Tip of the iceberg. It’ll get far worse than this.
It’s been in short supply in the US for weeks now.
Heard bout this yesterday. It’s unbelievable the number of products that we have outsourced to China.
This is the result.
I had an angiogram of my cerebellum recently (they thought I had a stenosis but fortunately not). The hospital tried to charge insurance $60,600. Insurance adjusted it to just under $10,000. They used contrast. The amount they asked was about 5x too much. I wondered about a shortage.
My wife had a contrast MRI the active ingredient is a heavy metal gadolinium. She suffered at the injection site for months and had excruciating rib pain. This is horrible toxic crap and is over used.
“ A 2016 study in Magnetic Resonance Imaging found headaches, bone and nerve pain, and skin thickening were the most commonly reported reactions in patients that were presumed to have gadolinium toxicity. In the study of 42 people with symptoms, brain fog and headaches lasted for more than three months in 29 people.
Vomiting can occur with less than 1 in 100 injections, according to Inside Radiology. Between 1 and 4 in 100 will notice mild nausea or a headache.
Studies and adverse event reports submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) link GBCAs to nephrogenic systemic fibrosis, a serious condition that causes skin tightening. In the most serious cases, nephrogenic systemic fibrosis can cause thickening or scarring of the internal organs, which could lead to death. This side effect appears mostly in patients who had pre-existing kidney conditions, and has been estimated to occur in about 4 percent of patients with severe kidney disease that receive GBCAs.”
https://www.drugwatch.com/gadolinium/side-effects/
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I have a friend that went to have a nuclear study of his heart Monday.
They had no radioactive dye or whatever they use. Shortage.
Guess we get that from China also.