Paxil antidepressant side effects, birth defects may mandate a Paxil lawsuit

Many American women have placed their faith and trust in the antidepressant drug Paxil, featuring active ingredient paroxetine.

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Many American women have placed their faith and trust in the antidepressant drug Paxil, featuring active ingredient paroxetine.

Why is GlaxoSmith Kline, or GSK, losing Paxil birth defects lawsuits?

Victims of Paxil birth defects are legally entitled to seek financial compensation for their losses, including medical costs, and many are filing Paxil lawsuits. Now Americans in states across America can get help in Paxil lawsuits for Paxil birth defects via LawyerPaxil.com.

To date, such lawsuits are winning. In fact, GlaxoSmithKline, the British pharmaceutical corporation which creates Paxil, has settled a reported 200 lawsuits in victims’ favor so far. Such Paxil lawsuits have asserted that the antidepressant drug, when used by pregnant women, caused birth defects in their newborn babies, and GSK is thus negligent and liable for their losses.

Users of antidepressant defective drug Paxil may ask: What is depression?

Defective drug Paxil is an antidepressant prescribed by doctors to relieve patients’ depression, and in doing, so can cause birth defects such as heart ailments requiring surgery. Such costly surgeries may merit engaging a Paxil lawyer or attorney to press a defective drugs lawsuit.

But exactly what is depression, the condition that precipitated Paxil use?

You often may have heard someone say, “I’m so depressed.” But are they?

Depression is a medical condition. It does not mean you are simply weary, sad or mildly anxious. Depression, in fact, is a serious medical condition and not a momentary mood swing or a random complaint when things aren’t going well.

Paxil side effects history includes suicide, violence, birth defects

The side effects history of defective drug Paxil extends beyond serious birth defects of the heart, lungs and other vital organs found in the newborns of some women who took Paxil as an antidepressant drug during pregnancy. Using Paxil also has been linked to violent behavior and suicidal impulses, all of which may merit a Paxil lawyer for pursuing a Paxil lawsuit.

Paxil withdrawal risks may prolong use of defective drug, causing birth defects

One reason why Paxil patients may be reluctant to stop using the drug, or decrease its use, is the fact that this often leads to Paxil withdrawal symptoms. Such withdrawal symptoms may be severe or may be less harmful, and most people do not suffer the worst kind. However, it’s estimated that up to 10 per cent of Paxil users may experience extreme withdrawal symptoms.

The threat of withdrawal may make some people reluctant to curtail Paxil use or to stop taking the antidepressant drug altogether. However, if a woman who’s using Paxil becomes pregnant, this presents a dilemma. The fact is, women who take Paxil during pregnancy may deliver babies with significant birth defects as a result, including heart, lung, brain and other vital organ maladies. Thus, using Paxil during pregnancy is potentially dangerous to unborn infants.

Paxil is an SSRI -- but what is an SSRI?

One of the medical descriptions given Paxil is that the antidepressant drug, whose principal ingredient is paroxetine hydrochloride, also is an SSRI. But what is an SSRI?

The term SSRI signifies that Paxil is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor. This is a class of drugs which have an impact on a chemical in the brain called a serotonin. A serotonin is among chemicals that send signals from one nerve cell to another.

Antidepressant Paxil comes with drug warnings for birth defects and more

Though Paxil functions ably in some cases as an antidepressant, Paxil is a defective drug. Due to its defects, Paxil comes with certain defective drug warnings, which mean some people and their physician may choose to avoid choosing and using the drug.

One of the biggest drug warnings for Paxil is its potential danger to an unborn baby. If a woman takes Paxil during her pregnancy, especially during the first trimester, her child may be born with serious birth defects of the heart, lung, brain or other vital organs, and these birth defects may necessitate surgery or even repeated surgeries.

Paxil is a Category D pregnancy medication due to its birth defects risk

For pregnant women suffering from depression, Paxil is considered a Category D medication. What does this mean?

It means that the Food and Drug Administration, which labeled Paxil as a Category D drug, considers the antidepressant to be risky by posing potential dangers to the fetus. Yet as a Category D drug, Paxil can be prescribed by a physician or other healthcare provider if he or she thinks its potential benefits for the mother outweigh its potential dangers to her unborn baby.

Paxil side effects scope includes birth defects, seizures, high fever,nausea

Defective antidepressant drug Paxil has many adverse Paxil side effects, and some are more serious than others. But all should be duly noted in case treatment is needed -- and in the case of serious Paxil side effects, a Paxil lawsuit also may be needed.

Among the most severe Paxil effects are Paxil birth defects injuries, including damage to the lungs, brain and heart of newborn infants whose mother took Paxil during pregnancy. Such Paxil injuries may mandate surgeries to correct. These can be costly, and that cost should be borne by the negligent manufacture which harmed the infant.

Legal issues for a Paxil lawsuit include product liability, personal injury

If an infant in your family has suffered birth defects after his or her mother took antidepressant drug Paxil during pregnancy, your family may have a legal case for exploring a Paxil lawsuit. Such a Paxil defective drug lawsuit can seek recovery for losses such as medical bills and pain and suffering in a Paxil injury case.

But what constitutes a case? That depends on a number of legal issues which may be involved. If the infant perished as a result of Paxil birth defects, you may have a wrongful death case. If the infant was injured due to Paxil birth defects, you may have a personal injury lawsuit case. In either event, you can seek financial compensation.

Paxil antidepressant drug is as bad as poison for pregnant moms’ babies

Is Paxil poison? Women who gave birth to babies with serious heart and lung defects after they took the popular antidepressant drug might say so. Paxil might as well be listed at a poison control center due to its potential to harm fetuses in the first three months of pregnancy.

Depression hits up to 20% of pregnant women, but Paxil is the worst cure

Pregnancy can cause hormonal imbalances in women, and it also can cause depression, but the two are not the same. Indeed, it’s important that antepartum depression -- a very real medical condition of depression during pregnancy-- not be misinterpreted as a hormonal imbalance.

Paxil prescribed for depression may cause birth defects

Victims of defective drug Paxil and its harmful Paxil side effects may wonder why their physician prescribed it for them in the first place. Depression often is the reason, but Paxil can be far more harmful than depression.

Clearly, for unborn infants, depression is not sufficient reason for prescribing Paxil for an expectant mother. While Paxil may help ease her depression, how much more depressing will it be if her innocent newborn suffers a Paxil side effect as a result, such as a serious heart, lung or other birth defect?

Antidepressant drug Paxil birth defects may merit a Paxil lawsuit

Perhaps no injury seems more tragic than a birth defect. An innocent baby, before its life even has begun, may be hampered by a painful and debilitating injury which, upon birth, necessitates surgeries and other painful and costly interventions. It's even worse when such birth defects occur via no natural cause, but because a negligent pharmaceutical company allowed it to happen.

Such a company is GlaxoSmithKline, or GSK, based in London, England. Much like London-based oil company BP, or British Petroleum, GSK has made billions of dollars in profits while harming innocent Americans from afar.

Odds of birth defects are higher for babies with mothers on antidepressant drug Paxil

A variety of studies have examined the likelihood of injuries to babies as a result of their mother taking antidepressant Paxil during pregnancy or while nursing, and the odds are not good.

One study in Sweden found that babies in the womb of mothers taking Paxil, or paroxetine, had a 2 per cent increase in the chance of being born with a malformed heart, either via VSD (ventricular septal defects) or ASD (atrial septal defects).

Paxil is taken as an antidepressant, but can cause worse things

We know that Paxil can cause birth defects in infants whose mothers took the drug during pregnancy. But why did they take it? What is Paxil?

Essentially Paxil is an antidepressant drug. That doesn't mean that it's solely intended to treat depression. Rather, Paxil also can be used to treat anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder and premenstrual dysphoric disorder.

Paxil birth defects spark lawsuit verdicts for families

Just what are your prospects for gaining financial award for your family's Paxil birth defects injuries? That's difficult to say without assessing your individual case, which a defective drugs lawyer or attorney can do after you contact Jim S. Adler & Associates via this website's free online case evaluation form or by calling toll-free to 1-800-344-9966.

But what is known is that the first Paxil birth defects lawsuit to reach a verdict resulted in a $2.5 million jury award to the family of a boy who suffered heart problems after his mother took antidepressant drug Paxil during her pregnancy. The verdict in a Philadelphia, PA courtroom awarded compensatory damages but no punitive damages against manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline, or GSK.

Paxil side effects history includes suicide, violence, birth defects

The side effects history of defective drug Paxil extends beyond serious birth defects of the heart, lungs and other vital organs found in the newborns of some women who took Paxil as an antidepressant drug during pregnancy. Using Paxil also has been linked to violent behavior and suicidal impulses.

Such defective drug side effects became widely known after the Food and Drug Administration approved Paxil to go on the market in 1992. The first damaging Paxil effects to become widely publicized were suicidal impulses by those who took the antidepressant drug, particularly if they were young persons such as teenagers or younger children.

More recently, harmful Paxil effects have included birth defects in the babies of women who took Paxil while pregnant. Women who do so have a significantly higher chance of having a baby with birth defects than those who do not take Paxil.

Like BP’s oil spill, GSK’s Paxil birth defects reflect British indifference to Americans’ safety

British-based BP is in the headlines every day as oil continues leaking into the Gulf of Mexico in the biggest environmental disaster in U.S. history. Thousands are losing their jobs in five states as the BP oil spill contaminates beaches, killing birds and marine life. British-based GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the maker of Avandia and Paxil, deserves the same kind of coverage. It is victimizing thousands of Americans, too.

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