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My mother who was 87 years old and who had had a pacemaker implanted in her 4 years ago had a fast heart and that was the reason for the pacemaker.
She also had skipped beats (atrialfib) the doctor put her on "Amiodarone" for that.
My mother died this past June 19th with a toxic liver, kidney failure, and what the doctors said she had was stiff lung.
She had tremors which the doctor said, "was just senility" meaning old age.
She had nausea all the time, she got to the point where she wasn't eating very much.
She complained to the doctor just one week prior to her going into the hospital that she wasn't sleeping, his answer was, have a little glass of wine.  My mother did not drink but she tried it twice and didn't like it, and it didn't help. .
She also complained to him that she was short of breath, with that he took his stethescope and listened once to her right lung and once to her left lung, said, sounds fine. We sat and waited for the doctor visit for 15 minutes, had her pace maker checked and an EKG and then waited for the doctor another 5 or so minutes and then he came in and spent about 2 minutes with my mother and that was one week before she was admitted to the ER.  He never even came to the hospital to see her, one of his associates did.
Not once did this doctor who is a cardiologist ever send my mother to get a chest Xray before putting her on this medication and not once during the four years did he do so, not even when she told him that she was short of breath.
Not once in the four year period that she was on this medication did he ever test her blood for any toxicity.  We are devastated.  My mother was put on a ventilator for a thoracotomy, and then back on the ventilator for the last seven days of her life which were pure hell, not only for her but for us who were with her for those seven days 24/7.
my mother went into the hospital at 135 pounds and came out feet first at about 200 pounds.
Not only should this drug company be put out of existance but so should this cardiologist as well.
I wish someone would give us advise on how to go about this.  We just buried our mother 3 days ago.  This was a woman who was alive and vibrant and very intelligent and had much to live for.  She loved her family very much and as they were rushing me out of the room before they shoved two more packs of plasma into her veins so they could stuff another tube down her lungs to ventilate her, she looked at me and said, "am I going to die" and that was the last words she ever spoke to me before they sedated her and put her back on the ventilator and then we had the decision to make to take her off seven days later after a hole had been blown in her lungs and she was no longer capable of breathing on her own.  What do we do now?