Popular heartburn drug Zantac pulled off market

WWLP (NBC, Massachusetts) ^ | September 30, 2019 | KETK

[BeauBo]

Link only, due to copyright.

[jimmygrace]

Oh crap. I take the Costco version of Ranitidine. Well, I guess it’s back to Famotidine.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Viagra was developed as a heart medicine and doctors tell girls that birth control pills will clear up their acne.

Warfarin (Coumadin) was developed by The Univ. of Wisconsin as a rat poison. This works by thinning the rat's blood so much that it either bleeds to death or becomes severely anemic. Then someone got the idea that this could work to thin the blood of humans.

[Ingtar]

Genetics for me. Out of the six male siblings of which I am part, I am the only one able to control it enough not to have had surgery. I am allergic to pickles, and oddly enough, vinegar triggers mine. Jalapeno peppers, on the other hand, tend to help.

[Mom MD]

I take zantac and will continue to do so as long as i can find it or the generic

[AmericanCheeseFood]

Gotta get those prescription meds now..

Big pharma wants their cut!

[AmericanCheeseFood]

75% of all medications seem to include oily stool..

.. don’t quote me on that lol

[sitetest]

Actually, I have a drug with a rather positive side effect. Lisinopril, which has a number of bad side effects, from mild to very serious, helps control my blood pressure. That’s the main effect.

Secondarily, it also has the effect of suppressing proteinuria, and for recipients of kidney transplants, helping to defeat mild organ rejection.

[headstamp 2]

[[[The quality control of Chinese-made medicines is terrible. Why anybody would choose to manufacture in China is a mystery.]]]

$$$$$

[Sam's Army]

Unfortunately we rely way to much on medicines to cure our maladies (and bring on a host of side-effects) as opposed to proper nutrition and lifestyle choices that would prevent many of these problems to begin with.

Two great natural resources to help with ulcers, and time tested for millenia: apples and cabbage. Heartburn can be corrected with ensuring your stomach ph is at proper levels by ingesting citrus like lemons/limes and apple cider vinegar before meals.

I was on a prescription for a Proton Pump Inhibitor for a minor intestinal issue; the side effects were immense.

We are over-medicated in this country.

[GOPJ]

I use two medications - both over the counter - one is baby aspirin... the other benadryl (which I haven’t used it almost two years. I’ve been blessed so far...

[Revel]

Without this Then I am as good as dead anyways.

[headstamp 2]

Welp, been taking it since 1986 when it first came out. It was a miracle to me back then. I had horrific heartburn that nothing would touch.

I guess I don’t have much time left.

[bgill]

Mother’s breast milk can have cancer cells but it’s still “on the market”.

[minnesota_bound]

Change your diet. No more ice cream and coke before bed.

[Flaming Conservative]

Have you tried famotadine (pepcid)? I’ve tried prilosec, which did nothing, and zantac makes me very dizzy, but pepcid prevents the acid reflux very well, and as far as I can tell, I don’t get any side effects with it. I take 40 mg at bedtime.

[jazzlite]

Will big pharma take it off the market, wait a while and then repackage it, give it a new name, and sell it for 50 times the current cost?

[TomGuy]

Does this impact only Zantac or all OTC ranitidine? The article is rather unclear.

I have used ranitidine for years.

I do prefer the generic cimetidine, but take it infrequently. Years ago I read that overuse of it could cause breast increases in males.

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More info on the recall:

“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is alerting health care professionals and patients to a voluntary recall of over-the-counter (OTC) ranitidine tablets (75 mg and 150 mg), labeled by Walgreens, Walmart, and Rite-Aid and manufactured by Apotex Corp.”

Voluntary recall.

Actual FDA alert statement link:

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-updates-and-press-announcements-ndma-zantac-ranitidine

[GailA]

Rebound Reflux is possible too.

Untreated Reflux causes Barrett’s Esophagus a Pre-Cancer.

So you are Damned if you do or don’t. Changing diet doesn’t help, nor sleeping positions.

I take the Max dose of Nexium two 40 mg Nexium caps a day and still have Break Through Reflux. And have both Barrett’s and Gastropresis, Slow digestion that pushes you toward Type 2 Diabetes. I just crossed that line. Because if you continue to eat food you can’t digest, you end up with Bezaor’s tangled masses of food in the Colon, and then surgery to remove it and maybe your Colon. The 2 diets are Polar Opposites. 1 no fiber, the other high fiber.

[gnarledmaw]

There was a product a doctor tried to get me to take a while back. One of the possible side effects was written something like "death due to sudden heart mortality". Im not physician but that certainly struck me as something too serious to horse with.

There was a hair growth product being advertised. There were various warnings to keep it away from other members of the household due to the harm it would cause them. I remember thinking, "Someone voluntarily taking that doesn't need hair growth treatment, they need some DBT for their narcissistic personality disorder."

[Political Junkie Too]

For heartburn/acid reflux, a simple teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) in a glass of water does the trick for me.

I figure it just neutralizes the acid with a base.

-PJ