Taking Actos? Are You Familiar With Actos Side-Effects?
If Not, You Will Want to Read This Report:
As you have probably heard, there is a class-action settlement against Takeda, the manufacturer of, Actos. Takeda knew that Actos side-effects were dangerously lethal. However, Takeda did not bring these side effects to light, they did not publish their research studies with the FDA. Instead, Takeda buried the reports or delayed them. This report will cover the litany of Actos side effects reported to the FDA by Actos consumers. Take matters into your own hands and remained advised.
The Actos side-effects found in Takeda’s research included:
1. cold-like symptoms,
2. increase risk for upper-respiratory infections,
3. fluid retention,
4. peripheral edema, sometimes leading to congestive heart failure with a minute rate of fatalities,
5. anemia,
6. weight gain,
7. myalgia
8. tooth pain and other tooth problems,
9. atherosclerosis,
10. cholestatic hepatitis that would be reversed upon consumption cessation.
Unfortunately, Takeda did not initially mention bladder cancer as an Actos side effect. It is now a known fact that Actos increases the risk of bladder cancer. In June of 2011, the United States, France and Germany removed Actos from their list of consumable drugs because the increased risk was too high to tolerate. Takeda had not published data regarding bladder tumors and cancer as a potential Actos side-effect. Well, not until this lawsuit broke out, it was only then when Takeda became a little more candid about the bladder cancer as an Actos side effect.
Pharmaceutical manufacturers can also be in the business of drug research and development. R & D is costly, hence the manufacturer’s pressure to release a marketable drug. However, the manufacturer must release side-effects and risks within a reasonable amount of time so that drug agencies can either accept, deny or regulate the drug’s consumption. Takeda kept silence on the Actos side effects and risks that led to several patients acquiring bladder cancer. Now, Takeda’s financial position is unstable because Takeda is liable for so much harm simply because Takeda wanted to market Actos. Takeda had spent potentially hundreds of millions of dollars on Actos R & D and wanted a return on that investment. So, they silenced risks associated with bladder tumors and cancer as an Actos side-effect.
Takeda’s lack of candor will cost them their solvency, but the Actos side effects have caused people much more. There have been fatalities associated with Actos, but this number will increase as more people consume Actos on a chronic level. More people are discovering, and will discover, the Actos side effect kept silent for so long.
Bladder cancer does come with its own list of symptoms:
1. Blood in the urine; either visible to the eye, or on a microscopic level.
2. Frequent urination.
3. Having the need to urinate without results.
4. Pain during urination.
If you can add these symptoms to your list of Actos side-effects, you may need to seek medical testing for a bladder tumor and/or cancer. The list of symptoms for bladder cancer is not all inclusive and other cancers, such as kidney cancer, may cause similar symptoms.
If Actos side effects are becoming unbearable, do not hesitate to test for bladder cancer. If your test is positive, for either cancer and/or a tumor, undergo treatment, but contact legal help as soon as you can.
If someone you know is on Actos, or was on Actos, and they are experiencing, or have experienced one or more Actos side effects, please refer them to a urologist, or an oncologist, if needed. Afterwards, contact an attorney, you will need one if the oncology report is bad news.
Ironically, Takeda is still toting Actos as a safe, viable plan to treat people with Type II diabetes, despite Actos side-effects. You can check Dr. Spanheimer’s message on the Actos info site, actos.info. Dr. Spanheimer is a corporate executive of Takeda. Go figure. Even after getting hit with a class action, even after discovering the pain and suffering caused by these severe Actos side effects, Takeda will still push their drug on you.
The rate of bladder cancer as an Actos side-effect in patients prescribed the drug is difficult to tell. There have been thousands of bladder cancer cases that had arisen out consumption of Actos, which is why we assert that bladder cancer IS an Actos side effect. However, not all cases can be accounted for because not all patients report their Actos prescription, some patients don’t know they have bladder cancer and some treating physicians will not draw the connection between bladder cancer and Actos. Dr. Spanheimer estimates that there were over 100 million prescriptions filled for 10 million patients. Currently, there is an estimated 10,000 patients ready to join the class action against Takeda and Eli-Lilly. Eli-Lilly is the Indianapolis based pharmaceutical company that allegedly contributed to Takeda’s covering up of bladder cancer data. Eli-Lilly is a co-defendant in this case.
The Actos side effect of bladder cancer was first made public in 2002 in an independent study that appeared in the Southern Medical Journal. The study found a higher frequency of bladder cancer among Actos patients. The researchers began to draw the link and published those findings in the Journal. Actos was approved and put on the shelves in 1999. This was only 3 years later. Actos was removed from the shelves in 2011, or 9 years after the discovery, 12 years after it was initially marketed. There were 100 million prescriptions filled by 10 million people around the world. Millions exist in the United States as the U.S. took about 1/3 of the prescriptions.
It was mentioned that over 10,000 people formed the class action in the U.S. to sue over the Actos side-effects. The ratio is a little higher. It is confirmed that bladder cancer is an Actos side effect. You should consider getting tested today because the highest chances of surviving bladder cancer are in the first two phases. Afterwards, if you are injured from the Actos side effects, you should attempt to seek legal counsel
If someone you know has perished from Actos side effect related cancer, please do not hesitate to acquire legal counsel to represent their estate. Thank you for your time.
