Lyrica Lawsuit (Page 10) (Top voted first)

Does anyone know if there is an ongoing lawsuit against the company who puts out Lyrica? I am a mess from it. Do we have a leg to stand on when it comes to the side effects they found out from people like us? I am a long termer. I have been taking 900 mg since 2005. Is there anyone representing us? Thank you

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Vicky: So sorry to hear about your life and what happened to re:lyrica. I would like to hear that you have gotten off of that drug. Unfortunately, when I got offthe drug, thesypmtoms stayed. My youngest dauaghter, 26, smils at me, rubs my arm and says"you already told us that mommie..." I can see the pain in her eyes. I'm 55 and I'm being treated like I'm 98 with alzheimers. My teeth are gone, gone. My kids used to call me pretty. Now, I see sorrow and sadness, thank God they don't live in the same city as I do. They would really feel bad if they knew how much time I spend in bed. My biggest problem is money. I'm on disability which I think is below poverty level because a 'fly by nite' company was allowed to treat me like a guinea pig. I hope they gfot their data. Kinda skewed, if you ask me. bugt I ramble. Hang in there Vicki, I won't have a place to live in January. I'll pray for all of us.

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Aubrey: The tooth loss is from the Lyrica. I have had almost all my teeth break off at the gum. My only advice is to get off the Lyrica or try to keep up with the 'fallout'. no pun intended. If you can afford it,, that is. I had no dental insuance and am on disability, so you can imagine. My only recourse is(are) dentures, when I save up enough money for this. Stay on top of any tooth decay. It happens pretty fast. Take care.

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Aubrey & Tonya: There's also a page on Facebook called Lyrica Survivors which might give you a bit more info & support. Unfortunately, FB took away the discussions options, so you have to wade through the posts, but people don't mind at all if you post a question that's been asked before. I have also had awful tooth decay, root canals, & crumbling teeth. Just my opinion, but I believe it's a combination of nerve damage inside the teeth & Lyrica blocking the absorption of key nutrients necessary for healthy teeth. I've said this before, but I had no cavities from age 15 - 40, but once I had been taking Lyrica for a few years I had about 20 small cavities within a year. I was on Lyrica for another 2 years (not realizing the connection). Since I've been off it, I've had another 16 cavities, 2 root canals & 2 crumbled teeth. I have almost no enamel left on my teeth & can't keep up with the expenses, so am living with what's left of a crumbled tooth until I have $400 for a tooth extraction. Its a bit pricier for me because I also have severe TMJ & can only open my mouth about 5mm - I add that because the TMJ is a result of all the structural changes in my mouth...due to Lyrica. I believe the damage is permanent, but dietary changes, adding supplements, & taking good care of remaining teeth can only help & hopefully slow any damage. Of course, I'm not a dentist BUT I do know more than the one that yanked my jaw around while working in my mouth & did not believe me when I said I WAS brushing, flossing, & had not had cavities since childhood. Best advice I can give is to find a CARING, knowledgeable dentist who BELIEVES that medication can affect your teeth. Yes, it costs a bundle. I have to save up to treat the worst areas first & make difficult choices (i.e. physical therapy or dentist this month) but (to me) it's well worth it. Hope this looonnnggg-winded reply helps someone! Wishing better days ahead for you both & for everyone with damage from Lyrica!

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Thanks to those who responded. The amount of suffering caused by this drug is extreme, and no one is even trying to sue the company. The effects devistate a users whole life and ruins our family's. The strain on people alone should require a FDA inquiry. Everybody lets google the FDA and file complaints on this drug if they got a huge number of complaints might get the ball rolling and mabey a lawyer would have the courage and resources to sue the company.

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I am a 35 year registered nurse...started on Lyrica in 2010..took for 3-4 months for PMR and fibro....became disoriented....did not know how to hang an IV bag...would just sit and look at the wall....forgot how to drive or even start my car....took until May of this year to occasionally start driving again....still have confusion, forgetfulness, stammering and loss of memory....had to quit my job...after a great career, I am not confident enough to do any patient care....keep hoping the symptoms will resolve, but after reading here....not very optimistic....

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Diane,
I also have vertigo and walk down the hallway sometimes leaning on the side of the wall....have just started taking HCTZ for high blood pressure this week....have had oral surgery and 2-3 root canals since October of last year.....did you have any numbness in your hands and feet? My PCP just suggested an antidepressant.....I told him I wasn't depressed, I was angry....demanded to see a rheumatologist who took me off of Lyrica and said his facility did not prescribe the medications because they call it the crazy medication.....at 60, I am too young for social security and have applied for disability, but no results so far.....living off my husbands SS and retirement....lots of changes to our lifestyle....but just so glad to still be here....I really thought I was going to die while I was taking the Lyrica....prayers for everyone...

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Becca, I did have numbness in hands and feet, but attributed it to Fibromyalgia. I also got disoriented, like going to see the doctor and knowing which doctor I was going to, but driving to the wrong doctors office. I lose my car when I park it unless very careful about noticing where I park. I have never had problems like this in my life. At one time I worked for a fortune 500 Contractor, kept 100's of sub-contractors tele numbers in my head, under a Vice-President of the company with 5 Project Managers. I could handle whatever came at me, but now I am hesitant about taking on anything. I have totally lost my self confidence. I get dizzy easily and have what my doctor called "the exorcist" effect, where I am driving or whatever and the world "jerks", like it just makes a big "blink" or something. I feel like my life was stolen and I have no idea of how to get it back. I have also, because of lack of confidence, lost track of friends and the lifestyle I used to have. The only hobby I have kept is reading. I used to garden, motorcycle riding, do ceramics, and paint. Motivation just is not there. I barely get through each day,

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I never really thought about how many people are affected by fibromyalgia.....at the clinic, I dealt with patients who were affected, but a small percentage....it is sad that the medications developed to help everyone are causing more problems in addition to the everyday hardships and pain....we know the short term effects, but what are going to be the long term effects of this drug......I am one year post Lyrica and still have problems.....it is sad that to some people, this is the ONLY medication that makes them able to deal with every day living....drug developers need to monitor and listen to the public to know when a medication needs tweeking.....enough said...just rambling....B

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Mr. Moss, My name is Stephanie Lewis. I can't believe the things I have read on this post about the effects of Lyrica. I took it for about 2 years. I cannot begin to describe to you the effect it had on my life. Prior to takinr.g Lyrica...I owned my own new construction cleaning business. My foot and back starting hurting so bad that I couldnt work. My Dr. eventually had to put me on Hydrocodone. My family was concerned that I would and was addicted to it so for that reason I asked for Lyrica because I thought it was a nonnarcotic. I even told my Dr. this. I began to cry all day...when I say all day...I mean ALL day. I was having manic depression. I was a strong minded woman whom my children(which are grown) family and friends respected and loved. Lyrica destroyed my life. Everyone thought I was abusing my meds and I wasnt. They thought I was losing my mind. I couldnt think straight. I couldnt finish senteces because I would forget how to say the words. I am still that way even after I stopped taking it. I have good moments but more bad thean anything. My brother and my children were so afraid I was going to take my life that they had me sent to a psych ward for an evaluation. I cannot describe to you how painful it was for me to see the look in everyones eyes..especially my children. I will never forget it.Even though I am off Lyrica now..I am dealing with the long term effects and picking up the pieces of my life trying to revuild things with my loved ones who had such a great deal of respect for me at one time. I try to explain to peope what this medicine did to my life, my mind...I cant. There just arent words. I am trying to find you on Facebook. Would you please send me your email address so I can contact you about this lawsuit. They shouldnt get away with all the damage they have done to all of our lives. Some days I still wonder even now what was the point of getting off of it and getting well...all the damage that was done while taking it of makes me just wish I had died instead. I love my husban and my children more than anything in this world and they were hurt so much through all of this. That grieves my heart everyday. Please help.

Stephanie

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our group in=s called lyrica surivors and you can find us on facebook

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I was on Lyrica to treat pain I was experiencing from back surgery. At first I was amazed at how much better I felt but after a month I began to experience swelling in my hands...Then I noticed terrible pain in the joints of my fingers and eventually it began to affect my knee joints and my feet. I took myself off Lyrica and have been off it for several months now but my hands are a mess. They are especially bad when I wake in the morning. I can't hold anything and as I try to close and open my fingers the joints seem to stick so I have to force them open and feel a little pop especially on my middle fingers. I never experienced anything like this in my life and fear this may never get any better!!!

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Lyrica caust me my job @ a hospital, one of the side effects I experianced was that people thought I was drunk. The hospital did a mandatory alcohol test which came back negative. I also suffered memory loss which has improved somewhat but not like it was, and falling and not remembering it. There was other side effects but they were not listed. Doctors were told this drug could treat chronic pain also. False advertising. If they can take an old reliable drug like darvocet off the market, I think they should look into lyrica. Some one is making a lot of money off this bad bad bad drug

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Dr.'s and the FDA approved this for Fibro, because they too much chicken s***'s to prescribe what really works. (pain meds). It's a cop out. Lyrica to me is a placebo and Cymbalta too. I took these for Fibro myself and When I stopped and continued the pain meds. I got better. Changing my lifestyle(quitting my labor job) and rest with pain meds, greatly improved my pain. If your going to be dependant on a med, then at least take something that really works. You can wean off later when you are feeling better. To me Fibro has been around for hundreds of years and is caused by under treated pain and not enough sleep caused from pain. Called Rhuemetism. JMO.

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Lyrica is anything but a placebo! A placebo means it does not contain any medication, like a sugar pill. This is most definitely a drug: an addictive, dangerous, mind-altering, harmful, poison. Lyrica has taken lives, caused catastrophic disabilities, & destroyed families. It needs to be banned & those responsible for putting & keeping it on the market after falsifying data & hiding side effects should be in prison.

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I would love to be part of anything you do against this company and even against my doctor. She was terrible while I saw her and did everything from screw up prescriptions the even go as far as yelling at me in her office because she had a bad day. I put up with it and tried to get around her forgetful personality by writting everything down, strangely she still got prescriptions wrong, the last time I saw her she gave me Lryica without telling me anything about it. The next day at work I could barely function, I spent the first hour in the bathroom crying. The the memory problems started. I only took 2 pills I beleive and after 3 days at work I was let go from my assignment due to many things most of them were because of this pill. After that I felt like I was just plain stupid. I couldn't complete thoughts, sentences etc.. it lasted months. I am better now, its been a year since I took it, but I truely was never the same and have lost the confidence to do my job. I am currently filing for disability. This doctor ruined my job, she was careless, and as I looked for another doctor she got wind of how unhappy I was and forbid me from seeing anyone in her practice ever again. Now it seems as though I am having to fight that stigma with every new doctor I go to even though I have notes and proof of the things she was doing wrong. I do have fibro and find that none of the normal things you should take for it help me, I am stuck on a path that has no hope for help especally if I get hurt, I'm taking vicodin but its the only thing that helps and doesn't make me crazy. If you do manage to start a lawsuit please don't forget me.. I would love to be part of it. Thank you so much for joining the fight.

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I agree with you. I am on vicodan now which helps me without the side effects of lyrica. I hope they do file a class action suit. I lost a lot of money when I was foced to leave my job.

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We are in discussions with a local lawyer here in VA. I told them our story and he is looking into things. All we need is one lawyer somewhere and the flood gates will open.

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Hi, I was put on Lyrica on December 20, 2011 and by December 27 I started noticing an almost 10 pound increase in my weight, by the next day I lost my voice, my hands, legs and feet swelled up, my neck swelled and I felt a tightness in my chest with a hard time breathing. I also realized while I was talking with friends I would loose my train of thought, and start talking about something else that made no sense at all. I also noticed I was hallucinating. My friends thought I was out of it when I was talking. I am a nurse who was injured on the job, I tore my left rotator cuff, had surgery and am suffering with severe back pain. The pain management office I was referred to started me on this awful drug. When I realized something was not right with me I googled this drug and the side effects and realized that was what was happening to me. I phoned my pharmacist to further investigate and she told me to stop the drug asap. I did but now days later I am still suffering with a hard time breathing when I go up and down a flight of stairs. I wake up in the morning with my hands numb and tingling and so painful that I cannot even hold a glass of water. My feet are so swollen that I can barely walk. I informed the pain clinic of the side effects I am experiencing and I was told it will take a couple of weeks before the symptoms go away. My own sons are saying how moody I have become.. And that is not like me. We need to do something about this drug people.

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I was put on 75mg of lyrica. I only took it when i felt i had no choice. i was on it for 7 - to 10 days straight. My sentences didn't make sense. I would call people by the wrong name. In my mind i knew their name, and other problems. Weight gain right away, My gums were bleeding. I felt kidney pain, that i didn't have before.

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My husband was on Lyrica for a week in a half....we stopped use really quickly, he had lost the ability to speak straight and also had problems with his legs just giving out...its been 3 months since we discontinued use and he still has issues his legs will give out and he can't walk for hours sometimes even days after the episodes, he gets tongue tied and seems like his memory is depleted he can't even remember what potatoes are called. We had no idea how dangerous the drug was and he was on it for such a short amount of time he is far to young at 26 to have all these issues...it all started on day 3 of taking Lyrica at 100 mg daily..after 5 more days..when we told the dr he tried to raise the dosage...we discontinued use instead and all issues remain and are sporadic we never know when its going to happen...he also has headaches and blurry vision....he had 13 different side effects but these are the ones still remaining

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