Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
Mary Linnen, 29, was determined to lose 25 pounds before her wedding. In May 1996, her doctor prescribed a combination of drugs known as Fen-Phen. When Linnen complained of dizziness and shortness of breath 23 days after starting the medications, her doctor told her to stop the drugs-but didn't examine her or order tests. Linnen got better for a time, then the shortness of breath and
exhaustion returned worse than ever. Her legs and stomach swelled. She collapsed at work. Six months after taking Fen-Phen, Linnen was admitted to the emergency room with primary
pulmonary hypertension: the capillaries that sent oxygen to her lungs had thickened and were closing, suffocating her. Her survival…
On a recommendation from the website for the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, I purchased this book and was riveted from beginning to end. As a woman who takes medicine for depression… The book discusses several cases of Fen-Phen, the diet drug. The book goes through the history of the drug, the drug companies efforts to
conceal the negative side-effects of the drugs. It continues…
