Category: Prescription medication

Understanding Methotrexate: Risks and Side Effects

November 19, 2024

Methotrexate is a prescription medication used to treat cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, and psoriasis. It can cause non threatening as well as life-threatening side effects. Contact your doctor when experiencing medication side effects.

Methotrexate has several brand names: Rheumatrex, Trexall, Xatmep, Jylamvo, Otrexup, and RediTrex.

Methotrexate Side Effects

  • Mouth sores
  • Nausea
  • Fever
  • Dizziness
  • Stomach pain
  • Tiredness
  • Chills
  • Infection
  • Fever
  • Cough
  • Sore throat
  • Wounds that don’t heal
  • Bleeding
  • Liver, kidney or bone marrow damage
  • Allergic reactions
  • Blood clots
  • Shortness of breath
  • Chest pain
  • Dry cough, shortness of breath or trouble breathing
  • Low red blood cell count
  • Weakness, fatigue, dizziness, headache
  • Seizures
  • Unusual bruising or bleeding
  • Diarrhea
  • Hair Loss
  • Pain, redness or swelling with mouth or throat sores
  • Vomiting

Medications That Cause Loss of Appetite

November 18, 2024

Proper nourishment is crucial when engaging in regular physical activity. If you’re taking any of these prescription medications, consult your physician to adjust dosage or change medications. Or you may have to adjust your exercise routine.

Prescription Medications That Cause Loss of Appetite

  • Antibiotics : used to treat bacterial infections such as urinary tract infections.
  • Amphetamines: a stimulant drug that speeds up messages between your brain and body. Used to treat ADHD and narcolepsy.
  • Chemotherapy: a cancer treatment used to kill cancer cells and prevent tumor growth.
  • Digoxin: a tablet medication that treats heart failure and irregular heart beat.
  • Fluoxetine: used to treat depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsion disorder, and eating disorders. Fluoxetine is sold as Prozac.
  • Hydralazine: used to treat high blood pressure . Hydralazine is sold as Apresoline.
  • Opioids: prescription medication used to manage moderate to severe pain.

Ozempic Side Effects: Patients Sue for Millions

November 8, 2024

A news article from the Daily Mail reports the story of Monica Church, a 55 year-old American woman who experienced severe side effects from Ozempic.

Church along with 400 other patients are suing Ely Lilly for inadequate side effect warnings on its packaging resulting in blindness, tooth loss, blood clots, stomach paralysis, nausea and reflux.

Click the link below to read the entire article.

Daily Mail.com.uk 11/7/24: Americans left BLIND, paralyzed and with teeth falling out after Ozempic – now they’re suing for millions