Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Phone aches?

Me too.
Tedium, day two.
Trying hard to keep an open mind, but...
And this is a very big BUT, but why would anyone NOT call the FDA themselves: http://www.fda.gov/ (for my international friends) if they wanted to?
Some people do call to report a nasty side-effect of a medication that they are taking and that is definitely one of the many reasons they are there for that purpose.
Also to test medications prior to releasing them to the public, our governmental agencies working on our behalf, and thank you mostly, but sometimes their approval of a drug...is a BIG mistake with medications that prove they were not ready for public consumption or use and the FDA regrets that their decisions to release a med before fully vetted and checked entirely causes ill effects by too quickly allowing its use, and does recall those.
And that brings me back to then why does Pfizer Inc. Drug Safety Unit feel the need to do that for you, yes, that is let them, the FDA, know when you have side-effects from any drug, not just theirs? 
One word I was told, "RESPONSIBILITY", their legal one.
Oh so righteous a company! 
On your behalf, I might add.
Nice, but what if... let's just say you did not ask for them to do that, hmm? 
What is your right?
And that is where I stand/sit right now.
Without an answer of who took it upon themselves to report my dissolution of using one medication due to nasty side-effects and an off handed remark of another causing weight gain that is also written on its insert with the percentages of that happening.

WHY?????????   

A simple question or so I thought. 
Apparently not so, since for the last two days I have spoken to India, New York, North Carolina and heaven knows where-else... is not quite clear, all part of Pfizer's telephone numbers.
All I know all these lovely co-operative people have insisted that they would find out and get that person to contact me; I am still waiting.
Foolishly today I was put on hold too long, for twenty minutes before I had the good sense to hang up and then I called one of the other three numbers I have for the company back and told them NOT to put me on hold!
Even with a coded number on the letterhead that I received that they all asked for no one has been able to answer the riddle who gave them all my personal info and why?

As I played my own detective today with contacting two doctors and my support team for one medication who all said they do not do that, but I do need all of these people in my future, and like me are curious to find out when I know. They were all great about my individual inquisitions. I did try hard not to be accusatory, since with me its been a bit iffy how I state things so I thought it out a little more carefully than I usually do, which for me is hard at times especially when it becomes an emotional situation. This being a privacy issue.
Ha! Me how oddly ironic with my "open book" policy.
Well, sometimes I am the same as everyone else, private.
Sure, hard to believe... 

Any-who on this note of amazement, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!
 

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