Comments on: Chantix and Side Effects Lawsuit http://www.importantlawsuits.com/lawsuits/chantix-and-side-effects-lawsuit/ Lawsuits and Recalls Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:09:42 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: john http://www.importantlawsuits.com/lawsuits/chantix-and-side-effects-lawsuit/comment-page-10/#comment-111898 john Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:09:42 +0000 http://www.importantlawsuits.com/lawsuits/chantix-and-side-effects-lawsuit/#comment-111898 Try to make this short but I could go on and on about chantix, Alittle about me 48 married in great shape and work out 5 times a week, Was a foreman for a large union construction company so again stayed very fit and active with my job, always have had a complete physical every year, Always everything fine, only bad thing I smoked so In Jan 2010 started taking chantix, Took it for 2 to 3 months I guess, other than a few vivid dreams it was great quit smoking and still don't, Everything seemed okay until june 2010, First problem I had was severe anxiety at work just felt I could not do my job, So in Nov 2010 I gave up the foreman position thinking less stress would be better, Although I never ever experienced anxiety before, Also in Dec for my anual check up they discovered irregular heart rythum, Well many tests later and even a trip to mayo, I struggle daily with aniexty, aches and pains and living for now with heart issues, I know it was caused by chantix, Although you ask doctors and they don't want to talk about it, I do not recomend this drug, And just can not believe its still being sold I would think there would be a law suit by now, If any one hears of one please let me know, jjeri@aol.com Try to make this short but I could go on and on about chantix, Alittle about me 48 married in great shape and work out 5 times a week, Was a foreman for a large union construction company so again stayed very fit and active with my job, always have had a complete physical every year, Always everything fine, only bad thing I smoked so In Jan 2010 started taking chantix, Took it for 2 to 3 months I guess, other than a few vivid dreams it was great quit smoking and still don’t, Everything seemed okay until june 2010, First problem I had was severe anxiety at work just felt I could not do my job, So in Nov 2010 I gave up the foreman position thinking less stress would be better, Although I never ever experienced anxiety before, Also in Dec for my anual check up they discovered irregular heart rythum, Well many tests later and even a trip to mayo, I struggle daily with aniexty, aches and pains and living for now with heart issues, I know it was caused by chantix, Although you ask doctors and they don’t want to talk about it, I do not recomend this drug, And just can not believe its still being sold I would think there would be a law suit by now, If any one hears of one please let me know, jjeri@aol.com

]]> By: Stacey http://www.importantlawsuits.com/lawsuits/chantix-and-side-effects-lawsuit/comment-page-10/#comment-85239 Stacey Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:00:23 +0000 http://www.importantlawsuits.com/lawsuits/chantix-and-side-effects-lawsuit/#comment-85239 In march of 2011 my husband went to his doct. for a physical. He is 38 and fit and healthy (besides the smoking). He asked his doct for chantex and started taking immediatly. By early May, his moods were so bad, we agreed he needed to get off chantex. We were aware of these side affects prior and made an agreement if his behavior changed, he'd stop the meds. He was turning into a monster. 3 days after taking his last chantex pill (may 17th) he went to the hospital with chest and arm pain. After a very stressful night, we were told his main right artery was 100% blocked and he indeed had a heart attack. He needed 2 stents placed in that 1 artery. Thankfully he has no heart damage and has recovered. However, he no longer qualifys for life insurance and is forevery labeled with heart disease. With everything in my, I believe it was the chantex. I suggest NO ONE take this medicine. In march of 2011 my husband went to his doct. for a physical. He is 38 and fit and healthy (besides the smoking). He asked his doct for chantex and started taking immediatly.
By early May, his moods were so bad, we agreed he needed to get off chantex. We were aware of these side affects prior and made an agreement if his behavior changed, he’d stop the meds. He was turning into a monster.
3 days after taking his last chantex pill (may 17th) he went to the hospital with chest and arm pain.
After a very stressful night, we were told his main right artery was 100% blocked and he indeed had a heart attack. He needed 2 stents placed in that 1 artery. Thankfully he has no heart damage and has recovered. However, he no longer qualifys for life insurance and is forevery labeled with heart disease.
With everything in my, I believe it was the chantex. I suggest NO ONE take this medicine.

]]> By: Bob O http://www.importantlawsuits.com/lawsuits/chantix-and-side-effects-lawsuit/comment-page-10/#comment-84530 Bob O Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:45:14 +0000 http://www.importantlawsuits.com/lawsuits/chantix-and-side-effects-lawsuit/#comment-84530 I just wanted to say that my doctor was SOLD on this medication to quit smoking. He first prescribed it, wanting me to quit smoking in 2007. I wasn't wanting to quit, but everyone else wanted me to. I took the drug for about 2-3 months, and then quit taking it. I hadn't quit smoking, but it greatly reduced the amount I smoked to about 3-7 cigarettes a day. In 2008, I tried the drug again. I had heart problems and ended up getting a pacemaker installed in 2008. As a 38 year old, I hadn't ever had heart problems, or any major medical problems. I restarted the medication again in 2009 again reducing the amount I smoked. In August of 2010, I was admitted to the hospital and recieved 2 stents. Still on Chantix for most of the year, and it being a FREE medication provided by my insurance company because of it's GREATNESS, I never associated it until July 2011 with the TEN (10) heart surgeries that I've had in the last 12 months, having ballooning and a total of SEVEN (7) stents put into my arteries for what they call Coronary Artery Disease. My doctor recommends I not take the medication any longer. I'm shocked. I recommend people NOT use the medication either. Your life depends on you, saying NO to this medication. I just wanted to say that my doctor was SOLD on this medication to quit smoking. He first prescribed it, wanting me to quit smoking in 2007. I wasn’t wanting to quit, but everyone else wanted me to. I took the drug for about 2-3 months, and then quit taking it. I hadn’t quit smoking, but it greatly reduced the amount I smoked to about 3-7 cigarettes a day. In 2008, I tried the drug again. I had heart problems and ended up getting a pacemaker installed in 2008. As a 38 year old, I hadn’t ever had heart problems, or any major medical problems. I restarted the medication again in 2009 again reducing the amount I smoked. In August of 2010, I was admitted to the hospital and recieved 2 stents. Still on Chantix for most of the year, and it being a FREE medication provided by my insurance company because of it’s GREATNESS, I never associated it until July 2011 with the TEN (10) heart surgeries that I’ve had in the last 12 months, having ballooning and a total of SEVEN (7) stents put into my arteries for what they call Coronary Artery Disease. My doctor recommends I not take the medication any longer. I’m shocked. I recommend people NOT use the medication either. Your life depends on you, saying NO to this medication.

]]> By: terri http://www.importantlawsuits.com/lawsuits/chantix-and-side-effects-lawsuit/comment-page-10/#comment-84188 terri Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:28:32 +0000 http://www.importantlawsuits.com/lawsuits/chantix-and-side-effects-lawsuit/#comment-84188 Long story, short - - took two scrips of Chantix back/back in '07. Endured two, long, painful hospital stays in '08. I trusted everyone involved. Never again. People do NOT go to the trouble and expense of getting prescription...w/hopes of having horrendous side-effects. Someone screwed up. YES, it makes smoking a chore...and YES, it would've been PERFECT had it STOPPED there. But, it doesn't. Once the smoking receptors are hit...this venom sneaks on thru to OTHER brain receptors/matter...plants itself whereEVER it sees fit...and believe me when I say this...IT CAN/DOES DISTORT your mind...dreams...reflexes...judgment...etc. This is ONE, SLOW, EXTREMELY POWERFUL pill. Once in your system, only God knows how/where you'll land. And, as far as OTHERS keeping an eye on you...that's a joke...you could share a bunkbed w/doctor...and he/she STILL couldn't get to you in time. When that rug is YANKED...the spiral is so swift...no one can save you. BE VERY, VERY SCARED OF THIS LITTLE BLUE PILL. IT'S UNPREDICTABLE...ALL CONSUMING...THOROUGH...SNEAKY...AND SLOW. Just when you think, "wow, THIS was easy..." the spiral begins. Long story, short – - took two scrips of Chantix back/back in ‘07. Endured two, long, painful hospital stays in ‘08. I trusted everyone involved. Never again.

People do NOT go to the trouble and expense of getting prescription…w/hopes of having horrendous side-effects. Someone screwed up. YES, it makes smoking a chore…and YES, it would’ve been PERFECT had it STOPPED there.

But, it doesn’t.

Once the smoking receptors are hit…this venom sneaks on thru to OTHER brain receptors/matter…plants itself whereEVER it sees fit…and believe me when I say this…IT CAN/DOES DISTORT your mind…dreams…reflexes…judgment…etc.

This is ONE, SLOW, EXTREMELY POWERFUL pill. Once in your system, only God knows how/where you’ll land. And, as far as OTHERS keeping an eye on you…that’s a joke…you could share a bunkbed w/doctor…and he/she STILL couldn’t get to you in time. When that rug is YANKED…the spiral is so swift…no one can save you. BE VERY, VERY SCARED OF THIS LITTLE BLUE PILL. IT’S UNPREDICTABLE…ALL CONSUMING…THOROUGH…SNEAKY…AND SLOW. Just when you think, “wow, THIS was easy…” the spiral begins.

]]> By: Donna Burton http://www.importantlawsuits.com/lawsuits/chantix-and-side-effects-lawsuit/comment-page-10/#comment-83478 Donna Burton Sat, 17 Sep 2011 00:39:54 +0000 http://www.importantlawsuits.com/lawsuits/chantix-and-side-effects-lawsuit/#comment-83478 I started Chantix in November 08, on the 7th day I started having seizures. I have never had a seizure in my life until I took Chantix. Please email me at twinone1968@yahoo.com. My seizures have progressed from 1-2 a day to up to 10 times in a day and I was recently hospitalized in ICU. The doctors’ state that I will more than likely have them for the rest of my life. I have lost my job because of seizures at work, I have been ordered by physicians not to drive and my husband can't leave my by myself. The seizures have seriously affected my life to where I can’t function normally. I am also trying to find anyone else that has experienced seizures after taking Chantix. I started Chantix in November 08, on the 7th day I started having seizures. I have never had a seizure in my life until I took Chantix. Please email me at twinone1968@yahoo.com. My seizures have progressed from 1-2 a day to up to 10 times in a day and I was recently hospitalized in ICU. The doctors’ state that I will more than likely have them for the rest of my life. I have lost my job because of seizures at work, I have been ordered by physicians not to drive and my husband can’t leave my by myself. The seizures have seriously affected my life to where I can’t function normally. I am also trying to find anyone else that has experienced seizures after taking Chantix.

]]> By: Scott http://www.importantlawsuits.com/lawsuits/chantix-and-side-effects-lawsuit/comment-page-10/#comment-79687 Scott Sat, 27 Aug 2011 02:27:08 +0000 http://www.importantlawsuits.com/lawsuits/chantix-and-side-effects-lawsuit/#comment-79687 I'm on day-25 of Chantix and day-10 without a cigarette. Chantix has been magic thus far, and although I get an "off" feeling at times - I know it will pass, and the most important thing is that I quit! I went from years of smoking about a pack a day to nothing. It's amazing. I'd like to make a comment about the Albrecht lawsuit case and how unbelievable I find it that there was no mention of his alcohol intake. So the guy goes out boozin' it . . . comes home, takes his medication, gets killed, and all I hear is it was Chantix's fault. I'm not sorry to say but alcohol is a drug and can cause quite the reckage. I’m on day-25 of Chantix and day-10 without a cigarette. Chantix has been magic thus far, and although I get an “off” feeling at times – I know it will pass, and the most important thing is that I quit! I went from years of smoking about a pack a day to nothing. It’s amazing.

I’d like to make a comment about the Albrecht lawsuit case and how unbelievable I find it that there was no mention of his alcohol intake. So the guy goes out boozin’ it . . . comes home, takes his medication, gets killed, and all I hear is it was Chantix’s fault. I’m not sorry to say but alcohol is a drug and can cause quite the reckage.

]]> By: don http://www.importantlawsuits.com/lawsuits/chantix-and-side-effects-lawsuit/comment-page-10/#comment-78061 don Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:39:29 +0000 http://www.importantlawsuits.com/lawsuits/chantix-and-side-effects-lawsuit/#comment-78061 I"m a 38 year old healty Iron worker,I had been taking champix my heart stopped! My friends tried to revive me but the couldn't the paramedics showed up I was dead!they revived me brought to the hospital where my heart was in an eradic pace.They put me in to an indused coma for three days.They put a pace maker in my heart after all the tests they have determined my heart and brain are fine im healthy but im stuck with this implant!I guess im just lucky to be alive for my wife an two lovely daughters! I”m a 38 year old healty Iron worker,I had been taking champix my heart stopped! My friends tried to revive me but the couldn’t the paramedics showed up I was dead!they revived me brought to the hospital where my heart was in an eradic pace.They put me in to an indused coma for three days.They put a pace maker in my heart after all the tests they have determined my heart and brain are fine im healthy but im stuck with this implant!I guess im just lucky to be alive for my wife an two lovely daughters!

]]> By: Jodi http://www.importantlawsuits.com/lawsuits/chantix-and-side-effects-lawsuit/comment-page-10/#comment-72708 Jodi Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:50:09 +0000 http://www.importantlawsuits.com/lawsuits/chantix-and-side-effects-lawsuit/#comment-72708 Another WOW here. I also took Chantix to quit smking with success two years ago. I have been getting heart palpatations for about 1.5 years and light headed also. I do not have any other health problems. I use to run a couple of miles everyother day and now it is difficult because of the papaltations. I am seeing a doctor and will be requesting a stress test as I am afraid the Chantix damaged my heart. thank you. Another WOW here. I also took Chantix to quit smking with success two years ago. I have been getting heart palpatations for about 1.5 years and light headed also. I do not have any other health problems. I use to run a couple of miles everyother day and now it is difficult because of the papaltations. I am seeing a doctor and will be requesting a stress test as I am afraid the Chantix damaged my heart. thank you.

]]> By: Jessica http://www.importantlawsuits.com/lawsuits/chantix-and-side-effects-lawsuit/comment-page-9/#comment-71598 Jessica Mon, 11 Jul 2011 03:30:33 +0000 http://www.importantlawsuits.com/lawsuits/chantix-and-side-effects-lawsuit/#comment-71598 WOW I see Im not the only one.. I took chantix for 2 weeks quit smoking after 10 years before taking CHANTIX I was perfectly healthy ran 5 miles a day and spent an hour everynight at the gym. About 6 mos after taking chantix and quitting smoking I found out I was pregnant with my second baby along with being diagnosed with Crohns Disease ended up loosing my baby after a long battle with severe anemia and 4 blood transfusions, I just recently started have heart issues My cardiologist had me wear a heart monitor for a month found out that I have Supraventricle Tacycardia SVT which i was prescribed Toprol well after a few week of being on it I realize im still having alot of issues along with Severe Chest pain lasting for 10 to 30 mins at a time. I am scheduled for a Stress test Tom. morning I just turned 28 and went from being extreamly healthy to now posibly having a blockage.. Soooooo confused and ready to get back where i can enjoy te gym again. Thanks Jessi WOW I see Im not the only one.. I took chantix for 2 weeks quit smoking after 10 years before taking CHANTIX I was perfectly healthy ran 5 miles a day and spent an hour everynight at the gym. About 6 mos after taking chantix and quitting smoking I found out I was pregnant with my second baby along with being diagnosed with Crohns Disease ended up loosing my baby after a long battle with severe anemia and 4 blood transfusions, I just recently started have heart issues My cardiologist had me wear a heart monitor for a month found out that I have Supraventricle Tacycardia SVT which i was prescribed Toprol well after a few week of being on it I realize im still having alot of issues along with Severe Chest pain lasting for 10 to 30 mins at a time. I am scheduled for a Stress test Tom. morning I just turned 28 and went from being extreamly healthy to now posibly having a blockage.. Soooooo confused and ready to get back where i can enjoy te gym again.
Thanks
Jessi

]]> By: Wiseguy http://www.importantlawsuits.com/lawsuits/chantix-and-side-effects-lawsuit/comment-page-9/#comment-71243 Wiseguy Fri, 08 Jul 2011 20:47:00 +0000 http://www.importantlawsuits.com/lawsuits/chantix-and-side-effects-lawsuit/#comment-71243 Be careful with this poison Chantix !! Look at this ! http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/pituitary-infarction/overview.html Be careful with this poison Chantix !! Look at this !

http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/pituitary-infarction/overview.html

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