Comments on: Chantix Litigation Heats Up as Lawsuits are Filed

By: ben

ben — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:24:20 +0000

i am supposed to start chantix tomor morn but just decided not to after reading all this thank you you all may have just saved my life

By: vickie

vickie — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:31:07 +0000

In end of September my husband started this drug, (2007) by October 11 (less than 2 weeks) he had a stroke or tia. Lost part of his vision and was out of work for several months and had to do therapy to get back to where he could walk right. He has since then been very angry and has a much “shorter fuse” sometimes the littlest thing will set him off. 2 months ago he had another small stroke. He is only 41 now. He never had a problem untill he started this.

My mother was taking it but has stopped because of the dreams and the sucide thoughs.

To me the it seems like the drug company is using us the consumers as lab rats and the bad thing is that we paid them for the right to do it.

I want to know if there is a lawsuit I want to sign up.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:30:14 +0000

I started taking chantrix about 2 years ago. Because of the weird nightmares and feelings that I was loosing my mind I discontinued use. The nightmares and loss of sleep did not go away immediately. It continued to taper off for about 6 months and now after two years I still have the occassional weird dream maybe 1 time a month or slightly less. From the time I quit my chnatrix I seemed to have lost the creative part of my brain. As an artist everything quit two years ago and has not returmed as of yet. My creative energy had been non stop 7 days a week for the past 20 years and then suddenly just stopped. The weird dreams still make me feel like my mind is somehow damaged. Hard to explain. Steve

By: OLIVIA

OLIVIA — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:35:00 +0000

I took Chantix for the requried amount of time. It suggested that I take it for an additional amount of time to make sure that I was smoke free. I had just lost a brother, so I knew I was depressed from that. I stopped taking for fear that the thoughts I was having were related to Chantix. (suidcidal thoughts). I soon started to break out in hives. I was thought to have leukemia. So I was hospitalied for a bone marrow test. No known reason for the hives. Was treated for several months for hives that would not go away. Still have some of the marks from the hives. Would like to know if there has been anyone else with unusual rashes they are now talking about associated with this drug

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 05:45:19 +0000

I wont say that I had the perfect past, quite the opposite. Severely beaten as a child, 7 stepdads each one worse than the last. I left home at 16 and Joined the army at 17. Spent 6 years and left in 88. From 88 to 95 I led a very violent and dangerous life. In 95 I put my past behind me and moved far away. I became a model citizen, got heavilly involved in my church, youth and music ministries and heavilly involved in the community. Coached Junior high travel competition basket teams. Worked street ministries helping those who sought to escape the lifestyle to do so. I have alot of sucess cases. I did this from 95 to 2008. I stopped smoking for 12 years from 96 to 2008. Yeah I fell. I went to a party, got drunk and started smoking again. Stupid most definitely. I was disappointed in myself. After smoking again for a few months and tried to quit several times I turned to my doctor who prescribed to me Chantix. I started taking Chantix in June and July of 08. July of 08 I turned in my shop where I worked as a saw filer and hit a post, not hard took a couple of steps and blacked out hitting my head quite hard on the pole I had just hit. A week later I showed up to work and found myself unable to go in the doors. I walked away from my job of 13 years. A job I seriously liked and enjoyed doing. No reason no explanation. Within a week I was seeing myself in third person. Witnessing myself doing dangerous stuff but unable to stop myself. I became severely depressed, left my wife of 17 years, and started doing things I had been doing 20 years prior. I became delusional, violent, and extremely agressive. I recognized right from wrong and wanted to do what was right. I seen so much garbage in my town and believed ion my delusional state that I could change it. Then I became paranoid, believing myself to being followed. I was quite worked up, literally looking back on it over things that I had no control over and yet I thought of myself as expendable and could put a stop to it. Hmmn. moments of grandeur I would say so. I still had my second job driving late night deliveries and on one of my runs was ran off the road by a white truck and again two hours later. I became quite paranoid and believed a hit was put on me. 3 Hours later another white truck matching the same description as the ones before flew up on me at a high rate of speed. Swerving back and forth. I drove to the curb they followed me I pulled out again and went up to 90mph they matched me. I seriously thought my life was in danger. I pulled over again and the driver jumped out of his truck and started towards me. I always carried a 9mm in my car in its case with a trigger lock. Thinking that my life was in danger I had unlocked it before pulling over. I met the driver outside of my car weapon pointed down. I ordered him back into his truck and told him to place his hands on top of his head. He complied I asked him why he was following me; he denied doing so. I then told him that he was under citizens arrest. His hands dropped quickly below the window. I raised my 9mm head level and told him to bring his hands up slowly and they had better be empty. He complied. Something in my mind was screaming dont shoot. You know he is not guilty; so I lowered my weapon. I summoned the state police and after about ten minutes of waiting for them to arrive my paranoia set back in. I ordered the driver to pull over to the side of the road and wait for the police. I left the scene but also left contact info with the police. Needless to say I was arrested a few hours later. It wasn’t until a few months ago that my wife who heard about the Chantix lawsuits asked me aint that the drug that I had been taking. I checked into it and sure enough it was. Then I started researching why there was a lawsuit and many of my symptoms listed by friends, witnesses,the victims of my episode, and the police observation were nearly word for word verbatum. For no reason I walked away from my job, my marriage, became delusional, paranoid, violent, schizophrenic. You name it I was in it. I stopped using Chantix long ago and most factors of my life are as they were. I am now rock solid, emotionally stable again, marriage is back on track and as I used to be happy again. Yet my future is now threatened by what happened. I am now facing a minimum of 15 months in prison if I accept the plea bargain. Anybody with similiar circumstances and looks like there are a few please let me know.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:54:58 +0000

Went through full course starting in June of 2007, starting getting sick with mostly respiratory problems like bronchietus, copd and pnuemonia. Diagnosed with diabetes in January 2008. I have spoken with a few lawyers and such but no luck. I feel like they are simply going to get away it. By the way, I am not dealing very will with the diabetes. Help!!!

By: Rod

Rod — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:54:33 +0000

I stopped taking Chantix after 2 weeks because it was making me very sick to my stomach, depressed, angry at the world and I started noticing I was having problems moving without severe pain. The day I stopped taking Chantix I started having pain all over my body (hands, arms, feet, legs etc.). It’s been over a month since I stopped taking Chantix and I still have this pain. I can no longer play my guitar and have pain when ever I walk or do pretty much anything that requires moving. I’m only 49 years old and had none of these problems until I took Chantix.

By: Trudy

Trudy — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:44:59 +0000

I have taken Chantix twice not until 8 weeks into the second time did I realize, after reading the adverse effects the Chantix is the cause of my problems. I have ended up in ER twice and diagnosed with acquired Von Willebrand inhibitor to factor 8 which is a rare autoimmune bleeding disorder, thyroid disorder, and severe anemia. It was so disabling my provider put me on 100mg daily steroids until I could start treatment, because he did not want me to develope a fatal bleed. Also, five months after stopping the first time, I had a gan mal seizure and was dx with b. brain tumor, since this drug changes the chemistry of your brain I think the drug is responsible

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 04:01:50 +0000

This is in response to Susan’s post on July 30th 2009.

My mom was diagnosed with a glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) a week ago and she too had taken Chantix about 2yrs ago. She recently started taking it again (not sure if there’s a connection, however) after a severe headache along with gait problems as well as tripping went to the ER to be diagnosed with the brain tumor.

I would like to know the details of your husbands case to compare it to my mom’s.
Thank you.

By: Connie

Connie — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:54:56 +0000

OMG! is the first thing to come to mind when I found this page. I began taking Chantix about August / Sept of 2007. Within a month I was a TOTAL stranger to my children and my husband, I was taken out of work on “medical leave” due to depression (and consequently lost my job over this issue). I had THE WORST vivid nightmares ! I became a total angry, snap at a pin drop raving “lunatic”! My doctors words were that I was “so close to having a nervous breakdown, it’s scary”. Ultimately it just about cost me my marriage; not to mention costing me my job. It was the SCARIEST time of my entire life! I spent almost a year overcoming the depression. And, I still smoke! This drug should be BANNED!