Trulicity lawsuits have been filed by a growing number of people who were diagnosed with stomach paralysis, intestinal blockages, small bowel obstruction, and other side effects.
What You Can Do & How We Can Help
The Schmidt Firm, PLLC is currently accepting Trulicity induced injury cases in all 50 states. If you or somebody you know was diagnosed with stomach paralysis (gastroparesis) from Trulicity, you should contact our lawyers immediately for a free case consultation. Please use the form below to contact our Defective Drug Litigation Group or call toll free 24 hours a day at (866) 920-0753.
What is Trulicity?
In recent years, millions of Americans have started using Trulicity®, a once-weekly injection for weight-loss and diabetes. Trulicity (generic: dulaglutide) has been sold in the U.S. since 2014 by Eli Lilly & Co.
What is the Problem?
Trulicity is a medication for type-2 diabetes that has been linked to stomach paralysis and other severe gastrointestinal side effects, such as gastroparesis, small bowel obstructions, ileus, and other problems.
What is Stomach Paralysis?
Trulicity lawsuits are being filed by people who suffered from stomach paralysis, a side effect that occurs when the movement of food slows down through the intestines. The symptoms may include:
- Severe nausea
- Vomiting
- Stomach pain
- Swelling
- Feeling of fullness
- Malnutrition
- Dehydration from excessive vomiting
- Problems controlling blood-sugar levels
- Bloating
- Intestinal blockage
- Weight-loss
- Acid reflux
- Ulcers
- Internal bleeding from intestinal damage
- And other symptoms
Small Bowel Obstructions and Intestinal Obstruction
Small bowl obstructions and intestinal obstruction are very severe, life-threatening complications of stomach paralysis from Trulicity.
Small bowel obstructions can cut off the blood-supply to the intestines (called “ischemia”), which causes tissue death. Bowel obstructions and tissue death in the intestines can result in a bowel perforation (also known as a “hole in the intestines”).
Case Reports Link Trulicity and Small Bowel Obstruction
There have been multiple case reports of patients on Trulicity who developed a small bowel obstruction.
One report described a 52-year-old man who developed symptoms of a small bowel obstruction within 1 week of starting Trulicity. Unfortunately, he needed to have surgery to remove part of his intestines due to severe intestinal damage.
According to researchers, Trulicity was linked to 8 cases of small bowel obstruction in 2017, “with majority of them requiring surgical intervention for the small bowel obstruction. In our patient, it also required a surgical intervention and was life threatening.”
Trulicity Lawsuit
In April 2024, one of the first Trulicity lawsuits was filed by a woman from Iowa who was diagnosed with gastroparesis (“stomach paralysis”) after using Trulicity from May 2021 through January 2022.
Her symptoms included severe and persistent vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, medications to treat diarrhea and vomiting, and multiple emergency room visits, according to the lawsuit.
Lawsuits for GLP-1 Diabetes Medications
Lawsuits for Trulicity have been centralized under one judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
The case is Multi-District Litigation (MDL 2094) — In Re: Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists (GLP-1 RAS) Products Liability Litigation.
What Do Trulicity Lawsuits Claim?
Trulicity is in a class of medications that mimic the action of a gut hormone called GLP-1 (Glucagon-Like Peptide-1). This class also includes medications like Ozempic, Wegovy, Rybelsus, and Mounjaro.
Trulicity lawsuits and other cases in the MDL all involve similar claims regarding the risk of gastrointestinal injuries.
The defendants are all accused of failing to warn patients that Trulicity and other GLP-1 diabetes drugs “cause gastroparesis and other gastrointestinal injuries, whether defendants adequately warned plaintiffs or their prescribing physicians about the alleged dangers of these products, and whether defendants made false, misleading, or incomplete representations regarding the safety of these products.”
Can I Join a Class Action?
The Schmidt Firm, PLLC is nationally recognized as a class action law firm. We are filing individual lawsuits for people who were injured by Trulicity and other GLP-1 diabetes medications, including:
- Stomach paralysis
- Small bowel obstruction
- Intestinal blockages
- Gastroparesis
- Ileus (lack of movement of food through intestines)
- Intestinal pseudo-obstruction
- Bowel perforation (“hole in the intestines”)
- Intestinal damage
- Hospitalization or surgery
- Long-term complications like ostomy bag
- And more
Do I Have a Trulicity Lawsuit?
The Schmidt Firm, PLLC is currently accepting Trulicity induced injury cases in all 50 states. If you or somebody you know was diagnosed with stomach paralysis (gastroparesis) from Trulicity, you should contact our lawyers immediately for a free case consultation. Please use the form below to contact our Defective Drug Litigation Group or call toll free 24 hours a day at (866) 920-0753.
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