So first they come out with a drug that causes diabetes, then covered it up, and they’re in a hell of a lot of trouble because of it. And now, guess what? A drug that Lily makes to treat diabetes appears to cause death! That’s the ultimate bad side effect.
Oh, the irony.
Diabetes Drug Tied to New Deaths
liz | 11:05 AM | Uncategorized
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
Liz,
I remember being at the end of my proverbial rope a few years back when nothing – I mean absolutely nothing – would vitiate my extreme anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts.
My psych at the time really tried to push Zyprexa down my throat (figuratively speaking) and like a fool I accepted her advice.
After a few weeks of feeling only fractionally better, I realized that I must be insane to continue on this drug. I mean is it worth “curing” my anxiety et al for Diabetes? It’s just swapping one bad thing for another.
So my shrink weaned me off of it and increased the Effexor to 450mg and I felt better.
Lilly is a despicable company.
Dennis
Granted, Lilly does some despicable things (almost all companies do). However, I was at the end of my rope. After 15 years of trying different meds and therapy, the ONLY thing that worked is the big bad Zyprexa. Yes, I have to be careful about diabetes and the whole metabolic syndrome, but the madness has stopped. A big price to pay? Maybe. I will thank Lilly for bringing Zyprexa to market. But I don’t have to be so thankful to forgive their bad marketing.
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