Ellen's’ FDA Testimony
Ellen is a registered nurse, now raising five children on her own. Ellen’s husband committed suicide in his early 40s. He began taking Paxil shortly after the birth of their triplets. While on Paxil, Ellen noticed that her husband became irritable, lethargic and suffered from insomnia. With his dosage doubled just three weeks beforehand, he ended his life.
Because her husband had no prior suicidal history and left behind such a young family, Ellen came to the conclusion that Paxil must have contributed to her husband’s death. Ellen testified at the Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee hearing on December 13, 2006 regarding the FDA’s meta-analysis of suicidality data from adult antidepressant trials. She described in her testimony, the great loss her family has suffered and the dangerous side effects of SSRI’s.
A Baum Hedlund client explains to the FDA
why
she believes Paxil caused her husbands death.
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