Darvocet / Propoxphene

Why aren't we fighting for out rights as patients? The FDA was pressured by PUBLIC CITIZEN. www.citizen.org is their website. Supposedly a non profit group looking out for our rights as citizens. Who are these people, I do not have a clue who they are, making my medical decisions for me???? Pretty scary isn't it????

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Actually, the reason Propoxyphene was removed was due to the fact that it is cardiotoxic and this was medically proven.

Therefore, there was no one agency that caused it to be removed from the market, it was cumulative scientific and medical proof of the dangers it caused.

https:/­/­rxchat.com/­wiki/­Propoxyphene/­

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I'd rather have a "citizen group" concerned about safety pressuring the FDA (which I don't believe had anything to do with this) than my HMO telling me Darvocet was "taken off the formulary because the pharmacists didn't like it for elderly patients" instead of the truth.

I asked if I qualified as elderly (no, it turned out), tried the offered substitute of vicodin and got instant migraines. I don't need MORE migraines, so I asked the doc to give me my Darvocet prescription back, and he did. Not one word about the cardiac effects/incidents. I kept on taking it until the pharmacy refused to fill it because the manufacturer took it off the shelves here in the U.S., as well. That wasn't "pressure", that was "liability." I never noticed a problem with it, but the information would have been nice.

And appropriate.

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