No point from me. It would be impossible to seperate anything likely
caused by Avandia from my genetic inheritance.

In anycase, I only took it for a month until I confirmed it was a likely
cause for a problem that turned up.

why would you sue the makers of Avandia?
swelling in the legs is a STATED side effect that the Dr's are supposed
to look for, and change the med if this starts

sounds like you want to sue your Dr if you want to sue anyone

why didn't YOU look up the information on Avandia..... you have internet
access, and the information is freely available

What kind of bad leg problems did you have with Avandia?  Was it
edema, or swelling, or was it something else?

Morris

in a class action law suit, what do you think you would actually get?
besides a headache and a waste of time.

Although I feel that most lawsuits would not happen if common sense was
used, there are some that cause problems to be fix that would other wise
would cause more people problems. The two I can think of is the famous hot
coffee and the 3 wheeler atv suites.
 In the case of the coffee, common sense would say to treat hot items as if
they can burn you. Now I don't know for sure, but I believe the main cause
was the type of cup the coffee was served in collapsed caused by the coffee
being to hot for the container. Hopefully the case caused servers of coffee
to use better cups and not to over heat the coffee.
 The 3 wheeler showed that using common sense, parents should not let their
kids play with unstable high powered "toys". Today there are no 3 wheel atvs
sold in the US. Some people would like to do the same thing with the 4 wheel
atvs. The blame lies not with the atv but with the riders. In my area, there
are several kids who ride atvs at a high speed up and down the roads, they
have been lucky so far.
 Onward with my case. Would I sue my doctor for not knowing that the
avandia could case sever leg problems? No - the effects as stated was that
it could cause some swelling. Did I have sometimes have a little swelling,
yes. But my legs went to the point where blisters formed, where the skin
broke open with the smallest touch, became hot to the touch and so sore that
I could not walk. Because of the leg problem, I ended up in the hospital
several times, went thru many IV treatments, cat scans, and other test as
the doctors where trying to find the problem and a treatment. Not just 1
doctor, but I saw at least 10. All knew the drugs I was taking and none
suggested that it was caused by the avandia or anything else I was taking.
  It was only after looking up leg problems on the net that I suggested
trying predisone to my doctor. He agreed that everything else had been tried
and that predisone may offer some relief for the problem. So I spent the
next couple of years taking predisone every time the soreness started coming
to my legs. This happened at least 3 to 4 times a year. This cause problems
with my readings going over 200 and having some problems with my eyes. This
also affected my time at work, I would have to go home after a few hours
because of the affects. So every 3 to 4 months, I would be mostly gone from
work to handle the side effects of the medicine.
 At the end of 06, I switched to Byetta and since then I have not had any
leg problems. Still can not walk very far and still have a little limp, but
nothing like before.
 So should the company that made avandis pay for my problems? If they had
tested the drug a little more maybe it would not have cause my problems and
others that have had heart problems. Maybe if they had better warnings of
possible side effects the doctors would have changed my drugs sooner. It is
sad, but with our current companies and government processes, things are not
changed until it affects their bottom line($$$) and outside pressure makes
them change. And it normally takes a group of  complainers before someone
really looks into the problem.

So maybe my question was foolish and I shouldn't have asked if there was
anyone else out there looking into the lawsuits, but this a group for
diabetes and the drug is for diabetes. Most of the cases look like they are
centered around the heart problems, and being that I can only look at the
lawers web sites, that maybe there was one that someone else had researched
and found to be a good lawer to work with.