Yes, it is a problem. Many things in medicine treat and cause illness.
The issue was probably clouded all along until the other quinolones were shown to cause nerve damage. Before that
doctors probably assumed that the nerve issues were due to the lupus in those patients. Plaquenil was never really a popular treatment.
It does cause damage to the nerves in the retina for some people too...this is probably an effect that was just very noticeable at first and the other nerve damage was less visible.
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