Rarely a year passes without the announcement of some new wonder drug to treat another disease. While more and better drugs are usually considered a good thing, there have been some known to cause SERIOUS, unexpected health problems as a result of their use.
There are many different drugs that are still on the market which are causing SERIOUS harm. Actos, for example, is a drug used to lower blood sugar levels in Diabetic patients. Believe it or not, it actually has been proven to cause Bladder Cancer in. Yaz, Yasmin, and Ocella are all forms of birth control pills that contain a unique progestin. This ingredient has been known to help with PMDD (Premenstral Dyasphoric Disorder) and is now being known to cause blood clots, DVT, strokes, heart attacks, pulmonary emboli, gall bladder disease, and sudden cardiac death in young women!
If you are taking any of the following drugs, look and the harm that they have the potential to cause and check with your doctor and see if there is an alternative drug you can take:
- Actos-Bladder Cancer
- Pradaxa-uncontrollable bleeding and death
- Yaz, Yasmin, & Ocella-Stroke, blood clots, DVT, heart attacks, gallbladder disease, pulmonary emboli, and sudden cardiac death
- Bisphosphonates- (Actonel, Boniva, Fosamax, Zometa, Aredia, and others -impairment of body’s ability to repair damage to bones, leading to jaw osteonecrosis, femur fractures, and possible link to esophageal cancer
- Accutane-Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Avandia- Congestive Heart Failure, Heart Attack, Ischemic Stroke, Sudden Cardiac Death
- Darvon & Darvocet-Sudden Cardiac Death Arrhythmia
- Chantix-Suicide, abnormal behavior
- Zocor & Crestor-Rhabdomyolysis, Kidney Failure
- Plavix-Heart Attack
- Propecia-Sexual Dysfunction, Male Breast Cancer
- Multaq-Liver Failure
- SSRI Antidepressants-Birth Defects, Pulmonary Hypertension
- Tomapax-Birth Defects, Cleft Palate
- Trasylol-Kidney Failure
We are not telling you all this to scare you. We want to help anyone who may be unknowingly hurting themselves by simply taking a drug prescribed by their trusted doctor. That sad part is that the some doctors don’t even know about the terrible results that some drugs are prone to cause. Here at Brooks Law Group, we urge you to research the drugs that you put into your body. If you or anyone you know has ANY of the symptoms caused by the drugs listed above, please give us a call at 888-WE-MEAN-IT (888-936-3264). We are here to help you fight for your rights in these cases. Don’t hesitate and call now.
