Persons who suffer a variety of digestive disorders and gastrointestinal travails may wonder: Why me? For them, that will take a diagnosis of their ailment, and even then, they may not know what caused their illness.
But if a person took defective acne drug Accutane -- even years earlier -- it could be that their injury was caused by the defective acne treatment, especially if their injury is a bowel disease.
Accutane is known to cause what’s known as an inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD. Among the IBDs caused by Accutane and its active ingredient, Isotretinoin, are Crohn’s disease, also known as Crohns disease, and ulcerative colitis. Both are lifelong, incurable and debilitating.
Diagnosing a bowel disease such as these requires a medical professional, but individual patients also can be alert to certain symptoms or Accutane side effects which may indicate they suffer a bowel disease or IBD. And if noted, these can be brought to the attention of a physician for proper diagnosis.
First, are you suffering from abdominal pain or from diarrhea? Both are strong indicators of possible bowel disease.
Certainly a person can have diarrhea without having a bowel disease, but the diarrhea caused by a bowel disease can be much worse, necessitating that a person go to the restroom as much as 20 times daily. They also may find blood in their bowel movements.
Blood in the stool also can lead to the related side effect of anemia, due to the person losing a substantial amount of blood.
Other aspects of this extreme diarrhea which can be due to a bowel disease caused by Accutane are low blood pressure, dehydration and perhaps even an accelerated heart rate. All can indicate bowel inflammation from a disease such as Crohn’s or ulcerative colitis.
Sufferers of an IBD caused by Accutane also may endure malnutrition, weight loss, weariness, feverish temperatures, abdominal cramping, inflammation in the eyes, joints, liver and skin and skin tags near the anus.
Such indicators of a possible IBD should be examined by a physician, who then can diagnose if the patient is suffering from ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease. And if the patient took Accutane prior to suffering this condition, he or she may be experiencing an Accutane side effects injury.
In the sad event that this is the case for you or a family member, you have a legal right to seek fair and just financial compensation from the pharmaceutical company whose negligence harmed you. In this case, that is GlaxoSmithKline, or GSK, a British corporation which placed profits above human safety in its marketing of defective acne medication Accutane, for which it belatedly issued an Accutane recall in America in 2009.
Such economic recovery can be gained by means of an Accutane lawsuit provided by the experienced national attorney service of Accutane-Lawsuit-Lawyer.com. To learn more, simply submit the free online form on this page or call toll-free to 1-800-339-0606.