By CK Wilde for 3GenFamily Blog
The FDA is finally responding to a 16,690-person study from pharmacy-benefits company Medco Health Solutions Inc. which suggests that people who take both Plavix, the anticlotting drug and certain heartburn drugs, called proton-pump inhibitors, have a 50% higher risk of a heart attack or other cardiac event compared to those taking Plavix by itself.
My Dad was in this category. The doctors gave him a pacemaker, and then, a defibrillator as my father’s heart condition worsened. The doctors were skeptical of my requests to take Dad off of Plavix even though the bleeding under his skin (purpura - a known side effect of Plavix) was obvious to anyone looking at Dad’s hands and arms. He had intestinal bleeding episodes, too. Prilosec (a proton-pump inhibitor) wasn’t any good at preventing this bleeding.
Kudos to Medco Health Solutions Inc. for presenting that study!
By CK Wilde for 3GenFamily Blog
The FDA is finally responding to a 16,690-person study from pharmacy-benefits company Medco Health Solutions Inc. which suggests that people who take both Plavix, the anticlotting drug and certain heartburn drugs, called proton-pump inhibitors, have a 50% higher risk of a heart attack or other cardiac event compared to those taking Plavix by itself.
My Dad was in this category. The doctors gave him a pacemaker, and then, a defibrillator as my father’s heart condition worsened. The doctors were skeptical of my requests to take Dad off of Plavix even though the bleeding under his skin (purpura - a known side effect of Plavix) was obvious to anyone looking at Dad’s hands and arms. He had intestinal bleeding episodes, too. Prilosec (a proton-pump inhibitor) wasn’t any good at preventing this bleeding.
Kudos to Medco Health Solutions Inc. for presenting that study!