Raptiva recall lawyers continue to see the defective drugs effect. Gloria, a nurse from Memphis, Tennessee, talks about her Raptiva side effects in an article in Lawyers and Settlements. Gloria has been a registered nurse for 30 years. When she was prescribed the drug Raptiva for severe psoriasis, Gloria says it “worked like a charm.” She stayed on Raptiva for four years and then the troubling side effects began. The muscle aches, back pains and nervous disorders were unlike any before and Gloria immediately associated them with Raptiva. She even had to use a walker for a while because of the neurological problems.

And then, last month, she got a call from her doctor saying that she needed to get off Raptiva — that there was this severe neurological defect — a brain damage disease called progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) — associated with Raptiva. Once you get PML, you go nowhere but down, Gloria’s doctor told her.

This made Gloria mad, understandably so. It further aggravated her when she heard from a pharmacist that the drug company, Genentech, knew about these defective drug side effects from clinical trial overseas. They knew about the negative findings, but never shared that information here in the United States. Patients also say that there are no prominent warnings of any side effects in the literature provided with the prescription drug.

Like Gloria, many patients’ lives have been turned upside down because of Raptiva. Where earlier they trusted this drug company to act in their best interest, now these Raptiva patients do not trust anyone. They are worried about the residual effects they are feeling from years of taking Raptiva and worried that any other new drug they take for their psoriasis could present even more problems.

If you’ve had a similar experience as Gloria because of the Raptiva side effects, I’d like to hear from you. Bisnar | Chase has received several inquiries from affected patients and their families about Raptiva side effects. How could this happen? How could a drug company knowingly put a defective product that could cause brain damage and put it in the market for consumption by patients who are already going through pain and suffering because of a troubling skin condition? It makes me mad as %$$*! In addition to trusting this pharmaceutical company, patients have also spent money they don’t have on Raptiva — which doesn’t come cheap. It apparently costs about $14,000 for one year of continuous treatment. Now, these patients are looking at the possibility of suffering brain damage and a prolonging of their hardship and costs.

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