Comments on: FDA Memo Blasts Diabetes Medicine Avandia http://www.anh-usa.org/fda-memo-blasts-diabetes-medicine-avandia/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:10:25 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: KAY EICHNERhttp://www.anh-usa.org/fda-memo-blasts-diabetes-medicine-avandia/comment-page-1/#comment-45481 KAY EICHNER Thu, 24 Feb 2011 04:27:55 +0000 http://www.anh-usa.org/?p=2463#comment-45481 HI MELANIE, JUST NOW FOUND YOUR POST. YES, I GAINED NEARLY 70 LBS. ACTOS IS BEING USED BY SOME BUT IT IS NOT SAFE NOR IS METFORMIN. I TOO WAS ON MANY MEDS AND QUIT ALL OF THEM EXCEPT MY BLOOD PRESSURE MED AND INSULIN. I WAS ON BOTH WHEN I WAS PUT ON THE AVANDIA. AND BOTH MEDS WERE INCREASED WHILE ON THE AVANDIA. CURRENTLY MY HEALTH IS NOT GOOD BUT I'M STILL ALIVE AND KICKING AS HARD AS I CAN. LOL. I WISH YOUR FRIEND WELL AND HOPE SHE GETS IN ON THE CLASS ACTION CASE. HI MELANIE, JUST NOW FOUND YOUR POST. YES, I GAINED NEARLY 70 LBS. ACTOS IS BEING USED BY SOME BUT IT IS NOT SAFE NOR IS METFORMIN. I TOO WAS ON MANY MEDS AND QUIT ALL OF THEM EXCEPT MY BLOOD PRESSURE MED AND INSULIN. I WAS ON BOTH WHEN I WAS PUT ON THE AVANDIA. AND BOTH MEDS WERE INCREASED WHILE ON THE AVANDIA. CURRENTLY MY HEALTH IS NOT GOOD BUT I’M STILL ALIVE AND KICKING AS HARD AS I CAN. LOL. I WISH YOUR FRIEND WELL AND HOPE SHE GETS IN ON THE CLASS ACTION CASE.

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]]> By: Duane Sherryhttp://www.anh-usa.org/fda-memo-blasts-diabetes-medicine-avandia/comment-page-1/#comment-2091 Duane Sherry Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:57:50 +0000 http://www.anh-usa.org/?p=2463#comment-2091 Thank you for publishing this story, along with the link to Senator Grassley's work. He's done a lot to expose fraudelent research and marketing of psychiatric drugs as well. Wish there were 99 more like him in the U.S. Senate.... Maybe Americans would finally wake up to the scam behind so much of our "medicine."Duane Thank you for publishing this story, along with the link to Senator Grassley’s work. He’s done a lot to expose fraudelent research and marketing of psychiatric drugs as well. Wish there were 99 more like him in the U.S. Senate…. Maybe Americans would finally wake up to the scam behind so much of our “medicine.”

Duane

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]]> By: Melanie Fisherhttp://www.anh-usa.org/fda-memo-blasts-diabetes-medicine-avandia/comment-page-1/#comment-2040 Melanie Fisher Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:29:50 +0000 http://www.anh-usa.org/?p=2463#comment-2040 Hi Kay,Do you know which drug doctors have replaced Avandia with, now?Did you gain weight, too? My friend is now obese. Actually several are. She too has lymphedemia in her legs. She keeps telling her doctor it is the medication. She is on 13 drugs. Horrible. Yesterday she told me she was going off all of them. That is not a good thing at one time, but I believe one could safely say she is being poisoned within with that drug cocktail. Have you written your senator and rep about your concerns?What are drugs are you on now? What are you doing to help yourself?Melanie Fisher Hi Kay,

Do you know which drug doctors have replaced Avandia with, now?

Did you gain weight, too? My friend is now obese. Actually several are. She too has lymphedemia in her legs. She keeps telling her doctor it is the medication. She is on 13 drugs. Horrible. Yesterday she told me she was going off all of them. That is not a good thing at one time, but I believe one could safely say she is being poisoned within with that drug cocktail. Have you written your senator and rep about your concerns?

What are drugs are you on now? What are you doing to help yourself?

Melanie Fisher

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]]> By: Alloddshttp://www.anh-usa.org/fda-memo-blasts-diabetes-medicine-avandia/comment-page-1/#comment-2034 Allodds Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:36:23 +0000 http://www.anh-usa.org/?p=2463#comment-2034 When compared with all the recent new coverage of the Toyota recalls, it leaves me wondering why the media does not make a big deal out of the Pharma failures ? Actually, this will never make it to mainstream media because the Pharma industry is one of the biggest funders of media. So, most Americans will never learn about this as they are kept mesmerized by the entertainment industry. The Big Pharma also heavily funds the elections and the Congress here, so there will never be any indictments. We, the democratic citizens of the largest democracy in the world, must simply live (or often times, die) to learn. When compared with all the recent new coverage of the Toyota recalls, it leaves me wondering why the media does not make a big deal out of the Pharma failures ? Actually, this will never make it to mainstream media because the Pharma industry is one of the biggest funders of media. So, most Americans will never learn about this as they are kept mesmerized by the entertainment industry. The Big Pharma also heavily funds the elections and the Congress here, so there will never be any indictments. We, the democratic citizens of the largest democracy in the world, must simply live (or often times, die) to learn.

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]]> By: Jacques Couturehttp://www.anh-usa.org/fda-memo-blasts-diabetes-medicine-avandia/comment-page-1/#comment-1962 Jacques Couture Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:16:44 +0000 http://www.anh-usa.org/?p=2463#comment-1962 By necessity I started to research the Web in 2000 after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. To my amazement, disgust and then understanding, I discovered that we suffer a severely restrained medical system primarily focused at putting out the fire in our health house while having no real concern or training for preventing said fires from developing in the first place. I also discovered that a lot of excellent medical resources and treatments go by the way side because they do not fit the economic template of our medical/pharmaceutical system. The FDA has sold its sould to the system in order to survive. Not pretty, but necessary for its existence. Our health care is crippled by design... Who wants or could fix it? Very tough question By necessity I started to research the Web in 2000 after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. To my amazement, disgust and then understanding, I discovered that we suffer a severely restrained medical system primarily focused at putting out the fire in our health house while having no real concern or training for preventing said fires from developing in the first place. I also discovered that a lot of excellent medical resources and treatments go by the way side because they do not fit the economic template of our medical/pharmaceutical system.
The FDA has sold its sould to the system in order to survive. Not pretty, but necessary for its existence.
Our health care is crippled by design… Who wants or could fix it? Very tough question

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]]> By: topogiegohttp://www.anh-usa.org/fda-memo-blasts-diabetes-medicine-avandia/comment-page-1/#comment-1955 topogiego Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:58:08 +0000 http://www.anh-usa.org/?p=2463#comment-1955 They should BAN this drug. It darn near killed my son...and I could shoot the doctor that gave it to him...giving him a taste of his own drug. Let him lay in the hospital with severe chest pain, instead of our children. They should BAN this drug. It darn near killed my son…and I could shoot the doctor that gave it to him…giving him a taste of his own drug. Let him lay in the hospital with severe chest pain, instead of our children.

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]]> By: KAY EICHNERhttp://www.anh-usa.org/fda-memo-blasts-diabetes-medicine-avandia/comment-page-1/#comment-1951 KAY EICHNER Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:30:13 +0000 http://www.anh-usa.org/?p=2463#comment-1951 Dear Sirs, I am one injured by Avandia. Avandia disabled me in 2000. I suffered HF, MI, luing disfunction, and lymphedema in both legs. I have not worked since, I am a RN. I will do all I can to stop this drug, drug companies, and the FDA.Kay Eichner, MS, BSN Dear Sirs,
I am one injured by Avandia. Avandia disabled me in 2000. I suffered HF, MI, luing disfunction, and lymphedema in both legs. I have not worked since, I am a RN. I will do all I can to stop this drug, drug companies, and the FDA.

Kay Eichner, MS, BSN

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]]> By: Regina Griffithhttp://www.anh-usa.org/fda-memo-blasts-diabetes-medicine-avandia/comment-page-1/#comment-1931 Regina Griffith Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:43:00 +0000 http://www.anh-usa.org/?p=2463#comment-1931 So where are the indictments? Doesn't this constitute manslaughter, or did I miss something?More people are being murdered by the pharmaceutical industry with their accomplices at the FDA than by "terrorists."How many deaths does it take before any of these people are arrested? So where are the indictments? Doesn’t this constitute manslaughter, or did I miss something?

More people are being murdered by the pharmaceutical industry with their accomplices at the FDA than by “terrorists.”

How many deaths does it take before any of these people are arrested?

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]]> By: Susanhttp://www.anh-usa.org/fda-memo-blasts-diabetes-medicine-avandia/comment-page-1/#comment-1921 Susan Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:27:27 +0000 http://www.anh-usa.org/?p=2463#comment-1921 And believe it or not, I already had heart failure when Avandia was prescribed to me for diabetes in approximately late 2003 or 2004. Fortunately, I was only on it for several months because I gained 23 pounds in less than 3 months while on that drug! I shudder to think that I was on a drug that could cause more heart problems. And believe it or not, I already had heart failure when Avandia was prescribed to me for diabetes in approximately late 2003 or 2004. Fortunately, I was only on it for several months because I gained 23 pounds in less than 3 months while on that drug! I shudder to think that I was on a drug that could cause more heart problems.

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