Posted on 06/10/2017 6:59:53 AM PDT by markomalley
Boy did you nail that one. Had a hand Ortho tell me his Celestone steroid injection didn’t cause the 2 weeks of H I went through. Mederol based are 3 days.
Bentyl neurological reactions was right in front of the nurse administering it, she never put it in my hospital chart, noted it as MISSED dose, and next 2 nurses brought it in, thankfully it is a pill and they have to wake you, I told them I’d had a bad reaction; they noted it as Missed Dose too. I REAMED out the doc the next morning and it got off my script list. Unfortunately he order an even worse 1, Cytotec which is used in early stage abortions...A person in unknown AB pain, that is not a drug to give, nor to a Pro Lifer. I hate when they are IV and they sneak in and hang the stuff. Zoysin destroys my vision very quickly and takes nearly a month to recoup. MS Contin is instant reaction too.
I can’t draw any valid conclusion based on anecdotal evidence—a case of one is not evidence-based science. Are there other cases? I don’t know. If you know, then tell me?
Over the years, I have had several experiences insisting on a point on behalf of my parents in hospital ERs and doctor offices. It took my intervention recently to make sure that my father's concerns were taken seriously about the risk of a procedure urged by an attending ER specialist. When I later dug through the current edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, my father's refusal to have the test urged was dead on correct.
Due to time pressures and weariness with questions, many doctors and nurses are inclined to take little account of what their patients say. Yet people are not domestic livestock and must be consulted with and advised as to their medical care. And sometimes, nurses and doctors are simply wrong.
If you are referring to Norris as one anecodtal case, I know of one other, but not details enough to know if symptoms same.
Doctor friend said size of particle’s can throw metals into tissues. If chelated ?
Just something to stay away from if possible.
Couldn't agree more.
That I know all to well, we usually do our appointments as a couple, but some times the doc won’t let another person back. Primary is bad on that, and won’t see both of us in the same week.
I’m the one that does the fussing. Hubby would blindly take anything they give him.
She has gotten my blood work wrong to many times, I now have my ENDO do it as I see him the week before. Tried to tell me I was a diabetic with out running A1C1 OR KETONE TEST. @ 5.5 I’m definitely NOT a diabetic, sugar runs high because of 1 gram of C. And she can’t do the math to script for 90 days for Military base. Their meds are usually lower doses and you use more tablets.
I LOATH Express Scripts.
Finding a good doctor is tough, and the extraordinarily profitable consolidation and gaming of the medical payments system by Express Scripts and the two other major pharmacy benefits managers is the cause of much mischief. The occult influence of lobbyists assured that Obamacare put pharmacy benefits managers in the driver’s seat for the sake of promised but illusory cost-savings to be gained by squeezing out small community pharmacies. As politically protected as the PBMs are, there is little prospect for reform.
Good advice.
Doesn’t help Medicare is slow paying and Tricare Life is even slower, 3 months or more. Both already dictate what they will pay, what they will cover, and where you can get your daily meds. The private Pharmacy we used for 30 yrs now gets only an occasional 1 time fill script, or in my case they get my water pill Triamterene generic Diazide which doubles as my heart med as neither Base nor Express Scripts can guarantee the one that works. ES just sends what every they can buy the cheapest, Base has only Maxzide a green tablet that doesn’t work. Nor should they be allowed to OVER RIDE a doctors DAW instructions, my ENDO only uses Name Brand Synthyroid as the generic is 30% less hormones and has tons of side effects.
The FDA requires that generics have the same active ingredient as the brand name drug and be biologically similar. Inactive ingredients though are permitted to vary. Thus generics might differ from brand name prescription drugs because different manufacturing and chemical engineering may lead to different isomers and inactive byproducts in the finished drug. This can lead to differences in effectiveness that escape detection in the industry and FDA review processes for generics.
As the FDA explains in a statement on its website:
FDA is aware that there are reports noting that some people may experience an undesired effect when switching from brand name drug to a generic formulation or from one generic drug to another generic drug. FDA wants to understand what may cause problems with certain formulations if, in fact, they are linked to specific generic products. FDA is encouraging the generic industry to investigate whether, and under what circumstances, such problems occur.
The Agency does not have the resources to perform independent clinical studies and lacks the regulatory authority to require industry to conduct such studies. FDA will continue to investigate these reports to ensure that it has all the facts about these treatment failures and will make recommendations to healthcare professionals and the public if the need arises.
Bull Hockey! culled this AM
FDA Pulling Pain Medication Opana ER from Market, Is This the Beginning of the End for Chronic Pain Sufferers? (OTHER ARTICLES TO SEE)
http://nationalpainreport.com/fda-pulling-pain-medication-opana-er-from-market-is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-chronic-pain-sufferers-8833817.html
The DEA’s Opium War with the Taliban
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-deas-opium-war-with-the-taliban
A Drugmaker Tries To Cash In On The Opioid Epidemic, One State Law At A Time
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/06/12/523774660/a-drugmaker-tries-to-cash-in-on-the-opioid-epidemic-one-state-law-at-a-time
Medicare Erroneously Paid Millions in Electronic Records Push, Audit Finds
https://www.wsj.com/articles/medicare-erroneously-paid-millions-in-electronic-records-push-audit-finds-1497240060
History Channel is doing a special on the 18th on the war on drugs going back to how LSD got was a experiment gone wrong and getting into to public to the un-burned poppy fields in our 2 war zones.
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