Experts: Clinical Trials Should Have Shown Chantix Side Effects

Posted by
terri
on April 11, 2012

I took two Chantix scrips back/back in '07. Endured two, long hospital stays PLUS psyche unit in '08. Excitement was what I felt when it hit the market. Couldn't WAIT to get started! I WANTED it to work!! Was a closet smoker - - 1 to 3 cigs. per day. Time to put that to rest...almost put myself to rest instead.

I took this drug in good faith. Trusted my doctor, pharmacist, Pfizer and MOST of all FDA. Whoa, was I in for a rude awakening. 'll be the first to admit...YES...it DID touch on my smoking receptors...making smoking a chore. YAYYYY!!!! Was that IT??!! Am I done smoking??!!!! WOW!! THAT was easy!!!!!!!!!

Then...slowly...but surely...I started losing ground. Mentally and physically I was detaching. While I could FEEL the spiral...couldn't do a da_ n thing to STOP it. This is a sneaky, unpredictable, scary, VERY scary drug. Once in your system only God knows how and where you will land.

Started dreaming nightly of deceased, loved ones coming to me...BEGGING me to go w/them. Tried to assure me my job was done here. Kids are grown and raising children of their own...hubby of 37 years would have no problem replacing me...nor would my employer of 23 years (LOVED my job!). Wasn't sad...just flat.

First hospital stay was due to possible heart attack. Taken by ambulance in middle of nite...stayed a week...released w/diagnosis...possible virus.

Second hospital stay which included psyche unit...was due to serious suicide attempt. In coma for six days while family watched a vent breathe for me. It was a nightmare. Relationships were permanently broken. Everybody was looking for an answer...and pointing fingers. My self respect along w/my babysitting rights w/my 6, beautiful grandchildren...stripped.

No one can undo the past. No amount of money can take away the pain and mental anguish suffered by all. I never knew a little, blue pill would have the POWER to put me in a different place/world. My life as I knew it is over. I'm trying to regain my position as matriarch of my family...and it's been a long, exhausting, devastating, embarrasing, climb back. Never again will I trust BLINDLY strangers in the medical system. No one has your back. The sooner you know and absorb that fact, the better. It's a cold, cruel, GREEDY world we live in. I'm ashamed of myself for being so stupid, naive and gullible. You almost GOT me, Pfizer.