Re: Re: Rose, a question on contagious factor

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and also this illness is so hard on the finances...maybe You will have a good Xmas in spite of thisFrom: jentolson <no_reply >bird mites Sent: Sun, November 21, 2010 8:36:26 PMSubject: Re: Rose, a question on contagious factor

Hi Rose, I'm sorry to hear you got this beast while just trying to serve others at your work place. I am noticing that kind of thing a lot just reading through forums. I mean, it seems like this mite attacks good and caring folks more than mean people. We're sooo lucky to have a medical professional like you here helping everyone.

My symptoms are typical Rose, getting better, than sometimes worse like Lynn's cha cha. I love how she describes this back and forth thing with this bug. She's like a poet. Most of the time I'd say I am probably doing better, blame that on my optomism, lol. My main worry is not about me but over spreading this to others. There's no way I'll risk infesting anyone else. The hubby informs me hotel stays are out. Money is tight now with the holiday gift buying so we might be staying home this year.

Jen

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> > > heard this for awhile about darvocet ,too.....tramadol might help...don't

> >think

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> > > it comes through the urine as much...but ususally if You have a script

> > >employers

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> > > don't care as nuch...with my fibro just said I take it prn at night...nobody

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> > > ever cared...codeine hard on tummy sometimes

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> > > From: healinghope <mfrreman@>

> > > bird mites

> > > Sent: Sat, November 20, 2010 6:25:14 AM

> > > Subject: FDA pulls Darvon drug off shelves

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> > > Folks I have been taking this for pain prescribed for carpel tunnel. Throwing

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> > > all I have left away when the drug recycle comes through. Back to good old

> > > codeine. Why don't they legalize pot for pain???? I would use pot if not for

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> > > the drug testing. Hesitant to even do codeine it is frowned on so much:( if

> > > found in the urine!

> > > http://www.ohio.com/news/nation/109391664.html

> > > FDA pulls Darvon drug off shelves, cites risks

> > > Health officials say painkiller target of safety concerns for decades. Pill

> >can

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> > > cause fatal irregular heart rhythms

> > > By Perrone

> > > Associated Press

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> > > Published on Saturday, Nov 20, 2010

> > > WASHINGTON: The maker of the painkiller Darvon is pulling the drug off the

> > > market at the request of public health officials who say the more than

> > > 50-year-old pill causes potentially deadly heart rhythms.

> > > The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals

> >had

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> > > agreed to halt all U.S. marketing of Darvon and the related brand Darvocet,

> > > which have been subject to safety concerns for decades. The Kentucky company

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> > > confirmed the move in its own statement.

> > > The FDA also ordered generic drugmakers to stop making and selling low-cost

> > > drugs containing the active ingredient in Darvon, called propoxyphene.

> > > Britain and the European Union decided to ban Darvon in 2005 and 2009,

> > > respectively, due to a long trend of suicides and accidental overdoses.

> > > FDA officials said they decided to take action based on a recent study

> >showing

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> > > Darvon interferes with the electrical activity of the heart, causing

> >irregular

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> > > heart rhythms that can be fatal. Xanodyne conducted the study last year at

> >the

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> > > government's request.

> > > ''This last study, the cardiac study, was sort of the final piece of the

> >puzzle

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> > > that told us what the complete picture was,'' said Dr. Gerald Dal Pan,

> >director

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> > >

> > > of FDA's office of surveillance and epidemiology.

> > > Dal Pan said patients should continue taking the medication until their

> >doctors

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> > > prescribe a replacement therapy. Other commonly prescribed drugs in the same

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> > > class are oxycodone and codeine.

> > > But public safety advocates said the agency should have acted much sooner to

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> > > pull a drug with limited benefits and a long history of safety problems.

> > > ''The FDA's deadly delay in this case starkly illustrates how one of the most

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> > > important public health concepts, the precautionary principle, was embraced

> >by

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> > > the U.K. and Europe, but was for too long recklessly rejected by the FDA,''

> > >said

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> > > Dr. Sidney Wolfe, of the consumer watchdog group Public Citizen.

> > > Wolfe estimated that at least 1,000 to 2,000 U.S. patients died from taking

> > > Darvon since the U.K. banned the product in January 2005.

> > > Public Citizen petitioned the FDA to ban the drug in 1978 and again in 2006,

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> > > pointing to its role in thousands of deaths reported by state medical

> > >examiners.

> > > The most recent petition led to a January 2009 meeting, where a panel of

> > >outside

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> > > experts voted 14-12 to recommend the drug be pulled from the market.

> > > But the FDA disagreed, and later that year agency officials said they would

> > >keep

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> > > the drug on the market with a bolder warning label about the risk of

> > >overdosing.

> > >

> > > Around that time, the FDA asked Xanodyne to conduct the study of the drug's

> > > heart effects.

> > > ''For the first time we now have data showing that the standard therapeutic

> > >dose

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> > > of propoxyphene can be harmful to the heart,'' Dal Pan said.

> > > Propoxyphene, which was first approved in the 1957, is an opioid narcotic

> >used

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> > > to treat mild to moderate pain.

> > > About 10 million people in the United States received prescriptions for

> >Darvon

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> > > and related drugs in 2009, according to the FDA.

> > > Click here to read or leave a comment on this story.

> > >

> > >

> > > You might be interested in:

> > > * FDA probe spotlights heart risk of Avandia (News - Ohio.com)

> > > * FDA poised to recall unproven blood pressure drug (News - Ohio.com)

> > > * Guidelines for evaluating drug safety raise questions (News - Ohio.com)

> > > * Coventry man killed in crash at I-77 ramp (News - Ohio.com)

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