Generic Opana-people Speak Up (Page 2) (Top voted first)

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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Actually, if you don't have insurance, some generics still cost almost as much as the brand name drug. Thisis true for opana and oxymorphone. Brand name opana costs around $1600 for 60 pills and the oxymorphone er costs only a few hundred dollars less unless you have insurance!!! You may only have to pay a $5 copay for generics, but your insurance company has to pay around $1300 for the generic oxymorphone er! Same thing if you have insurance for brand name meds. You may have a $120 copay, but your insurance company has to pay $1600 for the brand name opana. That is why some insurance companies won't fill new generic prescriptions. Hope this helps you understand. If you don't believe it, call your pharmacy as say you are paying cash for your generic oxymorphone er and ask how much it costs!!!

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You can be sure that all of the new generics will be stomped out of production or will not be allowed to be made again until gelled and ruined. Do you know that the "New and Improved Crush Resistant Opana" is flammable??? Yes!! Flammable!! Try it. Cut a piece off, hold it with tweezers and put a lighter to it. POOF!!!! No wonder the crap hurts your insides so bad! We ought to all ban together and refuse to buy these gel blobs. As long as people are buying them at those ridiculously high prices they are going to make them. My husband got the new generic in April and he felt so much better!! (food tastes awful on gelled Opana, stomach cramps, horrible constipation, etc etc) I bet he won't get the generic in May because endo is whining about it. They are probably gone before some people even got to try them. These anal doctors aren't going to write the scripts for them either though. They make sure they spell it out completely on mine. Crush resistant blah blah. I don't even want the trash. I am so scared about what these "new and improved rubber opanas" are going to do to people long term. The gel that binds them looks like some kind of carpet glue and being that they're flammable, it just may well be.

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Thank you Person in Pain. I want Chronic Pain patients to wake up and speak up for them self's because 1 person, no one will listen. I have read everything I could find on line about all of this Opana brand, Endo company, FDA, police DEA. Endo is trying very hard to stop the generic from being produce because they have lost millions of dollars and people have lost their jobs at Endo. Those people were hired when they started making so much money from Opana(the orginal). Endo build a special place for the higher ups. It sounds really nice. Endo made a mistake because they didn't take it off the market because it was harmful to people and could be abused. They didn't say that until other companies wanted to produce the generic. Endo didn't want to lose all that money. They had already said yes to companies making the generic 7.5, 10mg IR etc. because they thought they had all strengths of the ER's to themselfs. I have had 17 operations over the year's from being hit by a car. I was in the hospital for 4 months after my accident and couldn't walk on my one leg for 2 years. I will still need more operations. I have a number of medical problems that cause me great pain. I have been given all the pain meds over the years because after you have been on them for a while they quit working. The original Opana before the new ones they switched to last spring was a great help to me. They helped my pain. I could move around better. I didn't sit in pain 24/7. I could work more like a normal person instead of just sitting there in pain. I could play with my grandkids more etc. then the new ones came out. It is awful. Back to having all that pain again. Not being able to play with my grand-kids. Not being able to do any house work. Not sleeping because I laid awake in pain again, etc, etc. The new ones making my stomach hurt,constipation, what little they do help, they don't last very long which makes me think they don't break up in your system very good. etc. FDA goes back to court the end of this month. Everyone needs to let them know the new opana don't work and chronic pain patients should be allowed to have what helps the best so we can have some kind of life. Its fine if we have to have the records to prove we are in pain.

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You write to the FDA. They are the ones who will decide if the generic opana (oxymorphone) will be pulled. Also write to Global the company that makes the generic so they know that their product works better than the glue hard plastic meds so they will fight to be able to keep their product. All CPP need to do this so they know. We all need to do this now. They go back to court the end of May. If you want write to Endo and tell them their plastic meds don't work. Maybe they will try to improve them. Right now they only work 1/3 of the orginal. It's not right they they worry more over the druggies getting their hands on them than the patients that really need them. As a CPP person I have the records to prove what is causing my pain but I still have to sign a contract with my doctor, take drug test, etc. etc. etc. The pharmacy orders my meds just before its time for me to fill it, that way they don't have that kind of pain meds in stock for someone to rob them. There are guide lines in place to proctect everyone. If everyone does their part it should be ok. Yes things can happen an slip through the cracks but that happens in everything we do. Nothing is a 100 percent. You can go online and find everyones address or email or phone number tho I think writing to them is better. Phone calls seem to get lost. If you know someone that is a CPP person, tell them to do this.

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Every CPP needs to go to the FDA web site and read what Endo is trying to push FDA to do. I just read a court paper filed by Endo in April 2013 saying they took the original opana of the market for safety reasons as we all know that isn't true. They are trying to bully the FDA into taking the generic opana (oxymorphone of the market. Telling them they have to if they are concerned about the public. You all need to write to Margaret Hamburg of the FDA. She has listened to people who has lost someone to drug abuse. I am very sorry for those people but we CPP have rights also. They are also trying to push on what meds a doctor can prescribe for our pain and how many. Its not just the opan-oxymorphone but for all the pain meds. Ms. Hamburg hasn't hardly heard from any CPP. Does she care that CPP if they can't control their pain and live some kind of life they would rather die if they can't do that? Go to the FDA web site get their address and write to them. Tell them about your pain and what helps and what would happen to you if you couldn't get that help. The cost of meds also. We should be aloud to have meds we can afford and that help us. They keep talking about the abusers. What about us CPP? All these people that have no clue what chronic pain is like are deciding for us. Don't let them do that. Endo has this in the court paper: We applaud FDA Commissioner Hamburg's announcement that the FDA will not approve any abbreviated new drug applications that rely upon the approval of original OxyContin which did not have abuse-deterrent properties. With more than 16,000 Americans dying from opioid drug overdoses each year, Commissioner Hamburg's announcement is a significant step forward in the federal government's effort to reduce opioid drug abuse and protect consumers. For too long, drug abusers have been able to crush or dissolve opioid drug products in order to defeat their time-release mechanisms for snorting or injecting the drugs. This drug abuse has wreaked a terrible human and economic toll on our country's patients, families, and health care system. However, the FDA recognized the merits of certain abuse-deterrent formulations and has also stated the Agency can require future generic opioid drugs to also have abuse-deterrent properties.

This Other document was issued by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

You aren't going to be able to receive oxymorphone that just became available in Jan. 2013 and you will be limited as to what you can have if you don't start contacting these groups, FDA, Endo and Global etc. and tell them how you feel.Hamburg is the commissioner of the FDA. Let her hear from you.

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I was taking advantis generic as soon as it came out like the old opana formulation I do not abuse i'm 50 and in severe pain. this month cvs would not fill 2 days early as they normally do went to a different cvs because they were out of that brand called this cvs said they had it made me wait an extra day more or less called me a drug addict.im very offended.i went the next day to pick them up in a snow storm 35 miles from home and they gave me the global brand for me they do not work near as well.i am going to run out for the first time in 2 and a half years.i have been having to take 3 a day and only prescribed 2 my pain management doctor is very strict on what he prescribes and the amount I wake up in tears every morning life is unbararable and I work 10 straight hours as a server.i cry all the way home have to pick up my one leg to get it in the car to even get home.. a lot of misspelled words I know i'm very tired trying to sleep my first time on here..it angers me that people abuse their meds and some of us leget people have to pay for it by staying in pain and get treated like we are drug addicts.

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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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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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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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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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Re: Bapain (# 103)

It's not being pulled from the market. My grandfather works for a major medical company.

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Read what Endo states what they think will happen with Opana in 2013-14.
*double-digit prescription growth in products like Voltaren Gel and the reformulated OPANA ER which will drive growth in our branded pharmaceutical businesses.
Endo Health Solutions' CEO Discusses Q3 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
November 5, 2012 | about: ENDP

Looking ahead, new products, devices and services will be one key to our future success. Today our R&D pipeline is poised to deliver important new products beginning in 2013, including select launches of high-value generics during the next two years. Were investing in new medical devices and practice management services both on our own and in collaboration with other companies. You should begin to see the fruits of those labors starting in 2013 and 2014.

We have multiple opportunities for significant organic growth within our diversified businesses. And as I stated at last months analyst meeting, we expect to enhance our growth by continuing to invest in our current commercial portfolio, delivering an expanded value proposition with new products and services through our pipeline and through business development.

We expect Qualitest to deliver year-over-year double-digit sales growth through 2013. This will be supported by increasing our production capacity by 15% annually over the next year, three years to support its growth. We expect to see a return to double-digit prescription growth in products like Voltaren Gel and the reformulated OPANA ER which will drive growth in our branded pharmaceutical businesses.

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Generic Opana approved but could change May 2013

FDA Rejects Endo’s Deadline On Opana ER Petition; Impax Product May Become New RLD

By Brenda Sandburg / “The Pink Sheet†DAILY Dec. 3, 2012
Word Count: 1199 / Article # 14121203008
Executive Summary

Endo files suit against FDA seeking preliminary injunction to require FDA to say whether Endo’s withdrawal of non-crush resistant Opana ER was for safety reasons; FDA contends it has until May 10, 2013 to make this decision.

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Endo will not listen. If Endo truly cared about patients, then they would not have released the new reformulated OpanaER. Many many pain patients have complained. Endo did not listen. That is why their sales and profits are down. The new reformulated OpanaER is causing them to lose millions of dollars.

That is why all of their press releases talk about increased profit in 2013. They are expecting to win the lawsuit. They want to use the law to create a monopoly on OpanaER. Why else would they sue the FDA? Why else would the just release reformulated OpanaER in 7.5 mg and 15 mg ( the current sizes of the generic ER version)?

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Endo didn't like losing money over their new abuse free Opana. Why can't the FDA see that? Like I have said, all the new rules doctors are required to jump through hoops in order to give their patients pain meds. If they are doing their jobs, there is a lot of control now on pain meds. Let the real chronic pain patients have the generic's. People need to sue the FDA if they hold up generic meds. If the FDA stops generic opana from being available, they will open a door for all of the other meds from being approved because the drug companies will wait till the last minute and stop their brand from being made into generic. This isn't about just one drug being approved for generic, it will affect all future generic meds.

The opioid painkiller is the Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania- based company’s second-biggest product. On Nov. 5, Endo fell the most in almost four years after quarterly sales declined for the first time since 2006 and the company ended a study of a bladder cancer drug.

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Just read Endo came out with the new Opana's in 7.5 & 15mg that the generic are already out. This is fine, the doctor knows if their patients may be abusing their meds. It should be up to them which to give them the new or old. Now if the FDA could see that they should approve generic old opana be approved of the 20mg and up and let the doctors decide makes more sense. Not fair to keep the generics from coming out in Jan. 2013.

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I think Impax has the right to manufacture generic OpanaER in all sizes starting January 1, 2013. I don't know if they will though with all of this crap from Endo. I don't know if they want to release a product that could be banned a few months later. Actavis had to fight tooth and nail just to be allowed to manufacture generic OpanaER in 7.5mg and 15mg. I wonder when Actavis will be allowed to make all sizes.

The preliminary FDA response seems like good news for those of us who want the generic....

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This is just a page of news about Endo & Opana for the past couple of years.
FYI
Content about Oxymorphone
June 12, 2012
HDMA names 2012 DIANA recipients
The Healthcare Distribution Management Association on Tuesday honored 10 pharmaceutical and consumer product manufacturers through the presentation of its annual Distribution Management Awards for Notable Achievements in Healthcare, or DIANA. The winners were announced Monday evening at the Association’s 2012 Business and Leadership Conference in San Antonio, Texas.
January 9, 2012
Endo addresses possible short-term supply of Opana ER, other drugs
Endo Pharmaceuticals announced a short-term supply constraint of analgesic products, including Opana ER, due to the temporary shutdown of a manufacturing facility operated by Novartis Consumer Health.
December 12, 2011
FDA approves crush-resistant painkiller by Endo

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new formulation of a painkiller made by Endo Pharmaceuticals designed to thwart drug abuse, Endo said Monday.
August 9, 2011
Endo sales, profits climb in Q2
Profits for Endo Pharmaceutical Holdings rose to $54.6 million during second quarter 2011, up 6% from $51.5 million in second quarter 2010, the drug maker said.
June 24, 2011
FDA accepts Endo's resubmission for Opana ER
The Food and Drug Administration has accepted a resubmission by Endo Pharmaceuticals of a regulatory application for an opioid pain drug designed to thwart abuse, Endo said.
January 10, 2011
Endo receives complete response letter for crush-resistant Opana ER
The Food and Drug Administration declined to approve Endo Pharmaceuticals’ regulatory application for a painkiller designed to thwart drug abusers, Endo said Friday.
November 1, 2010
Generics lift Endo’s 3Q
Strong generic sales helped Endo edge analyst expectations for the third quarter, the company noted....
October 6, 2010
Watson, Endo settle Opana ER patent suit
Watson Pharmaceuticals has settled a patent lawsuit with Endo Pharmaceuticals concerning an Endo prescription painkiller,...
September 21, 2010
FDA grants priority review for crush-resistant, long-acting oxymorphone

The Food and Drug Administration has granted priority review to an opioid painkiller designed to...
August 8, 2010
Endo to acquire Penwest for $168 million

Endo Pharmaceuticals will acquire Penwest Pharmaceuticals for $168 million, Penwest said Monday....
November 1, 2010
Generics lift Endo’s 3Q
Strong generic sales helped Endo edge analyst expectations for the third quarter, the company noted....
October 6, 2010
Watson, Endo settle Opana ER patent suit
Watson Pharmaceuticals has settled a patent lawsuit with Endo Pharmaceuticals concerning an Endo prescription painkiller,...
September 21, 2010
FDA grants priority review for crush-resistant, long-acting oxymorphone
The Food and Drug Administration has granted priority review to an opioid painkiller designed to...
August 8, 2010
Endo to acquire Penwest for $168 million
Endo Pharmaceuticals will acquire Penwest Pharmaceuticals for $168 million, Penwest said Monday....

June 7, 2010
Endo, Penwest grant Opana ER license to Impax
will grant Impax Labs a special license to sell a...
May 16, 2010
Impax receives tentative approval for generic Opana ER
The Food and Drug Administration has given tentative approval to an Impax Labs drug for...
March 8, 2010
Watson seeks approval for generic Opana
Watson Pharmaceuticals has filed a regulatory approval application for a generic version of a painkiller...
February 22, 2010
Endo reports 2009 profits
Endo Money, Money,Money,Money,Money,Money
Endo Pharmaceuticals saw profits of $334.3 million in 2009, a 9% increase over 2008’s $305.7...

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I don't know how hard Activis had to fight to product generic opana 7.5 & 15 after you read the notice I found Endo sent out. Also, did you know now that Endo has now made 7.5 & 15mg ER's available in the new abuse free? Let the doctors decide if their patient needs the old or new. Everyone's doctors should decide what meds we take anyway, that's why they spend all that money and time going to college. They get paid good. Anyway, does anyone know how that works with doctors when they write a script for a patient, do they get any money for writing that from the drug companies? The doctors are suppose to know us as patients and know what helps us. They know our records. We are suppose to trust them. I would rather ask them than someone I don't know and don't know me or my health issues.

I found this from Endo. Just last Feb. 2011 they sent or posted this. They weren't worried about opana being not safe back then. How long do you think they were working on the new abuse free opana? In Dec. 2011 it was approved and it was available March 2012 with the old formula getting ready for the patent to expire, but yet just months before that they give up 7.5 and 15mg and giving another drug company rights to make generic of those two and Endo focusing on the strengths that was most used. They state that in this letter. If all drug companies can do this when their patents are getting ready to expire they are going to do it with all drugs to make more money, not just pain medicines, it will be all meds that people most need for heart, blood pressure, anti depresses etc.

FYI
February 2011
Re:
Discontinuation
7.5 mg and 15 mg OPANA® ER (oxymorphone H Cl) Extended-Release Tablets CII

Dear Valued Customer:

Please be advised that Endo Pharmaceuticals will discontinue the sale and distribution of two
strengths of Opana ER (oxymorphone HCl) Extended-Rellease Tablets CII. Endo estimates these
two strengths will no longer be on retail shelves on or about May 01, 2011.

63481-0522-70
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63481-0553-70
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Due to increased demand for Opana ER, Endo is streamlining operations to focus on the most
commonly prescribed dosages, enabling us to serve the needs of our customers while continuing to a
supply a wide range of dose strengths. Opana® ER dose strengths of 5 mg, 10 mg, 20 mg, 30 mg
and 40 mg will continue to be available at your local pharmacy. Your patients can call 1-888­
222-9845 to locate the nearest pharmacy stocking their prescribed strength of Opana ER.
Please see the enclosed full Prescribing Information including boxed warning for Opana® ER.
We thank you for your continued support of Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. If you have any questions
please consult with your local Endo Pharmaceuticals Sales Representative or contact the Endo
Pharmaceuticals Customer Service at 1-800-462-ENDO (3 636).

Sincerely,
Product
Opana® ER (oxymorphone HCl) Extend-Release Tablets CII
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Opana® ER (oxymorphone HCl) Extend-Release Tablets CII
Description
7.5 mg
15 mg
Packaging
100 ct. Bottles
100 ct. Bottles
A. Demir Bingol
Senior Director, Oral Pain Solutions
February 2011
Re:
Discontinuation
7.5 mg and 15 mg OPANA® ER (oxymorphone H Cl) Extended-Release Tablets CII

Dear Valued Customer:

Please be advised that Endo Pharmaceuticals will discontinue the sale and distribution of two
strengths of Opana® ER (oxymorphone HCl) Extended-Rellease Tablets CII. Endo estimates these
two strengths will no longer be on retail shelves on or about May 01, 2011.

63481-0522-70
5

63481-0553-70
5
Due to increased demand for Opana ER, Endo is streamlining operations to focus on the most
commonly prescribed dosages, enabling us to serve the needs of our customers while continuing to a
supply a wide range of dose strengths. Opana® ER dose strengths of 5 mg, 10 mg, 20 mg, 30 mg
and 40 mg will continue to be available at your local pharmacy. Your patients can call 1-888­
222-9845 to locate the nearest pharmacy stocking their prescribed strength of Opana ER.
Please see the enclosed full Prescribing Information including boxed warning for Opana® ER.

We thank you for your continued support of Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. If you have any questions
please consult with your local Endo Pharmaceuticals Sales Representative or contact the Endo
Pharmaceuticals Customer Service at 1-800-462-ENDO (3 636).

Sincerely,

Product

Opana® ER (oxymorphone HCl) Extend-Release Tablets CII

Opana® ER (oxymorphone HCl) Extend-Release Tablets CII
Description
7.5 mg
15 mg

Packaging
100 ct. Bottles
100 ct. Bottles

A. Demir Bingol
Senior Director, Oral Pain Solutions

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