How worried should Phen Fen users be?
PHIL PONCE: So if you’re someone who’s been taking these drugs for a period of time, even if it’s been a few months or up to a year or two, then what do you need to do, anything–should be pretty worried about it? DR. ARTHUR FRANK: Well, I think you need to be cautious about it. I think first you need to stop taking the medication and, second, I think you need to be in touch with your physician, the person who’s prescribing the medication and to have this evaluated. What you need is some kind of medical evaluation, a physical examination, probably an echocardiogram, and then dealing with it, depending on what kinds of findings are uncovered in this kind of evaluation. PHIL PONCE: You wouldn’t necessarily know, would you, according to reports, if you had heart valve damage, or if you had this pulmonary hypertension, that’s not necessarily something that you would necessarily feel, for example? DR. ARTHUR FRANK: Well, one of the things we’re hoping is that because we are now looking at i
