To: Dakota (Susan).

Is this why, every time I am at the doctor's office, the pharmaceutical rep who walks in the door, is built like Pamela Anderson Lee, with legs like Rachel Welch? I have never, never seen an over 30, overweight, not beautiful, pharmaceuticl rep.

Is this just my imagination?? And don't forget, I go to lots of doctor's offices, Cornell Medical Center, in NYC. LOADS of Dr's office.

Every single pharma rep could be a movie star!!!

Wow, I should have gone into the business when I was 25. I used to look like Elizabeth Taylor!!! lol

Forteo (teriparatide) is made by Lilly.

My neuropathy has advanced more in the past 2 months than in the past 5 years. Actually, it was stable for 5 years.

The only thing new is the Forteo. And the high Calcium that goes with it.
I've googled and searched and found nothing linking the two.

I just went to medwatch and filed a report. I figure if no one tells the FDA what symptoms they've developed after new meds, no one will ever know. I really doubt my bone doc is going to. He's got a factory; I can't even get a reply from the nurse.I've taken to faxing her notes with my blood tests and symptoms, and even that gets nothing.

Tomorrow I see my neuro because of the worsening of the neuropathy. But the thing I really want him to do is call the bone guy. He's treating hundreds of women; he SHOULD know.

Yes, Melody. You should have been a drug rep, because they make a ton of money and have a HUGE expense account for entertaining doctors.

So now, I'm just a 60 year old broad????

Shoulda been a rep. Oh well

lol

Here is a website that shares the FDA adverse reactions reported.

This is the Cymbalta page:
http://www.patientsville.com/medication/cymbalta.htm

Thanks for that site, Mrs. D. Forteo isn't even listed. I've reached the bone guy---his nurse says forteo does not cause neuropathy or high cholesterol. And no, they do not file medwatch reports themselves, for instance to let FDA know that at least one person on forteo has neuro symptoms.

I posted that to you on another thread... and some of the reports listed low mag as result.

Here it is again, since you missed it:

http://www.patientsville.com/medicat...de_effects.htm
In fact there are 2186 negative reports on there.

Doctors typically hesitate to report anything.... they think they will be on record and open to liability.

Well, this is one drug, I think I will skip...

Cathie
Thank you for posting this LizaJane. I have an appointment w/Bone and Mineral Metabolism coming up.

side effects to the Drug Company! The FDA watches what they get from the mfrs customer contacts and matches it to direct calls they get....
Also mfrs...are very up-to date about compiling stats of new s/e's w/all sorts of other meds.. they may know more about it than you think...Check out Cancer Bulletin Boards as many there have PN due to Chemo and are on Forteo as well.. Bet you will find good stuff!

Clinical trials do not have folks such as us --we who take a slew of meds..It takes we the 'beneficiaries' of our phamacy menus to report and report to all med mfrs that the addition of ONE med to our 'coctails' has set off a chain of reactions.

hope this is useful - j

That's a great site. Is that information pulled from the FDA under the freedom of information act, or do they collect it themselves; do you know.

You use the edit tab on your browser to search on a word on a page, so I entered "paraesthesia" and searched. There were a good number of reports, but they were so non-specific, it was hard to know if they applied. Some of the numbness I found might have been in patients with strokes. This site seems to use patient reports, so the language is broad. "Pain in extremity". You don't knw if it's neuropathic or a broken bone! Anyway, most of those patieints are much much older than I am--70s to 90s, and it's hard to tell.