Re: This article was put out on December 2006! Whatever happened?

Heya, Wayne! A short answer would be that the FDA talks a big game when it comes to stuff like tylenol, but unless it their plans persecute people in some way, they rarely follow thru. Now when it comes to things like limiting access to opiates, persecuting doctors, hassling naturalists and outlawing nutritional supplements, they are way quick to follow thru, but otherwise, don't hold your breath!


"Hawaiian Wayne" <birdie998@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:60434b0d-a35a-40cf-a16e-bc18acb49b36@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Aloha All!

The link below will bring up an article that was written FOUR years
ago about the FDA requiring
improved labels on acetaminophen and acetaminophen containing OTC
meds:

http://psychcentral.com/news/2006/12/20/fda-to-improve-warnings-on-otc-pain-meds/490.html

If this really happened, then why is it that we are still finding it
necessary to remind or tell some folks about the dangers that the
article mentions?

With it being so late in the evening and the one and only bottle of
OTC acetaminophen containing meds just happens to be in my sleeping
wife's room (I don't want to wake her as she needs her sleep more than
any other family member), I can't rush to see if this actually came to
fruition. Did the OTC meds makers manage to get the FDA to
"compromise" yet again so the warnings are in such fine print one
needs a magnifying glass with a 100X magnification? Or, if it is in
bold lettering, is it written in a way or in a location that the
ordinary user of said product would probably miss it or simply ignore
it? Huh? Huh?

I'm amazed at the wonder of it all when I think of acetaminophens'
predecessor; aspirin. How in the world did aspirin manage to escape
being a prescription pain reliever and also managed to be one of the
most safely used OTC pain meds for so many years? Seems to me that
around the time or shortly thereafter that aspirin was put on sale
(Bayer patented aspirin in 1900) that the feds went on their
'scheduling binge'. Amazingly, aspirin didn't get slapped as a
"controlled substance" and it seems to have been used relatively
safely for quite a few years. (I'm not fooling myself here, I do know
that there were many people who OD'd on it by accident and on purpose
[the latter folks must be real fools])

Anyhow, when I first started this thread, I actually thought that the
linked article was something written within the WEEK!! Here I was all
excited that the FDA felt that what was already on the labels of these
OTC meds wasn't adequate and they were going to go and "slap some
hands". HA-HA! Silly me...

Why don't people KNOW the dangers of acetaminophen before they take it
already? Or at least shortly after they start taking it? Something
should be set in place so people's eyes latch on to the warnings of
this stuff. I, myself was actually in danger of having my liver
shutdown or damaged due to my second surgeon for my spine prescribing
far too many tablets of Darvocette. Luckily a pharmacist who just
happened to be filling in for the regular one that was on vacation
(nice, huh?) caught it and called the doctor. I was told that he was
"surprised" that he had prescribed such a high dosage. Yeah....right.
What else was he supposed to do? Admit that he had screwed up? A
neurosurgeon? You've got to be kidding!!!

Oops, I'm digressing again. Sorry.

How do you other members feel about this? Or am I just in a ranting
type of mood today? (It does seem like something’s been kind of
"bugging" me all day...hmmmmm.)

Aloha Just For Now,
Hawaiian Wayne

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