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Medical and Dental Device Safety Urgent Reform (MEDDSURGE)

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  • Sep 29th, 2015
    Someone from Pittsboro, NC writes:
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    do your job
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  • Sep 29th, 2015
    Someone from Palmdale, CA writes:
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    The Medical Industrial complex is out of control, and it is your duty to control them for the safety of the American and even the world's people. Due your duty!
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    Someone from East Providence, RI writes:
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    Full disclosure ALL the time keeps everyone honest! Make it a LAW since we as consumers have learned that businesses can not be trusted to "self- regulate". Bottoms- lines come before public welfare and safety unless our elected Congress makes it into the law of the land. F.D.A. do your job!!!!
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    Someone from Pittsburgh, PA writes:
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    How about getting off your lazy rear ends and do something good for the will of the people, instead of corporations and your campaign donors
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    Someone from San Clemente, CA writes:
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    I worked in Quality Control for a manufacturer of medical devices here in CA. My husband still works in that arena. I think the government needs to protect its citizens from these grotesquely profitable and greedy businesses.
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  • Sep 29th, 2015
    Someone from Columbia, MD writes:
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    The positions taken by the FDA, CDC, and NIH on items known to be hazardous to human health (such as those listed in this petition) are extremely disappointing - even disgusting. I've very little confidence in anything issuing from those agencies presently.
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  • Sep 29th, 2015
    Someone from Lakeville, MN writes:
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    We as consumers of health care are told to be informed consumers. How can we even try to do that if we are lied to and have no protective help from anywhere? We need honest truthtellers to oversee.
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  • Sep 28th, 2015
    Someone from Hillsdale, NJ writes:
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    I am a strong woman who has spent my life keeping it together. I have always had a job, paid my bills, and taken care of all my responsibilities. Everyone came to me for strength because there was nothing I could not handle. Even the events of 911 could not keep me down. That was until I had the essure procedure in March of 2006. I had no idea that a suggestion from my doctor would completely change the person that I was. After the essure procedure, I began to have panic attacks. Life became over whelming. everything that I was holding together became unbearable. I recall all too clearly spending a day at home with my two beautiful children when a dark veil washed over me. I started to panic about everything, I became angry. So angry that I my children were scared of me. I ran to my bedroom and closed the door. I called my husband in a frantic state and begged him to come home right away. I felt like a monster because my children were scared of me. Fast forward to working in healthcare. I was an interventional radiology technologist. I worked in a cardiac cath lab. I had been involved in high risk procedures every day for three years. Then one night I was on call. I got to work as usual and began to set up. the procedure was intense from the start and then the worst happened. Our patient began to degrade. As the situation grew more intense I began to feel the veil of panic wash over me. The patient was purple and the blood on my hands was red. The colors were so intense. It was hard for me to hear what everyone was saying. Inside my head I was shouting at myself, do this do that move move move. But I just couldn't I was frozen with panic. What seemed like hours inside my head was really only minutes. The patient was gone, and the doctor stated that there really was no hope from the beginning but we had to try. Everyone was asking me what happened to me? I apologized and said I don't know why but I panicked. I lost my job because of that panic attack. The team felt that I was unreliable, and that I couldn't handle the pressure. But that wasn't me. I was always reliable, strong and able to take on anything. This was a different me. In therapy they told me it was normal to have feelings blah blah blah. I had lost everything I had worked for. I couldn't provide for my family. Everytime I looked in the mirror I had no idea who was looking back at me. I can go on, because there is more. So much more that has changed who I am. Now after years of Dr's, therapy, prescriptions and an emotional roller coaster, I hear that it could all stem from a small decision I made with my doctor? This device that was supposed to be simply, easy and nothing to worry about could be the reason I have been through so much pain..... How could that be? How could anyone put something on the market that could destroy my life from the inside??? Friday 9/25/15, The Pope came to NY. Usually in the morning my kids watch their shows while getting ready for school, Frida
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  • Sep 28th, 2015
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  • Sep 27th, 2015
    Someone from Aurora, CO writes:
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    My name is jeree I had my Essure procedure done in Nov. 2012 after I had my 3rd child. I had pain in the beginning from having eesure put in. I was told that the pain was due to having a curved cervix when my Doctor orginally preformed the surgery. Its gone down hill from there. I have been put on nonstop pain meds,, chortisone shots.. hormone pills for two years ( I am now 27). I have non-stop bleeding in which now I am passing out because of the pain. After having a biopsy done and ruling everything else out I am finally having essure removed by a Hystorectmy at the age of 27. Because of all the pain I can no longer drive a school bus... no longer play with my kids and had efffected my everyday living. Please remove Essure..savelifes
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  • Sep 27th, 2015
    Someone from Campbellsport, WI writes:
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    No medical device that's implanted in a person or any medicines, with the exception of any new disease that has no treatment for it yet and the only outcome without anything is death. Nothing should be fast tracked through out significant amount of study for it. When I got Essure I wasn't aware of the side effects that other women have been having with it. And no one ever said that the inflammation does not stop once the the scarring stops, nor has anyone said that they can migrate out of the scar tissue years later. I did not register to become part of a study for any drug company. I should have the right to see a list of complications with a device as they put with medications.
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  • Sep 27th, 2015
    Someone from Campbellsport, WI writes:
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    No medical device that's implanted in a person or any medicines, with the exception of any new disease that has no treatment for it yet and the only outcome without anything is death. Nothing should be fast tracked through out significant amount of study for it. When I got Essure I wasn't aware of the side effects that other women have been having with it. And no one ever said that the inflammation does not stop once the the scarring stops, nor has anyone said that they can migrate out of the scar tissue years later. I did not register to become part of a study for any drug company. I should have the right to see a list of complications with a device as they put with medications.
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  • Sep 27th, 2015
    Someone from Villa Rica, GA writes:
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    i am currently suffering from Essure its daily pain
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