Generic Opana-people Speak Up (Page 5)

They are saying that the new opana works as well as the old. There are so many peoples statements that I have read saying the new don't work as well but yet Endo states their research don't prove that. All people who have a real medical problem that causes pain and takes new opana and it doesn' work as well as the old needs to speak up. One person can't change anything. People who are being treated awful by medical doctors and pain clinics because they have pain also need to speak up.

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The generic is way better my pharmacy had to order it ....but the brand sucks if u can get the generic go for it....

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I broke my back at the age of 4. Have herniated disc at l5 s4. Prior to my fusion surgery I was on opana er 20mg twice a day. I found no pain relief whatsoever until one day the pharmacy filled the generic oxymorphone er 20mg. Since then it was like day and night. I was able to function. The pain was still there, but it was managable. My spinal fusion was in may, and since then i have been begging to be put back on the oxymorphone. First they put me on dilaudid 4mg with opana er 20mg. The dilaudid worked for breakthrough pain, but I was still in a lot of pain. Then I was switched to fentanyl 25mg patch and percocet 10mg 6 times a day for breakthrough still no relief. Then exalgo er 12mg and percocet 10mg 4 times a day for breakthrough. I had so many side effects from the exalgo including join pain extreme depression and sweating as if I was going through withdrawal. I finally got back on what works for me. Oxymorphone er 20mg twice a day and 10mg percocet for breakthrough pain, but I am having some issues with the pharmacy and Dr office with medicaid approval and pre authorization even though I was on the medication for over 6 months. I asked my pain management dr once why I got relief from the generic yet not the name brand and he explained that they aren't the same and my body may metabolize them differently. I know first hand the generic works for me and the name brand does nothing.

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Totally agree! I suffer with horrible chronic pain - the old generic worked. Then this plastic pill that i pass in my stool? And the FDA is letting them sell this joke?

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Yes passing the plastic through the stool freaked me out, considering I have chronic constipation from the years I've been on opiates. Sometimes I go once every 2 weeks even though I am on several medications to combat that. The thought of 2 weeks worth of plastic coating inside of me for so long scared the mess out of me. I know some of you are like 2 weeks? !!! When your GI tract muscles are not moving the waste the only side effect for me was bloating. It seems like they are creating more dangerous medications to combat the potential abuse of certain medications. Which is more dangerous? The potential for abuse or the measures they are taking to prevent abuse?

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It's amazing how long I've been disabled and in chronic pain.I take opana,40mg.ERs,and they seem to help,BUT even with this pill I'm still in pain.When I get up and that could be any time,because my life and bed time is so messed up I never know if or when I will sleep.Needless to say,I have to take my pill right out of bed and lay on my couch for at least an hour before it feels good enough to move.
I been dealing with pain for so long,I'm really frustrated just trying to deal with my daily life.I really think the Opana doesn't do as good as they used too.I'm at my wits end trying to deal.I live on my couch for the most part,and I have lost almost everything in my life because of this disability/pain and yet most Drs. treat you like a criminal.They should be where I am and I in their cushy lives.
I still get some pain relief but I also have see a Chiropractor every week,and my pain Dr. for trigger points and Epidurals.This is some hell of an existence to live while life passes you by.The least a doctor should do is try to make people like us more comfortable.Most people will never know what you lose and how hard it is to just get through One day,to the next.No one should have to live like this.Time has changed me and my pain levels,but they never go away.I even tried smoking pot,and I can say when your head gets so full of pain,pain,pain,it makes me feel a lot better to get a break away from the boom,boom,boom.
I can say one gOOd thing,my Dr. agrees with me if it makes me feel better,and it does he says do it,,but I wouldn't use it everyday either,just when my head gets full of that pain cycle and I get tired of dealing with it .I'm glad my Dr. get's the point of how I live...I just pray one day I will be pain free,even for one day.I wonder what NORMAL feels like.I do hope doctors read what we write on these pages.Maybe just maybe one of them could feel some compassion for people like us and spread the word.We aren't druggies by choice....

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Take 2-4 over-the-counter 500mg magnesium only pills every night before bed with a glass water. Guaranteed all your constipation concerns will be over! Magnesium puts water into your gut and intestines and thus makes your stool softer. I've been on opiate meds for chronic pain for 4 years and have been regular 1-2 times a day. No diarrhea, no cramps, no accidents and no constipation. Completely harmless. Better than any med!

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Tori, i have ibsd and i take amitiza at times which helps, but i have been getting so many fibro flare ups its been horrible. I am on generic opana 30 made by global but that isnt working so well so i am gonna get bumped up to 40mg of generic opana. I hope it helps and i think with these opiates you take a risk but the pain is so bad what choice do you have. I consume medical Marijuana that helps also....

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Has medicaid stop paying for opanas?

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The new opana DO NOT work as well...I've been on both

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I know exactly how you feel. I have said myself many times, I wonder how it would feel to wake up and have no pain. I have prayed for it every night. God bless, and I hope you get more relief soon.

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If your anywhere near Nashville TN can you please please help me with the name of the clinic or Doctor. I'm about to loose it all do to one person almost killing me in my fieance's car. Please. Thanks Steve

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If you can find another medicine it's the same as the global formulation but much better I was on globals before till I got on a brand that's called actavis I am on 2 15 MGs pills 3 xs a day and they work great for me and that's saying a lot since I have been through 7 surgeries 4 fusions and need 2 more done due to missing a screw at the L5/S1 area and the L3/4 is vertebrae on vertebrae so if you can find this medicine I believe it's is a lot stronger and last much better just a little info for people that need a pain medication and you're still does not work well

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I have been on Opana 40s ER,for more then 10 yrs.and I do run into times when I get break through pain and feel like this med don't work,but I can answer that one just stop taking one or two does and you'll soon see that you go into some nasty withdrawal .So they do work.I never abused my meds and have even been taking the name brand opana which I think was stronger but then again I go by pain relief not what type of buzz I get.I don't get a buzz on my meds and I'm not looking to get a buzz just pain relief.

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If you don't mind me asking, what is your pain due from? I recently had back fusion surgery but looking for better relief than the current medication my Dr is prescribing. Currently taking Percocet 10/325. I've taken the Opana 40mg before and they worked great. How can I go about getting those or an equivalent? Thanks in advance

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Just cause it helps to not have withdrawals doesn't mean they work. They're prescribed for pain not withdrawals and this plastic s*** is horrible. They suck for pain. I took several tablets over a 24 hour period and my transform works better. This company is ripping people off with a placebo. My dr switched me from fentanyl to opana and unfortunately right before the weekend so I have to be in agonizing pain all weekend till I can have my dr change to something else. Thanks a lot endo ripping people off.

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Me to I'm in pain 24/7 and I take opana ER for my pain

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I was on the Opana Er 30 mg & Opana ir for BT pain when they changed the formulation to keep their patent in 2012. To the person who said is it better to be abuse proof/not work or not, the people who abused it found a way around it, so there was a outbreak of HIV, if that doesn't answer that. I have a long history of GI problems, when they abruptly changed they burned from swallowing, all through my entire body. I am still suffering from the damage those plastic ones did to my stomach. I was staying with my son who is in the military in another state when the change occurred, so I couldn't see my Dr immediately. I tried drinking bottles of pepto & anything I could think of, but they felt like fire. I finally read on the internet that Afrin will dissolve it, so I put it in a Afrin bottle & sprayed, even though I am phobic of things in my nose, I was that desperate! I got back to my Dr, flushed those evil pills, & was put on MS Contin, significantly weaker due to the extremely low bioavailibilty of oral morphine, 10-30%. But I was so happy to flush those Opana's, as they did permanent damage. I'm also sick of being in pain, misunderstood by everyone but CPP's, & I totally disagree with the person who feels every day above ground is a good day. WHY? I've lost everything, including my identity, & if you can be happy existing with nothing normal in your life, while being in constant pain & treated like a criminal for it, more power to you. I'm only alive to not hurt my son & his baby girl because she's unnaturally strongly attached to me as a mom figure since I have raised her with her Dad, who works, gets deployed, etc. Meaning I've been with her the most in her life thus far. We were watching Aladin & I asked her what would her 3 wishes be if she found the lamp. She said "The first is that you would not be sick anymore".....I didn't hear the rest I started crying. No longer in pm, I rarely make it out of the bed & she misses me occasionally doing things with her I can't do anymore.

UPDATE: Endo, the original manufacturer of Opana were found to have changed the formulation just to hold onto their patent (I never read it mentioned the original Opana was built around the abuse proof TimeRX that was later put in Oxycontin, so why the change if it was already abuse proof?). So the generics were made for Opana Er, Teva, Sandoz, etc. IN 2016 that was overturned, no more generics, Endo will hold their patent until 2023. For those of you that think the FDA, pharma co, DEA, CDC, might be a little corrupt, you're wrong. They are more corrupt than you could EVER imagine. Public health is of Zero concern, just money. Politicians and FDA are paid by the pharma co & have stock in them.

UPDATE: For those of you sick of being treated like a junkie while you suffer constantly in CP, the new DSM update defines addiction as anyone with a physical dependence. THIS is untrue (Drs actually walked out refused to participate in the updating of the DSM). Addiction is when people around you suffer from your drug taking, not benefit from it, as in the case of CPP's. Why would they do this? (Notice the media lying about the CDC stats on OD's, 6,000 people per year die of opiate RELATED deaths, suicides included. Polydrug use cannot be attributed to one drug, opiates. 500,000 plus Americans suffer from true CP, WHERE IS THE REAL EPIDEMIC? Most are under medicated, or not at all. The reason the definition was changed for addiction to include anyone taking opiates...the woman in charge of the updating of the DSM, which is the Drs Bible & INSURANCE bible, works for a pharma co developing......A NEW ADDICTION DRUG! The media, etc...,get ready for the future which is in TREATMENT OF ADDICTION...and that includes CPP's. My friend with MS killed herself last Christmas Day, look for more of the same in the future, things will get worse in the future & no speaking out or advocacy can change anything, the politicians, FDA, DEA etc etc are ALL in the pockets of Big Pharma. Peace, J

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Yes I have been on opana for years and I had it from beginning (before deterrent formula) and I will speak out because one, I have massive, constant pain and two, the generic formula certainly DOES WORK BETTER than the new opana. They don't need research that doesn't prove that it didn't change. They need people like me to say NO it doesn't work the same. I should know when they changed the formula I started having more pain. I wondered why this medicine wasn't working anymore. I contacted Endo. Yep went to there site and asked them what did they do to the medicine I once had great results from? Nothing was ever done I believe just a message thanks for contacting Endo. Look I'm in pain. It's bad enough you have the abusers out there messing up the Pain patients as it is but to have to be cut down and the medicine not work is ridiculous. Furthermore since I got cut down due to fed guidelines NOT abuse! I have been on generic opana and even tho it's 15mg as opposed to 20mg yes the generic does work better. Point blank so if you ask me they messed up a perfectly great medicine. I do understand that they are people abusing this drug so they have to go with a deterrent but the way the new opana is is like taking a plastic pill that has you second guessing if you took your meds today or not. Now I have to go off of Opana cause of all the problems. Opana was a wonderful drug and now I have to go to a different drug per doctors order. I mean the new opana just needs to be reformulated but why bash the generic? I mean they work well. Nobody wants to deal with this stuff when they're in pain like me. Now I pray what I was prescribed works as well as opana because this is after all my well being and I take my meds legitimately.

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You are so right. Living this way is hell enough and the opanas weren't working as well for me either. The minute my eyes opened in the am I would take my opana. Don't be surprised if they don't give you the generics anymore because my doctor told me he can't give it to me anymore. I was on brand name and generic. Generic for two months now it's MS CONTIN I pray I get relief. I'm tired of having to explain my pain. I am not a junkie!!!! I didn't chose this life who would? At least as a junkie you probably feel good off what you do. Damn with my pain my meds barely work. I will never have anyone treat me like I am a junkie. I'll leave my Pain doctor if I was treated like that. He is cool and he understands and let me tell you GOD BLESS MY DOCTOR I don't just need pills I get epiderals and cortisone shots to plus procedures and coming soon fusions. If I can't take the pain now I doubt I'll go thru a fusion. There taking everything from us and yes it's about money because why should they care that the generic opana helps people if it wasn't about money. I'm so pissed about all of this. Your post made me want to reply. God be with you and I feel the same.

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Why make such a low dose ER? Makes NO sense at all!!!!

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Wanted to share with everyone how happy I am to have finally received the new generic Opana ER 20mg tablets from my phar...

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Has anyone been on the generic Opana ER that is being made by Global/Impax Pharmaceuticals long enough to give an honest...

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