2012 Oxycodone 30mg Shortage In Florida (Page 50) (Top voted first)

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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Here's what's really going on, Winn-Dixie stores carry both the oxycodone 15's and 30's, however they only get a certain amount so they have now started to refuse people who aren't already on their patient list because they don't have enough for everyone. I went to the Medicine Shoppe and she was negotiating a price of either 4 or 5 dollars a piece finally settling on 5 dollars a piece, and she cut my script in half. I am prescribed 150 30s every month and she only had enough to give me 100 so my prescription cost me 500. Its almost the price of buying them on the street!! It should be illegal what they're charging people who don't have insurance!! I don't sell my meds, I have 2 fractures and 4 bulging discs in my mid back and neck area so I really need my medicine! My husband gets his filled, I wont say where, but he gets 180 15's...he only pays 110.00 for his entire script. I tried getting in there but again was told they only have a certain amount so therefore they cant bring on any news patients. Alot of pharmacie's are going to start doing this so if you werent " grand-fathered" in in time then youre going to have an extremely hard time getting them filled. I have 3 seperate ones I try each month and one of them always has it for me, its just the price they charge me is just incredible...my SSI check barely covers my meds let alone all the bills I have to pay. I'm just so mad at how they treat you and how they can get away from price gouging people for those meds. They need to be reported!!!

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NEWS FLASH:WALGREENS: If you have been on oxycodone for a long time, they will NOT fill, thats the new rules from the DEA. In in NJ, They say go on something else or get your problem fixed!!!!! I would be more worried about the NEW patients!!!!!!!

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that's true, if you are in pain, you don't feel euphoria or get high from painkillers. I wish more people would realize this,, also, i am getting gouged every month because even tho i;ve had no problem filling up until 2012 at cvs,, I tried mail order but they sent back saying i don't have insurance, ( i wrote the member # group # of my florida discount card in the place of insurance card, like most places would do,) my question for anybody,, isn't it unconstitutional or discrimination if they don't fill for people without insurance? thanks

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You need 150mg of oxycodone a day for full bulging discs? That's more medicine than my uncle was prescribed before he died of bone cancer. No wonder you can't get it filed. No one but an oncologist should be prescribing that much pain medicine. Sounds like you and your husband have a serious problem.

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@ academicpaindoctor: finally, someone who knows their stuff! That's exactly what I've learned recently as well. Pharmacists are constantly judging patients based on their dosage and actually telling them they don't need that much, when in fact they haven't been trained in diagnoses and don't know things like this.

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Yes, it is illegal for any online pharmacy to fill any kind of narcotic medication, especially the controlled II pain meds. Unfortunately, oxycodone is being slowly done away with. It's more than evident with all the so-called shortages, pharmacies wanting cash money, and insurance companies no longer helping to pay for them There has been so many major isues with oxycodone in particular; crime, addiction issues, robberies, and even homicide and suicide surrounding the use of this drug. While ppl may not want to accept that this is happening it is, indeed. I was on oxycodone 30 mg for over 3 yrs, I also lived in Pinellas County and had the same issues in trying to obtain my prescription for oxycodone way back starting in late 2011. I moved to North Florida to a small town and none of the pharmacies here carry it all anymore. It's unfortunate as many ppl very much need a strong pain killer for major problems. For others who don't have severe pain issues and maybe have become dependent on oxy's should maybe consider being taken off this drug or just stopping it altogether which is what I had to do bc of not being able to obtain them anymore. It wasn't pleasant but I did it and have been off of them for almost a year now. It was well worth what I went through to get off of them so as to not have to go through what everyone on here is going through.

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I live with severe chronic pain for 3+ years, degenerative disc disease, cervical spine. Life is at times and quite often, hell. I don't know how else to describe it and the worst if the constipation from the percocets.
Are the fentayl patches a reasonable alternative to percocets? Do they cause constipation? Should my doctor consider prescribing me patches to try ?
Cannabis by the way has helped me reduce my opioid intake my 75%. Do a search for beyondthc.com and find out the facts.
Unfortunately my pain is more severe and so a combination has helped me do this major reduction however the constipation is still a problem. Help!

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Spell check nightmare! Family member can fill roxycodone with NO problem @ any of the pharmacy chains up there.

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Brim- well said...a dude knows less than my dog about chronic pain, who should write the meds, etc. Hey moron(dude) in case you didn't know, a pain clinic/dr looks over mri's and has to be qualified to treat pain by taking several courses beyond a regular md doctor for pain management. Oncologist are strictly cancer doctors and there not going to see different people as they are busy enough dealing within their "scope" of care...just as pain doctors seek to help on individual basis for different conditions that apply for that patient. MORON

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Amen Iblixa, most of the time, morons that know the least, speak their stupidity the most. I'm positive all pain mgt drs are anesthesiologists. They have much more education. I know that's why my family member w/ stage 4 cancer was sent to pain mgt by the oncologist. You're right, the oncologist is focused on the treatment, & PM Dr is focused on controlling pain in patients. This is the course of how system operates. regular MD's don't want to prescribe narcotics on a regular basis. I know pain mgt requires an MRI before they will prescribe any pain med. All this BS this moron speaks of, shows he knows nothing. I'm trying not to let people like that get under my skin. I'm sick of not only living on chronic pain, but also having to defend myself. MRI's don't lie, they show everything. So go harass another group and stop posting your negative BS.

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Where was this pharmacy? Perhaps I can get them? But this was posted last year and 2013 It seems impossible to get the 30's now. The DEA shut down Walgreens from selling them for 2 years. And the 80 million fine. Now no other pharmacy want's to deal with them anymore, for fear they will be attacked by the DEA.

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No pharmacy will dispense 30 mg roxycodone anymore. A family member w/ stage 4 cancer is dispensed 2-15mg every 4-6hrs & not in this state. That's reality. We can thank certain agencies, & loose pain mgt drs for true CPP not able to seek this medication in this strength. It sickens me someone is able to get them thru mail order, along with a long acting med. They also do bad stuff to boot. Then we wonder why legit people can't access med. It's over, too many kids addicted & dying BC of it.

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I am really surprized he is still getting oxys -but walgrens is thew worse to go to now days,they had the one in pasco shut down from handing out any pain meds now-I dont understand the DEA will allow pill mills to stay open an write scripts for 240pills of one type an 60 of 3 others an thats what pharmacies are in Business for I thought was to fill your scripts,But the State of florida is the only State that allows pill Mills an you Don't have to be referred by no primary Doctor which should also be a Direct single for someone walking in an paying 350 to 500 to get alot of scripts,I feel your Husbands pain believe me,I know what real pain is 24/7 all week long,an they would still be filling everyones pain meds if it wasn't for people who have no pain an not a thing wrong with them going to a pill mill an making them Rich to get Drugs to get High with oe Sale so there lazy ass Dont have to work for a living,they make more then a couple who works all month in one week from selling them,it would be good if the DEA wasn't taking a pay off to let them stay open an making 40 to 70.000 a month just to hand anyone who comes into there office scripts to sale or Take it Don't matter to them either way what you do with them as long as you pay there fee each month,people come from every State to florida to get scripts from the pill mills an then people in severe chronic pain have to suffer cause of all the junkies the pill mills got started on Heavy duty Pills that they give Cancer People an not even a cancer person gets as many pills as the pill mills give to you.until the DEA stops taking the payoffs from them an they close them Down then its going to get rougher an rougher an soon the only people that will be getting pain meds is the ones in the hospital because the So called Sunshine State allowed the RifT RAFT to come in an Destroy the entire state,there is alot of us who has real pain while others just do it to get high an sale an soon it will make everyone have to leave this state to get rid of pain because of pill mills ruining it for all of the chronic people

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I AGREE. HES TALKEN S***. THEIR AFFRAID OF LOOSEN LICENSES. ITS NOT ALL THE DEA MOSTLY THE PHARMACY. EVERY ONE NEEDS TO COMPLETELY STOP GOING,I GOT CRUSHED BY A CAR. I CAN NOT MOVE WITH OUT MINE

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@jvk-right on-just as I tell people but they think I am crazy-

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who do you think is controlling the pharmacies from filling alot of scripts-the DEA-they Had Walgrens licenses taken for handing out so many an even took them to court-they cannot fill no pain meds now-thanks to pill mills writting 240 oxycodonesto a 18 yr old an up,they dont care who they write them for as long as you pay them 125.00 to 250.00 each month an make them rich they could care less rather you need them or not,the main thing is your making them rich for giving you 4 scripts -as I said if you dont have Cancer-or anything else wrong with you at all you shouldn't be allowed to get these pain meds,but no one sees my point an what its cost everyone who takes them because of chronic pain each day,there are hundreds of people who there is nothing wrong with at all who are getting these pills just to sale on the street-just like a sheriff buddy of mine told me he went on a call an a 2yr old had oxycodone powder all over his lips,his 21yr old mother an 22yr old father both had 240 oxys in a bottle an they tested both of them an neither had pills in there system cause they get them to sale,why work when you can go to a pill mill pay them to write you scripts an you take them an sale them on the street an make more then 4 people do working from them an causing the people who really need them to suffer an it is all the DEA fought for allowing them to remain open an then turn around an check pharmacies to see how many there giving out an closing them down for giving out what a doctor wrote to you,so they will close a pharmacy an leave the pill mills open,only reason that can be is because there being Paid off

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I was going to small pharmacy for a yr now. The 1 pharmacist was filling my 1 RX for opana. I go last WK, pharmacist no longer there. I hand my RX to another 1, hands KT right back, we don't have it, don't know if or when either. Went without for 10 days. Turned away like an animal. I felt so horrible, I'm not a young spring chicken anymore. The same thing happened a yr ago. I stopped at another small pharmacy that day. This pos pharmacist took RX, I sat there for almost an hr. Tells me " I need mri or letter from Dr about your pain". I said fine. I was burning inside. He then tells me " your I insurance is garbage, & it will COST me $50-100 to fill this RX, I can't help you BC it doesn't pay for me to help you"! I wanted to spat in his face. My insurance pays over $500 for med in addition to the $150 copay it costs every month. It makes me sick, that my life is played with time & time again. He tells me go to a "chain" BC they don't care about the fact that you're a losing proposition. Really??? I found them 10 days later somewhere else. I was told they'll try to stock for me. It's bad enough I can't access the Roxycodone anymore. I vomited everyday for first 5 days back on opana. They make me severely nauseated. I have go to thru hell to get the RX filled, pay thru the nose, get sick as a dog from the med. I'm so tired of the sick game, the suffering. I'm seriously considering weaning off med BC I'd rather suffer than live life like this. It's so wrong. I'm put thru hell to get some pain relief. I'm still adjusting & haven't been right in weeks now. All while I know other's are doing terrible things with their medications. They have no problems filling them thru mail order, living off the system & getting them for free. Other's go far away from where they live, see a quack & fill their meds with no problems. Where's the fairness & justice for us? Where's the d e a for these horrible people? I'm tired of it. I'm tired of playing by the rules & getting screwed. It's a disgrace. it makes me crazy mad some think this is a game. This is a last resort, not to be taken lightly or to ever think of doing things with these strong meds that people should be put in jail for the rest of their lives for not doing the right thing. If I ever knew anyone was taking or anything other than what's prescribed to that person, they deserve to rot in jail forever. Thanks to this state, the pill mills & the junkies, the real CPP will continue to suffer BC of them all. I'm close to living in agony. I think it would be more humane than living like a puppet. Living in constant fear everyday that sooner or later, the rug will be pulled out once again. I'm tired of living on the edge. I'm tired of fighting for a right I'm denied. I feel like I aged 10 yrs with this last round of no one can help. When you live in constant pain, & then add the mental anguish on top of that, only those who live in severe pain can understand how I feel mentally, physically, emotionally & spiritually. God bless those who understand me. To the abusers & junkies, I hope they're dealt with as they should be, in jail or rehab.

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I'm in a time warp, It was several wks ago, BC I was without med for 10 days. I also asked the person who worked in pharmacy what happened to pharmacist.. he was fired! I bet he was fired BC he helped only a few patients every month. We had developed a trusting relationship over the last year. A good person who helped a handful of people. I look @ pharmacists a little differently now. There are some who want to help us. They're losing their jobs in doing so. They're also being punished along with most of us. This last nightmare taught me that lesson.

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@Lawlady-what i would Like to know Miss Mouth of the South-for one you say you Treat addicts so why the hell you on this page anyhow-you are not taking them or treating your so called addicts with them right,but you seem to think you know it all-it seems to me your Here for one reason is to find out where people can get there meds so you know where to go get yours,Cause if you say you treat addicts that is on pills then why are you even on Here,an I am sure I know more then you will ever Know-if you think that most people are 30yrs old has you said an like no 18 to 25yr olds have no problem with taking all these meds then you need to be seeking Metal Help Lady-I never ask you to read my messages an answer me back-because I could care Less what you think an really if your treating addicts B you have no Business on Here at all-this site is for people in chronic pain trying to get meds an then we get people like you coming on Here trying to say people younger then 30 Don't Take them-the Bulk is 30yr olds you say,well your the only personj on this Site that thinks that I know that cause everyone knows there are 18yr olds an up that are hooked on the pills or sales the pills,Period

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@941btown-maybe your just like lawlady who thinks they know it all. Moving furniture you say has nothing to do with it,But if you weren't so F Stupid you would read what I wrote that all the Kids that were 19 to 25 that worked for me moving furniture every single one of them were on Oxys or whatever they could get there hands on,maybe you an lawlady need to get together because it seems both of you know nothing

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