects. I don’t like spending hours hugging the toilet puking my guts up because of 1 pill or having my pain level go from 3 to puke level in less than an hour. And yes I can react that fast to some of them. Others takes weeks.
They are all supposed to be ‘flagged’ in my pharmacist computer, some how it never works. Good thing I pick up our meds, and not my husband, because he’d bring the dang things home, where I won’t.
That is incorrect. Pharmaceutical companies devote a lot of resources to documenting and reporting adverse events.
This is an area for which they can have a drug pulled from the market for inadequate reporting.
If you have any complaints a company's phone service is trained on forwarding anything that sounds like a complaint to their vigilance group. Those folks are skilled at listening, reporting and follow-up. So your point about being difficult to report an adverse event is not accurate.