2012 Oxycodone 30mg Shortage In Florida (Page 24)
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My spouse, who is in severe, chronic pain, has been a customer of Walgreens for many years. We live in Pinellas County, Florida. Everyday this week we have driven from Walgreen's to Walgreen's trying to fill his prescription for Roxicodone 30mg, to no avail. I cannot get any help from his regular pharmacy. I know that it's dangerous for them to tell a total stranger which store has them in stock, but I don't understand since they know him, why they can't call around or give us any assistance. I am at a total loss as to what to do & would appreciate any information that you could provide. It is so hard to see him in so much pain. Thank you.

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i love your last part of your letter! Im there with you!

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Well I get the generic 5 mg every month an its oxymorphone,you should try to ask your pharmacist to get the generics,the are no generic extended release that are out yet but the I.r,s have been out but there expensive to like $328 bucks but I pay 10$ with my insurance... good luck these will be next that pharmacist will say no to there like the strongest s*** out .. peace...

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Life is so good now. a friend came by and gave me 2 roxy 30mg ir for very good price. first ones since july. its just amazing that one of these 30mg decreased my pain to very tolerable, wanting to go out, do stuff...enjoy some quality of life. and these work for me along with millions of others for pain. i just wish i didnt have to feel like a criminal and worrying about getting these. its sux that today ill feel little pain but unfortunatly cant buy any more so will just have to hang in there until my ssi hearing when i can get medicaid and move from this horrible county in fla, indian river is almost all old retirees and hate on younger people(im 40) but this is young here and all doctors stick together and refuse to write meds anymore so pathetic and what a difference it makes being able to do stuff without pain. man i wish someohow things change soon. for those who do have their meds...enjoy and hope it continues as since 2000 i never had any trouble until june this 2012 year. and things are so bad now it is hard to even find a doctor to write them.
if i had better insurance i wouldnt care as much but this is another reason i like the 30mg ir oxycodone. instead of say what the dr wrote last month for 30mg oxycontin which i couldnt even get filled. i just dont see if he will write me 30mg oxycontin and the pharmacy has 30mg oxycodone ir tabs and much cheaper than the oxycontin as generic, both are same meds, one time released one immediate...and they have plenty of the 30mg ir and will fill. much cheaper too 1.75 per pill. i really hope this doctor will increase my 10/325 percocet(since they couldnt get the oxycontin or morphine filled) he gave me 120 10/325 percocet which i need 3 before noon jjust to get up and move around and not be in pain. with 1 left for the day. i just took 1 of the roxy 30mg ir i used to get and i feel like mike tyson with not much pain proper medicated...i hope things change

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unfortunatly my doctor in vero was shut down and all his patients are labeled bad as no doctor will see any patients that went ther...none...so im 1 county over and my old pharmasist said fine hell fill 1 county over but this doctor only took me through my attorneys referral. he said the first day no roxies no dilaudid. i just dont understand when those 2 work well for me for the past 10 years never abused or early. the military is a entire seperate issue and being handled but like my disability it will take time to win all these hearings and i am in this loophold at the mercy of cash and minumal insurance as most deny me when they see my injuries.

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@ dan, I feel so bad you're going thru this. I don't know why he won't give you opana. When I couldn't fill roxycodone anymore, my Dr gave.me a choice between morphine, dilaudid and opana. I've read the 8 mg dilaudid is equal to 1 10 mg opana which is equal to 20 mg of.roxycodone. the only problem with opana is w/ o insurance,they billed my insurance 235, and my copay? was 97, for 150- 10 mg opana.ir. can't he switch you to dilaudid 8 mg until you get insurance? You deserve to get some.relief, and I'll pray u do. Youre a veteran fought.for this country and this is how you're treated. Get into.VA.system, and you can.get.a pension.for ptsd. My hubby fought for it ( he's a vietnam.vet) and.is now 100% service connected disabled. Good luck and God bless

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I'm not a dude but the info I got from internet says opana is part oxycodone and a distant cousin to morphine. Its not part morphine though. It's sad how I've visited countless, websites and not 1 lists the ingredients of.opana. only that it's a very strong drug. I will ask Dr tomorrow exactly what is the other ingredient besides oxycodone. I only assumed it was hydromorphone bc the generic is oxymorphone, not oxymorphine. Peace.

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DO you have name of mail order pharmacy?

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There is an article posted on the web Sept 29, 2012 that the DEA said there is no shortage for oxycodone. I have attached the link. What we need to do is find a caring pharmacist that is or has a family member in chronic pain and knows what CPP go through. I hope I posted the link correctly:

articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-09-29/news/os-oxycodone-shortage-dea-florida-20120929_1_oxycodone-cvs-prescriptions

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this is bullcrap...the doctor i saved money to go see(i was a patient with stuart pain-shut down in june) and have been shot and spine/jaw replaced with metal. 24/7 pain and legit. so he says right away sorry i dont write roxicodone anymore. i said ok how about hydromorphone...this med works well for me to.
nope. he asked if i wanted percocet(same as a fckin roxicodone without the dam tylenol) or oxycontin(time release) or methadone or morphine.
since i have minumal insurance until medicaid kicks in i chose the oxycontin and cvs wouldnt fill 30mg as they said too high of a strength-please with all my pain and 12 years of using roxies and oxycontin-old formula works well for me. the methadone does nothing for pain...may help with withdrawl but nothin to help pain so i had no choice but to get these bullsht 10/325 percocet which i need 3 in the am to get started with my day and im good till noon when i have 1 pill left to last till next morning.
i cant keep saving money and switching doctors as this takes a month first to save up then have to go through this all over again. since i was a patient at the clinic that was shut down, noone will help me even as legit as me. i dunno what to do or say when i see him tomorrow except the truth. weed is something i really dont like to do for many reasons but waking up to a gunshot to the face from some iraqui staring at me with a 9mm and needless to say i cant sleep and have flashbacks. im going to tell him your not medicating me properly and controlling my pain so what am i suppose to do except goto the street to buy illegal drugs you wont write to help me. this is 3rd visit and will just tell him straight up and plz help control my pain and maybe he will give me something stronger than percocet or i guess ill be searching for another new doctor again for next month and hope he will write me roxies or at least dilaudid. this doesnt make any sense to have people suffer when these fckin kids get their rx filled or wherever they get it from and sell them 30 dollars for 30mg or higher. why doesnt dea arrest these people and let us real hurting people get the meds we need. now they closed a huge distribuion center in jupiter florida giving all the roxies statewide so now there priced higher and in shortage.
i hope all the dea has a family member or them get shot in their face and spine and live in 24/7 chronic pain and to have to go from 320mg of roxicodone a day to 4 10/325 percocet a day and live in my world for a day.
THANX JUNKIES AND DEA AND GOVERNOR AND PAM BONDI. if i ever decide lifes become too enbearable i wont be going out alone this i can tell you, these people are making our lives hell.

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I had my doc switch me from Oxy to Hydromorphone because I had a script since May that I could not get filled. Took me four days to find a pharmacy in Orlando that had Dilaudid. Up until May I had been getting my Oxycodone filed at Walgreens in Ocoee for 2 years with no problems and then the pharmacist told me they wouldn't be getting them in anymore period.

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I dont really care what Opana is made out of,I do know this it doesn't work as well as oxycotin 80mg that I been on for 5yrs,an watch soon cause they leave these GD pill mills open they will not be able to fill none of them either for no one or nothing else-Until these Idiots who call there self DEA an Goverment workers in this State close Down all these side road get rich fast places who dont do nothing but give pills out an dont Do shots or nothing else cause there to retarded to for one thing,you have to have a brain to be able to read MRI's an offer other types of treatments to people then to just start them on 240 30mg oxycodones-60 40mg oxycotins-60 350mg somas-an 30 10mg valium to everyone that enters there office if you have 500.00 up front to pay them an 350.00 to get a MRI they dont care how old you are they just are there for your Money not your health,They Could care less about what or whats not wrong with you,There is not no young kid that should be taking no 8 oxycodones a day,thats what they give to Cancer paients,not young kids who havent worked a day in there life,they shouldnt be allowed to take young people in there office unless they were referred by a regular primary Doctor,You Dont see No other of the 52 states allowing pill mills ,Only the State of Florida,So that tells me that the DEA an Goverment of this State are the dumbest Idiots alive,And I am sure there getting paid off at the DEA agents office to the guys they send to the clinics an tell them to pay them or they will shut them Down,Cause its all about Money in this World,They Dont care about no one but them self,there Mother could be on oxycotins for severe pain an they would watch her suffer,Thats how stupid they are in this State,they should Hire people who have a brain instead of Hiring People who take brives from pill mills to stay in business

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@ my aim is truth,I just want to say whoever does your surgery make sure there well known an have alot of them under there belt-I would have never let them touch me but I had no choice my back blew out an had to have it done asap or take a chance on going parilized,I had severe stenoises at L4 L5 an they said they removed 2 herniated Disc while he was in there,3 months later both legs were numb on the outsides from hip to my ankle an I had pain shooting down my right leg,I go have another MRI done to see some how I have another Large herniated Disc at the same identical place on the right side of L4L5 so I had it removed again an when I was told to get up 5hrs after I felt something tear in my lower right back an have paid dearly every since,so If you havent tried steriod shots or the radioactive waves they do now you might want to try that before letting them open you up.after they do back surgery your never right again,I am going to have to have a fusion now because of this last surgeon

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Dude go look up the pill hydromorphone is dialaudid and oxymorphone is opana. So how can opana be part dilaudid if its hydromorphone when opana is oxymorphone its converted to morphine,but u saying that an opana is part dilaudid ur sadly mistaken,there's no hydro in opana its oxy

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thats well stated and unfortunatly im right there now too just sick of all the running around looked at like criminals.

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Panic is ABSOLUTELY right...(to the person who claims they have never had a problem filling meds). Get ready for it! I, too, never had a problem until September 2012!! One of the major distributors, Cardinal, lost priveleges to sell and send meds to a huge amount of pharms in Florida. It is just a matter of time. I am getting off of all these meds and going to deal with the pain. Thank goodness I'm having surgery. Anything is better than dealing with driving to 100 pharms for a month, repeatedly. I am a professional trying to live my life and have to take time of work to find my meds?? The days of being able to relieve our pain with the proper medication are over. Hate to say it, but it's true. The only thing that will help is if the DEA backs off....but don't see that happening. Everyone thinks we(ppts) are alllll scumbags(which I know we are not). Sadly, I have been to soooo many pharms this month, they all know me by name and face now. Guess that was one benefit. Crazy!! I am done with this RAT RACE! I would rather live in pain at this point.

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well I will say this,There is no 18 yr old to 25yr old that needs to be taking no 8 to 10 oxycodones a day,on top of all the other things these pill mills prescribe to them,just out of school an haven't worked a day in there life,they are only thinking about the High from them,Until they cannot get them no more then they have pain from not taking them,Thats whats wrong with this f world today,all the young people think there parents owe them a free living an if they dont give them money when they ask them for it,then they will steal it from them an whatever else they can get there hands on to sale an get what they want,it sure is alot worse now then when I was growing up,now kids think there above flipping hamburgers to earn a pay check an be a responsible person an pay there own way,so yea go to drugs an destroy your entire life an be dead from it eating up your liver an causing other problems,I watch these kids run into the pharmacy to get there scripts filled,I am lucky to walk into the pharmacy as it is,then to watch these little junkies who thinks its a big joke to be ripping there life apart when there is not a thing wrong with them an go to these pill mills an get these retired Doctors who cannot read a MRI let alone anything else,just to get there money they will tell them anything,while there sitting back taking your money feeding you 4 or 5 different types of pills each month an your ruining your entire life an you helping them get rich,when you OD they have another stupid idiot to take your place on keeping them in business,Until the Idiots in the DEA office an Goverment close them all down an make everyone go to a regular primary care Doctor an then if he thinks your bad enough he will send you to a real pain clinic who does shots first an dont just give you things to cause you to Die young or help you continue to be a junkie,theres more to life then a High for all you young people taking pills you dont need,Try being a responsible adult an going out an working like the rest of us did that has real severe chronic pain from being in wrecks-falls or working our asses off all our life,This is the only state that will allow pill mills to come here an give kids pills,Wonder why no other State allows it,I know cause they Have DEA an Goverment offices that have People working in them that aren't stupid an care about what happens to kids unlike Florida they could care less if you live or Drop dead they have Proven that when they let the first pill mill open there Door

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Opana(oxymorphone) is a metabolite of oxycodone just like dilaudid(hydromophone) is a metabolite of hydrocodone which basically means is your liver transform one drug into the other just like codeine is transformed into morphine look it up why if most of the pill mills are shut down and we have a computer system to stop dr shoppers is is it harder to get meds cuz the dea are now bullying the pharms robberies and herion addiction will go way up way to go big brother

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I beg to differ with you about opana ingredients. It is part oxycodone and part hydromorphone. (Dilaudid) . I guess
The street names are roxy and dillys? Sorry not familiar with the latter name. Anyway, it doesn't have morphine in them. Fyi.

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Venice fl. E. Venice ave has meds, if they say no there lieing!

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im getting ready to piss full of weed cause the dam dr isnt giving me enough of my pain medicine thank you junkies and dea. im hoping he doesnt throw me out...without weed i cant sleep(medicate me properly no problem) will post wednsday and see how goes.

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