nephrogenic systemic fibrosis
Here is your next big toxic drug case that has been in use for YEARS with the blessing of the FDA.
A paper in 2006 noted that MRA and MRI with contrast were the common element in nephrogenic systemic fibrosis... that kills people whose kidneys were damaged prior to the MR event. It fibrosis the kidneys and stops them from filtering wastes, leading to reduced function that will lead to death in persons with prior kidney damage. In 2008 a further paper defined gadolinium as a dangerous contrast agent to patients with vascular surgery or kidney damage. My hospital/ health care organization denies knowledge of this paper.
I figure if I can find it and read it, they should have been reading anything and everything to do with MR events.
This injected contrast agent causes the arms and legs to change to a reddish hue and includes changes in the skin texture and includes edema. It requires skin biopsy to prove that it is due to the contrast agent.
Then it also affects other organs of the body, but not much is known yet on how or if it is life threatening there too. What we do know is that the chemical they use (and there are several called gadolinium) attracts and binds to damaged tissue in the body. My own interpretation of this is that skin on arms and legs is damaged by the sun. Previous uptake of gadolinium in my own case is the only element that would cause kidney damage. My own situation is three MR with Gadolinium in two years. My skin changed within a week of the first one and got darker and more mottled with each subsequent MR event with Gad. I don't believe I had a GFR calculation done in that time until after the third one when it was shown to be 37 when 50 is lowest normal and 60 is normal. But there was increased creatnine. I had two other MR events with contrast: 1989 MRI and 1994 MRA when then contrast injection had me getting off the table after the artery was opened due to the extreme HEAT running though my veins. They knocked me out and continued with the angioplasty.
What I don't understand is that I've been approached by a lawyer who emailed me with a survey and then sent me a further form to fill out and requested that I get a skin biopsy to prove that it was gadolinium.
How could he get my information?
What kind of suit could he file? This is a poisoning, but it is not malpractice of my doctor. It is a practice of my Health Care provider that kept them from keeping tabs on the papers being written in the area of MR events with kidney damage resulting.
How can I get diagnoses if I cannot have an MRI with contrast for heart events? More dangerous Xrays which can only increase the danger that my thyroid cyst and multiple nodules will become cancerous? Tests to find out if the last test damaged me or if I can survive it. What is my recourse for now having to have tests on the tests they give me? They have altered my life course and damaged my kidneys.
What can I sue them for? What benefit to me is there for doing so since THEY would have to be paid back for the extra tests... but I have to pay all the extra copays. I've changed providers now so someone else will be charging them, but I still have to pay extra copays.
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