Re: Reply to Brady re suing

[Guest guest]

Litigation will completely take over your lives for years. Everything

you have every done will be under a microscope. It is not an easy road. We

know because we have been pursuing a consumer situation, not drugs since 1995.

You better be sure there is no alternative and you are ready for the long

haul. There will be interrogatories both for you and for many other parties,

depositions. Many, many motions, hearings, people won't show up, won't hand

over

discovery. You will be deposed, possibly numerous times. It is not a road

to start lightly. Once you start it, it only gets more serious. Even once you

get a trial date scheduled, there will be many delays, many trial dates will

be postponed. All this costs real money. Think about the hourly fees for

attorney's, every hearing, every phone call, all the motions to prepare and

respond too.

On the flip side, were you seeing a pdoc, or just a gp? Your beef is

with the doc, not the manufacturers. Also, it is also possible that treatment

was begun at the beginning of a problem, and the worsening was due to the

process and not the treatment. Was your husband seeing a therapist regularly

during all this? You need a pdoc and therapist who work closely together to

monitor the situation.

Good Luck to you and your husband.

[Guest guest]

Why would litagation tear our lives apart? I don't understand. Please

explain!!!

Reply to Brady re suing

Search. Compare. Save. searchMy husband was normal

except chest pains which his doctor stated was

probably a panic attack.

After he was prozac, he got depressed, got insomnia, stop

eating, had

horrible headaches, stomach aches, and extreme pacing.

Complained to

doctor who changed him to zoloft, then paxil, then xanax,

diazepam,

paroxetin, loreszapma clonazepam, trazodone, all within 3

months. He

kept getting sicker and sicker.

He now has no job, no health insurance. All because he started

on

prozac, the one condition I now see as athazia, spelling

(restlessness) but no one recognized it.

Couldn't we sue for all these medications and trials on his brain

which messed him up???

Dear Brady,

Life sure isn't fair.

Some of the list members here know the damage, including

murder and death, which can come from these medications.

They will also tell you that litigation is a very very serious step

which may tear your lives further apart - like living in a prison

camp.

However, because you are on a list with healing information,

you may at least begin that journey with your husband. And that

is worth more than any amount of money.

[Guest guest]

Why would litagation tear our lives apart? I don't understand. Please

explain!!!

Reply to Brady re suing

Search. Compare. Save. searchMy husband was normal

except chest pains which his doctor stated was

probably a panic attack.

After he was prozac, he got depressed, got insomnia, stop

eating, had

horrible headaches, stomach aches, and extreme pacing.

Complained to

doctor who changed him to zoloft, then paxil, then xanax,

diazepam,

paroxetin, loreszapma clonazepam, trazodone, all within 3

months. He

kept getting sicker and sicker.

He now has no job, no health insurance. All because he started

on

prozac, the one condition I now see as athazia, spelling

(restlessness) but no one recognized it.

Couldn't we sue for all these medications and trials on his brain

which messed him up???

Dear Brady,

Life sure isn't fair.

Some of the list members here know the damage, including

murder and death, which can come from these medications.

They will also tell you that litigation is a very very serious step

which may tear your lives further apart - like living in a prison

camp.

However, because you are on a list with healing information,

you may at least begin that journey with your husband. And that

is worth more than any amount of money.

[Guest guest]

Well, if you do find a class that fits your particular set of

facts, fine. But are you going to sue every manufacturer or who? Your beef

is really with the doc who was prescribing and not really treating. Unless

you find a lot of patients from the same doc, you won't have a class. If you

join a class for any one of the drugs your husband was prescribed, you won't

have much of a claim from any one particular drug. You listed nine drugs in

succession in three months. Manufacturer's of each drug would very easily blame

it on another drug, not theirs, or poor diagnostics, and poor follow up. They

also could claim that he didn't stay with anything long enough to see any

relief.

If you do get in a class, and a contingency lawyer takes the

case, the lawyers will take probably 40% of the settlement, plus costs. The

settlement will be divided up among all the class members, based on severity

and other factors. Just be aware it is a very difficult 24 hour seven day a

week road, that you had better be very prepared for, and very sure of the merits

of your case (legally speaking).

[Guest guest]

Ok just reading over this ,, I may be wrong , but when I was told to join a

class action suit it was contingency .. so if I didnt win , they didnt get

paid..

Re: Reply to Brady re suing

Litigation will completely take over your lives for years. Everything

you have every done will be under a microscope. It is not an easy road. We

know because we have been pursuing a consumer situation, not drugs since 1995.

You better be sure there is no alternative and you are ready for the long

haul. There will be interrogatories both for you and for many other parties,

depositions. Many, many motions, hearings, people won't show up, won't hand

over

discovery. You will be deposed, possibly numerous times. It is not a road

to start lightly. Once you start it, it only gets more serious. Even once

you

get a trial date scheduled, there will be many delays, many trial dates will

be postponed. All this costs real money. Think about the hourly fees for

attorney's, every hearing, every phone call, all the motions to prepare and

respond too.

On the flip side, were you seeing a pdoc, or just a gp? Your beef is

with the doc, not the manufacturers. Also, it is also possible that treatment

was begun at the beginning of a problem, and the worsening was due to the

process and not the treatment. Was your husband seeing a therapist regularly

during all this? You need a pdoc and therapist who work closely together to

monitor the situation.

Good Luck to you and your husband.

[Guest guest]

Aren't there state medical licensing boards that we can complain to? There

certainly are for lawyers and other professions, and those go into some sort

of 'permanent record.' There's also consumer complaint agencies and the

Better Business Bureaus. If there are agencies that collect complaints, or

professional associations that track members, then why not exert constant

pressure on physicians about their prescribing practices? If they though

that every time they habd out a prescription they may have problems over

side effects and 'adverse events' they might slow down on the drug pushing.

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[Guest guest]

I like this idea very much. Doh!! I shoulda thought of that.

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[Guest guest]

> Aren't there state medical licensing boards that we can complain to? There

> certainly are for lawyers and other professions, and those go into some sort

> of 'permanent record.' There's also consumer complaint agencies and the

> Better Business Bureaus. If there are agencies that collect complaints, or

> professional associations that track members, then why not exert constant

> pressure on physicians about their prescribing practices? If they though

> that every time they habd out a prescription they may have problems over

> side effects and 'adverse events' they might slow down on the drug

pushing.

Hi ,

Thanks for another thought-provoking post.

The Pharmas keep very good track of all RX's that doctors write via

pharmacies. The info is stripped of its references to individual patient names

and transmitted to a central collection agency body. Then when a drug rep

goes in to see a doctor they have a complete profile of the doctor's scripting

pattern, to make sales more manageable.

Will send references if anyone is interested.