[Dubh_Ghlase]

NG! I took this for several years...! (Gulp!)

[goodwithagun]

Didn't the FDA approve this drug to begin with? Sheesh. Glad I turned to alternative medicine a few years ago. Since then, I haven't had to deal with meds that cause explosive diarrhea and sudden death.

[muawiyah]

Determining cause and effect with Avandia is quite difficult. Many physicians (probably almost all of them) thought it a good idea to prescribe this drug to their diabetic patients who used both Glipizide and Glucophage ~ the constituent parts of Avandia ~ to reduce the effort they had to make to deal with their diabetes.

Those who didn't have heart trouble were probably not administered Avandia if they had no other problems.

FDA had to back that out of the equation to come up with this recent finding.

My own thoughts are that simply taking Glucophage and Glipizide at the same time is probably not that neat an idea anyway. Both drugs contain ingredients that "talk to the nucleus", and that's gotta' have some unknown effects, plus the Glucophage works, in part, by blocking the passage of both starch and B-12 across the membranes in the small intestine. It probably screws around with other stuff anyway.

I expect the very next FDA report on these two drugs is going to be to avoid using them simultaneously.

[neverdem]

Risk of Acute Myocardial Infarction, Stroke, Heart Failure, and Death in Elderly Medicare Patients Treated With Rosiglitazone or Pioglitazone (Avandia and Actos, respectively)

Rosiglitazone and the Case for Safety Over Certainty

Recommended Blood Pressure Level Differs For Heart Patients With Diabetes

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[annelizly]

a few years ago they gave this to my mother and it gave her congestive heart failure symptoms...the doctor refused to believe us. we agonized over it and finally she decided to take herself off of it and symptoms disappeared. a year after the doctor convinced her to start taking it again and AGAIN congestive heart failure! Finally she quite taking it all together...a year or so later she died from heart related issues.

I really wonder if this crap weakened her heart so badly that it killed her anyway.