Paxil

Over the years, doctors have prescribed Paxil for depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, post traumatic stress and premenstrual dysphonic disorder. There have been cases of mild side effects which include insomnia, nervousness, mild nausea, drowsiness and bouts of dizziness and similar mild symptoms and irritations.

What has been the subject of several law suits around the country are the more severe side effects that are rare but do happen to people who take the drug expecting relief from their depression and other mental illnesses.

Serious and damaging side effects include:

• Fever and sweating
• Easily bruising
• Unsteady feeling
• Rigid muscles
• Memory loss
• Suicidal thoughts

These may not seem like serious side effects but when an individual is suffering and all they want is relief, and all the get is more pain and suffering, then they can feel even worse. It is imperative to watch out for the last side effect listed above, suicidal thoughts because when an individual is depressed and their medication is making them sicker and not better, this can be devastating for them.

Many pregnant women who were prescribed the anti-anxiety drug reported serious side effects occurring to their unborn children. Side effects such as lung defects that threatened the fetus’s life and heart defects that could also cause deadly consequences where the number one and two reported side effects in pregnant women. The severe side effects to unborn children and young adults have spurred several civil lawsuits as well as many class action cases.

The makers of Paxil, GlaxoSmithKline, have paid out slightly over $1 billion in settlement money to families who lost loved ones taking the drug. Many of the families lost loved ones who gave into the violent thoughts and sadness, killing themselves before they could receive help and get off the drug that was making them sicker. Some of the families won large settlements while others only won enough to cover medical expenses.

Perhaps one of the most gruesome tales of the drug taking over a man’s thoughts, which is basically what the drug had been doing to some people, was in Cheyenne. This man shot his entire family before killing himself while taking his prescribed Paxil. His extended family sued GlaxoSmithKline and won $6.4 million.

Besides the individual lawsuits, there have been class action cases. In 2002, the manufacturer’s plant in Puerto Rico had been mishandling the time-release capsules so that when a patient took one, it would break apart almost immediately, sending all the medication into the blood stream at once instead of slowly throughout the day. A warning was issued by the FDA but it was ignored. The plant in Tennessee, along with the one in Puerto Rico was raided by armed marshals in 2005 in order to learn how and why the capsules were breaking apart instead of slowly releasing like they should. A settlement of nearly $28 million is pending for a group of individuals who were taking the time-released capsules during a specific time period.

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