Lyrica Lawsuit (Page 41)

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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REPORT

Here are the phone numbers for the various States so everyone can report the problems they have been having with LYRICA:

Consumer Complaint Coordinators
To report adverse reactions or other problems with FDA-regulated products, contact the FDA district office consumer complaint coordinator for your geographic area. If you require the use of a Relay Service, please call the Federal Relay Services (1-800-877-8339). This is a toll free relay service to call Federal agencies from TTY devices.

Please Note: There is not a Consumer Complaint Coordinator in each state. Consumer Complaint Coordinators are assigned by regions. Therefore, several states will have the same Consumer Complaint Coordinator assigned to it.

Alabama--866-289-3399

Alaska--(toll free) 800-353-3965

Arizona--(949) 608-3530

Arkansas--(toll free) 855-630-2112

California (Northern)--(510) 337-6741

California (Southern)--(949) 608-3530

Colorado--(303) 236-3044

Connecticut-- (toll-free) 800-891-8295

Delaware-- (toll-free) 877-689-8073

District of Columbia--(410) 779-5713

Florida -- (866) 337-6272

Georgia--(404) 253-1169

Hawaii-- 808-522-8011 x100

Idaho--(toll free) 800-353-3965

Illinois--(312) 353-7840

Indiana--(313) 393-8189

Iowa--(toll free) 855-202-9780

Kansas--(toll free) 855-202-9780

Kentucky--(513) 679-2700

Toll-free in Kentucky: 800-437-2382

Louisiana--866-289-3399

Maine-- (toll-free) 800-891-8295

Maryland--(410) 779-5713

Massachusetts-- (toll-free) 800-891-8295

Michigan--(313) 393-8189

Minnesota--(612) 758-7221

Mississippi--(866) 289-3399

Missouri (toll free) 855-202-9780

Montana--(toll free) 800-353-3965

Nebraska--(toll free) 855-202-9780

Nevada--(510) 337-6741

New Hampshire-- (toll-free) 800-891-8295

New Jersey-- (973) 331-4998

New Mexico--(303) 236-3044

New York -- (toll-free) 866-446-9055

North Carolina--(404) 253-1169

North Dakota--(612) 758-7221

Ohio--(513) 679-2700

Toll free in Ohio: (800) 437-2382

Oklahoma--(toll free) 855-630-2112

Oregon--(toll free) 800-353-3965

Pennsylvania--(877) 689-8073

Rhode Island-- (toll-free) 800-891-8295

South Carolina--(404) 253-1169

South Dakota--(612) 758-7221

Tennessee-- (866) 289-3399

Texas--(toll free) 855-630-2112

Utah--(303) 236-3044

Vermont-- (toll-free) 800-891-8295

Virginia--(410) 779-5713

Washington-- (toll free) 800-353-3965

West Virginia--(410) 779-5713

Wisconsin--(612) 758-7221

Wyoming--(303) 236-3044

Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands-- (toll free) 800-332-0127

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I've done just a little research and it looks as if the FDA was well aware that LYRICA causes Suicidal Ideation as far back as January of 2008.

See Below:

January 31, 2008

antiepileptic drugs [carbamazepine
(Carbatrol, equetro, tegretol, tegretol
xr), felbamate (felbatol), gabapentin
(neurontin), lamotrigine (lamictal),
levetiracetam (Keppra), oxcarbazepine
(trileptal), pregabalin (lyrica), tiagabine
(gabitril), topiramate (topamax), valproate
(depakote, (depakote er, depakene,
depacon), zonisamide (zonegran)]

Increased risk of suicidal behavior or ideation in patients who received
antiepileptic drugs compared to the placebo group in randomized clinical studies of eleven drugs.

fda.gov/cder/drug/InfoSheets/HCP/antiepilepticsHCP.htm

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Renee the sleep paralysis has to be horrible. I have dreams that I'm never going to wakeup. That is scary enough. I hate what this drug has done to me.

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Renee, if they are willing to help us, let us know. I know they will want a retainer about lyrica. I'm sure everyone or most who can afford it, we can split the cost, and maybe use the social neworks to tell others on lyrica, especially the ones who have given up any hope for help. I hope this gets on the blog. No names are mentioned and I would think you would care and let us help each other. People have died from this drug and lyrica needs to be invvestigated.

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They should have taken lyrica off the market insteaf of davon or darvocet

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Renee I'd be glad to talk to these lwyers myself but I don't know if the owners oor monitors of this site will let you put their name or number on this site concerning lyrica. You may find me on {edited for privacy}. I hope the monitors will post this. I am tired of their reviews. Besides being a place where we talk about drug reactions, we are looking for help!!, or don't you care if some of us die from lyrica. If someone finds a lawyer who'll help us, then let his name, address, phone number, and website be posted!!

Editor's note - In order to protect privacy, we do not allow individuals to post their personal contact information on our discussion threads (except in some very rare cases).

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JB, I am having short term memory lapses even though I've been off lyrica almost 7 years now. I've seen a counselor @ the school I'm going to. They need a doctor who will verify this. I'm hoping the monitors of this site will let his/her name, address, and phone number be allowed to be put on this site. I think they should if it may help us and not block it like they usually do with me. We should have more freedom on this site and not be so censored. I can understand, but some of these censored blogs are very important if we could save a life. Have any of you compared darvocet (off the market) and lyrica. I think lyrica is more dangerous. This drug has killed people!!

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Mary - I have your email address and you should have mine. I emailed you awhile ago when they said we could exchange email addresses if you don't have mine anymore I will email you. I am still waiting to hear back from the actual attorney.

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Lisa- Sleep Paralysis is awful and I was put in the hospital by a neuro for monitoring for a couple days and the doctor who took my case in the hospital told the nurses not to help me when I was unable to move. So every time which happened everytime I didn't move for a couple of minutes it would happen so they just left me lying there frozen. And told my family they were not allowed to come see me while I was there. And then a couple weeks later a Neuro-pysch saw me and berated me for an hour after he sent my family member out of the room and he yelled at me told me I was faking my spinal injury which all he had to do was look at my records and he would have known how serious my injury was and he told me I was faking the sleep paralysis. I was suicidal before I went to the doctors and by the time I left I was a complete mess if I didn't have someone to drive me home and stay with me he would have succeeded in finishing me off. But what I don't understand is why he didn't look at my records and see that I was on 2 drugs that I wasn't suppose to take together.

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As a RN with many, many years experience at the bedside as a real life staff nurse, then becoming a Nursing Instructor at the university level, and finally a second career as a Clinical Research Scientist for a pharmaceutical company, and most importantly as a LYRICA victim MYSELF who became totally disabled at the peak of my career from this medication, ...with all of this pertinent experience behind me I NEVER saw Darvocet affect patients even close to the severe adverse manner that LYRICA is currently being talked about as happening to patients on this and other websites. LYRICA could eat Darvocet for breakfast and still have an appetite to do more damage.

I do know that the issues surrounding Darvocet were reported to the FDA as Adverse Experiences and the statistics, (the NUMBERS), were then compiled and acted upon by the FDA which resulted in Darvocet being removed from the market.

The FDA must see the numbers...the statistics, for them to take notice and eventually ACTION. I just got off the phone with the FDA....YES, they called me back.... and was told that they haven't gotten very many complaints yet about LYRICA. But they also told me to let everyone know that the MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO REPORT A BAD EXPERIENCE WITH A DRUG is to go to:

fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/default.htm

and report the problems that LYRICA is causing.

Also, may I remind you that no law firm is going to take action either unless they can see the statistics related to our complaints. The numbers and quality of the reports of adverse events are what is meaningful to attorney's in evaluating the profitability of a potential lawsuit about a drug.

So let's get something going here to push for anyone out there who's been damaged by LYRICA to REPORT IT TO THE FDA. Talk is cheap. It may make us feel better but in the long run it isn't going to get LYRICA off of the market.

Right now.......go to this website and report the problems you've had due to taking LYRICA !!!!!!!

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Renee, I'm sorry but I lost it. E-mail me again and forget Rotlaw. They won't help. Infact I don't think any lawyer will take on pfyzier, they're just too big. Maybe contacting thee FDA is our only hope. The only thing is, if the FDA take lyrica off the market, that still won't help us who were on lyrica. The lawyers probably still won't take a large company like them. Even the doctors won't help, afterall we are just allergic right? Mindless people running around in circles.

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Because doctors are not always all that we have grown up believing them to be. I found this out when going from BEING a RN to BECOMING a PATIENT. They aren't the "Be all to end all" that we grew up thinking they are. They're just human. I think that when they don't have the answer they get annoyed and respond just like any other human being does sometimes...they resort to anger... but they put the anger in the wrong place....they misplace the anger onto the patient when it actually belongs on themselves when they are angry at not knowing the answer.

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Don't confuse ALLERGY with ADVERSE EXPERIENCE. An allergy can be called an adverse experience, (which just means a "bad experience") BUT They are 2 very different things. Adverse reactions are not the same thing as Allergies. No one would ever, in a court of law, try to say that we are "Allergic" to Lyrica. Not unless they were very stupid attorneys. We have had ADVERSE REACTIONS or Adverse Experiences to Lyrica which are now soo common and soo severe when taking Lyrica that the FDA should be aware and remove this drug from the market. Don't give up. And don't think that the drug companies always win. And don't be afraid of them. That's what they would like you to be. Do the right thing and move to have this drug removed from the market so no more people have the BAD EXPERIENCES that we have had.

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No allergies are not the same as adverse reactions and that is the argument I had with the nurse at my doctor's office the other day. She insisted I was allergic to lyrica and insisted putting it on my chart that I was allergic. So I am not sure the Rn's understand the difference which they should. My grandmother was an RN and ran an allergist office for 25 yrs and handled all things allergy. I spent summers working with her I know what I had was not an allergic reaction.

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I responded To Renee's #807 quite awhile ago, way before my latest various remarks which have been published, and it isn't published yet. I wrote how to access the MEDWATCH site of the FDA and what the woman at the FDA told me when she returned my call. I wonder why that reply of mine didn't make it here yet but those I wrote after that are here for all to see.

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I have been taking Lyrica for 8 years, got the confusion, blurred vision, dry mouth, etc...and started the stuttering around 4mths ago, my dose was raised to 300mg a day about 6mths ago. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what other meds to change to?

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I thought this site was about Vicky's question on 4-19-2010 regarding finding a lawfirm to represent us and to substantiate our claims of damage. But I think that goal has pretty much been given up and the site is now being used to share stories with each other about our bad experiences with LYRICA.

That's all well and good but can we get back to the original goal of Vicky's question?

Can we move forward and find a lawfirm to represent us?

Can we get this BAD DRUG in front of the FDA so we can get started on this?

PLEASE READ MY POST #812 AND REPORT YOUR EXPERIENCES ON THE MEDWATCH SITE I HAVE LISTED THERE.

Otherwise...we can just keep sharing information with each other, sort of like "Preaching to the choir", and keep "spinning our wheels" but get nowhere real fast.

Come on folks, let's get going here and make this happen. If not for ourselves, then for our friends and family members who are also affected by what LYRICA has done to us.

Thanks.

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Scarlet, an you report lyrica to theFDA onthe phone or computer? I'm on one of the you knowhat contact areas.

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Report it on the FDA MEDWATCH website.

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Anji , that depends on many factors , such as what is your pain problem originating from , how severe is the pain and do you have any other health issues , also age has a determining factor , the bottom line is the longer you stay on Lyrica the worse you will become , there are many safer alternative treatments available , might be time to find a better Doctor .which is easier said than done on account there are so many lousy ones out there .

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