Comments on: Possible Quinine Lawsuits

By: Maalac Steele

Maalac Steele — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:30:26 +0000

I was a human being once.

I was the Executive Director Of a Chamber of Commerce, and a top 5% in the country skilled Chess player.

Until I was given Quinine for leg cramps.

Now I have crippling tinnitus that has ruined my game. I used to could play on 15 boards at once, now I can’t play on one.

I’m on SSI for Meniere’s Disease that showed up after taking the Quinine, and has never gone away.

My Doctors say all of this is permanent.

I do need a lawyer.

By: Charlotte Swanson

Charlotte Swanson — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:53:30 +0000

After taking quinine for leg cramps for approximately 30 days, I found myself with double pneumonia. I had no symptoms exept for worsening shortness of breath. This was in the fall of 2006. I had a lung biopsy. My doctor is a lung specialist and he didn’t know what was wrong with me. It was not from bacterial infection or virus he told me . I felt it was the quinine that caused it. He did not think so but after a year of treating me with prednisone off and on, he finally agreed that it was ILD from Quinine. He sent me to UVA Lung Specialists but with no better treatment from them, I have pulmonary fibrosis now and may need transplant in the future. I called my pharmacist and asked about the drug and I was told that it had been taken off the market in Dec. 2006, just two months after I became sick from it.

By: Luane Neosh

Luane Neosh — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:14:06 +0000

My boyfriend suffered a stroke in his leg which we believe may be a result of the Quinine use. We are investigating which course to take as far as litigation is concerned. He received his last prescription as late as July, 2008, so the clinic he goes to may be liable also. Hopefully the effects of the stroke are not permanent, he flops his leg when he walks.

By: Deborah Gumbert

Deborah Gumbert — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:35:15 +0000

My father died of a massive heart attack March 31, 1973. He had been on Quinine for Malaria and Malaria Attacks ever since he was in the Army in the 1940’s and stationed in the Philipines. The doctors who doctored him here in Ashland are all dead (Dr. Wayne Franz and Dr. Okey Sanford) There are no records that we can come across. So how can we prove this? I am in the process of requesting his military records but have not received them yet. My Mother is deceased as well and so is all of my Father’s relatives. There are only my sister and I left on his side. My phone is: 606-928-2305. Thank you

By: Kathleen Rainboth

Kathleen Rainboth — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:17:35 +0000

My father was stationed on Guadal Canal during WWII. They were given quinine daily to prevent malaria, which he got and came home with after the war and was given quinie at that time also.
Later, a doctor prescribed it for leg cramps. My father passed away in 1995 from refractory anemia, which is a type of leukemia. No one could tell us the cause of the anemia. My widowed mother questions how and why every day.

I would go for a lawsuit. It won’t bring him back, but it would answer alot of questions for his family.

By: Nancy Florio

Nancy Florio — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:29:24 +0000

My husband nearly died from quinine sulfate. Our doctor prescribed it for leg cramps. After being in and out of intensive care for 3+ months – and after being misdiagnosed with leukemia, malaria, ITP – a doctor at the Cleveland Clinic finally connected his symptoms with quinine sulfate. Unfortunately, my husband went through 4 Rituxan treatments (chemo) as an “aggressive treatment” for what the doctors misdiagnosed as ITO.

Does anyone know of similar experiences?? How about a class action lawsuit against the manufacturer?