Posted by dancingstar on December 1, 2004, at 12:32:11
In reply to Re: Careless prescribing, posted by JACJ on December 1, 2004, at 7:12:57
I have a feeling that's how I also ended up on Oxycontin. I was only able to get it from a pharmacy in Arizona, though I live in California. The doctor had the drug rep explain to me that it was better for me to take this than to take Vicodin for my injured disc problem. I thought it was a lousy idea, but she insisted that I give it a try.
I was on a private disability plan that I purchased, and when the doctor was interviewed, he denied prescribing Oxycontin, and I lost my benefits. I stopped taking it. The doctor stopped seeing me.
I went to a lawyer. When the lawyer saw the records, he thought I had done something wrong, and I couldn't make it right, but I looked up the doctor's records, and he had been suspended in the past and I don't think he could write those prescriptions or something was funny, and maybe he was getting a kickback from the company -- I don't know, but I have wondered about this for a long time. I didn't know what to do. Anyway, that is the same man that put me on Effexor for "fatigue" that turned out to be a thyroid problem. Now that I'm off of it, all of my joint and hip pain symptoms seem to have gone away, but I'm left with something like colitis and pretty bad stomach pain and generalized withdrawal pain, but that will go away, I'm sure, though it's been two months. I wasn't ever depressed -- angry, maybe :-)
I want to go after the doctor, but I have also placed a call to a respectful but one of the strongest class action guys around in an effort to change the way these drugs are handled and would appeciate any input that anyone has with regard to this.
Family practitioners and internists are being bombarded with drug reps, and their patients are paying the price of this onslaught. I couldn't make it to a gym class this morning because I couldn't leave the bathroom. This is really getting old. But it's not just me, it is everyone else, too. If it were just me, I would file a simple claim for myself. How can we allow the harm to innocent people to continue now that we know about it? Frankly, how dare Wyeth do so?
...me and that darn soapbox seem to be attached at the feet.
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