Has anyone ever sued a GP for side effects of a medication?

[jemimavintage]

Hello lovely group - Very quickly...

I had painful periods. I was refused a stronger painkiller to help with them. I'm now 50. This all kicked off approx. 3 years ago. Before then NO HISTORY of painful periods (even tho they've been getting more and more painful since a c-section in 1995), no history of pain meds, no history of ANY type of illness... Normal weight, 8 stone.

GP gives me Cerelle... within a month I am very very poorly... within 3 months I've had an emergency admission into a hospital in USA and had 3 procedures: gallbladder removal (no stones, no sludge, only mega irritation, cholecystitis), sphinctertomoy (because the sphincter had closed shut and blown my common bile duct out to several size that it should be, right up into my liver actually!!, and some stenting of that duct to help keep it open. The cost was $76,000. Health insurance paid it.

I have zero doubt that the WHOLE ISSUE, was caused by Cerelle. 'Gallbladder' disease is listed as a side effect. It also did NOTHING to stop my period pain, in fact, it gave me cramps and bleeding every single day.

I feel pretty mad to have gone through all of that. I was so scared. 6 days in hospital feeling very very poorly. Some outpatient appointments, a private MRCP scan in Harley St when I got back for £3,000 of my own money because I was still in pain and was worried that the hospital in USA (small border town) had screwed up. Well they had. I HAD acute pancreatitis from the gallbladder/sphincter issue....and no-one there told me. That lead to me having pancreatitis for 12 months and not realising it. My UK GP - the same practice - dismissed the Harley St conclusion that I had acute pancreatitis and tried to not give me any pain relief, saying it wasn't possible that I had it because my GB had now come out.

The Cerelle had a 'side effects' sheet in the box. One never thinks that one will GET the side effects. And I actually believed....that the 'pill' would stop my periods and give me some much needed relief.

On to today, I have adenomyosis and possibly endometriosis.. This has nothing to do with why I'm interested in whether I can DO anything about having suffered those side effects as a result of taking Cerelle tho..

I mean, can we bring a case for side effects from a med that the GP probably thought would.........help the situation??!!? It was a direct bunch of CRAP I got from that medication..

thanks group,

Jem x

QuackPorridgeBacon I am far from thick but you are bloody rude!!!

Just because medicine saves lives does not mean we do not need safety checks to ensure that medication and medical interventions are appropriately administered.

You clearly don’t get it then and have missed the point I was making. The issues op suffered were from a side effect that she said was made clear. You cannot expect a side effect to also list every possible outcome, it doesn’t make sense. You can call me rude all you like and I’ll admit asking if you were thick was probably too far, for the forum. But you said things that don’t make sense and honestly I won’t understand. Medication comes with side effects, they are listed, they can only be listed when enough people report them. Op isn’t reporting her issues, how can she expect them to be listed? Her issues didn’t come from the medication but from one side effect that she can’t even be sure came from the medication. She seems to think she can sue, she cannot.

forgiveness the medication was correctly administered. No one is disbelieving the op with what she has gone through. She has my sympathy. But she cannot sue. She can try but all she will do is lose her money because the side effects were listed and she accepted the side effect risk when she took the meds.

Forgiveness all medicines have side effects. I believe the OP had/has Pancreatitis. I believe that it was severe. I don't believe that she can expect to sue on the basis that a drug that clearly warns patients to be vigilant for sudden onset abdominal pain, yellowing of the eyes or dark urine, which may indicate liver problems, was given around the time that she developed cholecystitis and CBD obstruction, which have the symptoms of.... Abdominal pain, jaundice, dark urine and yellowing of the eyes.