Plavix TTP Blood Disorder Side Effect

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“Plavix TTP Blood Disorder Side Effect”

1. Jacqueline A. Loop Says:
   December 4th, 2006 at 1:40 pm

   I have been on Plavix 75 mgs. since August 2006 when I had a mild heart attach. I have just not felt well since taking it. I would like to just take an aspirin daily instead of the Plavix. I do have stomach problems most of the time but nothing that has been diagnosed by a Dr. for that spacific purpose. I am wondering if it would be safe to stop taking it?

2. Austin Kirk Says:
   December 4th, 2006 at 2:33 pm

   Ms. Loop,

   You should not stop taking Plavix (or any blood thinner) without speaking with your doctor and obtaining appropriate direction. Stopping Plavix without a doctor’s knowledge could result in serious harm.

   If you have any further questions regarding the potential Plavix lawsuit claims, please do not hesitate to call our office toll free at (800) 522-0102 or request a free claim evaluation to speak with an attorney.

3. Jeanne Henckel Says:
   December 4th, 2006 at 6:42 pm

   I started taking Plavix in 2002. I stopped taking it in Nov. 2006 because I have had huge bruises all over my body with hard lumps that appear to be blood clots. I had blood tests done on December 1st and haven’t got the results yet. I have severe ulcers on my gums and cannot wear my dentures. I am having a dental consult on Dec. 6

4. Bill Nickersonj Says:
   December 11th, 2006 at 5:51 pm

   I saw my doctor last week and he had me immediately stop taking plavix for a 7 day period after which I will have some blood lab work done. But he also did not renew the Rx. When I asked about that, he said “Let’s wait and see what the blood work shows.” He did not explain it any further and I am not sure if he is planning to keep me off Plavix or not. We will see in a few days.

5. Alan Winters Says:
   December 27th, 2006 at 2:39 pm

   I say my doctor just last week and these visits are always with current law results. Everything was normal and I am still on Plavix and Platell. Should I be worried? There is a history of heart attacks in my family.

6. Katie Says:
   December 28th, 2006 at 6:02 pm

   I have been on plavix and asprin for over a year now due to a blocked artery that was implanted with a drug coated stent, I was recently diagnosed with anemia. Could this be from plavix?

7. Austin Kirk, Esq. Says:
   December 29th, 2006 at 9:43 pm

   Katie,

   Saiontz, Kirk & Miles is currently investigating potential Plavix side effects lawsuits for individuals who have been diagnosed with gastrointestinal bleeding, ulcers, heart attacks, strokes or TTP blood disorder. Fortunately it does not appear that you have been diagnosed with any of those conditions.

   Showing signs of anemia, such as tiring, turning pale, increased pulse rate, low blood pressure, etc. could be symptoms of gastrointestinal bleeding, and you may want to review that with your doctor. Other symptoms of gastrointestinal bleeding may include vomiting blood, black stools, passing blood or shock. Certainly if you experience any of those problems, immediate medical attention should be sought.

   If you have been diagnosed with gastrointestinal bleeding or ulcers in addition to the anemia diagnosis, feel free to request a free claim evaluation to determine if the condition may be from Plavix side effects.

8. Carl Says:
   January 16th, 2007 at 11:36 am

   My dad has been on Plavix for 3 years now. And he is just not been feeling right since. He get dizzy all the time. His doctor also told him to take asprin daily. Isn’t that just too much thinning of the blood? and his family doctor told him he didn’t need to be on plavix. He had a triple by pass and that is why an when they put him on it. He can’t afford it at all. but I don’t know what to tell him to do.
   Robin

9. Mary Ellen Mathers Says:
   January 19th, 2007 at 3:01 am

   My mothers had a Cypher Stent inserted December 15, 2006 and was placed on Plavix the morning of December 16, 2006. Since December 16 she has complained of feeling dizzy and very nauseated. She has no appetite because of the nausea. I have tried to explain to her cardiologist that she is very sensitive to so many medications but he just orders tests which fortunately at this time are WNL. She looks to me for answers and at this point I don’t have any. Is nausea a side effect of Plavix? She does have a history of a stomach ulcer in the late 1950’s. Could the Plavix be irritating this old ulcer site? It is a rare occassion that she feels like doing anything but that feeling doesn’t last for very long. I am totally at a loss as to how to help her. Please give me some direction.

10. Doris Wiley Says:
    January 31st, 2007 at 4:08 pm

    Who invented the drug eluting stent?

11. Doris Wiley Says:
    January 31st, 2007 at 4:19 pm

    Can Drug Coated Stents be removed after being put in the artery. I have had four in one artery?

12. Pat Sebes Says:
    May 6th, 2007 at 9:19 pm

    Hi—I read the post from Jeanne Henckle regarding ulcers in her mouth and wondered if Plavix is causing the ulcers I have. I’ve boon on Plavix since Oct.1,
    2006 and did also have a medicated stent put in my right main artery. Beginning in late Dec. I began to have pain in my mouth. From January to today, May 6, 2007, I’ve had constant mouth ulcers. I’ve been to my pcp twice and have had “magic swizzle” to gargle on 3 occasions. I also was told it was a virus. Then I had a prednisone pack. They went away temporarily. Now they’re back. My mouth hurts a lot and I can’t eat a lot of food or drink hot drinks.

    I’m going to a dermatologist–that’s what my pcp suggested. I even have been
    told that my GERD may be acting up. NEVER have I had ulcers like this–maybe 1 a yr. if I eat too many tomatoes.

    My cardiologist said my meds are NOT the cause. I’m not sure what to do.

    Can you advise? Anybody???

13. Cathy Says:
    June 7th, 2007 at 6:52 pm

    Hi, My mom had a stent put in her heart. they put her on plavix and asprin, she did not feel well at all after taking plavix, she ended up having ttp, bleeding internally, Very low blood pressure, vomiting blood, black stool. and she passed away 5 months after her surgery.

14. Cathy Says:
    June 7th, 2007 at 7:18 pm

    PS.. She had no appetite very nausea, Very Dizzy feeling Ill feeling, very confused. Her last few weeks she was vomiting blood, blood in her stool. Very high fever.. Please dont take any chances…. to much potassium gave her ulsers.
    Her medical records were sent to this lawyer for a possible suit.
    ps… After her death a second doc told us she could have just taken asprin it works the same with usually no side affects. MAYBE upset,,stomach.

15. larry lumford Says:
    July 29th, 2007 at 8:19 am

    Plavix is a very dangerous medication , I developed TTP one of the rarest side effects of the drug after taking plavix for a couple of weeks due to stents placed in my legs from P.A.D. , my symptons were confusion , invouluntary jerking of my hands , head and body, weakness , my speech became slurred , headaches and dizziness, I was rushed to the hospital , upon arrival to the hospital I began to convulse in the operating room , the medical team in my local hospital examined me and did a barrage of test on me. They found my platelet levels had completely dropped and my white cells were starting to deplete,as well as numerous antibodies built up im my body, I was dying !!! I was placed in a medically indueced coma The doctors preformed a plasma exchange on me about 20 bags worth , needless to say I recoverd in seven days thanks to the medical team, the doctors informed me that a recurrence can happen within 10 years , and there is no way they can tell if or when.

16. Gregg Comer Says:
    August 5th, 2007 at 10:44 pm

    I have an aunt who has been in the ill since December. Two weeks ago she was admitted to the hospital after falling and breaking her wrist. She has no energy or much of an appetite. Test results found an enlarged spleen and bone marrow scan results were negative. Here white cell count was deleted. She moved from the hospital and is in hospice. They thought she would not live two more days but she has lived two weeks and is not taking any medication. I found out today that she had been taking Plavix medication. Here family has given up hope. Can anything be done?

17. Catherine Modlin Says:
    September 17th, 2007 at 11:09 pm

    Just read the entries on this blog and you can draw your own conclusion. T.T.P. and Plavix are much more common than the drug company would like to admit. My husband had a drug-eluding stent placed by balloon angioplasty and was put on Plavix, Coumadin & aspirin. Two months later, he developed T.T.P., as a result, a subarachnoid hemorrhage. The Neurologist stated “cause of death, subarachnoid hemorrhage, contributing factor(s) were use of coumadin & plavix. He was 54 years old and had just begun his “early retirement”.

18. larry lumford Says:
    October 2nd, 2007 at 7:32 am

    has there been any recent updates about the plavix lawsuit ?

19. Sara Stone Says:
    October 28th, 2007 at 6:50 am

    First of all by pass surgery arteries frequently clog back up within 3 years - then you need another surgery and a by pass is not easy.
    2nd - the reason drug eludiating stents were developed in the first place was because bare metal stents were clogging up!!
    Plus you probably have many, many reduced flow spots all over your body - particularly if you SMOKE and eat HYDROGINATED OIL (barbeque anyone?)!!

    So, the best thing you can do is take your blood thinners, reduce your blood pressure, and get your cholesterol levels down, exercise to build your heart muscle and CHANGE YOUR DIET!
    DEAN ORNISH’s work clearly showed that you can REVERSE plaque buildup within 3-6 months, improving each and every month, by changing just life style habits. A hard one I know. We really need the restaurant industry to HELP US OUT! AND PLEASE TAKE OUT THE SALT AND HYDROGINATED OIL!!

    Why didn’t Larry King or David Letterman choose life style choice instead of by-pass?? I’ll never understand that one - they can afford private chefs!! And apparently it was elective surgery.
    I’ll bet Woody Harrelson doesn’t end up with a by pass or a stent.

    You know what? I hate conspiracy theories! So maybe I’m just naive. I realize we have pollution being dumped into rivers, land and air by corporations who know better. We have greedy loggers and builders taking our agricultural land and the last two remaining lungs of the planet (the Pacific Northwest and the Amazon) apparently just because if they don’t someone else will anyway?? Our own blood bank sat on aids tainted blood for literally weeks or months after they knew - for what reason?? I don’t know, but they caused thousand of hemeophliacs to contract aids.
    Meanwhile our good Christians were thumping their bibles and blasting the homosexual community!

    Tonsillectomies were all the rage apparently at one point and it looks as though gastric stomach binding is the next fad.
    So maybe Boston Scientific and Johnson & Johnson were/are selling stents in spite of their knowledge that they increased blood clots - but why?? Unless, our laws and the penalties inflicted on companies that DELIBERATELY sell a faulty product are not extreme enough, or it’s so difficult to PROVE that they engaged in deceptive practices - that it’s still to their benefit to keep selling.
    The tobacco industry was and still is marketing to 3rd world nations to feebly try to extend their life - instead of looking for ways to change to another product. And for god’s sake why is our government allowing it?? My question is, how do they live with themselves?? How do they face their children in the morning?? Isn’t that the question? Shouldn’t we be figuring out what it is that causes a logger, doctor, Pharmaceutical Company, manufacturer to keep doing something they know is hurting us All??
    So no, I don’t want to automatically assume Boston Scientific knew this new stent would cause MORE blood clots than bare metal sents. Wouldn’t you assume they were hoping for less?? When they first put these out in the market, they were lucky if they had 6 months of study. So what happens if you keep taking Plavix and aspirin?? Does that reduce the risk? And what difference does it make if you have to keep taking the drugs for the rest of your life?? You’re going to have to keep taking the 3 blood pressure, 2 cholesterol lowering, and 1 aspirin anyway - what’s one more Plavix?? I know the cost is exorbitant, hopefully will come down, but Patient Assistant Programs are available for those that can’t afford them - AND you could always opt for the VERY CHEAP life style changes if you have the motivation, right?

    Plus what are a few lives lost here and there in the interest of science anyway? We don’t mind throwing away our young - naive, brother’s son’s and husband’s lives - not to mention the completely innocent civilians in countries we attack for what purpose?? To churn the economy??
    Plus, you were going to die anyway! Right?? You either had a heart attack or you had arteries that were so blocked you couldn’t walk across the room and were doomed anyway.
    Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing but admiration for Ralph Nadar and the thousands, no millions of people around the world working tirelessly as watch dogs to protect us from thief’s in the night, but this is America, no the world and everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Let us put our energy into changing our laws so we hold the individual corporate heads accountable for deception. Let Boston Scientific and Johnson & Johnson TELL US as soon as they know/suspect that bare metal stents may be better.

    In the meantime, let us be extremely grateful that we have the choice of stents at all. I am so glad I didn’t have to do a by-pass.

20. polly b Says:
    February 16th, 2008 at 1:11 pm

    I have two stents and one is medicated. I have been taking plavix and asprin for over a year. My blood pressure goes up when I sleep and I have some confusion and fatigue. My energy level is very low and the Drs. give me stress test, etc. and say I have a strong heart. Twice I have had a heart cath and afterwards my blood pressure goes down and I take half the Coreg prescribed and about one-third of the bloodpressure prescribed and feel much better but as time goes on my blood pressure starts rising at night when I sleep and I have to take the full dose of Coreg 25 mg at night and increase my blood pressure medicine- lisenpril. I believe the Dr. opens up something when he does the heart cath which I believe is small blood clots which tests and machines do not show. I’m wondering if I should get off the plavix and just take two asprins a day, or if he should take me off plavix and put me on cumidan or if he should just have me to take another asprin a day along with the plavix of if he should give me a small dose of cumidan with the plavix and asprin. Let me know if you have any answers.

21. Austin Kirk Says:
    February 19th, 2008 at 11:38 am

    Polly,

    You should speak with your doctors about any concerns you have about your medications, and no prescription medications should be stopped, especially a blood thinner, without your doctor being involved in that decision.

22. geri Says:
    April 3rd, 2008 at 12:36 am

    have been on Plavix for over 2 yrs.since i had a small stroke,my stomach has been bloated,my bp is up or down,headaches,eye problems ,mri,s etc.have been cutting my 75mg.plavix in half. will see my heart dr.soon.thanks for inf. regarding plavix.

23. margaret Says:
    April 20th, 2008 at 10:05 am

    In dec 07, my sister had an MI, had stent placed and then went into afib, she has hx of diabetes, high bp, high cholesterol. she was placed on plaxix and continued to have on and off chest pressure and pain. March 08, chest pain was worse and as a nurse and sister told her to go to emergency room, they did emergency cath and told her she needed open heart. very dramatic change in cath in dec and cath in march. she was taken off plavix and placed on heparin. her surgery was postponed twice per surgeon. post op first day she was fine, but next day she had blood hanging , placed on baloon pump and cardiac surgeon states he was optimistic and she would be fine. by that night she had infarcted in kidneys, colon, bilateral lower limbs. they had taken her back to surgery and removed part of her colon and abd. she was on life support and induced coma and they wanted to amputate both legs. We had to stop at this point. She was a very energetic 60 yr old whom worked her whole life and none us expected this. Her body swelled so large that there was closed casket. they were unable to embalm her. her surgeon believed it was from plaque from aorta. But i have a feeling it was from plavix and heparin, which cause HITT. We are currently waiting for hospital records to look at the labs. This story is very important for people to read. So make sure when your doctor gives you new meds, do the research first. Even in the hospital have nurses print out side effects and dangers before taking any new medication. Make your doctor explain, it is really his job, not his nurse.

24. HERMAN Says:
    May 22nd, 2008 at 1:58 pm

    AFTER HAVING 3 STENTS PUT IN AND TOLD TO TAKE PLAVIX MY HUSBAND HAS BEEN EXPERICING TROUBLE WITH HIS EYES AND SEEMS TO BE CONFUSED ESPECIALLY DRIVING. HE CANT SEEM TO CONCENTRATE.

25. peggy Says:
    October 13th, 2008 at 12:05 am

    I can’t believe how many, many people are taking Plavix !! Last week my 83 yr old Mom was told to start taking it–she did not have a stroke or stent and I am not sure why she is taking it except for her possible increased risk of stroke due to her age ???.She suddenly can’t walk,has lots of weakness in one leg and loss of appetite–I told her to talk to her doctor , but she won’t –

26. Jessica Says:
    November 18th, 2008 at 1:18 am

    I was recently diagnosed with TTP. I would not wish this disorder on my worst enemy. Please, if there is something else besides Plavix that would work do not take Plavix! Trust me, you do not want to risk having TTP.

27. larry Says:
    November 22nd, 2008 at 2:48 pm

    Jessica , I truly feel your pain, I was diagnosed with TTP after taking plavix for two weeks, what a horrible experiance iI had, presently I am taking coumindin and everything is working out fine , consult your doctor if you completed your treatmewnts for TTp and find out if your able to take coumindin, good luck and god bless you

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