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  • marco
    marco derek76

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    I would like to make my usual plea . If all those with side-effects submitted a Yellow Card report (in UK, not sure about other countries) maybe something would get done about them. Medical authorities don't read these forums so nothing will happen as a result of this and other threads.

    • lee12629
      lee12629 marco

      Posted

      Id love it if people reported it. Just wondering though how would we prove the drug caused it? Especially without testimony from a doctor. Xx
    • usch
      usch marco

      Posted

      I have submitted the Yellow Card for both simvastatin and atorvastatin.

       

    • usch
      usch derek76

      Posted

      I just got an acknowledgement that it was received. I have not heard from them since.
    • derek76
      derek76 usch

      Posted

      Recently or now considered forgotten.
    • marco
      marco lee12629

      Posted

      On the drug 'informaion for the user' side-effects are listed so they, the side-effects, are already known about and the info says if you experience these side-effects to go to your GP or A&E. Well I tried that but it made no difference, my GP continued to prescribe. I believe that the scale of the side-effect issue is understated by the pharmas for obvious reasons (and maybe that the info is the result of their own tests rather than independents). The Yellow Card system is the only way I know that the scale of the problem could be established. Whether anything would come of it is another question because the pharmas lobby is very powerful.

    • derek76
      derek76 marco

      Posted

      The MHRA is an independent body and the Yellow Card reports go to them.
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