Oxycodone Shortage Scam (Page 2)

Guys, i hate to tell you this but its all bulls***>>> after 3 weeks trying to fill my Oxy 30, 140, i finally got to speak to my Pharm Manager who Ive used for 12 years. He told me straight up, that all the calls and people have hurt their regular business, so they decided to stop ordering Oxy in any amout to avoid the crap I was floored as all of a sudden he filled my script on the spot not 30 secs before they were all telling me they didnt have any. He told me last that would be the last one filled as hes not ordering anymore. I discussed with him about just oredering for me, as I'm legit and trying to follow the rules by using only one doctor and one pharmacy. He said he"ll consider it just for me. What a bunch S***!!! This from a guy Ive known for 12 years. It is a Walgreens, This is a conspiricy to avoid all of the drug seekers at our expense. They should go back to getting it off the street and leave us alone. How many more of us have to suffer? Im dag gone tired of being looked at as a druggy as I limp up to the counter. I spent 30 years as a cop on the job in New York, shot in the leg and arm for the citizens I swore to protect and now to be treated like the guys I put in the slammer? Im sure there are plenty of us on the blog. What the hell? Anybody know a good attorney? I guess I should start taking Morphine or Herion and sleep all day since I cant get the medication that works and this is America? Sound off you guys its the only way were going to be heard. God Bless you.

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It is rediculous anymore. I just had a complete reverse total shoulder replacement and my pain management doctor gave me scripts for 20mg Oxycodone IR and 30mg Oxy ER. Walgreens, CVS, all the chains and your neigborhood pharmacy don't carry it (so they say). I am screamin in pain and all I have is Tyenol and NSAIDs, which don't work at all. One Walgreen's clerk here in Florida blamed it on the DEA, which is cracking down on sales of narcotics. What in te world is going on! Is this one of the manifestations of Obamacare! In the meantime, HELP, MY PAIN IS UNBEARABLE!

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Eat a dick I'm giving 240 a month stage 4 cancer

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I agree i take methadone and my pharmacy was out I went 2 publix they said they have them but I am not a regular patient...Is this legal? my fiance takes roxys and walgreens pharmacy called him said DO NOT COME IN DEA JUST AUDITED US AND WE CAN NO LONGER DISPENSE THEM. We went to Target they said they didnt have them the girl behind us was a *regular* and they filled hers!!! Also he went to the OP brand oxycontin 80's and for 56 they costs 690 thats with a discount! What is this world comming 2?!?!?!

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You obviously do not have major pain issues. I would like to see you with Cancer and be able to handle the pain. I was in the hospital for 6 months taking more than he was via IV and it still wasnt enough to stop the pain so you can talk all the crap you want, there is a legitimate reason for these pain meds. You work for the government

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Contact the manufacturer to find out where to get it. They definitely have an interest since it hits their pocketbook!

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I wonder why the "pain" in Florida is so much more severe than anywhere else in the United States?

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Soma hyak, the first reason is everyome goes there to retire, the second was the pill mills with the mri trailer out back that said everyone had something wrong with them since they were all tied together. So profits got really big since they would do a scan, say they have a disc bulge and send them around front to see the doc. They knew that they couldn't write the truck load of need unless the mri said something was wrong.

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You said it so well Deb (see her in quotes below) I feel for all of you so much! I don't have cancer but after a life of hard work and several herniated disks I have now developed neuropathy (which basically means my nerves are dying) I have degenerative disk disease and 2 of my disks in my neck have stenosis which is pinching those nerves. Both of my knees need surgery and ankles give me a fit! I went on Medicare last December, finally went to a doctor and found out I also have Rheumatoid Arthritis :( I have taken Norco for 2 years with Oxy time release as a background drug. In April my daughter wrecked my vehicle and I haven't been able to visit my neurologist since last December now so I ran out of refills in May and have been without anything other than the occasional Norco from a kind neighbor. Quality of life really sucks big time. My house is a wreck not to mention my yard! I am on disability so I don't have the worry of trying to perform for someone else during this stressful time but my nerves are shot. I have panic attacks and my restless leg syndrome is back so not getting much sleep and that does not help the pain at all! As far as OTC goes I take 3 arthritis strength acetominophen or BC powders, that is the only thing that gives me a little bit of relief. Well may God bless us all and help us to find some relief. Perhaps this is His way of trying to draw us closer to Him.


"Thanks! It just makes me so mad when people automatically assume that those on pain meds are junkies, of course ANYONE who is prescribed medication is going to eventually become dependent upon it BUT that is not something they chose or wanted, for some there is no other option other than getting on disability, contribute nothing to society and have no quality of life, not a hard decision, take the meds and function sounds a whole lot better to me than wasting away in pain "

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I just wanna keep it real for everybody in "legit" pain and those who get prescribed oxy... I work in a pharmacy in NYC as a technician... There are no shortages... Anybody who tells you there is a shortage is lying... I work in a mom & pop pharmacy... Chains like Walgreens and CVS always have oxycodone in stock... They may not have 30mg that specific day but they will have it soon... Just because you have a piece of paper that you call a "legit" script doesn't mean a damn thing anymore... Do you know how many people have scripts in NYC? Do you think every single one of them gets filled? No... Because the pharmacist reserves the right to deny anybody service... At least 50 people with scripts for 30's walk in my pharmacy everyday and at least 95% of them are turned down by my boss... Its not because we are out of stock or short, trust me, because I'm the one who places the orders and fills the shelves... My boss (who is obviously the pharmacist) just doesn't want his place of business being the place where junkies come and get their fix... Its funny because these junkboxes come in with a script for 240 30mg's and they think they're gonna pay with insurance and have a $1 copay... It doesn't work like that anymore... If you wanna be a junkie in 2012, you gotta pay the price... Unless you have been prescribed the meds for a few years... If you just got a script this month and think your insurance is gonna cover you, you have another thing coming... My pharmacy will fill almost anybody whose willing to pay cash... and if you wanna pay cash you will be paying at least $2 per pill... But my boss makes these crazy prices up so junkies will stay out... He has a set amount of people he has been filling for 5 plus years that he lets fill their on a monthly basis... But anybody new gets the boot or they get offered to pay cash and then they get pissed off and walk out... Bottom line is NOBODY who is in "legit" pain would be prescribed oxy for 8 years... You are all junkies and addicted to oxycodone... The pain you feel is called WITHDRAWAL from the drug...

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Also Pharms dont want insurance either! Cash only......So they can jack up the price! OH know..... dont go for the real problem people! Just Legal Drug Dealers is what the DEA has made! And more. Patients cant get there real scrips filled, thanks . Next will be people having seizures, loosing thier jobs after 5-20yrs. on pain meds! And older client, DEATH! their body cant take seizures etc.

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THAT'S WHAT THIS HAS COME DOWN TO - IT USED TO BE THAT ONLY A FEW PEOPLE HAD SCRIPTS - BUT NOW DOCTORS ARE SO CORRUPT THAT THEY GIVE A SCRIPT TO ANY KID WITH A FEW HUNDRED BUCKS A MONTH - SO SINCE THERE ARE MORE SCRIPTS YES THERE ARE LESS PILLS BUT BELIEVE ME THERE IS NO SHORTAGE - BUT I WILL TELL YOU THIS BECAUSE I DO WORK IN A PHARMACY - THOSE 30MG'S THAT YOU CAN PAY UP TO 30 BUCKS A POP FOR IN THE STREET ONLY COST THE PHARMACY ABOUT 5-15 CENTS PER PILL - SO EVEN IF THEY CHARGE YOU 2 BUCKS A POP TO FILL IT WITH CASH, THEY ARE STILL MAKING RIDICULOUS PROFIT - YOU HAVE TO ALL REMEMBER THAT PHARMACIES ARE A BUSINESS - THEY WERE EVEN BEFORE THE PAIN MED EPIDEMIC - THEY GOTTA MAKE MONEY - THIS IS JUST A OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO MAKE BIGGER BUCKS - BECAUSE THEY GOTTA PLACE ALL THESE ORDERS AND THEY WANNA GET THE STUFF OFF THEIR SHELVES - ANYBODY NOTICE THAT WHEN THEY GET THEIR SCRIPT THESE DAYS THEY USUALLY GET THE A 215'S? - THATS BECAUSE THOSE ARE THE CHEAPEST FOR THE PHARMACY TO ORDER - THE BRAND IS ACTIVIS AND 100 PILLS COME IN A BOTTLE - THE BOTTLE IS ABOUT 10-20 BUCKS FOR THE PHARMACY TO ORDER IN BULK - THE ORIGINAL ROXICODONES WHICH SAY 54 199 ON THEM ARE OVER 100 BUCKS PER BOTTLE - WHICH LEAVES WAY LESS ROOM FOR PROFIT FOR THE PHARMACY - EVEN MALLINKRODTS ARE MORE EXPENSIVE - WHICH IS MOSTLY WHY ALL PHARMACIES THESE DAYS ARE CARRYING THE A215'S (JUST IN CASE ANYBODY WAS CURIOUS)

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So if im in legit pain.... what the heck do you...smart Pharm helper think i should take then, if everybody taking Oxycodone for eight yrs. or more are junkies, then please tell me something else that works at least half way like they do or better Im listening!P.S Taken for break through.

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YOU SHOULDN'T BE ON ANY NARCOTIC PAIN RELIEVERS - OBVIOUSLY YOU HAVE GROWN DEPENDENT ON YOUR MEDS AND YOU SHOULD BE WEENED OFF - MAYBE WITH SUBOXONE, MAYBE COLD TURKEY - YOU SHOULD GET INTO PHYSICAL THERAPY AND LOOK INTO SOME NON-NARCOTIC PAIN RELIEVERS - NARCOTICS ARE CLEARLY NOT FOR YOU - YOUR QUALITY OF LIFE WILL IMPROVE - TRUST ME

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Joeymotz, suboxone, really. A newer drug to get dependant on. Did you know its now a highly abused drug, once someone was dumb enlighten to snort it it took off. A friend of mine was on this in 2009. Insurance did not cover it and it was about $12 a pill. The pharmacy would let them pick up two or three at a time, kind of like an uncontrolled methadone clinic. Let's see non narcotic ultram, waste of money and your liver. I know people who had never taken a pill in their life and got body and were given that. Most went back to the ER, others took the max per day for a couple of days and went back. Even in IV form toradol is very ineffective of your pain level is over a 4. And physical therapy, insurance will only pay for it for so long. I went for two years at $40 a visit three times a week for my neck and it got worse as time went on. Why I'm not sure bit not everybody is the same. So if you don't have insurance you will not be able to afford therapy. Cortisone shots can have mast side effects where you won't be able to move for days, and on others like my ex girlfriend they worked on for about two weeks bit she had to go every month. Usually when someone really gets hurt and needs narcotic less their income will suffer, they sill lose their Jon from time off work, or something silly. I bet you haven't had to go through anything you mentioned as treatment. You only know of something happens to you.

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Joey, you crack me up! You are one of those people that thinks you know everyone's case, you don't. My two meds i take work good, they NEVER took all pain away, but before them i couldn't get out of bed few times a month and missed work! Now i have missed maybe two days in ten years and not because of anything like it, just kids and life. So ,Things are good some of us are good,hard working people in higher jobs than you. Have a beautiful day. Ms. Shannon

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Well along with everyone else I had the same issue so I started talking to my doctor to see if there is anything else that I could take that would help that is readily available. I was changed to Morphine and Oxtcontin for break-thru and long acting. They are not as good as the other but they at least do the job so you do not have to suffer

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ACTUALLY YOU'RE WRONG - AND YOU KEEP MAKING YOURSELF LOOK LESS INTELLIGENT WITH EVERY COMMENT YOU POST - MY FATHER HAS KIDNEY STONES AND HAS INURED HIMSELF AT WORK A FEW TIMES - HE HAS BEEN IN PAIN MGMT FOR ALMOST 10 YEARS AND ON OXYCODONE FOR OVER 5 YEARS, HE STARTED WITH PERCOCETS - HE NOW GETS 120 15MG ROXI'S EVERY MONTH - HE STILL GOES TO WORK EVERYDAY AND HAS BEEN WORKING AT THE SAME PLACE FOR OVER 25 YEARS - HE HAS A MONTHLY PAIN MGMT VISIT WHERE HE GETS FOOTLONG NEEDLES IN HIS SPINE AND REGULARLY HAS TO GET HIS KIDNEY STONES REMOVED SURGICALLY OR THRU A CATHETER - DID HE LOSE HIS JOB? - DID HE BECOME A JUNKIE AND UNABLE TO FUNCTION WITHOUT HIS MEDS? - NO HE DID NOT - SO PLEASE DON'T CRY TO ME AND TRY TO MAKE IT SEEM LIKE YOU CAN'T USE ANYTHING BUT NARCOTICS - SOMEBODY WHO IS HOOKED LIKE YOU SHOULD GO COLD TURKEY - THEN ALL THAT "LEGIT" PAIN YOU TALK ABOUT WOULD SUBSIDE - LIKE I HAVE SAID IN PREVIOUS POSTS, NOBODY WHO HAS NOT HAD THEIR LEG CHOPPED OFF OR HAS BEEN SHOT, OR IS NOT ON THEIR DEATH BED FROM AIDS OR CANCER NEEDS TO BE ON 240 30MG'S OF OXY A MONTH - NOBODY WHO IS BREATHING NEEDS THAT MUCH MEDICATION - SO YES YOUR DOCTOR USED YOU AND GOT YOU HOOKED ON OXY - BUT YOU ARE THE ONE PUTTING YOURSELF THRU THE EVERYDAY STRUGGLE - NOTHING IS STOPPING YOU FROM QUITTING THE DRUG COLD TURKEY - YOUR NECK CAN NOT POSSIBLY HURT BAD ENOUGH TO BE ON MORE THAN 4 30MG'S PER DAY - THE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT YOUR BODY HAS GREW A TOLERANCE AND A CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY - YOUR LIFE WILL NEVER BE NORMAL UNLESS YOU ARE COMPLETELY COLD TURKEY OFF OXY - END OF STORY

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WHAT PROBLEM DID YOU HAVE? - FILLING YOUR SCRIPT OR BEING ADDICTED?

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Wow joeymotz, exactly as I said, nothing has ever happened to you that hurts daily. Not kidney stones either, those do suck but they do go away. Also I never said I was unable to work, I also never said what meds I get nothing. I also never said what was wrong with me, shall I for you. Should I tell you how every month I get poked and prodded with needles also. Did I tell you o have been I'm sales for 12 years selling timeshare, home loans, real estate and started my own business online so I am my own boss and make really good money since I learned the game. I could go get a job, but why when I male more than most do from my house.

Ok so my five page mri includes four disc bulged in my neck, two with pinched nerves so I have a constant headache that we can't get to go away for going on 7 years now. From t6-t12 I have degenerative disc disease at 30, a mild case but it doesn't flare up much fortunately. And my lower back, I was hit by a dodge ram two years ago that messed it up badly. So from l1-l3 moderate disc buhes with austioaurthritis, and the really fun ones l3-l4 moderate disc bulge with right foramina stenosis(pinched nerve that runs down my leg) so my leg goes numb, I sometimes take a few steps and leg goes bye bye and I fall. And the worst, l4-l5 moderate disc bulge with moderate central canal stenosis(spinal cord is compressed pretty good) I also have this at l5-s1, not only that but at l4l5 I have right foramina stenosis again and at l4-s1 it is left foramina stenosis. So both legs are affected. I slept maybe three hours a night for over a year until my meds got right, spent money on a tempur pedic bed, trigger point injections, Soma, gabapentin(nerve pill that works that most pain docs for cash don't prescribe) 60 oxycodone 30mg/ month that I break in half and have many extra a month, and 60 oxycontin 60mg per month. Also I have gone cold turkey many many times over the years, some by choice and others not. I will tell you of you have something that is really wrong with you, not just a slight disc bulge it does interfere with your life unless you do something about it. Two years of physical therapy, massages, traction devices, shots, and no narcotic meds and things got worse for me, this doesn't always happen. Also people react differently to every treatment or medicine so not all of tour suggestions will work for people. I know someone personally that has abused suboxone for three years, it does the same thing as a roxy so if you don't know don't open your mouth. I do know a few people who get four times the amount of meds that I do for one disc bulge, depends on if you go to a cash only doc or one like mine that tales all insurance and doesn't have people wigging out for meds in the waiting room. Of course the cash places will write you what you want, not my doc. I know going to the doc, getting my mess and treatment has improved my quality of life and allows me to finally sleep more than 3 hours a night. So again you are one of those people who puts everyone in the same category because you don't know any better.

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You are sure to piss people off when telling them what they need without walking a day in everyones shoes. You're probably right that people are better off without this drug or any addicting drug for that matter....I can't think of anyone that would WANT to go through life being judged by someone like yourself, no matter if what you say is the truth. Yes the drug is habit forming, but so is the pursuit to want to free the body of pain. I would much rather be able to get off the drug and enjoy the little things in life such as: twisting and turning, enjoying sex in more positions that one or two, being able to wear a back pack while hiking, or even hiking at all, not to mention sitting for more than two hours. Nobody wants to have to rely on a pill to have some sort of normalcy returned to their life. Nobody wants to be labeled a drug addict as their body becomes physically and psychologically dependent on an opiate. I guess I'd rather be labeled a drug addict and be able to enjoy what life has to offer than to be drug free and be bed ridden or riddled with depression.

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