Lyrica Is Dangerous / Class Action Suit Anyone? (Page 16) (Top voted first)

I have crps in both hands from carpal tunnel release...after several months, I was worse, not better. My workmens comp dr. said " You will have chronic pain the rest of your life and you will just have to learn to live with it"...oh thanks doc for screwing my hands up, not to mention how it has drastically has changed my life and limitations. I have been seeing a pain specialist ever since and that was back in 2001 when I had the release. I was on lyrica for the last 6 years, I have been off of it for three months. Now that I think back to when my severe depression started was not long since I started taking it. I don't know how many times I said I hate my life and I wish I was dead, I had thoughts of taking all my prescriptions and going to sleep for good! By the grace of god, I had my four nephews to take care of and I truly believe they saved my life! My pain management N.P wanted to keep a close eye on me when I started taking it, so I went from going every six months to every three months and when my depression got worse every two months...nothing was done, I was on 600 mg. a day, why didn't she try to lower my dose? I complained about the swelling and she said she didn't have any other patients complain, I was taking lyrica for the pain in my hands and the whole time it was making them worse! There were many time I would be driving and make a turn and not know where I was...one day I couldn't remember my address, I couldn't remember conversations I had with my boys, I had no brain! When I came off lyrica and I did it slowly...it was one of the hardest things I have ever done. Hot, cold, night sweats, nauseous...I was at the grocery store and literally felt like a monster coming out of me, thank god I am off lyrica! My lawyer is checking on a class action lawsuit, all of us that has had a horrible experience with lyrica, we all need to come together and they need to pay for putting this horrible drug on the market!

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We do need a class action law suit. This drug has had lasting effects on my memory.

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Here is one for all of you.As of today I will never touch this drug again.I was put on 75 mg ix a day and been on for 3 months.I am an epileptic of 35 years and mostly learned to control without drugs.But since on this drug I have had 2 very close scares and I mean very close.This drug should not be doing this so just what is in it. Everyone should be worried

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Omg. I have these same problems. What do i do. I just had to file for disability because I can't keep a job and I can't remember anything. I go to my doctor but they don't seem to know that they r side effects. I when told him I thought everything was being caused by the lyrica.

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Re: Christine (# 271)

I’ve been calling lWyers all over the state of Maryland seeking a lawyer that can handle a case against Pfizer. So far no luck, they have even searched for lawyers for me and calling back with names but when I call I ge5 a no go. There has to be some lawyer out there that can help us with this horrible drug. All my side effects of coming off it are listed as to when you start taking it. Severe depression anxiety and panic, I feel I am never going to be myself again, I’ve even been going to a psychiatrist,

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Re: Kristine Guy (# 283)

I Had a stroke in 3/2017 and I still have words with memory. I am only 62 which I think that's pretty young for that because no one in our family for strokes. The nurse who looked after me told me that her mother had a stroke after taking Lyrica as well. I have been meaning to look into this but didn't know where to look.

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The same thing as happened to my mother of 90 years old after taking Lyrica I am so angry

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Re: Finchley Crickwillow (# 290)

Please stop taking it before you get worse! I thought drugs and surgery were my last hope until I discovered water from a Japanese medical device. {edited for privacy}.

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Re: Iris (# 18)

I have always snored but never had sleep apnea or needed a machine until I was on Lyrica. Now that I have been off of Lyrica for about 3 months I am thinking about maybe having another sleep study to see if I still need it. Didn't even think about it being because of the Lyrica until I read this but wouldn't be surprised. One more of about 20 bad side effects I had from this medication!

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Re: Nikki (# 298)

Nikki,
As with Dawn, the original poster,I was diagnosed withh RSD (CRPS) in my right foot and ankle. Before that diagnosis my neurologist had me on Lyrica since 2011. After the diagnosis they increased the dosage and added Topamax, another anti-convulsant and my brain almost literally went to mush. When my professional and personal worlds crashed just like a drunk who finally hits a tree after driving without an accident for years I changed doctors and my new doctor took three months to first wean me off Lyrica and then took another two months to wean me off Topamax. Only after all the trouble did I research how these meds work and was shocked. They actually shut down communication between your brain cells so how could the drug possibly know which cells to shut down? All I know is that while I was on Lyrica I did some of the stupidest things I have ever heard of and I now have no recollection of the year and a half wherein I was taking both drugs in combo. I underwent neuro psychological testing which confirmed cognitive deficits in executive functioning and a problem with memory. I then repeated the test after getting off the meds but the results were almost identical so I now fear that I have permanent brain damage. like most people I cannot find a lawyer who is interested in taking on this drug company even though Lyrica is habit forming and they do not tell you that.

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Re: Sharon (# 289)

Can't believe they left you on Topomax! Yikes. You need to research that please. It's poison. As bad or worse than Lyrica.

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I have been off Lyrica for nearly 3 weeks. The withdrawals are horrible! I cannot function! I have had stomach problems causing vomiting, nausea, and diarrhea making me dehydrated. I got Lyrica from the company and has not come in. I was put on it for fibromyalgia in 2011. I was having blurry and double vision. I have tachycardia now. For years was going to specialist thinking I had MS. I have renal issues, horrible headaches, tremors, memory loss, back pain. For 3 months I have had neck stiffness. I can only sleep for a few hours.
How much longer until I can get over this? I just want to sleep, don’t feel like I can go on! My husband has throat cancer and I am his only caregiver, but can’t do it I can’t stand smell of food, problems breathing.

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On February 20, 2008 I was rear-ended in a car accident. C-5 was shattered after colliding with my spinal cord and I suffered a traumatic brain injury. It was nothing short of a miracle that I wasn’t killed or paralyzed but I was left with constant immeasurable pain. My nerves were shot and made everything hurt. I couldn't concentrate, I never slept through the night, had severe anxiety, muscle cramps, spasms and weakness and dealt with PTSD. I stayed highly medicated but I also went to great lengths to do things to help me feel relief. I meditated and exercised daily and ate a very healthy diet. I did both physical and occupational therapy, massage therapy, cupping, chiropractic care, acupuncture, ultrasound, infrared sauna, hydrotherapy, cryotherapy, ice and heat. I used an in home traction device, an inversion table, a tens unit, all kinds of massage devises and wore compression garments to help settle my nerves. And the drugs, well I took a lot of drugs. 17 when I was released from the hospital. I saw a psychiatrist weekly for over a year and once a month in the years proceeding. I asked about taking less meds because I was so miserable I didn't think they were really helping me and I hated the way I felt in general. I was suicidal at times. He always convinced me I would be worse off without them. In 2011 I met a woman who had a similar accident some 20 years prior and she begged me to stop taking Lyrica. She explained how that drug had destroyed her nervous system and made her situation much worse. Thankfully I heeded her warning and weened myself off of it. The withdrawals were atrocious but by getting that drug our of my system I did improve slightly. The swelling in my hands and feet went down and with that I wasn't in as much pain. What didn't change is that I was all the time losing my balance and falling which set me back each time adding to my pain. My memory was nonexistent to the point I couldn't even carry on a conversation and I couldn't keep a job either. I just assumed it was due to my brain injury but now understand from finding this post on Medschat it was Lyrica and possibly the other drugs impairing my mental capabilities, increasing my pain and throwing me off balance. I would love to be in a class action lawsuit against the makers of this God-forsaken drug that hurt me and so many others when it was supposed to help!

Towards the later part of 2014 my pain escalated so my surgeon ordered a new MRI. When we reviewed it in November, he explained that the bone spur at the base of my metal plate had grown larger and I had developed spinal stenosis. There was so much pressure on my nerves it was debilitating and surgery was my only option. He was going to remove the spur and extra bone as he described how it would grow back in time and would require more surgeries. My mother was facing 2 surgeries and I needed to be there for her so I asked him how long I could wait. He advised no later than January or risk enduring further irreparable nerve damage. I simply took more and more medication to get me through my days relying heavily on a 12 hour pain patch. I was dreading having to go under the knife again and there was no guarantee that it would even help with my escalating pain. In December 2014 a friend that was suffering from Crohn‘s Disease called me and said she was drinking this special water and swore it was saving her life. She felt strongly that it could help me too. Understanding it was only water and certainly couldn’t hurt I began drinking it on December 15th. I committed to drinking as much as I could and nothing else at least for a couple of weeks as was recommended. I really wanted to give it a chance to saturate my body. I could feel its effects immediately so I was happy to drink a lot of it, like a gallon a day! I started researching it on the internet because I wanted to understand how it was helping me so much. I found a lot of information about it but learned a lot of what I was finding was misinformation. With no internet police, pretty much anything can be conveyed. I then went to a live presentation where I learned a lot about it and met some people that were loving this water and what it was doing for them and their loved ones. At 2:00 on the 9th day I realized I had forgotten to put on that pain patch at 9:00am! I was in total disbelief! I realized my pain was lessening so I started cutting back on my other medications.

I canceled my surgery in hopes of continued recovery and in a matter of months stopped all my medications! I invested in my own Japanese medical device called Kangen water that transforms tap water into medicinal water and I look and feel better today than I did before my accident more than 10 years ago! Thanks to this technology I have been catapulted into a new life and I couldn't be happier now that I am helping other people overcome all types of obstacles in life. I also utilize this technology to make ph balanced water that keeps my skin looking radiant and my hair silky smooth, highly acidic sanitary water I use in place of first aid medications and cleaning products as well as highly alkaline cleaning water that removes pesticides from my food and has eliminated the need to use harmful cleaning products in my home. I have even replaced laundry detergent with it and believe it or not that laundry detergent is filled with hormone-disrupting immune suppressing chemicals. I am saving money and I’m doing my part to stop polluting the environment as much too. I am astonished at how incredible I feel and look with my skin being smoother. I’m free of eczema, with fewer fine lines, wrinkles and sun spots. My bones and nails are stronger. My brain and my vision are much sharper and my hormones are balanced at 48! My colon is clean and my blood is flowing freely allowing my body to utilize the nutrients I ingest. When I eat things that aren't so good for me they get flushed out easily too. I sleep like a baby and have the energy of a 20 year old. My disks are plump as verified by MRI's and x-rays and my cartilage and tendons are holding everything together as they should allowing me to do activities I thought I'd never participate in again. If you want to feel better than you ever dreamed, this type of water could do for you what it has done for me and more than a million people around the world.

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I have been on lyrica since 2005 when I was prescribed it for severe (as in hospitalised) back pain, was already taking 2 tylex 3x daily for arthritis. It was great, worked fine. I went up 4 dress sizes in 6 weeks but thought it was due to back pain and using a wheelchair if I was going out. Started forgetting things and finally read on the company website that memory problems and weight gain were known side effects - not mentioned in the leaflet in the box though. I moved and changed doctors and the new one kept telling me that I needed to stop taking tylex because the codeine is so addictive, oddly it doesn't affect me and I can, and do, stop taking it for a couple of days every month just to check on the addictive part,, and upped the lyrics from 75mg 3x daily to 100mg 3x daily. I complained about the weight gain and memory problems but they said that the tylex was far more dangerous and reduced that to 2 at night while trying to increase the lyrica from 300mg daily to 600mg daily. After a robust discussion during which my daughter flatly refused to allow me to take this amount it was increased to 350mg and I was told it would be going up again like it or not. Luckily the local doctors surgery was sold and I gained a new GP. After explaining the side effects and especially the weight gain he is slowly taking me off. I am on 75mg 2x in the day and 150 at night, the tylex is back to 6 capsules daily and I have high hopes of coming off altogether. Can anyone tell me if I am likely to regain my short term memory and lose the weight, this being the greatest problem given my arthritis which has now spread to the entire length of my spine?

Reading the above messages I suspect that the problem with my left hand - serious tremors - and the unsteadiness when I walk are also caused by the lyrica not to mention the loss of 5 teeth, lymphoedema, joint pain and a tendency to fall. Thank God I am not depressed or suicidal although there would be good reason, apart from lyrica, if I was. I may even manage to look after myself while my daughter goes back to college, she has spent the last 8yrs as my career after leaving school early, instead of having to accompany her each day. Good luck with suing the company though the side effects were on the website as early as 2008 with people complaining about being reduced to zombies, memory problems, weight gain, among others. Even said coming off was as difficult as coming off heroin, and this was on the official company website so it was known. Blame the doctors who prescribed it because they had access to the same information,if they bothered to look, yet kept giving it to patients, even forcing them to take it. I am lucky to live in a country with free health care but if I was paying for the medication and suffering I would be livid. Good luck but it's not just the manufacturer, target all the doctors as well because each and every one of them is just as guilty. I am lucky to have ended up with a family doctor who is willing to listen and act on my requests, unlike the previous one, but how many people are still being misled by doctors who failed to tell them of the side effects and who even now dismiss them as imaging things or exaggeration of symptoms. As or more guilty because they should certainly know better, as well as knowing the patient and their medical history/problems.

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Re: Jill (# 309)

When I told my doc that lyrica was causing my memory loss, babbling when talking and blackouts he told me I was a smart lady. No conversation at all.

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Re: Mary (# 7)

Don't forget me either! It's been a year and a half fighting these long term issues caused from taking Lyrica.

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Dawn , i am from Australia , so am really relying on US citizens to get the ball rolling first ..

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Lyrica will never be removed from the market until the drug company has made their billions to cover the cost of development and trials. Then after a few more years when it goes generic, then all of a sudden they will day that Lyrica has detrimental effects and will be pulled. Meanwhile the CEOs will have made the millions. There will never be a lawsuit, because they'll say our symptoms were from another drug or from the interaction of 2 or more drugs. I've given up on a law suit. For me the statute of limitations has run out and like someone else in this blog said that the lawyers won't take the case because they won't make money off it and there are just not enough of us to count plus we are scattered all over the world. We are a minority that doesn't count. Maybe if a Federal Judge or congressman experienced what we have , something might be done, but the government official will have to be high enough up the ladder that they could do something, but I'm not holding my breath.

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i have taken cymbalta,savela anf lyrica im in frankfort ky can someone let me know who i can call about this lawsuit?

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