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File Your HFA Inhaler MedWatch Complaints Now, Please.
The FDA supposedly tracks patient and medical professional drug complaints via MedWatch in order to pick up early warning 'safety signals' about dangerous drugs. Unfortunately, due to the consistent failure of the FDA's four senior executives (Drs. Robert Temple, Janet Woodcock, John Jenkins and Sandra Kweder) over the last fifteen to twenty years to react more quickly to these safety signals, hundreds of thousands of Americans are estimated to have died unnecessarily, and many more have become permanently disabled.
Based on 640 albuterol inhaler FDA MedWatch complaints filed between April 1, 2005 and April 1, 2008, we know that HFA albuterol inhalers generate a disproportiantely high percentage of medical complaints compared to CFC albuterol, and predictably, the FDA has turned a blind eye to this strong safety signal generated by HFA albuterol.
It is worth noting that the most likely explanation for the extremely low number of HFA MedWatch complaints (we have thousands of complaints on our petition alone) is the powerfully effective propaganda campaign waged by THE U.S. STAKEHOLDERS' GROUP ON MDI TRANSITION at the direction of their drug company clients (IPAC) and the Environmental Protection Agency, which has tremendously demoralized asthma and pulmonary patients who have serious medical complaints, and convinced them that resistence is futile.
IT IS NOT. Far from it. There are 40 million patients who use inhalers and they all have friends and families who will help them reverse the CFC ban, if only a small percentage of them STAND UP AND FILE THEIR MEDWATCH COMPLAINTS AND EMAIL THEIR FOUR POLITICAL TARGETS.
File your MedWatch complaint today, using the link below. It’s fast, anonymous, and arms us with the data we need to fight for your right to safe and effective CFC inhalers.
1. File a separate complaint for each brand of HFA inhaler you’ve tried. Common HFA inhalers include: PROAIR HFA, PROVENTIL HFA, VENTOLIN HFA, XOPENEX HFA, QVAR HFA, FLOVENT HFA, and ATROVENT HFA.
2. Describe your medical problem. Describe any side-effects such as burning/sore throat, skin rashes/ulcers, headache, earache, tinnitus (ringing sound in ear), flu-like symptoms, coughing, nausea, vomiting, chest pain, high blood pressure, racing heart, increased shortness of breath, respiratory infections, etc. State whether the HFA inhaler relieved your asthma symptoms, and whether the relief was as fast, complete, and long-lasting as your CFC inhaler.
3. DO NOT TALK ABOUT THE INCREASED COST OF HFA INHALERS. If you even mention cost in the MedWatch complaint, the FDA will dismiss it as a 'financial' complaint and ignore your legitimate medical complaint. YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE FDA USES FINANCIAL COMPLAINTS AS A WEAPON AGAINST US WITH THE MEDIA. MedWatch is NOT the place to complain about price. Stick to the medical facts. We cannot emphasize this strongly enough.
4. Your complaint does not have to be perfect. Most MedWatch complaints are not complete – just do the best you can. The most important information is the brand of HFA inhaler and the description of its side-effects/ineffectiveness.
5. It’s ok if your problem happened a while ago. The FDA needs to know about your problem even if it happened years ago. Estimate the date of the problem the best you can and enter as much information as you remember.
6. MedWatch complaints are anonymous. Take a look at the PDFs of MedWatch complaints on our HFA MDIs: Just The Facts page– the patient’s identity is never revealed. Your anonymity is guaranteed by law. COWARDS WILL CAUSE US TO LOSE OUR FIGHT TO SAVE CFC INHALERS. Show some guts and exercise your right to file a complaint, or learn to love HFA inhalers.
Submit your HFA inhaler MedWatch complaint(s) here and now, please.
MEDWATCH UPDATE April 1, 2005 to September 30, 2008:
(Click on each link to see the MedWatch reports)
PROVENTIL HFA VENTOLIN HFA PROAIR HFA XOPENEX HFA
MEDWATCH UPDATE 4th Quarter 2008:
(Click on each link to see the MedWatch reports)
PROVENTIL HFA VENTOLIN HFA PROAIR HFA XOPENEX HFA
MEDWATCH UPDATE 1st Quarter 2009:
(Click on each link to see the MedWatch reports)
PROVENTIL HFA VENTOLIN HFA PROAIR HFA XOPENEX HFA
MEDWATCH UPDATE 2nd Quarter 2009:
(Click on each link to see the MedWatch reports)
PROVENTIL HFA VENTOLIN HFA PROAIR HFA XOPENEX HFA
Please donate to our campaign to save CFC inhalers here. We are a 100% volunteer, 100% patient-funded organization. Every dollar counts!
Based on 640 albuterol inhaler FDA MedWatch complaints filed between April 1, 2005 and April 1, 2008, we know that HFA albuterol inhalers generate a disproportiantely high percentage of medical complaints compared to CFC albuterol, and predictably, the FDA has turned a blind eye to this strong safety signal generated by HFA albuterol.
It is worth noting that the most likely explanation for the extremely low number of HFA MedWatch complaints (we have thousands of complaints on our petition alone) is the powerfully effective propaganda campaign waged by THE U.S. STAKEHOLDERS' GROUP ON MDI TRANSITION at the direction of their drug company clients (IPAC) and the Environmental Protection Agency, which has tremendously demoralized asthma and pulmonary patients who have serious medical complaints, and convinced them that resistence is futile.
IT IS NOT. Far from it. There are 40 million patients who use inhalers and they all have friends and families who will help them reverse the CFC ban, if only a small percentage of them STAND UP AND FILE THEIR MEDWATCH COMPLAINTS AND EMAIL THEIR FOUR POLITICAL TARGETS.
File your MedWatch complaint today, using the link below. It’s fast, anonymous, and arms us with the data we need to fight for your right to safe and effective CFC inhalers.
1. File a separate complaint for each brand of HFA inhaler you’ve tried. Common HFA inhalers include: PROAIR HFA, PROVENTIL HFA, VENTOLIN HFA, XOPENEX HFA, QVAR HFA, FLOVENT HFA, and ATROVENT HFA.
2. Describe your medical problem. Describe any side-effects such as burning/sore throat, skin rashes/ulcers, headache, earache, tinnitus (ringing sound in ear), flu-like symptoms, coughing, nausea, vomiting, chest pain, high blood pressure, racing heart, increased shortness of breath, respiratory infections, etc. State whether the HFA inhaler relieved your asthma symptoms, and whether the relief was as fast, complete, and long-lasting as your CFC inhaler.
3. DO NOT TALK ABOUT THE INCREASED COST OF HFA INHALERS. If you even mention cost in the MedWatch complaint, the FDA will dismiss it as a 'financial' complaint and ignore your legitimate medical complaint. YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE FDA USES FINANCIAL COMPLAINTS AS A WEAPON AGAINST US WITH THE MEDIA. MedWatch is NOT the place to complain about price. Stick to the medical facts. We cannot emphasize this strongly enough.
4. Your complaint does not have to be perfect. Most MedWatch complaints are not complete – just do the best you can. The most important information is the brand of HFA inhaler and the description of its side-effects/ineffectiveness.
5. It’s ok if your problem happened a while ago. The FDA needs to know about your problem even if it happened years ago. Estimate the date of the problem the best you can and enter as much information as you remember.
6. MedWatch complaints are anonymous. Take a look at the PDFs of MedWatch complaints on our HFA MDIs: Just The Facts page– the patient’s identity is never revealed. Your anonymity is guaranteed by law. COWARDS WILL CAUSE US TO LOSE OUR FIGHT TO SAVE CFC INHALERS. Show some guts and exercise your right to file a complaint, or learn to love HFA inhalers.
Submit your HFA inhaler MedWatch complaint(s) here and now, please.
MEDWATCH UPDATE April 1, 2005 to September 30, 2008:
(Click on each link to see the MedWatch reports)
PROVENTIL HFA VENTOLIN HFA PROAIR HFA XOPENEX HFA
MEDWATCH UPDATE 4th Quarter 2008:
(Click on each link to see the MedWatch reports)
PROVENTIL HFA VENTOLIN HFA PROAIR HFA XOPENEX HFA
MEDWATCH UPDATE 1st Quarter 2009:
(Click on each link to see the MedWatch reports)
PROVENTIL HFA VENTOLIN HFA PROAIR HFA XOPENEX HFA
MEDWATCH UPDATE 2nd Quarter 2009:
(Click on each link to see the MedWatch reports)
PROVENTIL HFA VENTOLIN HFA PROAIR HFA XOPENEX HFA
Please donate to our campaign to save CFC inhalers here. We are a 100% volunteer, 100% patient-funded organization. Every dollar counts!
