Mirapex / Requip / Neupro: Significant Increased Risk Of Compulsive Behaviors -- Gambling, Shopping, And Sex -- For These Parkinson's And Restless Leg Drugs

When reading this report by Tom Lamb, please bear in mind that less than 10% of adverse drug events are ever recorded on official databases and come sceptical experts think the actual figure is less than 1%.  My main concern with these drugs is their use for treating restless legs.  Drugs such as these are not treating the root causes - merely suppressing symptoms while placing the patient at risk of a long list of nasty side effects - such as risking becoming a compulsive sex pervert or gambling away the family home!
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These Impulse Side Effects, As Seen In Adverse Drug Events Reports, Are Much Higher Than Previously Thought According To New Medical Journal Article

(Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) 
Thomas Moore, A.B., a senior scientist at the Institute of Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), together with his fellow authors of a new medical journal article are calling for the addition of a so-called "black-box" warning to the drug labels for Mirapex, Requip, Neupro, and other medications used for Parkinson's disease and restless leg syndrome. 

Based on their findings about impulse control problems associated with these "dopamine agonists" drugs, they think there should be a heightened warning about unusual side effects in the form of compulsive behaviors involving gambling, shopping, and sex.

This new medical journal article is "Reports of Pathological Gambling, Hypersexuality, and Compulsive Shopping Associated With Dopamine Receptor Agonist Drugs", which was published online October 20, 2014 by the medical journalJAMA Internal Medicine.

From an October 21, 2014 news report by HealthDay, "Parkinson's Drugs May Spur Compulsive Behaviors", we get this commentary and insight:

Drugs commonly used to treat Parkinson's disease may raise the risk of so-called impulse control disorders, according to a new review.

These disorders include compulsive gambling, compulsive shopping and/or hypersexuality.

That increased risk was seen in a fresh review of a decade's worth of U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) records....

The study's authors stressed that these medicines are widely used to treat a range of illnesses, including Parkinson's, restless leg syndrome and patients diagnosed with high levels of the hormone prolactin -- which can cause impotence in men and can prevent pregnancy in women.

More than 2 million such prescriptions were filled during the last three months of 2012 alone, the researchers noted....

Nearly 45 percent of [710 "serious" impulse control adverse drug events reports made to FDA] were linked directly to the use of any of six different dopamine receptor agonist medications, with most involving male patients (more than 65 percent) at an average age of 55. The other 55 percent of cases were associated with the use of other medications, the study found.

More than 60 percent of the time, the impulse control cases involving dopamine receptor agonists were patients struggling with Parkinson's, while nearly a quarter involved patients with restless leg syndrome, the researchers said.

Breaking it down, the team identified 628 instances of pathological gambling, 465 cases of hypersexuality, and 202 examples of compulsive shopping.

"I should say that the risk for these events does not appear to be rare at all," said Moore. "These psychiatric side effects appear to occurring among at least 10 percent of patients. If you compare that with, say, the risk for suicide among patients who take antidepressant drugs, this is much higher. It's an astronomical rate, in terms of drug adverse event risk. And frankly I think I'm being conservative."

In fact, some patients have sued the manufacturer of Mirapex, Boehringer Ingelheim, alleging that this Parkinson's disease drug triggered their pathological gambling which resulted in significant economic damages and other losses.

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Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics Cipro, Avelox, And Levaquin Linked To Peripheral Neuropathy In First Large Epidemiologic Study

I have a client who is preparing to do an unsupported running race of the Grand Canyon.  In the medical advice given by the organiser's medical advisor, he recommends that competitors take one of the fluoroquinolone antibiotics to guard against infection.  My immediate reaction, upon reading this advice, was to consider the doctor mad, ill-informed or just plain brain-washed by Big Pharma! 

I have written quite a few articles about the permanent, crippling damage done by these drugs to countless thousands of people.  Remember that less than 10% and more like 1% of all adverse drug reactions ever get reporterd!

In recent years case reports have linked Levaquin, Cipro, and Avelox with peripheral neuropathy, or serious nerve damage. As a result of the large number of cases of peripheral neuropathy in patients using Avelox, Cipro, and Levaquin being reported to the FDA, it issued this warning in August 2013: "FDA Drug Safety Communication: FDA requires label changes to warn of risk for possibly permanent nerve damage from antibacterial fluoroquinolone drugs taken by mouth or by injection".

My advice is to refuse to take them unless your life depends on it.  Ask for an alternative.  If you are competing in an event, or ging to a place where infection such as tummy bugs are common, then consult me about healthy alternatives.

I am indebted to Tom Lamb of Tom Lamb Law for his diligence in keeping a watch on drug injury trends. 

Why haven't anti-osteoporosis drugs been taken off the market?

Fosamax Information

What is Fosamax?

Fosamax is Merck's popular osteoporosis drug, generically known as alendronate, which is part of a class of drugs known as bisphosphonates. Fosamax is used to treat osteoporosis and bone pain caused by some cancers. 

Fosamax use has been associated with atypical stress fractures, or insufficiency fractures, of the femur / thigh bone. While the medical articles about femur fractures in long-term users of Fosamax have been getting more attention recently, many prescribing and treating doctors have still not learned about this possible Fosamax side effect, yet.

Medical studies have also shown a possible link between using Fosamax and developing osteonecrosis of the jaw, or ONJ, which essentially is the destruction of bone tissue. Osteonecrosis of the jaw can be very painful and may lead to other complications such as infection, breakdown of the jawbone, ulcerations in the mouth, non-healing wounds, and osteomyelitis (inflammation of bone marrow).
http://www.druginjurylaw.com/Fosamax-information.php
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Gary:
Fosamax is just one of a class of drugs known as bisphosphonates.  These drugs work by killing off cells that remove old bone, thus giving a temporary gain in bone mass and a false sense of security.  Its a big lie.  The evidence is piling up that these drugs destroy healthy bone, increase fractures and make people very, very sick.

I have been following Tom Lamb of the US firm Drug Injury Law.
http://www.druginjurylaw.com/Fosamax-information.php
There are now close to 1,000 lawsuits pending against Fosamax alone!  You'd think these drugs would have been whisked off the market by now.  Instead, we see the opposite with television personalities, like NZ's Jude Dobson, seductively promoting these drugs on prime time television.

Why do these drugs continue to be aggressively marketed by doctors to unsuspecting patients?

I think I know what is going on.  These drugs are worth billions of dollars in world-wide sales.  It can take as long as ten years for a case to stumble its way through the courts and may, in the end, amount to a few millions in settlements.  This is chicken feed to the company when one looks at how many millions upon millions they will bring in by way of sales while the court cases grind on and on.

One other factor is that the plaintiffs are generally aged, unwell (the drugs ensure this!) and lacking financial resources.  Big Pharma counts on most of these people not having the stamina or the longevity to see a protracted and exhausting litigation through to finality.

Why do doctors continue to enthusiastically push these harmful drugs onto their trusting patients?

I can not understand why anybody who professes to be a health expert would ever associate with such harmful drugs, let alone profit from them.  I don't know.  You tell me!

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Video about the misery being caused by fluoroquinolone antibiotics

Yes, folks, this class of drugs is still being prescribed in New Zealand and they are doing serious harm to innocent patients who have no real recourse other than to quietly suffer the consequences.

As the video below points out, you can multiply the official figures by 100 because most adverse medical events never get reported - about 1%.  That, in itself, is shocking.

Read here for more information about fluoroquinolones.

I have written several articles about this class of nasty drugs and the misery they cause.  Here is the link:
http://blog.garymoller.com/search/label/fluoroquinolones

"Some people claim a class of antibiotics called Fluoroquinolones has left them suffering from unusual and debilitating side effects. And they say, they were never properly warned."

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Pradaxa Bleeding Events: Four Major Factors Which Contributed To These Serious Side Effects

Warfarin: A
popular rat
poison

New Zealand is in the international spotlight.... For the wrong reasons.

If you live in New Zealand and your doctor has switched your anti-coagulation medication recently from Warfarin, the chances are you have been given a drug called "Pradaxa".  Please go here to learn more about this drug here in New Zealand.

Pradaxa has been associated with a rash of "bleeding" incidents in New Zealand and, I understand, a number of deaths.  This does not mean to say that Warfarin, which it replaces is any safer - it is far from "safe".  By the way, there are safe, natural alternatives that most people on blood thinners may wish to consider; but the switching from the likes of Warfarin to these needs to be carefully exercised with the assistance of a suitably trained health practitioner.

Please go here for some articles about Warfarin.

While the number of incidents seem to be relatively low, please bear in mind that less than 10% of adverse reactions ever get onto official databases.  Some cynics believe the real figure is less than 1%.  I go with the latter.

I have reproduced below a letter from Tom Lamb of Drug Injury Watch.  If you feel you have been harmed by this drug, or similar ones, please drop him a line.  While his main interests are within the USA, I am sure he will be happy to hear from you.

One point of note is the lack of an effective reversal agent.  Which means if you suffer an adverse event, things could go from bad to worse because there is no antidote to effectively neutralise the action of the drug.

Gary
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My doctor has poisoned me with flouroquinoline!

Dear Sir....
Oh my God Oh my God Oh my God.....thank you soooo much from my heart, for your articles of the TRUTH about the TOXIC fluoroquinolones!!!!! Oh Sir, you just have no idea of the HELL that this previously HEALTHY single mom of twin 10-yr old boys has been through....NOT ONLY WITH MY DETERIORATING HEALTH but the TOTAL IGNORANCE and LACK OF CONCERN from the medical community (for starters).

Photo: Shelley in healthier days

If it were not for the information I finally found on the internet, after nearly 2 years of searching and struggling to find the CAUSE of my "mysterious symptoms"....I don't know where I would be now. At least I have found the MUCH NEEDED *SUPPORT* from groups like FQRESEARCH.ORG and our wonderful YAHOO quinolones discussion forum. And valuable information from articles like yours.

How do I deal w/ the fact that the life I had is gone. Over. because of the INCOMPETENCY of our DOCTORS....AND GOVERNMENT??!! My life has completely changed. Everything about my life.....the pain and suffering have been HORRENDOUS!!! It's INCOMPREHENSIBLE how this has happened to me....and so many others who are suffering NEEDLESSLY!!!!! I receive email from people on a daily basis....people I have never met or even heard of before....searching for answers.....suffering, begging, praying...... And as it stands today, we have NO PROTOCOL FOR HEALING....NO RECOURSE FOR COMPENSATION!!!!! NOTHING!!!!! OMG what has happened to us??!!!!

I have pictures of my skin, the blood that started appearing on my face, from tiny specks of "sores"....just appearing in the morning when I woke up, for NO REASON AT ALL!!! I began telling my doctor about mysterious aches and pains I started having, that would NOT go away....and I had no clue as to why it was happening. I told my doctors about a feeling of malaise....almost to the point of being a constant nausea.....and a very strange sensation of my body "stiffening up" so that I could hardly get out of bed in the morning, and it was a struggle to make it down the steps.

I told my doctors about the ringing in my ears....pain behind my right ear, where a "knot" appeared. I actually had one doctor try to convince me that it was from my glasses!! I insisted she feel the bump....and stood firm that I knew the difference between "mysterious pain" and pain from where my glasses would sit along my ear! It just made NO SENSE. Yes she finally (in exasperation) decided to send me to an ENT... who also HAD NO CLUE (OR LIED) and offered not much as far as diagnosis after SEVERAL VISITS....it was a lymph node, and I could have it removed. Well, still, there was NO ANSWER about the strange "swelling" or tenderness I felt all around my ear....then ALSO all around areas of my HEAD!!!! I chose not to be cut into until a doctor could tell me what it was....I was worried that something else was going on that could be made WORSE from surgery.

The more I suffered and tried desperately to recover and heal, the more "new symptoms" would appear!!! Can you imagine my DESPERATION and FEAR??!! Going from crying to the doctors, to becoming angry.....even taking my 70-yr old mother AND my little boys with me for some kind of VALIDATION!!!! I was finally sent to a rheumatologist (even though my test results showed that I did not have rheumatoid arthritis). So I really had no faith in that visit...even though by this time, my hands and feet were so sore, my right hand swelled, and I believe there is permanent damage. X-rays showed nothing abnormal....and I was once again dismissed....though any MORON can SEEEEE the damage with their own naked eyes!!!! I kept complaining....and I kept being told there was "nothing else" they could do. I would go home, completely mystified, crying.....I didn't understand. How could a doctor NOT be "concerned"??!

I was eventually diagnosed with tennis elbow (tendinitis), arthralgia, musculoskeletal disorder, trigeminal neuralgia....I've recently had an MRI for a stabbing feeling at the top of my head....but the MRI came back "normal". (Of course now I understand WHY) I had gone to physical therapy several times. (Which may have even been a big mistake on the doctors' part) There was one time, during a course of therapy that I thought I started to feel a little better....but that did not last long.....and in fact, my pains became worse. In frustration, I then said "The hell w/ all of them!!!" And continued to suffer.....searching for ANY clue!!!

You will not believe how I found out the TRUTH!!! I searched UNDETECTIBLE TOXIC DRUGS and POISONING....because that's exactly how it felt to me!! It felt as though I had been POISONED and the doctors could not find it!! And suddenly....THERE IT WAS!! How was I supposed to even REMEMBER the name of some antibiotics I took in 2003??!!!! YES 2003!!! I had been given AVELOX as well as TWO courses of LEVAQUIN!! I know I felt side-effects but continued my medication as prescribed by my physician. By the time the actual DAMAGE by these fluoroquinolones had occured, (we call them FQ's), I would NEVER have held these drugs suspect!!! WHO would even THINK such a thing!!

That's how absolutely mind-boggling this situation is!! AND IT IS KILLING US!!!!! I have been taking supplements daily....faithfully. The first thing I start with is COLLAGEN!! And I am finally coming to terms w/ the fact that my life has changed....and I may never fully recover. Every minute of every day is a struggle physically and emotionally. But I continue to fight the good fight. I have to..... what is the alternative??!! I am sharing your articles w/ my forums, as well as passing them along in emails. I am committed to promoting awareness about this grave situation esp through an informative email campaign that I call D-A-A-M....DEADLY ANTIBIOTIC AWARENESS MISSION.

Instead of enjoying the life I share w/ my children and mother....and our 7 cats....and being able to enjoy the simple pleasures of life itself.....I am working on this mission from the time I awaken (in PAIN) to the time I finally go to sleep, which is always in the wee hrs of the morning.

I found YOUR website about 5 AM!! In between time, I also home-educate my boys!! But I cannot and will not keep SILENT about the dangers of TOXIC FQ's, and how they are literally crippling innocent people...and DESTROYING THEIR LIVES!!!!! PLEASE....if there is ANYTHING you can do to help us.....ANYTHING at all....would you please consider giving us some of your time and insight into this matter?? We are struggling on a daily basis, with NOWHERE to turn, but each other. I am hoping I can make a difference. Will you please TRY to do something for us???? I am asking, at the very least, if you could possibly help w/ healing protocol. No promises, or guarantees......just some insight. It could be the start we are hoping and praying for.

Please continue to research and promote awareness with me!! For all of us!! I appreciate your time and consideration.....and anxiously await your reply!!

Thank you Sir, I remain Sincerely and gratefully yours,
~Shells~
Ms Shelley Sealover
ShellsPink@aol.com Toxic_Pinx@Yahoo.com
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Gary Moller comments:
Thank you so much, Shelley, for the moving story of your struggle with these harmful drugs that continue to be prescribed. I have retained your email address with this article so that others can contact you.

Sadly, current medical opinion about these drugs is the damage is permanent. However; I am much more optimistic than most. While there is undoubted damage to collagen in the body, I am forever amazed at the capacity of the body to heal, if only we provide the best possible conditions to assist it with that job and if only we give it time before resorting to more drugs.

I think the drugs companies and the doctors who manufacture and dish out this class of drugs to unsuspecting patients deserve to be sued to Kingdom Come. There is more than enough evidence that these drugs do irreparable harm and we have known for years.

I recommend that readers who think they may have been harmed by flouroquinolines and other drugs, like biphosphenates, contact Tom Lamb of Drug Injury Watch. It was Tom lamb who first brought these flouroquinoline antibiotics to may attention. There may be a class action law suit that one can join, rather than battle the Big Boys alone.

Some thoughts about how to support a Floxy Body

• A hair tissue mineral analysis will be most interesting and may throw up some very interesting results that will help direct nutritional interventions.
• Take collagen supplements, as you are, and natural sources such as beef and chicken bone broths which will also provide much needed minerals and proteins - refer to my Recipes Section.
• Please read and follow my article here about chronic pain and fatigue. The advice applies.
• Take up to 8,000 mg of Methylsulfonlymethane (MSM) per day, plus 2,000 mg of vitamin C per day. You could add a quality garlic oil and vitamin E. These will help detoxify the body of any poisons as well as providing nutrients - vit C and sulphur for healthy collagen.
• You can also add a glucosamine supplement to the daily diet. If over 40, ensure there is also chondroitin. You do not need one with MSM, since you will be taking large amounts from a dedicated MSM supplement.

Give this time - the best part of a year to see if there are any significant benefits. Please keep us posted as to how you get on and we wish you all the best Shelley.