Opana 40mg Change In Formulation
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I was just at my pm appt and my doc informed me that endo pharmaceutical has won the legal case on stopping other pharmaceutical companies on making the generic. Which I find is bs that they get to keep making the brand which doesn't work for the majority of pts including me. I was on opana er 30 just got bumped up to 40mg made by global pharmaceutical company. So as the pts what is there to do when you can't find the generic anywhere in the near future? The brand just dosent work and I won't put anything in my body that dosent give me relief from fibromyalgia and swollen joints. I had one knee replacement and need another one. Soooo pissed off.

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Hi HKittyinNJ
You are the first person I found on here that has fibromyalgia like me. How are you doing with your drug situation? If I didn't have the generic Opana, I don't know what I would do. I got off of it for 1 week and a half just to see if I could. That went ok with the help of Suboxone for three days. I did absolutely nothing the whole time I was off of the pain meds. Then one day I had to go pick up trash in the front yard which took about an hour. Of course, as people with fibromyalgia know that when we do anything we aren't going to hurt until the next day and then we suffer for the next 3 to 4 days. The next day was OK, but the day after that I'm glad I had my pain meds because I couldn't move! I was in so much pain that I was crying!

The government is stupid if they think that they are going to stop drug abuse by changing the formula of a drug all. All it does is cause the people that need it to suffer. I don't know what we can do to make them stop? Yes we are addicts, but I bet the majority of us can get off of it and stay off of it just like I did if they don't do anything. But the function in on a daily basis we have to have pain meds. But, no one understands and only judges us! Your comments are welcomed.

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Please stay away from the oxy's , yes it was very helpful to me i felt like superwoman. My symton are somewhat like yours but Chronic.
I have a full replacement on my left knee that is worst then when i had the surgery, my right knee has to be done and i'm holding out as long as possibble, sometimes cannot even walk and fallen a bit. I have Chronic fibro due to a gastric byo in 2008 that put me in a coma and my life has spiral down since. I have not ate a meal since, i survive on yogurts mash anything soft mostly smoothies and can only take a few bites my stomack went from the size of a dime to a quarter now, kept going back to the Dr complaing of the pain i was in well he got tire of me complaining called my GI Dr'r nurse in tears she got me in the next day to see a surgeon( by this time was wearing my 10 yr old daughter pant due to not eating anything) drop too much weight too soon. The Dr took 1 look at me and had me admitted, turned out the gastric pouch was open about 1 1/2 , had a unhealing ulcer and essophogus and duodenum were rtten from me throwing up all the time. Getting back to meds.
I was sent to a pain mngt clinic where i have seen the same Dr for almost 9 yrs he is heaven sent, very caring and concern and works with you. He has tried so many med on me the problem is I have a high tolerance so in October of 2015 he put me on opana at first just the extended release but y body was withdrawing from morhine being on high dosage for years and did not he.p except to get me very groggy and forgetful. The last straw was opana, he had to play around because of my wierd body tolerance but finally I thougt we did it, i was on ER 40 in addition 10 mg of breakthru 4 times a day 1-2 tab. No more. Been on close to a year but now begining to feel like i did before have to take the ER at least 4 times and breakthru at least up to 10 tab a day which i am always short of the 10 tabs, the ER I only take 1-2 tab a day because when i take 1 in the am it puts me back to sleep and do not wake up until 11:30 there goes my day. They say Extended Release is 1 tab every 12 hrs then why do i go thru withdrawls with nausea , pain in my head, preasure goes up which i never had a problem with before, i have to take it every 4 hr or take the breakthru every 3 hrs which is why i am always short i just think more lab study has to be done before releasing to the public. Good luck.

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Verwon I have tried everything but my doc informed me that endo pharmaceutical has won there case and that all generics of opana will be pulled off the shelf . It's sad when u have the government dictating what you can have and when and how much.we aren't in jail.so now I have to go back to the drawing board......I was on oxy 80 at one point and 15mg for breakthrough pain. Not sure of whats,new out here any suggestions would be welcomed thanks.

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I'm sorry, but I don't have any information about the legal court decision.

However, have you considered trying any other medications? That's always an option for you.

Many people have great results with Oxycontin. It's an idea to ask your doctor about.

The FDA classifies this medication as a narcotic analgesic, so it has the potential to be habit forming and may cause side effects, such as nausea, dizziness, drowsiness, dry mouth and constipation.

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