Generic Opana-people Speak Up (Page 2)
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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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Re: Doreen (# 106)

were you seeing a pain doctor or getting it from your PCP? Most PCP's will no longer prescribe narcotics and refer out to pain clinics.

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First night on new. Guess will see if it works. Only ones that worked for me were the original red " stop signs "

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What are you talking about? Don't you know that they have stopped prescribing OPANA in all forms. Generic or name brand. Believe me I was on both of them and both helped better than what I have to take now. There is no sense in making a argument about a drug that's been pulled off the market.

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Re: Dave (# 107)

Be quite. Then u spread it and then it will be taken off the market too.not many pharmacy s carry it.shhhhh

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Re: Psl772 (# 109)

I agree totally. I'm going through a similar situation. I hurt from my neck down to every muscle in my body. My doc scheduled me 5 weeks out, not four, and said to make them stretch. What? I still work 12 hour shifts and my whole body is swelling now from another condition, and pain is horrific. I can't take it.

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Re: Doreen (# 106)

So sorry to hear about what happened to you, but you are right! The honest people that are in true real pain and take their meds as directed are the ones that get punished because some ***** overdoses or is taking them recreationally. I truly hate those people, and I know this is horrible to say but if they OD then they got what they deserved. It's these dumb people that take 18 different medications at the same time or eat 25-30 Opana 10mg at the same time and wonder what happened, how did they OD. In Florida it was bad but it has gotten a little better now. I really hope you found a new doctor or found a way to fix the problem. It's horrible to be treated like trash or a drug addict because of something someone else did. Take care and God bless.

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Everyone who is in need of opana er please sign this petition and share it!! Idk if it will work but I'm willing to do whatever I can to try to get my pain relief back!

thepetitionsite.com/449/906/823/demand-that-endo-pharmaceuticals-keep-opana-er-on-the-market

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Oxymorphone IR 40mg. Are available in generic form! I have been taking it for nearly a year now! I take the Orange 40mg. 3x a day and I take the oxymorphone IR 10mg. generic (pink in color) 4x a day. Have had no issues besides my pharmacist having to order them Wich has never taken more than 24 hrs. (In Florida anyway). So it IS available people. Look it up on your insurance or call them and check if they cover them. Mine are about $80 for the ERs and $10 for the IRs. So don't let your pharmacist tell you that they do not make them! Have been getting them for a year now.

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You want to know how I feel about the people misusing and overdosing on Opana ER? I DON'T CARE!!! Nobody forced it on them. I need it, 20 mg Opana ER and Percocet 7.5/325 mg is all that I was taking. June 6, 2017 my dr stopped ALL of my meds that were required for a failed back syndrome and severe sciatica. All of my other lumbar vertebrae are herniated. I never failed a U/A and never called for an early refill. I'm very bitter and nothing helps this pain.

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I still have not seen anything that cites a reliable source saying generic oxymorphone er (currently, the only manufacturer making this is Impax/Global Pharma) is also being taken off the market. It seems the FDA directed its demands to Endo, specifically. No statements have been issued by Impax indicating an intention to discontinue producing oxymorphone er... Can they keep making it?

Taking this one step further, Actavis had to discontinue making the generic version until 2023 due to patent infringement with Endo. Now that Endo no longer makes opana er, (and assuming generic version can still be sold), can Actavis begin producing generic again?

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I have been taking generic oxymorphone ER 20mg twice daily for only a couple of months now but after years of oxycodone instant has proven ineffective, this was the best option I had and it has worked very well. I can't see how an extended release medication can be abused, but I am very upset that now, since I've finally found a regimen that actually works, it is being taken away. I've tried everything else and nothing else works as well. Is there nothing that can be done? Can we not petition? Oxycontin ER isn't available in a generic and costs me $50 a month even with insurance while Opana ER is available in generic form and only costs me $6 a month. What can we do?

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I agree, until they were taken off the market. Also, yes the best pain relief I have ever had. Now here we go again. They are taking them all off the market. I have been on opana for years. One pain management Doctor the whole time. I for one am sick and tired of being a victim from people who abuse their medication or people who sell their medication. Those of us that REALLY are in chronic pain and suffer drastically are victims, bottom line. I have had my dose raised one time only since taking opana generic at this time. Now there taking it completely off the market - all opana & all oxymorphone. I have no idea what I will be put on, but I do know it surely can't give me the relief I get now, like someone else said. I also get the epidurals and other products along that line. 72 shots to be exact. I've been through physical therapy. I don't get, nor am I looking for a buzz. I just want pain relief. So I do not know a lot about other pain medication. I have taken Vicodin & Percocet after my first surgery. It surprised the surgeon and me that it was cancer, not what I went in for. Not to mention fibromyalgia, degenerative back disease, R. Arthritis. I can go on but won't. So anyone that can give me an idea of what works and what does not, thanks. Very angry all opana/oxymorphone is being pulled from the market.

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I take opana ER for severe pain. I do not abuse it. I am in a pain clinic. I have tried the generic brand and it doesn't work for me if it wasn't for my medication I would not be able to walk. My leg was ripped off in an accident. They reconstructed it. I got to keep my leg and without the opana ER I would not be able to walk. I have been through physical therapy twice for it but it didn't work. I also have severe back problems. It's not right to take it away from people who really need it. It's not our fault they share needles and get aids. Lock them up and teach them a lesson. Don't punish the people that need this medicine.

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I just found out the FDA is taking pans Er off the market!!! People were misusing the new formula, so where does that leave real pain patients that it works for!!! Fentanyl should be removed before anything else!!!

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

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

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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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