Digitek Double Dose Pills Recalled

My father died about 5 mnths later. I took care of him during this time and watched him suffer tremendously. I believe that this medicine caused him to have another heart attack and caused his death.

Almost lost my mother due to double dosing. My mother had been taking the pill for about 2 yrs and this yr I believe she took the recalled batch for about 6 months. She had to be rushed 2 hours away because of an abnormal ekg + rapid heartbeat. Little did we know it was the pill.

My dad was in hospital in April 08 for 4-5 days from digitek toxicity. Blood pressure was dangerously low and most of the toxic symptoms from this drug he had. He was very ill for weeks from this.

When I read the story from the lady in Ca, I thought that I had written it. That is exactly what happened to my mother in April. After about 3 months of loss of appetite and weight loss, she was beginning to loose her balance and seemed to be disoriented.

She fell, cut her lip and was hospitalized and had to be transferred to a nursing home facility. They attributed her falls to coumadin overdose, and I don't think they evaluated her dig level. She is still in assisted living, and we are still uncertain as to what caused her decline (she is 80 yrs old.)

My mother (age 76) has not been feeling well for a long time and seemed to be continually going downhill. At the time, we attributed it to her age. On 4/28/08, we found her on the floor of the bathroom. She was admitted to the hospital on that day after being diagnosed with excessive digoxin in her system. She was also diagnosed with pneumonia, which her doctor said was caused by aspiration of vomit. He said this was a result of the digoxin toxicity. She had severe diarrhea and had to lay in her own excrement in a diaper. She was in and out of lucidity until 5/01/08. She was nauseous and could not eat. During one of her lucid moments, she told my brother that she wanted to "throw in the towel" because she felt so awful. She was in the hospital until 5/08/08 when she was transferred to a convalescent facility. We received a call from her mail order medication provider, Rite Source, on 5/01/08 informing us of the recall of the medication. When we told them she was in the hospital and described her symptoms, we were told that we should immediately contact the FDA and her doctors.

She has improved a great deal since she quit taking Digitek, but she has a long way to go to get back to normal, if she ever can get there. She is receiving physical therapy.