Increasing amounts of information being publicised about side effects of lupron:
this from last week:
Lupron: 'Georgia woman says controversial drug led to series of health problems'
Oct 29 2018
"A Georgia woman blames a controversial drug for ruining her life and the lives of thousands of other women. Her lawsuit claims several pharmaceutical companies failed to warn about the drug's crippling side effects.
The drug Lupron was originally approved for prostate cancer, but for the last 20 years women have taken it to relieve pelvic pain.
The Georgia woman’s case is being watched closely by patients both male and female who now
Terry Paulsen is not yet 60 years old, but she looks closer to 80 years old.
“How do you feel right now?” Channel 2’s consumer investigator Jim Strickland asked Paulsen.
“My body is on fire. My joints have arthritis everywhere,” Paulsen answered."
“Has this been going on for 14 years?” asked Strickland. “Since I got Lupron in 2004, we did not know this was coming,” replied Paulsen.
Lupron is an injection. It stops the production of sex hormones. Paulsen had only two shots to treat her endometriosis, painful lesions of uterine-like tissue that feed on estrogen.
“And this drug needs to have a black box warning on it, because I know what it did to me,” said Paulsen. At the time, the Lupron label cautioned about "... a loss in bone density. But for a period of up to six months, this bone loss should not be clinically significant.”
The current label drops that claim.
“Her immune system began to attack her own bones. She got osteopenia and osteoporosis and now she’s got terrible osteoporosis,” said Dr. Alan Levin, he is an immunologist with 50 years of experience, including consulting with the Food and Drug Administration. Levin has a second career. He’s Paulsen’s lawyer."(continues)
www.wsbtv.com/news/local/georgia-woman-says-drug-used-to-treat-endometriosis-led-to-series-of-health-problems/859263892