I had not heard of this before and am shocked that it happened. I have been very lucky at the ER here in town. Last year I was given a drug for restless legs that started doing other weird things to my body - even chest and back pain to the extreme. Carl dropped me at the ER door while he went to find a parking place - the ER was quite busy that night. Some ambulance drivers evidently had just dropped a patient off and saw me obviously in a lot of pain. One of them escorted me into the ER, rang the bell for someone to come, when they did not come immediately he went back into the ER, brought someone back with him and even though I told them I was pretty sure it wasn't my heart but was chest pain, they had me into a room to be seen immediately. Of course, they couldn't just go on my word it wasn't hear related seeing how much pain I was in so they did an EKG right away. It took time and they couldn't come up with what was causing the pain but they did get me to the point where the pain was aleviated and I could go home. A lot of people complain about our ER and sometimes it is slow but
having been there with Christy's kids several times this year, I think they do an excellent job. I also cannot imagine the receptionist or security guards not doing something if someone was having some sort of obvious trouble.
Along with that, after more testing and testing, and no results to what was causing the pain and other symptoms, I started to do my own research. I also talked to my pharmacist because they often know more about the drugs and the side effects than the doctors. The two pharmacists at the store we go to both did research and found the information I needed. The drs. office called and I told her my findings. Later that day the dr. called me personally and questioned me. He was on is computer and started telling me that the other symptoms were not listed. He was going alphebetically to make sure I knew nothing like that was listed. He was only on letter i and I told him to skip to the p's and was this listed. He didn't reply to that but just said okay, we need to get you off that medication.
I do agree that doctors are too often swayed by drug companies and use whatever they are told is the best and newest on the market. And for a lot of people it works -- but they can't write off that others are crazy when they start having unusual symptoms either!
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