Furious Seasons

October 21, 2009

Cymbalta Sales Way Up

Eli Lilly announced its third quarter results today. Cymbalta sales are way up:

"Lilly's biggest drug, Zyprexa, posted sales of $1.2 billion, up 2.8%. Higher selling prices offset lower demand in the U.S. Demand increased outside the U.S. Sales of antidepressant Cymbalta rose 10% to $790 million."

A 10 percent increase over the same quarter last year is pretty significant. While I'm not clear on whether Lilly upped Cymbalta prices in the last year (which would account for a portion of the revenue increase if they had), it looks as though more scrips for this tricky anti-depressant are being written. Whether they are for depression or for pain indications isn't clear to me at all.

It looks like Cymbalta could top $3 billion in sales this year.

Posted by Philip Dawdy at October 21, 2009 01:57 PM

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Yeah, and Lilly is recruiting kids for a Cymbalta pediatric study right now:

http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00849693

Here's a link to a presentation about Cymbalta withdrawal and Lilly's evasion of the problem made to FDA:

http://www.fda.gov/downloads/AdvisoryCommittees/CommitteesMeetingMaterials/Drugs/PsychopharmacologicDrugsAdvisoryCommittee/UCM172866.pdf

Read it and weep for the kids who get turned inside out by that toxic brain bomb. And for their parents who no doubt will not be fully informed when they sign their kids up.

Imagine a 9 year old going through that...

Posted by: SteveM at October 21, 2009 02:52 PM

This was the hardest, most miserable drug with nasty side effects I have ever been on, with one exception, but clearly the worst to wean off of.

Maybe Lilly can use some of that money to give to families of people who lost love ones or had loved ones maimed by taking it.

Depression hurts. So does Cymbalta.

Posted by: susan at October 21, 2009 03:57 PM

One more time, Eli-Lilly:

TRACY JOHNSON and the four others who died in February 2004 during Cymbalta's clinical trials.
Tracy Johnson hanged herself at Eli-Lily's facilities.
A healthy 19 years- old volunteer who was testing Cymbalta for urinary incontinence.

Once again Eli-Lilly:

You are MURDERERS.

"Read it and weep for the kids who get turned inside out by that toxic brain bomb. And for their parents who no doubt will not be fully informed when they sign their kids up.

Imagine a 9 year old going through that..."

I will read it tomorrow SteveM.

I'm already crying.

Get the hands away from the children!

Posted by: Ana at October 21, 2009 06:33 PM

Thank you SteveM. I did a post about this trial.
Better be angry than sad.

Posted by: Ana at October 21, 2009 07:13 PM