Comments on: Lilly settles Zyprexa Lawsuit for $1.42 billion

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 08 May 2012 21:35:35 +0000

I took a Zyprexa and Depakote combo for years. I gained 80 pounds. High blood pressure, very heavy and felt like I was suffocating from the extra weight. The Psychiatrists always said “just exercise more, watch your diet” and never acknowledged or minimized that the two drugs caused extreme weight gain. I also caught a lot of flack over being so heavy and made fun of by my family. It’s only been in recent years that they have acknowledged metabolic syndrome, or that the drug causes severe weight gain, diabetes, heart problems, movement problems, etc. What irritates me is the way these new drugs were pushed on us by Dr’s, without proper warning of the full, deadly consequences.
It irritates me the Feds & states are getting millions in settlements, but those of us who were essentially lab rats won’t see a dime, but will have our life expectancy reduced by as much as 25 years. Thanks a lot Zyprexa! I’m much more cautious as a mental health consumer & refuse new drugs they tout, until they become generic & I’ve seen the real damage they cause. I saw so many clients at our local mental health center who were always thin, suddenly weigh 50-150 pounds more when Zyprexa & depakote were introduced. These were the days when mental health staff never weighed us or took our waist measurements. I have seen so many deaths due to these second generation anti-psychotic drugs. Makes me sick that Pharmacy companies make so much money on our disease.

By: john

john — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:28:33 +0000

i was on zyprexa i found it didnt do anything for me or my bipolar told the psychologist this he kept me on it for a year before my medical doctor told him KNOCK IT OFF i have gained almost 70lbs and was causing medical issues that wont go away and since the medical doctor told the mental health provider to stop me from taking it cause wouldnt listen to me he is not admitting that the drug caused the weight gain which is on EVERY sites sideeffect for the med and keeps making me more depressed by placing me on scale and calling me fat need to go on a diet and need to lose the weight which cant i can exercise all want i can stop eating all together wont come off iam also having issues now that cause the way was RIPPED off the med suddenly not weened off cause the mental health doc i have had chronic muscle and bone pain and headaches ever since now have more issues to fix then what started in with

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:26:50 +0000

My wife had taken zyprexa for 13 years. In the last year she started getting a diabetic reaction and got a movement disorder. The movement has been so bad that her eyes closed, her mouth squared, her left arm twiched and her neck turned to the left so hard that she at times can not look ahead and is in great pain.She could hardly walk.
Over the last 4 years she has frequented the hospital over 50 times; due, mostly to the fact that neurology people do not want her on any offending agents. Thus to try and self heal. She has been subject to drugs that have put her out of her mind and created 5 (2 week) or long stays in the mental wards. She has regained her ability to use most of her senses except her neck still prevent her from driving, working or carry on a normal life. She is in bed alot just to overt the pain. We tried now that she was more able to negotiate a law suit to contact a attorney today. We were told that the statute was only 3 years. This is not right as she has lost her ability to work and we lost our home, buisness etc… Is there anyone who can work to help her on a suit that will cercumvent the time and do what is right?

By: Galen

Galen — Thu, 19 May 2011 23:32:23 +0000

I started taking Zyprexa ten years ago and now I have Type 2 Diabetes, its very scary!
Will you please help me in this or another law suite against Elly Lilly?

By: Mike90

Mike90 — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:45:01 +0000

Im 20, I shouldn’t have high blood pressure, but I do from a drug that Eli Lilly produced. I took this drug years ago when I was a minor and had no say in the situation what so ever, it would have been nice to at least get a thank you card from the company (or at least the scholarship I applied for from them)they gave me high blood pressure instead, so i may be stuck taking another one of their meds.

By: MCKENZIE

MCKENZIE — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 21:56:14 +0000

I have read that the lawsuit with eli lilly on zyprexa has been settled, but the patients has not been paid. I signed my paper in 2008, thinking I am getting paid, but as of 2010/12/26 I am still wating for my money. Can you give any advise on when eli lilly say to pay us payments. My law is in Texas, they tells me that Eil Lilly will tell them when to pay me.

By: jesse

jesse — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:03:29 +0000

i also have taken zyprexa i was 12 at the time and i gained so much weight to fast my hart couldn’t take it, and i ended up having two hart attacks while i was on it then 2 years ago i decided to quit taking them on my own free will, and im still having some troubles with my hart, and still trying to lose weight from it, now im 17,

By: john84010@yahoo.com

john84010@yahoo.com — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:02:55 +0000

WHY? IS IT THAT PEOPLE WITH CEO’S AFTER THERE NAME CAN KILL PEOPLE AT WILL AND ALL THEY DO IS GET A FINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOOKS LIKE LILLY CEO’S ARE TRULEY HAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK!!!!!!!A FINE HERE AND THERE SO WHAT
THEY CAN WRITE IT OFF ON THERE TAXS!!!TAXS YOU MEAN THEY PAY TAXES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LIKE TO SEE THAT CHECK!!! BECAUSE THE COUNTRY IS 11 TRILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT!!!!!!!!!!!!! TRUST ME THEY HAVE MADE SOME DEAL WITH THE GOVERNMENT NOT TO REALLY NOT PAY THERE FARE SHARE OF TAXES!!!!!! AND LIE AND LIE AND LIE TO ALL THE LITTLE PEOPLE!!

By: john84010@yahoo.com

john84010@yahoo.com — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:41:10 +0000

BILLON DOLLAR COMPANYS!!! GET TO LIE!!AND KILL!!
ANY BODY!! TO MAKE MORE BILLONS OF DOLLARS!!!
OVER 500,000 PEOPLE DIE OF DIABETES EVERY YEAR!
IN THE USA???? DIABETES IS VERY PAIN FULL AND VERY
HARD TO SEE HOW ANY BODY CAN LOOK AT THIS AND SAY
SORRY !!! AND GIVE PEOPLE A FEW DOLLARS AND HAVE A NICE DAY!!! MOST PEOPLE WILL SPEND ALL THERE MONEY ON MAJOR MEDICAL BILLS!! AND MEDS!!! AND LILLY THINK THIS IS OVER!!! AFTER PEOPLE START DROPING LIKE FLYS!!! PEOPLE WILL GET JUSTICE!!!!!!
LILLY IS GOING TO PAY A VERY HIGH PRICE!!! TRUST ME. THEY SELL THIS DRUG AROUND THE WORLD!!! AFTER THE 5 OR 10 BILLON MARK HITS OF MEDICARE AND MEDICADE!!
HIT !! BIG TIME SENTORS AND CONGRESSMAN WILL GET THERE DAY IN COURT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GIVING LILLY A FINE IS TOTALLY FUNNY!!!! ALL THEY DO IS LAUGH ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK!!!GET ANY MONEY FROM LILLY IS TRUELY BLOOD MONEY!!! THEY MAKE A DRUG THAT WILL GIVE YOU DIABETES!!!! AND THEY SELL DRUGS TOO HELP PEOPLE WITH DIABETES!!
MAJOR WIN WIN FOR LILLY!!!! YOU THINK 37 BILLON WAS
BIG !!!! THINK A HIGHER! MORE LIKE 100 BILLON!!!!

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[...] $1.4 billion might sound like a tough punishment, until you find out that Lilly’s total sales of Zyprexa have topped $37 billion. And at least some of those sales were thanks to doctors who, with guidance [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:04:35 +0000

I took zyprexa for several years from around 2000-2003 for schizotypal personality disorder. It not only did almost nothing for that, I gained over 80 lbs. and developed Type II diabetes at the age of 26, weighing around 290 lbs. I suppose it could have been worse, since I managed to shed half the weight I gained and got my blood sugar down to normal somehow. However I take approximately 14 pills a day (medication and vitamin supplements) to maintain that that I would not otherwise be taking. This disease has cost me and my family several tens of thousands of dollars, in addition to a reduced quality of life.

I would like to still get in on a lawsuit if possible but I guess at this point I will have to wait until I can get my life in general sorted out first.

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Mental Health Year in Review: 2009 | World of Psychology — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:55:44 +0000

[...] companies, who have not enjoyed good press this year. In January, we noted how Eli Lilly settled a Zyprexa lawsuit for $1.4 billion with 30 states due to its off-label marketing of the atypical antipsychotic drug for use in [...]

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:31:48 +0000

I wasn a zyprexa patient for years and gained over 60 lbs that I haven’t been able to take off even without the drug. Today I learned that I have diabetes. Is it too late to be a part of this class action thing? If it’s not, how do I go about joining up?

By: Thomas William House

Thomas William House — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:50:29 +0000

I have followed every request from the attourneys about my suit about Zyprexa. I recieved a FEDEX contact and questionaire to fill and return being misled that the settlement would soon be be forthcoming. Since then–TOTAL SILENCE–Is this some type of rediculous joke. It looks good on paper-thats all- JUST PAPER

By: Big Pharma Psychs Out the Shrinks « Unsilent Generation

Big Pharma Psychs Out the Shrinks « Unsilent Generation — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:26:39 +0000

[...] might sound like a tough punishment, until you find out that Lilly’s total sales of Zyprexa have topped $37 billion. And at least some of these sales were thanks to doctors who, with guidance [...]