Posted by JLM on August 5, 2004, at 12:52:33
In reply to Re: Cymbalta/Duloxetine--Something's Up, posted by caraher on August 5, 2004, at 12:44:07
Something is indeed up.
Cybalta is a drug that was studied in the early nineties by Lilly. Apparently at that time, they didn't think it was of much value as an AD, but it was apparently marked in Europe as a treatment for stress urinary incontinence.
With the failure of, r-fluoxetine, and Proazc going off patent, they HAD to find something to retain their market share, and thus you have Cymbalta...BACK FROM THE DEAD.
Most of the positive studies were open label. The one's where they claimed 'complete remission'.
Don't believe the hype. ESPECIALLY FROM an open label study.
The woman that killed herself was participating in
a 'healthy volunteer' study. I have never heard an explanation from Lilly for her suicide. How does one explain that? Was it the Easter Bunny that made her do it? Space aliens? Hrmmmm........It would be a simple matter to confirm whether it was indeed the drug by doing a challenge/dechallenge,rechallenge protocol, like the one suggested by Healy, but I doubt you are going to see that anytime soon. They promised FDA they would do one for Prozac, but Lilly never carried it out. One wonder's why that is. The "Beasley Protocol"
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