If you take metformin or rantodine

[tx2sturgis]

Once again, I find myself posting something that is a concern in the trucking and transportation industries and starting a thread about it here, because I am sure some of our members are using either (or maybe both) of these drugs.

Certain brands and forms of metformin (for type 2 diabetes) and rantidine (Zantac brand for heartburn) have been recalled by the FDA. They have higher than allowed impurity, called NDMA, or nitrosamines. Nitrosamines are a known carcinogen, if consumed in large doses over many years.

You should not stop taking metformin until you have consulted with your doctor! Repeat! Call your health care provider if you are taking this medicine...get the latest info from them.

You should look at the brand on the packages, and then consult these webpages:


https://www.fda.gov/news-events/pre...drug-evaluation-and-research-impurities-found

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safe...pdates-and-press-announcements-ndma-metformin

https://www.fda.gov/safety/medical-...-ndma-found-samples-some-ranitidine-medicines

You may end up talking to your pharmacist who may be able to supply you with an alternative. 

I'm not a doctor, so PLEASE consult someone else, I am only summarizing the recall. To get the full details, click the links above.

And, dare I say it: As if we needed something else to worry about. Geeze.

 

[Matlock]

Yes! First call is to your health provider.

I've been watching way to much TV these past few months and the advertisements for joining yet another lawsuit for these drugs are on every channel.

 

[LERCA]

My pharmacy confiscates every drug that has problems. No debates. Ranitidine/Zantac was the only drug that took away my stomach pain so I’m upset it’s gone. I didn’t take it daily so I don’t know if I’m in trouble or not. It’s not the first time I’ve been exposed to a carcinogen. I had cancer already and I can’t sit around worrying about it.
I’m so angry but I’m not going to investigate how this all happened because it’s out of my control. I stopped taking Ranitidine immediately and haven’t taken it since. My pharmacy has all my hoarded pills.

 

[tx2sturgis]

I've been watching way to much TV these past few months and the advertisements for joining yet another lawsuit for these drugs are on every channel.

Oh....ok, well I dont watch TV so I had no idea, I may have been the last one to know...with all the other negative news, somehow I missed the advertisements/announcements.

 

[IGBT]

I was reading that the carcinogen in a grilled bbq steak or burger is more than was in the recalled zantac, so I guess either you will be ok or there are a hell of a lot of us who are doomed.

 

[tx2sturgis]

Well, yes, of course the amounts are very small but they are cumulative.

Eat a burger or steak everyday, plus popping a couple of metformins with those meals and a zantac every night...hey it adds up.