I took zyprexa starting in 1996 the year the FDA approved it, which was ineffective for my condition and gave me diabetes.
Zyprexa is the product name for Olanzapine,it is Lilly's top selling drug.It was approved by the FDA in 1996 ,an 'atypical' antipsychotic a newer class of drugs without the motor side effects of the older Thorazine.Zyprexa has been linked to causing diabetes and pancreatitis.
Zyprexa, which is used for the treatment of psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, accounted for 32% of Eli Lilly's $14.6 billion revenue last year.
Did you know that Lilly made nearly $3 billion last year on diabetic meds, Actos,Humulin and Byetta?
Yes! They sell a drug that can cause diabetes and then turn a profit on the drugs that treat the condition that they may have caused in the first place!
I was prescribed Zyprexa from 1996 until 2000.
In early 2000 i was shocked to have an A1C test result of 13.9 (normal is 4-6) I have no history of diabetes in my family.
All the psychiatrist I've interviewed and the information on line presents zyprexa as a worse offender than the other Atypicals such as seroquel.My doctor has stopped prescribing zyprexa altogether.
The PDR classifies zyprexa as 'severe' for causing weight gain and diabetes and seroquel as 'moderate'.
Of course the 50 year old Thorazine didn't cause diabetes and is many times cheaper but it could cause tardive dyskinesia.
Where Eli Lilly's negligence comes in,is their KNOWING and not informing consumers (black box warning) until the FDA demanded it.
Lilly's incentive not to readily disclose is they had billions coming in from state medicaid scripts.
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Daniel Haszard Zyprexa-Victims
I also developed diabetes after taking both zyprexa and seroquel, so I don't know which is to blame. When I went to a law firm prosecuting the manufacturers of seroquel for people who were on it and then got the onset of diabetes they refused my case because I started seroquel in Jan of 2005 and supposedly in 2005 they started putting a warning about diabetes on the bottle, but I never saw one, and my doctor did know about it until 6 months in and I had developed type II diabetes and then the comercial ads and research started coming out.
I think that the law firm refusing my case is bogus.
Go to another lawyer. Two very good ones with experience with Lilly are Baum Hedlund and Justice Seekers. There is also Andrew Finkelstein in New York. I have heard of others who got diabetes after the warning went on (in 2004) whose lawyers were willing to bring suit.
"Go to another lawyer. Two very good ones with experience with Lilly are Baum Hedlund and Justice Seekers."
But what state do they practice in? I am in Massachusetts.
Investors watch Eli Lilly shares drop $2.80 post election.
My issue is Zyprexa which is only FDA approved for schizophrenia (.5-1% of pop) and some bipolar (2% pop) and then an even smaller percentage of theses two groups.
So how does Zyprexa get to be the 7th largest drug sale in the world?
Eli Lilly is in deep trouble for using their drug reps to 'encourage' doctors to write ["Off Label Promotion"] zyprexa for non-FDA approved uses.
The drug causes increased diabetes risk,and medicare picks up all the expensive fallout.There are now 7 states (and counting) going after Lilly for fraud and restitution.
Daniel Haszard
They put me on zyprexa for things other than schizophrenia and bipolar, so my doctor were using it against the FDA guidelines.
They put me on it for Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome to help with the flashbacks (auditory, visual and tactile) and they said it was also for my depression. I have been diagnosed with major depressive disorder.
I wonder how I can find out if my state is going after Lilly for fraud and if I can help in any way. Is there somewhere to find out which states are pursuing legal action against Lilly?
http://www.onlinelawyersource.com/zyprexa/litigation.html Try here my dear for starter
"I wonder how I can find out if my state is going after Lilly for fraud and if I can help in any way. Is there somewhere to find out which states are pursuing legal action against Lilly?"
Medicine always has side affects, don't listen to people when they say there aren't any.
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