Frustrations voiced by patients from fungal meningitis scare
SANTA ROSA CO., Fla. -- A Santa Rosa County man is one of nearly 600 patients treated locally with the contaminated steroids. He says he started experiencing symptoms of fungal meningitis after receiving injections for pain.
Robin Mills, 47, has been coming to the Pain Consultants of West Florida since June. Last month he received an alarming voice mail.
"We have been asked by the Centers for Disease Control and the Florida Department of Health to touch bases with you," the voicemail from Escambia County Health Department said.
The Escambia County Health Department told him he'd been injected with the tainted medication. He immediately went to see a doctor.
"They, um, run some tests, blood tests and uh, a spinal tap." Mills said.
Mills says he'd been experiencing nausea, fevers, vomiting and sensitivity to light, all symptoms of fungal meningitis. Just to be safe, his wife took him to an alternative medicine practitioner who gave him anti-fungal treatments.
"Just due to prayer and faith and my wife acting quick and going to Jimmy Hill, he's a doctor who gave me stuff to fight off the infections is the only thing that's kept me alive," Mills said.
"I've just been totally frustrated and angry. I used this medication on my wife, first part of September," said Dr. Kurt A. Krueger, MD with the Pain Consultants of West Florida.
Dr. Krueger says the clinic stopped using the medication as soon as it received word of a recall at the end of September. He says since then the clinic has only used name brand medications and not anything from compound pharmacies like the one where the tainted medication was made.
Mills says he's still waiting to hear the results of the tests he took last month. Meanwhile, health authorities want to remind everyone the disease associated with this outbreak is not contagious.
Robin Mills, 47, has been coming to the Pain Consultants of West Florida since June. Last month he received an alarming voice mail.
"We have been asked by the Centers for Disease Control and the Florida Department of Health to touch bases with you," the voicemail from Escambia County Health Department said.
The Escambia County Health Department told him he'd been injected with the tainted medication. He immediately went to see a doctor.
"They, um, run some tests, blood tests and uh, a spinal tap." Mills said.
Mills says he'd been experiencing nausea, fevers, vomiting and sensitivity to light, all symptoms of fungal meningitis. Just to be safe, his wife took him to an alternative medicine practitioner who gave him anti-fungal treatments.
"Just due to prayer and faith and my wife acting quick and going to Jimmy Hill, he's a doctor who gave me stuff to fight off the infections is the only thing that's kept me alive," Mills said.
"I've just been totally frustrated and angry. I used this medication on my wife, first part of September," said Dr. Kurt A. Krueger, MD with the Pain Consultants of West Florida.
Dr. Krueger says the clinic stopped using the medication as soon as it received word of a recall at the end of September. He says since then the clinic has only used name brand medications and not anything from compound pharmacies like the one where the tainted medication was made.
Mills says he's still waiting to hear the results of the tests he took last month. Meanwhile, health authorities want to remind everyone the disease associated with this outbreak is not contagious.
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