Oxycodone Shortage In Florida 2012 (Page 2) (Top voted first)

Can a pharmacist just be quite and fill the script the doctor ordered for his patient.They lie to us and then fill freds script for the same thing and smile while they do it.We are tax paying citizens in pain and the DEA has made a real mess of everything. Real patients cant even get their meds.

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elkwood-nope and sorry bout your luck.(not being a smartass) this has been going on the last year and longer for others.
the nuisse keeps getting tighter. there will be no more 30mg oxy ir anymore. roxicodone will be making the 30mg oxycontin crush free formula. thats it. bye bye. opana is the best out there and they messed with that formula too. and forget the 150-180 count. my dam dr wouldnt even give me more than 120 10mg percs. not even 150-180. i mean then change the fckin directions cause taking 1 every 4-6 hours but they only give you 120-enough for 1 every 6 hours period. and the fact that your getting any meds period is lucky..gotta find a doctor and a pharmacy to fill. i had same problem but worked out a deal to get my oxycontin and dilaudid for breakthrough ordered but i have to wait the first month for 5 days. i waited, got my meds and good to go...try working something out and say youll leave the rx if they fill it. begin od month is best end of month is worst/

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Ordering my pain medications,oxycodone/morphine has become next to impossible. Finally I found a legit mail order service. Yes I had to wait 7 days to get my medications but that is a pittance to having to drive to 50 different pharmacies on a weekend. Last month I didn't get them filled at all. I b rang them back and had my doctor put them in my file. The mail order may call your insurance and doctor... And who knows maybe it put me on a list and they can watch me. Well they can do ALL of those things because I have Chronic PAIN ALL the time and if those are the rules for getting them thru the mail that is fine by me. All that matters now is I got them and didn't even have to leave my house they came to my front door Fed Ex. If you don't have anything to hide and neither does your Doctor then the rules shouldn't bother you at all. Yes it sucked waiting another week, but I had already been in bed for the last 28 days anyways. When you are in such Chronic pain that your Doctor restricts you for driving and picking up my 1 and a 1/2 yr old son I am thanking the heavens for mail order. If your truly hurt you know what I am saying. If your truly hurt you don't have a problem with them picking thru your life and watching you like a hawk. They can watch away. Maybe someone will actually have compassion and after seeing enough of us chronically suffer and our lives torn down to nothing. Maybe just maybe they will come up with a better idea than "Hey lets just take away ALL the pain medication,who cares if they are dying of cancer and only got a year left,let's make them suffer along right with the dealers,junkies & addicts. Sorry to tell them but it doesn't seem like the addicts ect are suffering. It just seems like the legit are paying for other peoples crimes. But let them get hurt or have a fatal disease. I bet then their thoughts would be different if they walked even a block in my shoes. Don't give up hope my other pain ridden people. If you can' t fill oxycodone then change your prescription,its not the ONLY medication for pain out there and ID you can't walk in and fill it then mail it in. We have nothing to hide.

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dave@ theres no easy solution. and to keep to ourselves the meds is something that 90% of us or more do. we dont get rid of our meds and sell them and the days of getting these meds unwarranted is over. these kids now are getting them from the black market, and organized crime. IE, when last year the entire shipment was hijacked from jupiter, fl from the distribution center, some 200,000 oxycodone pills were stolen. these were an organized crime hit, not people like us in pain selling a pill here and there. these guys get the meds and steal and sell em. the law needs to catch em but who knows they are in on it too prolly. especially the dea. crooked cops around. i wouldnt doubt if they help contribute to the problem and dont help the problem like they act like they do on tv.

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When I was taking oxycodone 30 mg and CVS and Walgreens would tell me they were out or there was a shortage happening, I would ask them to take my script and keep it on file and fill it when they obtained the drug again. Both pharmacies refused to take my script and keep it on file..but had no problem taking any other scipt of mine and keeping it on file. So..not all pharmacists will take your script and keep it on file for you. I had never had this happen up until about a year ago.

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Also Flatom, the bulk did NOT start in their 20s. Where are you getting this stuff? Your own opinion? I'm in medicine, treating addicts. Im not just someone with two kids that used. I see the real situation every day.

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I recently moved to South West Florida from Dallas Texas and was taking Morphine Sulfate. I had NO problems filling my medication in Texas; however once I moved to Florida I was treated like a criminal! I have had 4 major back surgeries and have been off and on pain medication since 2009. I live in major chronic pain always; with the only complete relief being sleep (and that is VERY difficult)!!! Anyway, I recently decided to withdraw from this medication because I got so tired of the way I was being treated and I had been on it for almost 2 years and therefore was on a very high dose. It got to the point where any reputable Dr would not take me as a patient because they where too scared to write the prescription. For me it was time to give my body a break from the medication.
So I am going to sign the petition and hope/pray that something changes because it is ridiculous what we who are experiencing chronic pain have to go thru just to try and get some sort of relief. We are NOT criminals. We are people with legitimate pain. If they come up with something non narcotic that will help I would gladly take it.
So good luck to everyone out there who is still fighting this battle. I feel for you and hope that it gets better. As for me I am taking a break and dealing with my pain as best as I can so that I can give my body a break from the damaging side effects of long term opioid use, and my pride a break from the judgement of those who have no clue as to what I have to go through on a daily basis.

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Flatom, I couldn't make heads or tails out of what you just wrote. Take a class focusing on grammar, then maybe you can partake in an intelligent conversation, but seeing as you think your opinion and sociological facts are the same thing, I doubt it. It literally is a waste talking to you. You have absolutely nothing of value to say thus far, and if you do in the future, I doubt you'd be able to articulate it.Ta ta!

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For all who live in Florida you are aware of the terrible problem of filling narcotic pain medication prescriptions.
I am not connected with this petition but want you to be aware of it and I am providing a link to this petition so hopefully pharmacies will be forced to carry adequate supply of medication for refills. I moved to Florida to retire from Missouri. I am sorry I made this choice as I must go sometime weeks waiting on a pharmacy any of them to have quantity to fill my script. As you know 9 out of 10 times the pharmacies never have any on hand. Then we are forced to drive (not able to call) to pharmacy to other pharmacy to see if they can fill it. The law in Florida is so strict you cannot leave your prescription at the pharmacy to be filled, nor can you be provided by phone if the pharmacy can fill it, using walgreens as an example, if at a walgreens and they inform you they are unable to fill it, that store is not allowed to call any other walgreens as a courtesy to see if any other walgreen location can fill it for you. This means spending whole days driving from pharmacy to pharmacy just trying to get a scrip filled. So if this pertains to your life, you can find this petition by going to google and here is exactly what to type into google to find the petition, google "florida prescription shortage petition"
and sign this new petition.

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Firstly I have never heard such a heartless comment from a professional. Obviouslly you do not take into consideration, the junkie group has been taken out of this problem. No more pill mills, their doctors have discontinued their scripts. All that is left is the elderly like myself and persons with legitimate pain. For you to speak so heartless and total lack of sympathy I find you should not be anyway connected to the health care industry.

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Please also be aware of wozika which has a new petiton and a wealth of information on writing and emailing your state senators and congressman. They also show the exact wording or their petition.

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THats so exaggerated. Wheres this doctor act, I am a little past 35 and in extreme pain due to falling head first in a motorcycle accident. Where does this doctor exist. The IR is maxed at 180. THey are very leary scripting bc of these kids. When say things know what your talking about then maybe some day soon we can have less people suffer that are in chronic pain that just get exhausted struggling to fight and deal with the pain. While their relatives or family tell them they don't need it bc they don't understand chronic pain.

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I was in a bad auto accident back in boynton beach nine months ago and dislocated my L-5 & L-6 disks and started on oxycontin 40mg twice a day and dilaudin 6mg 6x a day (30s are harder to find just go to 40) and from day one i went to a CVS in Boca Raton (where i was living BUT my license showed a Delray Beach Address over 20 miles away) i had no problem. I then moved to Fort Lauderdale, still, with the same license to my local cvs. Just handed her my new script from my new pain managment doctor (just showed him past records and he put me back on everything cause i am allergic to Tylenol and ibprofin*hint*) and my oxycontin discount card from perdua pharmaceutical. They didnt have it this was on a friday so the pharmacist said come back monday when they get it in. So because my records with cvs showed me filling oxys and dilaudin before, they ordered them for me. Asked how many i need per month and said to fill it on the same day each month and they will keep it stocked. Im a 30 year old real estate agent with purple hair lol. No judgement was made. As long as u have a valid reason and records you have taken these types of meds before you should be fine now. Things have calmed down

If that doesnt help, i called up my insurance company (blue cross blue shield of fl ppo) and told them i cant fill my two scripts down here. They gave me the address to their central pharmacy. I overnighted it monday and got it back thursday morning filled with no issues. These two routes helped me through all the junkie judgement and I hope it helps some of you guys too!!

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Hey Christa, I am in the same boat, have nothing to hide but tired of driving around just to get told they are out and didn't come in their shipment. Can you tell me what mail order service you used? Thanks.

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It was a last resort for me but I used a mail order service. It only took four days (I did over night it there and pay for over night back) but my prescriptions came right to my door. I was amazed. If I would of known about this yrs agoi,would of been doing this all along. There are plenty of mail order. Medco is one of them There's walmart ect. I had been out of my meds for almost2 months and now I'll never have to worry about it again. One thing I heard tho is u must be signed up by Feb 1st 2013 bcause they won't b taking on anymore patients but that is just hear say. I hope this helps.It solved all of my problems.

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This is not true oxycodone is still gonna be around. Who cares if they make it how they made the oxycotin as long as it takes care of the pain

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I know what you mean Tom..My 20 yr old daughter dates a spindly little loafer who has never spent a day on a job site,never spent a day roofing a house,or digging trenches for gas,or water lines.Never workd stacking 80 pound boxes.And he complains of his ack hurting...Of course it hurts,hr doesnt get off of it enough! He lays around all the time! By his age,18,I'd been thru Army basic training, AIT for 11Bravo (Infantry) Jump School (Parachute Training) and y the time I was 21,Ranger School,and several other Army schools,all very physically demanding. After the service, I went into the Natural Gas industry,doing pipeline work,and was into competitive weightlifting.I hurt my ack tightening a 2" union,and dealt with that pain for years efore something had to be done. My MRI revealed Spinal Stenosis, and degenerative disc disease,Lordosis,Ankylosing Spondylosis,none opf which I know much more aout than they hurt like hell on average of 4- days a week.I tried evry kind of therapy,i.e Hypnosis,Acupuncture,Massage therapy,Radio Freuency Lesioning, Depo-Mederol Injections,Facet Blocks, all to no avail. I desperatey did NOT want to resort to opiates...But I ran out of choices.Between you and me, I cried on the way home from my PM doctor with a prescription for OxyContin.2 60mg tablets per day,and I was pain free,and functional. I could work,do the things I needed to,such as earn a paycheck. Yeah, Im disgusted by the chickens***s who scam doctors. I even heard of one guy who was busted after he took in an MRI,and the doctor told him, Yes Sir,this woman has a bad back!!!! So the abusers make it hard for those of us who take meds AS DIRECTED,dont sell them,and keep it to our selves.That is whre the focus should be.

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@maxc79.....Can you mail order if you have no insurance? I was looking online at Walmart and it doesn't say you need insurance. I'm stressing because I'm sick of looking but tried affordable other pain meds and they do not work like oxycodone, They put me to sleep and I have a high profile job...just want to be able to order without insurance.

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@frustrated...NOPE cant get the oxies without mail order...it sucks but it is what it is. i had to change insurance to make this happen.

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@goodtimes40...Are you saying you can't mail order without insurance?That is good news coming in April! I guess I will switch my oxycodone prescription back to methadone for this month. I am already on another er med because last time I checked the oxycontin was very expensive without insurance.

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@goodtimes40...never mind the question about insurance...I just saw your post in another thread:-)
I don't have insurance so mail order will not work for me.

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