Lyrica Lawsuit (Page 17) (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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I agree! I took both Lyrica & had to be taken off for various side effects (thank God I have a great PCC & I'm a nurse.). I was then put on Cymbalta. Even worse but it took several months before I realized it. I'm on both band wagons! This must be stopped & people need education, help in many ways & the drugs off the market! This forum is a great tool; however, how do we come together as we are all in different parts of the country/world!??

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Lots of tooth problems which is what prompted me to research it originally.

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Its very unfortunate that something which may help others has caused so many to develop more issues than which they started with! It appears that the bad outweighs the good. As a consequence, the fact still remains that these meds must be taken off of the market & quickly; people also need compensation for increased pain & suffering and for what they have had to pay out due to extreme side effects. Dental issues are extremely costly, as we all know, not to mention the fact that our insurance carriers would like to be compensated as well! Now, many of us will "exist" the rest of our days with issues caused by these meds because it certainly isn't considered "living" in MY book. It is therapeutic for many of us to verbalize our experiences and frustrations via this forum; however, we need assistance/direction from SOMEONE, group, etc. if there is to be any resolution whatsoever and direction for those who are even contemplating utilizing these meds. The docs may mean well (First, do no harm,) but do need to educate themselves about ANY med they prescribe as well as the patient. Had I been the least bit informed, I never would have taken the Lyrica or Cymbalta. When you are suffering so badly, the last thing you think of is researching something on the web. My two-cents worth. . .

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PFYZER IS STILL MAKING A FORTUNE FROM LYRICA it is still destroying lives and the whole system is just spitting in all our faces , i am at a loss of how we can find a voice and fight back .....

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FARON , YOU CAN DEFFENETLY COUNT US IN from Melbourne Australia

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Dear Nick, I am based in London, UK. I was the EU Regulatory Manager for Lyrica in 2008, and resigned from my responsibilities at Pfizer, because I could see for myself what it was doing to my patients. The consultant behind this product has been imprisoned in the US, and disqualified from medical practice, for falsifying clinical trial data. I have brought criminal proceedings on the grounds of Crimes Against Humanity, because I continue to see what Lyrica is doing to my patients on a day-to-day basis. Feel free to report your concerns to me. {edited for privacy}. Best wishes, Faron.

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I'm trying to get myself together again since taking this drug. When I was on it I couldn't think correctly. I couldn't read a single paragraph with any comprehension. My eyes started to go bad very quickly and I couldn't see to read, Before taking LYRICA I never had any problem reading, only slight change in my distant vision although not even enough to warrant correction.After dealing with the CHF caused by LYRICA I still can't walk up a flight of stairs without real effort breathing. I've since lost some of the 60 lb weight gain which piled on over just 6 months on LYRICA but it took years to lose. Now I'm told I have cataracts. No one on either side of my family had cataracts! When I'm lecturing to my nursing students I stop in the middle of a sentence because I can't think of the next word. When this happens it must surely appear that I'm having a focal seizure although I'm just concentrating my very hardest to think of the next word I need to say. I can see the concerned look on my student's faces when this happens. It feels as if there is a blank spot in the electrical conduction system of my brain or something. Almost like a piece has been removed from the wiring of my brain and the next piece of memory is missing. I'm not talking big medical terminology or pathophysiology vocabulary is missing...I'm talking common, every day words go missing from my brain when I'm speaking...or just thinking. I had very healthy teeth until I took LYLRICA and then suddenly I had to have several root canals due to LYRICA and then ended up with the teeth being pulled anyhow. There is definitely something WRONG with this drug. As a R.N. I know my body quite well. As a former Project Manager of Clinical Trials at one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world I also know that these things should not be happening with an FDA approved drug. I know my body very well and I know when these things occurred to me and they are directly related to taking LYRICA.

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Dr Faron:
I read the trouble you were having with Phyza ( please excuse any spelling mistakes.) When you were working on Lyrica were all the side effects made public? Were any side effects deliberately left out or falsified? It seems to me that every new side effect was noted, it was then noted and added to the advertising that was on TV. I know when I was on it sometime in 2006 or 2007 and the doses given to people, these effects were not on TV, every new side effect discovered, was added to the commercials ads on TV. Was the whole world the guenie pigs?

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Thank you for your reply Dr Faron , My son was prescribed lyrica for recurring whiplash pain when he was nearly 17 years of age at a starting dose dose of 75mg x2 per day , Prescribed by Dr Terrence Lim ,at North Eastern rehab Melbourne Aust, before commencing lyrica he was a very bright promising student in Year 11 at Trinity Grammar school in kew Melbourne Australia studying mainly mathematics and science subjects and despite loosing significant amounts of time from study due to recurring bouts of neck pain , could read through his text books the night before , attend his exams the next day and obtain a high score , my son had a 5 week break from lyrica earlier in the same year and took that long to recove r from the side effects of lyrica and then had a painful flair up in neck/ thoracic pain mid 2010 so Dr Terrence Lim told him to re commence lyrica at 74mg x4 per day , after 2 weeks he looked so ill i decided to slowly wean him off it and to this day his memory is totally shot , suffers from a severe Anxiety disorder that he had no sigh of before Lyrica , we have no family history of psychiatric disorders , the transition was so instant that it was very obviously caused by the lyrica ,it was like turning a light bulb off , i do not know what the future holds for him as he cannot retain new information and despite having tried a raft of Anxiety medications including lexapro that he is on now, still suffers to the point he is very dysfunctional , my son is a non drinker and smoker and takes no other medication besides the Lexapro , he also suffers recurrent head aches and his eye sight although not to bad is not as good as it was before lyrica , ,my son academically is now 3 years behind his peers which distresses him , this has been for our family a real tragedy , a trip to hell,as this young mans life has been ` dramatically curtailed by this dreadful medication , also while he was on lyrica experience very significant hair loss but luckily this has recovered . ,from the time of the accident to the commencement of lyrica there was a time lapse of several years and many examinations so there is positively no other medical reason for his problem ,the pain was not of a constant nature but suffered recurrent flair ups due to heavy school bags , sport , ect ....so pain induced anxiety has been ruled out , also verified by prior examinations at the Royal Children s Hospital, My Sons name is Con G., please represent us in the European court of Criminal Justice. thank you, Nicholas G.

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Rxlf...Lyrica was approved for use (for seizures, epilepsy) in July 2004, so 10 years ago, not 20. It's taken doctors some years after that to begin prescribing it regularly. My own doctor actually described it as a new drug three years ago. It is related to its predecessors but not the same. Given that these drugs work on brain chemistry, we know that a tiny change in the chemical structure of a drug can make a huge difference.

Also given that its modus operandus is to slow/halt the production of new neurons in the brain, it's not too much of a cognitive leap to work out that at some point, after months or years of use, there are going to be problems. It used to be thought that an adult brain doesn't generate new neurons - the latest research now tells us that's not true, but that we rely on the continued growth of neurons for life itself. The visual system on its own relies on the development of new neurons in order for us to continue to be able to see - hence the vision problems associated with lyrica that often appear a long time after the drug is first prescribed. All the other issues described by people who've suffered from this drug can be explained by the slowing down/loss of neurogenesis in the brain. It also easily explains the wide diversity of symptoms.

A quick look at the drug information sheet for lyrica shows that ALL these 'side effects' described on this forum are known about. The manufacturers say they're rare (well, they're not going to tell us they're common and therefore lose out on millions of dollars of revenue.) There is also clearly going to be under-reporting of these serious side effects because of the delayed onset of symptoms. It's very difficult to work out where symptoms are coming from if they didn't appear at the onset of taking the medication, particularly since the onset can be slow and insidious, and by the time we realize we've changed irreparably, our memories and other cognitive processes are already struggling.

It's plain insulting to have it suggested that not only are the side effects we describe 'rare' (a quick google search proves otherwise), but that they perhaps don't exist...or that we're simply pinning random health issues on a scapegoat. We're ill...we've suffered significant health issues from this medication...but we're not stupid.

I'm one of the lucky ones. I was on a very low dose, and while I had many of the issues described by others, the only 'permanent' problem I have, since stopping the lyrica months ago, is the hearing loss. Everything else has returned to its pre-lyrica state. Coincidence? I don't think so.

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Amen to you, I'm an ex nurse And I am very familiar with a drug's side effects especially Lyrica, I was on a fairly higher dose 3x a day for a few months , I had to have family and friends tell me about how I was behaving. I felt fine from my view point. I went cold turkey and stopped taking the drug. That was seven years ago and I still have short memory losses. Sometimes I forget where I'm going or how to drive a car @ times. That is what Lyrica left me with. I'm trying to retrain my brain with strategy games, but it all takes time.

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My mother had a stroke in the early 50s and her whole right side was paralyzed amd when there was very little physical therapy, physically or cognitively. The doctors did not know how the brain worked, what with all those nerve cells, and how were they were they communicating with each other. They believed that of all the cells in the body , the only ones that don't heal are the nerve cell. They were later proved wrong. They found that NERVE CELLS do heal and create new neural pathways, however, it takes a long time. That is why I do strategy games to help retrain my brain because of the damage Lyrica did to my brain. So if you live long enough your brain will heal. The only thing wrong is nerve cells take the longest to heal. that is why a quicker way is to retrain the brain to form new neural pathways.

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On one of these threads about Lyrica, there was woman from England who has a suit against Lyrica. All she needs is our names and email addresses. I think her name was Fahah Faron. I am not sure of the spelling of her name but she is on one of these threads. She Also said it doesn't matter what country you are in, evidently she found someone who will take on the case matter where you live or how long its been since Lyrica was taken. There is no statute of limitations. Has anyone seen her message?

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Hi Kerry , my son started on Lyrica 4 months before his 17 birthday, was on it for around 5 months at doses up to 75mg x4 per day , is now 21 years of age and has never been the same person since taking Lyrica , his intelligence , memory , has been destroyed and Lyrica triggered an Anxiety disorder when his dose hit 75mg x 4 per day , the transition was so instant that it left no doubt what so ever as to what caused it .Lyrica is a devastating drug , so dangerous it should be withdrawn immediately from the market .

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ruffian , the number of victims increases steadily as time goes by as more and more people are put on this poison called lyrica , cannot understand why in this day and age lyrica has not been pulled off the market , can only put it down to systemic greed , corruption , incompetence in the pharmaceutical and medical and political system .

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Hi Mary , you may be right but Lyrica causes on going permanent problems , we may still have an opening some where down the line for deserved justice .

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Nick, yes Lyrica did effect my memory. I couldn't think of what I was trying to say. It also caused me to stutter! My husband of 45 years says I wasn't the same person. My thinking is clearer now that I quit taking it and I don't stutter anymore. I was taking 50 mg. twice a day for three years. It also caused cataracts. Each eye hemorrhaged one month after each surgery. I've had my eyes lasered many times, as recently as last month. My vision was blurry and moving. It's much better now. I'm trying to get the word out to physicians not to prescribe Lyrica anymore. They don't know the problems that it has caused! The cost of my braces is $7,000.00.

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Thanks any way Mary , was hoping you had the American contact details ..

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I just typed in "what is the phone number for pfyzer" into my internet browser and looked at all the web sites that pertained to pfyzer. I know one of them had the phone number and I think there was one of those links that said "contact us". I think that was their email address. I also found their phone number, but I don't know if it was at the first site. I know I didn't jabr to look very far. I think that everything may have been on one of the first web sites. Ignore the sites that say ad. Like I said I had no problem finding their phone number or their " contact us " site. I did. The sent me some paperwork asking about what happened, what dosage, how often a day, and how long I was on it. I don't know IG anything will come of it except maybe they themselves will pull Lyrica off the market, or give it only to the people it was meant for, or they may pull it and try to reformulate it as to prevent these side effects. At least they were willing to listen. Go on your on your internet browser. Mozilla, internet E, MSN (micro soft search engine), yahoo and that is just a few. Type in "what is the phone number for pfyzer drug company ", on your search engine. I use Google for my search engine, AOL is another search engine. We probably won't be if it monetary. But we may save some lives and sufferings of people taking it and also relieve any sufferings for families like yours, Nick. Try your search engine on your computer.

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I am a short time user and it has messed me up so bad I am looking into a lawsuit as well and I'm not one to sue but i am a mess

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