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Yet he touts the drug that has been known to kill people by damaging the heart as a side effect and wondering out loud to one of the Doctors on TV if disinfectant could be injected to kill the virus. Many people believe him and follow his lead and it will be interesting to see how many end up dying from his recommendations and even if he ends up developing heart problems taking a drug that he doesn't really need at this time as a preventative measure.
Just one thing! Hydroxychloroquine or Plaquenil is NOT dangerous! I've been on it for over a year, all totalled. I do a lot of research about the drugs I take.
This heart attack thing is nonsense. It only causes heart attacks in people with a long Q wave. They are people who need pacemakers. I have coronary heart disease and it hasn't affected me at all.
Further, I run a large RA group for Canadians and we have talked about this drug a lot, in view that one person didn't get even a month's supply, and a lot of people only got 1 month after the pandemic started. That changed when Trudeau demanded India fulfill their obligation for paid Plaquenil, to be sent immediately! I had no problem getting a 3 month's supply just a week ago.
Plaquenil is the mildest and safest drug you can take for autoimmune diseases like RA or lupus or PsA. My group has over a thousand members, with at least 900 members having been on it. Sometimes it is not strong enough, very occasionally someone has an allergic reaction, which is possible with any medication, so not everyone is still on it. It wasn't strong enough for me in 2000 and 2015. It is now, because I take it in combo with other, more dangerous DMARD and a biologic.
My rheumatologist had to lower my dose of injectable methotrexate, because my liver enzymes would not stop climbing and I was in a lot of pain and flaring. So I asked if I could be put back on Plaquenil. This was my rheumatologist's reply, "Would I put you on the weakest and safest drug used for RA? Of course I would!"
Getting back to my RA group, one person had damage to her field of vision, which is the side effect we get warned about. Nothing has even been said about this heart attack nonsense. Certainly no one of the 900 people have had any issues with heart. And pacemakers are generally for people in their 70s & 80s.
The left wing media will do anything to bring Trump down. I have a left wing friend and she was telling everyone who stupid Trump was to be taking it, and how dangerous it is, with lots of links to left wing sources saying people taking it were all going to die. I kept countering her, telling her I am on it and how safe it is, before she realized what I was saying, and apologized for being wrong.
So Plaquenil or Hydroxychloroquine is very safe. Originally used for malaria, in the tropics, they found out people with RA or lupus would improve radically when taking Plaquenil. It is the starter drug for most autoimmune diseases. It has caused almost no heart attacks, and as far as eye damage, we see our ophthalmologists yearly for check ups, and we are fine. You have to be checked yearly, including for 5 years after you stop the drug, but very safe, I would not take it if it was dangerous. Plus it is so much safer than the chemo drugs I am also taking for RA!