Norco Shortage In Michigan (Page 6) (Top voted first)

Is anyone else having problems finding a pharmacy to fill their scripts of Norco? I have been taking them for a few years now for my chronic pain. I always go to the same pharmacy chain, and its always the same doctor who writes my scripts, but since the new law change no one seems to have them in stock. Some pharmacists told me it was a manufacturer back order. We are told not to go without our meds, but yet how is that possible if we can't get them? Anyone knows of a pharmacy that has Norco 10/325 in the metro Detroit area?

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The database was suppose to be put in place to stop these addicts from doctor shopping and then taking multiple prescriptions to multiple pharmacies and getting more medication than anyone knew about except the addict!

It has become impossible however here in Florida to get pain medications that have been prescribed to us by our pain specialist because we are repeatedly given all sorts of excuses! Among them, They are out of the medication, They did not feel comfortable filling for me, The pharmacy I was trying to get my prescription filled at was either too far way from my home or too far away from my doctors office. (I was only trying to fill at a different pharmacy because I was desperate to get my prescription filled because I was out of medication and had been unsuccessful at getting my new prescription filled as was my insurance company who was trying to help me! My doctor who was 40 miles away was not in the same county that I resided in. (The doctor was 40 miles from my home because the insurance company did not have a doctor in-network for me. I agreed to see that doctor which my insurance company had found for me because my insurance company had agreed to provide transportation for me to and from his office. Also, he was a licensed anesthesiologist with privileges at multiple hospitals as well as pain management doctor who turned out to be a doctor i liked a lot! I had been going to this doctor for a couple of years when all hell broke loose here in Florida and anything and everything became an issue!!

I recently moved and things got much worse for me before they started to recently get better! I decided to go with traditional medicare so that I would have better access to doctors because I could not mentally or physically afford to continue to have the problems I was having filling my pain mediation! No one, especially someone that is on social security disability and can barely walk should be expected to go to dozens of pharmacies in an attempt to fill their prescription for pain medications or go without them because they are not available within a reasonable distance.

Also, what you can and can not do is between you and your doctor and what is written in your contract! My contract says that I should always try and fill with one pharmacy but if I can not get them there; I am allowed to go elsewhere! I can not accept pain medications from any other doctor; not even a dentist before discussing it with my pain management doctor; the exception would be in a case of emergency when then I need to contact my doctor ASAP and explain the circumstances!

This past month, it only took me 8 pharmacies before i found one that agreed to fill my prescription! I ended up getting my medication filled at a pharmacy about 30 miles away from my house. I looked at only one chain pharmacy which was why I ended up so far away from my home before I could find a pharmacist that was willing to fill my prescription. I had to wait until the following day to pick it up. I assume the wait was to give the pharmacist the opportunity to call my doctors office which was closed by the time i got to this pharmacy!

I have had no pain medications since just after Christmas because we moved from Orlando to a small town farther North and could not get anyone to fill a prescription from my last pain management doctor. I literally went though hell waiting to get in to see a new pain management doctor near our new home and know i could not have lasted much longer. It is a tragedy that ER doctors have become useless when people are in dire pain and needing some immediate short term relief from pain which does not come. That is the case here in Florida!

I am so grateful to my new doctor and the pharmacist who filled my prescription. I feel hope for the first time in weeks! The shots that the doctor put into my spine has helped my legs quite a bit and although I am on less than half the medication that I had been on; I am not thinking about going to sleep forever!

This should not be happening to someone that has never doctor shopped or had a drug panel that came up bad. It is especially hard to understand when my problems are outlined in MRI's from a failed fusion which left me with broken screws that they are unable to do anything about without putting me at great risk of ending up a quadriplegic!

If you have managed to read all this way through, I thank you for your concern and apologize about my rambling as I am still very upset aver my lack of care and need to do something more to relieve my mind of the horror I was put though because of people who do the wrong things with their medication which then causes death to themselves or others!

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All care pharmacy in allen park (1-313-386-2273) don't call. Just go.

7125 Allen Road,
Allen Park, MI 48101

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To: Beagle, Post 309 - you do not live in Florida, do you? It seems that Florida is the worst state of all. Not only do they (technicians and pharmacists alike) lie to us, and play head-games, like stating that there is a 24 hour waiting period, to fill Norco, despite what your doctor has written, but they are now 'abusing' their so-called power, simply because they can. I am referring to medications which are not CII, such as Alprazolam, Soma. At first, they blamed it on my Medicare Advantage insurance plan, but when I contacted my insurance plan, they were very nice-stated it had nothing to do with them, then they contacted the pharmacy (Walmart), and inquired as to why they would not refill at 30 days. Bottom line: the only thing that I could do was lodge a complaint against the pharmacy, but the pharmacist, herself, stuck by her story and refused to refill them until days later. Now, I can't even imagine how I will be able to fill my next prescription for Norco (generic). Seems that I have angered them, and we are all at their (pharmacies) mercy. This whole situation has brought so much undue stress on me, and I do not have a support system at home, like some of you do. I live in Central FLA, and I hope that one of you can start some sort of legal action; in which case, I would participate. Good Luck to you all. And, to pattycakes, I am very happy that you are doing better. Perhaps, as some have said, God did intervene, on your behalf. Nothing, or no-one else would have come to your rescue.

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Missy, no I don't live in Fla. I live in Michigan. I have scripts filled at rite-aid and mostly at cvs. A few months back I went to 5 different cvs's until I found one who had enough to fill my script for norcos. The fourth one came close but the pharmacist told me they didn't have enough in stock to fill my 120 count script. A few times I've been what I call rudely by some as they told me to go somewhere else to get my script filled. I'll be going through the process again in a week. I'm retired and have the time and might talk to an attorney if I was treated badly and it sounds like FLA is treating all people like drug addicts. No difference as drug addicts still are customers. I would be on the phone to my congressmen so fast and the ATT. Gen of FLA every week. Nobody should have to put up with this crap. Call your congressman and see what they can do for you. Good luck to you and don't let this get you down as that only adds to the pain.

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I feel for everyone trying to get our pain meds filled but I live in Florida have for the past 27 years and have been in pain management for 4 years. I get a prescription for 90 vicodin HP 10/300 mg. every month but I only have to see my pm doctor every 2 months since he gives me 2 scripts at a time. I go to Walgreens every month hand them my prescription they tell me how long it will be and then I get a text message that my rx is ready. I have never had a problem in all these years. Maybe because I go to the same pharmacy and they know me? Maybe because I only get 90 a month? Maybe because of my insurance plan? I don't know the answers but being treated rudely and not re-filling your prescriptions is just wrong and I don't know if you can bring it up to your doctor and it would do any good but I couldn't imagine being without some type of narcotic pain medicine for even one day due to my severe back and neck pain. I do know that calling the pharmacies over the phone to see if they have a certain medication even if you ask what manufacturer they use will do no good.

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To the person who just got a prescription for knee pain and can not get it filled in the flint area! Please talk to your doctor; there is a slim chance that he will take the time to help you or at least change your script to something that you can get! I am so sorry that this is happening to you! This needs to be talked about because like you, just because you did not need pain medications; when you did you see what the result is! There is no excuse for this; especially since almost every state now is included in the federal database so they can track what medications all of us are receiving from anywhere in the USA! The database was suppose to have made things better but things have only gotten worse! I hope by the time you read my message you have been able to fill your prescription!

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hello, I am 54 years old was in a head on crash in 87 that was really bad. lost my son. had a crushed femur, shattered left wrist, & a left hip replacment. plus as a bonus my leg is a 1" Shorter, from a drunk driver, now after all these years my insurance co decided to make my home handicapped asscessable, in the meantime, when I was in a motel, as they where working on my house, the doctor calls & makes a appointment for a pain management class that I was unaware of. the doctor released me after 12 years never any problems! now here is the main problem! no doctor wants to treat you! if you are on narco-opiates. 7.5 the hospital in northern mich Today as someone told me they could help me, Says Oh! you take narco, we cannot help you! went to several clinics Oh! your taking narco, Sorry we cannot help you! I am out of meds now starting to have pain & withdraws 54 years old never been in trouble! not a felon! Can Anyone Help me? I am disabled. I feel that I have been discriminated again & again any help would be thankful! thank you,

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I'm in the same boat, instead of the law makers enforcing the laws on the books and put the people who misuse or sell there meds in jail, they've turned us all into dopers. I don't want to turn to marijuana but if I can't get my meds I may be forced to take another look at it as it seems it's everywhere!

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Yeah me. Can't get the yellow one anywhere. All the white one are pitiful. They don't work at all. I'm living in chronic pain and will until I die. I'm not an addict and I take the meds because I have to to function only a little.

Not only the problem with not being able to get any yellow Norco, the FDA AND MY DOCTOR TOOK ME OFF SOMA which I've been taking since 1988 without even telling me it was being done. What can be done? Have these so-called experts ever heard of WITHDRAWAL!!! NOT DUE TO TAKING TOO MANY LIKE A DRUG ADDICT BUT BECAUSE I TRULY NEED THE TWO TO DEAL WITH THE PAIN THAT IS HERE UNTIL I DIE. THIS IS NOT LIVING, I'M HOMEBOUND AND I CAN'T TAKE THIS PAIN MUCH LONGER. IN FEAR OF LOSING MY MIND FROM IT ALL.

THIS PROVES THEY DON'T CARE HOW MUCH WE SUFFER. THANKS ALL OF YOU ADDICTS, YOU DID THIS TO ME AND MANY MORE. I HOPE YOU SUFFER LIKE HELL WHEN YOU CANT GET THE MEDS YOU LOVE TO GET YOUR BUZZ. I NEVER GOT BUZZED IN MY LIFE, NEVER WANTED TO. I ONLY WANT A LITTLE RELIEF FROM THE PAIN I SUFFER EVERY MINUTE OF THE DAY. BTW...FORGET SLEEP, LUCKY TO GET 2 HOURS A DAY AND SOMETIMES NONE AT ALL!!!

FROM A DISGUSTED GOOD PERSON THAT'S PAYING THE PRICE FOR SLIMY ADDICTS. OH YEAH, MY OWN SON IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST ADDICTED DRUNK I KNOW. HOPE HE SUFFERS LIKE HELL AS WELL AS HIS ADDICTED DRUNK PIECE OF CRAP WIFE. GUESS THEY WILL NEVER STEAL MY MEDS AGAIN LIKE BEFORE....I DON'T HAVE ANY!!!!

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It's because of the class of drug change. It's now a narcotic (class 2 I think) and the drug makers have to make less of it. At least that's what a pharmacy explained to me.

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Which one in taylor

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Cvs in melvindale are going to white norcos

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Yes I can't find Norco 10/325 either ! I've been to 7 pharmacy's a hospital pharmacy's. I called the FDA office in Detroit and the lady said its a manufacturing problem. Since the change from class 3 to class 2, the drug companies have to change everything !

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I hear that people who are on narcotic drugs can get a stroke or a heart attack. I don't know how true it is. I hear that every state don't want to fill narcotic medication. Good Luck, I hope you can find a pharmacy that will fill your scipts. The DEA should go after people who goes doctor shopping and abuses it and to people who are selling it. I don't know why they have to punish people who does need it and uses their meds as directed.

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No they don't I called and checked !

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MAKE LESS......LMBO NOT TRUE.....IT'S A PACKAGING ISSUE AND RELABLEING.............

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I will try Rite Aid, thank you..

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We are all in the same boat. Nothing here in michigan at all. Just got my script and not able to get it filled. I have chronic back pain.

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work in Highland...Very helpful, they do have some available. Hopefully, there are not sold out by morning. Thank you!

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I am having the same problem like everyone else is, in NE Florida. I have had 6 back surgeries which have resulted in a total of 8 vertebrae being fused (C3 to T1 and L6 to S1). I have been using the same pharmacy for years. As an RN, of 31 years, I find this situation reprehensible. This action, by the DEA, is unfair to all patients that require pain relief. I am now flat on my back in bed until this situation is cleared up. I am worried that I may develop DVT'S (blood clots in legs) from being immobile. I am on disability now, since my last surgery. I truly hope this situation is resolved soon. I think it is unfair to put so many people in pain through this.

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