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Old 08-19-2006, 11:14 PM   #1
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Paxil Protest victories continued without precedent

Some time back at the Paxil Protest I began reporting on an incredibly sinister Internet trap spawned by GSK marketing designed to suck in more Paxil addicts. They called it "Life Is Waiting".

I launched a massive, around-the-clock campaign targeting the web site using Google Adwords.

A few months ago I saw that web traffic I had siphoned off from the site had died down, but never thought to check the site out again.

Well, it turns out, that "registration for the Life is Waiting Program has ended." See https://www.lifeiswaiting.com/

Can we take credit for that? In part, perhaps. We reached 40,497 web users in that campaign. I guess some of those folks went back and logged into the "Life Is Waiting" website with "some questions."

Today, visitors to Life Is Waiting who would "like to learn more about a treatment option for social anxiety disorder, depression or panic disorder" can hyperlink to GSK's official Paxil CR (Controlled (brain) Rot) site, while those merely interested in depression can visit the "astroturf" (a.k.a. phony grassroots site) www.depression.com where you find another link to GSK drugs at a discount , or even for FREE!, since "GSK believes people in need should be able to get their medicines." Like ... Paxil. Or how about Advair. Something for the kids up at Incarnation Services in New York, perhaps?

Hold on for a moment while I puke.

People in need. Hey Glaxo. Set up a website called www.FreeLiquidPaxil.com -- so Paxil addicts don't have to pay $200 bucks a pop for that orange slime-in-a-bottle (a cross between vomit and Tang) you have to gag down in dribbles for months on end, adminstered with an insulin syringe, while desperately trying to get off your heniously addictive drug. Heroin withdrawal sounds fun! in comparision, at least compared to what I went through.


Free liquid Paxil. I think it's time has come. Shaving those cute little pink pills down with a razor can really ... try one's patience. Especially when you head is being blasted by "the zaps" ... maybe you're pukin' your guts out ... sweat pouring off your body like a Sumo wrestler in a sauna. And that's just for starters. And don't forget those desperate Paxil addicts have a razor in their hand ... people in the grips of heinous Paxil withdrawal with razor blades ... that's not a good combination since (what are the real stats Glaxo, Dr. Healy, can you step into the room please) you are than more than 8 times as likely to kill yourself -- whether you are depressed or not -- if you take Paxil vs. a placebo. Russian roulette has better odds.

So what about it Glaxo. Do you see it yet? You've been checkmated in (one moment while I count again) five different directions. You can thank those Atlantian legal geniuses you pay $650+ an hour for the public relations DISASTER about to unfold. (See what happens when you get pissed off at a Paxil plaintiff and leap before you look. Todd? Andy? Or was it you Chigger? Or was a couple of those GSK Board members prodding you on to do it, you know, those royal U.K. idiots that fancy themselves as "Sirs" ... the ones with the rotten-looking teeth and twisted smiles ... sucking down tea and scheming in dark mahogany parlor rooms, with The Frog and Pockie on speakerphone, how they were going to, at the end of they day, finally manage to **** over one vociferous plaintiff in particular.

An unprecedented achievement by a Paxil victim, heck, by any victim of any pharmacueticals company, period. Not quite as good as what Weigand did when he ripped the corporate face off Liggett and Brown Tobacco. But still, to use a J.P. Garnier aphorism, "a good score."

BTW Glaxo ... what was the name of that GSK attorney out in California that forgot to (redacted for now) where at least one of those Paxil (redacted for now) is going to be used in (wait and see.)

Hey, how much extra is butter with my popcorn? The show is only just beginning.
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Old 08-20-2006, 10:05 AM   #2
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I launched a massive, around-the-clock campaign targeting the web site using Google Adwords
Your good!...roflmao But it must have been costly for you.

Sounds like you have been working hard at the exposure. It will be pretty interesting watching this play out, thank you Rob!
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Old 08-20-2006, 11:05 AM   #3
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Re: Paxil Protest victories continued without precedent

OMG, Rob, you are amazing and a testament to perserverence and just plain GUTS!
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Old 08-20-2006, 06:52 PM   #4
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Thanks, rob. i fell for their adds after a year of coaxing by my doctor-it is evil. you're an angel. keep up the good work.-ginger
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Old 08-20-2006, 09:36 PM   #5
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For the GSK folks that patrol the internet, does a cyber kick in the a*s hurt as bad as the real thing? Inquiring minds want to know!!!
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Old 08-21-2006, 10:31 PM   #6
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Keep up the good work, Rob!
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Old 08-23-2006, 07:13 PM   #7
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Any "boot in the pants" - big or small to the big, bad Pharma is okay with me. It may not impress the "outside world" much, but it sure impresses the drug makers that it won't be as smooth a ride as they thought to troll for new victims.
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Old 08-23-2006, 11:42 PM   #8
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I've got something special I want give back to the company. See, not only do I not want it, I'm not accepting it. Really. I mean, how could I? Especially after all that Paxil has done for me. Like wrecking my life, and my health, and very nearly killing me. Plus, there's this little thing called "conscience" (which I know an amoral corporate hyperpower like GlaxoSmithKline cannot comprehend because, well, it's not human....

The only question that remains is how best to "give it back" to Glaxo (in spades I might add.)

Perhaps GSK's CEO Jean-Pierre Garnier would be kind enough to personally accept it at his Pond View Drive home in Devon, PA (with 60 Minutes, the Philadelphia Inquirer and CNN accompanying me.) Then again, what if no one answers my knock at the door, or I'm met by a surly French-speaking maid?

Maybe I should do it on "Larry King Live", and request GSK send someone to sit in on the program, so I can pass it on there. But what if GSK declines my proxied invitation?

It's getting late, and I'm running out of ideas. Final one for now: I return to GSK's U.S. headquarters in Philadelphia ... I give it back to the company during another protest ... the GSK Protest. Perhaps an employee would be kind enough to take it inside for me.

"It will be remembered as one of the greatest public relations disasters of all time ... as well as one of the greatest achievements of a single individual seeking justice against one of the most powerful corporations in the world...."
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Old 08-24-2006, 06:43 AM   #9
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Great Rob, you are great with the English Language. You made me laugh and also mad at what these money sucking people have done. GSK read and heed! You are murders of young children, how can you stand to continue with your lies.
Thank you Rob for posting and telling us the news.
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Old 08-24-2006, 09:16 AM   #10
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Great Rob, you are great with the English Language. You made me laugh and also mad at what these money sucking people have done. GSK read and heed! You are murders of young children, how can you stand to continue with your lies.
Thank you Rob for posting and telling us the news.
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Could you translate eillenn...I sense he told us something here but not sure what he told us..
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Old 08-24-2006, 09:44 AM   #11
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roflmao... this is driving you crazy eh Homer? I went through this when Rob was putting up his site... well worth the wait.

Bottom line, he is busting with info that will blow GSK out of the water, and we will only get these tid bids until it comes out in the open. My thought on this is it will happen once paxilprotest is back up... but only a guess.
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Old 08-24-2006, 09:59 AM   #12
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I sent you a PM Homer, if you didn't get it let us know, there seems to be something wrong with PM . I just got another PM in my email, but nothing there.
I love Rob's Posts, in plain English I think GSK needs a good kick in the a**
I'll be glad to get off Paxil, before they are out of business.
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Old 12-09-2006, 09:34 AM   #13
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http://www.paxilcr.com/Paxil_CR_vs_Paxil.jsp
http://www.paxilcr.com/Video

I couldn't sleep tonight trying to figure out that technical pattern. I have really no chemical or technical knowledges.
BUT: if SSRI blocks serotonine to be reabsorbed from the cell, how can the same cell release serotonine if it is blocked???? If the cell is blocked to reabsorbe she might be blocked to release too, no?
I know it is complicate...

But notice the sequence:
1) normally: is it all in an affimative language
2) depression: they start the "propably" and "perhaps" language
3) how Paxil CR works: it is a "we suppose" language

Is that science???? Do they just believe in what they say?
Do they just know what they think they know?

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Old 12-09-2006, 10:08 AM   #14
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Re: Paxil Protest victories continued without precedent

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Old 12-09-2006, 10:08 AM   #15
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In my "I've forgot and before I quickly forget it again let me write it up", I am wondering:

isn't perhaps withdrawal hell due to a reversibelity (?my english..) PROBLEM? Did they check out this issue while testing the drug. Personally I guess the ZAPS&co are due to a not perfectly reversible process on the SSRI blocked (corrupted?damaged?) nerve cells.
I wonder if SSRI cells attacks ain't perhaps lifetime consequences.

I am not sure SSRI behave is reversible
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There are some real success stories in here. It will go away.
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Old 12-09-2006, 01:22 PM   #17
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The original poster does not (unfortunately!) frequent this site anymore, so don't expect a response from Rob.
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Old 12-09-2006, 06:38 PM   #18
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katesmom, I sincerely could not imagine or know Rob is not posting here anymore.
I am sorry if I made a "blunder"...
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No blunder! There's no way that you would know that the original poster is no longer here. We just try to let people know so they are not waiting for a response.
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Old 12-09-2006, 09:39 PM   #20
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what the heck happened to rob?
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Old 12-09-2006, 10:00 PM   #21
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Ok Scotti, however, I think I have still a lot of threads and posts to read, and huge to learn.

Scott, I took a look at the rob's paxilprotest site (so I guess) but it is not working (blank).

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The protest site has been down for a while now.
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i wonder if he changed his mind about post #8 in this thread... i hope not
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Old 12-11-2006, 12:51 AM   #24
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What DID happen to him? Anyone have info?
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laurie said she talks to him and he's fine but she doesn't know any specifics
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