Digitek Responsible for East Texas Woman Death Scare
An east Texas woman was prescribed three years ago the heart drug Digitek because of a heart murmur she has had since she was a young girl. After being on the drug for some time, Linda Brinkley began suffering major side effects. Her heart was beating fast, she was shaking, experienced severe headaches and nausea. The complications ended up sending her to the hospital three times between February and April. The last time in the ICU she started coughing and could barely breathe right before she passed out. Later she was told that she had flat-lined, effectively dying on the table. After being brought from the edge of death her doctor informed her it was not her heart condition that caused it, but the medication she was taking for it. She had been taking the drug for a little over a year. Linda is now in the process of filing a lawsuit and she is one of 1,500 Digitek claims in her attorney’s office. A panel of judges is meeting at the end of the month to decide where the claims will be consolidated
