tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550428.post1865511010717248607..comments2024-03-27T01:34:23.434-04:00Comments on Pharma Marketing Blog: The Cymbalta Buzz Machine is at Full Throttle!Vladhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04114063498108633047noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550428.post-67263695110383016272011-05-10T11:59:59.040-04:002011-05-10T11:59:59.040-04:00If it is only "approved for back pain" a...If it is only "approved for back pain" and the rest of the pain treatments are off label themn why are the ADVERTISING the drug for pain disorders via television? Is this not against the rules, advertising about "off-label" uses?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550428.post-46108131536139707492008-09-19T00:16:00.000-04:002008-09-19T00:16:00.000-04:00Marketers (like me!) will stoop to any level - to ...Marketers (like me!) will stoop to any level - to get new drugs on to the market, and keep on expanding the market: geography by geography, target patient segment after another, and indication after indication. The Gardasil bandwagon rolls on from cervical cancer to vulval and vaginal cancers too - this really adds to the brand buzz on media and off media in clinics too. Good publicity there. I've also heard that a nasal insulin has been launched in EQUADOR! Why there of all places? Oh marketers you are all Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde characters!! And thanks to bloggers and media they are kept in check!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550428.post-60883365086755303722008-09-12T07:26:00.000-04:002008-09-12T07:26:00.000-04:00Jim,Thanks for your comment. It was not my intent ...Jim,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your comment. It was not my intent to charge you with misleading your readers. If anything, you inform readers of the facts more than any other journalist I know.<BR/><BR/>The point is that even someone as experienced as you can get mislead -- at east temporarily -- by the pharma spin machine. And other journalist seem to be completed mesmerized by the spin and write articles that just regurgitate the company's point of view, almost as if they were being paid to do it!PharmaGuyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10211557578124130640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550428.post-75970132995766270332008-09-11T20:07:00.000-04:002008-09-11T20:07:00.000-04:00John, I apologize if your post was unpublished. Yo...John, I apologize if your post was unpublished. You'll note that it is difficult to get a comment published on BNET because we use a very strict system for registering commenters. I am not in control of that but I believe it is being reformed and comments will become easier to use on BNET in the near future. I actually had no idea you had commented until I read this post today. As for the changes made to the article, I did those shortly after posting the original when I realized I had misread Lilly's statement. There was no intention to mislead anyone, and certainly no intention of ignoring you, John. BNET bloggers actually get bonuses for comments -- so I am biased in favor of allowing you to comment!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550428.post-37052654968644818542008-08-28T14:34:00.000-04:002008-08-28T14:34:00.000-04:00"And, then, there are the drug's well known side e..."And, then, there are the drug's well known side effects--suicidality, nausea, fatigue, and withdrawal problems"<BR/>I have chronic pain. 52 years old, work full-time, Mother to a 9 year old son, and wife. I will NEVER take Lyrica, Neurontin or Cymbalta again or allow pain mgt specialists talk me into taking similar. Talk about "withdrawal problems"! I've never been as miserable in all my life as I was during the 3 times of 6 weeks each it took to get off Cymbalta - unremitting nightmares, trembles, sweats, trying to work with no sleep AND pain, which Cymbalta did nothing to help. In my view, it should ONLY be used for major depressive disorders in a limited # of people! and only then if they know how hard it is to stop; which no one is going to tell them. Throw it in the trash! and do not prescribe at all.<BR/>Just my opinion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com