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I've been watching and reading here for a couple of weeks. I want to share a story with you all as a means of warning. Two and a half years ago I ingested the drug Lamisil for a 12 week period to treat one toenail which had a fungal infection for several years. I am still suffering side effects. About 6 weeks into the treatment, I noticed a "tingling" along one side of my tongue. It came to my mind that it might be related to the drug. But when I pulled out the accompanying literature, taste disorder as a side effect was listed as minimal and described as resolving after treatment ceased. Woe is me! The discomfort, and a sharp acidic taste at the base of my tongue on one side, became worse and worse after I stopped the drug. After several months passed, my tongue was compulsively and chronically twisted to one side in an attempt to relieve the sensation.
I had a wisdom tooth pulled, fillings replaced, biopsy, and finally -- SEDATIVES! When I mentioned the drug Lamisil, any of the several doctors I saw did not believe it could have caused the problem. In Australia, however, the Adverse Drug Reaction Committee has documented cases of taste perversion in relation to Lamisil at rates high above those the drug company publicizes. And it is not hard to find people on the internet who have suffered long-term taste disturbances from lamisil (some of them losing lots of weight because they cannot eat) I believe the drug caused some kind of toxic neuritis, but because I do not completely understand the physiology, or have the credentials to research such things thoroughly, I am left feeling like a hypochondriac. Only after 18 months did I notice any abatement of symptoms. During that time I suffered a high, multi-pitched ringing in one ear (same side as tongue problem) a "hardness" in the salivary gland on that same side, dissappearance of tiny blood vessels along that side of my tongue (now reappearing in a mis-shapen sort of way) and, most frightening? ...it almost seems as though the major vessels palpable in my neck along that side of my trachea are somewhat collapsed. Stay away from Lamisil. I truly believe it caused these problems for me, even though I cannot gain any substantiating opinion from any medical personnel. It is not worth the risk unless a fungal infection is killing you. Thank you for reading and any reply.
In Reply to: lamisil woes posted by Lisa on June 09, 1999 at 13:54:47:
Thanks, Lisa, for your testimonial.
This is one reason I say that the supression of natural alternatives to the conventional medical monopoly's paradigm is immoral and unethical.
You can see why the "system" is not interested in something like the vinegar cure. No money in that! It is totally safe, costs practically nothing and ANYONE can tell you about it. This kind of thing is considered intolerable competition by the monopoly.
Only righteous indignation from the public will break the monopoly.
Namaste`
Walt
In Reply to: Re: lamisil woes (Archive in toenail archives.) posted by Walt Stoll on June 10, 1999 at 11:19:37:
Thanks for acknowledgement Dr. Stoll. I don't know how much "righteous" I can summon, but the indignation part is coming much more easily. I wish I'd found you and the "vinegar treatment" before I swallowed poison (strong words, but that's how I feel...did you know this drug causes observable changes in the retina? Literature says "clinical significance of these changes is unknown" Yikes!) Also, the fact that this drug is prescibed as a "one size fits all" seems criminal. A 120lb woman and a 250lb get the same dose. I will not be able to let go of all of this until I "vent my spleen". And I really feel a need to publicize it. I'm trying to be glad that I could learn this lesson about the "system" without suffering anything worse. I cannot change what's happened, but it's brought me to the point I'm at...and learning to believe that I have control over much of my health and that I can get the information and help I need without feeling like expensive medical doctors are tenaciously gripping a secret key which unlocks the door to my own health. Thank you for "being there" for me and all the people here. You've heard the saying "when the student is ready the teacher will appear"? I used to imagine myself sitting in my livingroom, thinking about life, having some revelation or insight, and simultaneously hearing a knock on the door. Upon answering the knock, I would find a "being of light" standing before me draped in robes like a buddhist priest. I now know that, for me, having the teacher appear really just means having the blindness of ignorance fall away, so that I can see the things that were there all along, waiting to lead me in a good direction. I have much to read and learn and practice. This bad experience and my own personal emotional history need healing. I feel like I've found the next step by finding this site. A wordy way to say THANKS!
In Reply to: Re: lamisil woes (Archive in toenail archives.) posted by Lisa on June 11, 1999 at 11:22:04:
Thanks for expressing what many of us on this BB feel.
Helen
In Reply to: Re: lamisil woes (Archive in toenail archives.) posted by Lisa on June 11, 1999 at 11:22:04:
Thanks for this, Lisa!
Perhaps it will help others start to think like you are. In the end, THAT is waht it takes to start to get "well".
Namaste`
Walt
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