Shortage Oxycodone (Page 2)
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This is freaking ridiculous!!! Last month it took 3 weeks to fill the RX and this month, it's going on another 3 weeks. Pretty soon I'm going to have multiple scripts that I won't be able to fill any of them! This is going to screw up my whole cycle. I'm suppose to be taking the oxy with methadone at the same time for my pain. Do you realize how much gas and time I've wasted in the past 3 weeks? I've gone to the same pharmacy every day, you mean to tell me that none of them has them for the past 3 weeks! I get bogus excuse every like, ohh we can't fill methadone with oxy, or you need to be in the same county as your doctor, you are out of your zip code, we can't fill that many pills, you have never filled at this location....blagh, blagh, blagh!!! Or they tell me they are out of stock and don't know when they will be getting any, this should be illegal!! does the DEA understand what might happen when someone goes without their medication. I want a DEA to get hurt on the job and forced to take these medication and then all of sudden not be able to get any because of 'shortages'. I'm sure they would like the withdrawls and there's even a possibility they would die. DO THEY UNDERSTAND THIS??? I can't fill my scripts until after the 28 day cycle, although they r they reason why I can't fill going on the 3rd week, now I have to wait 28 days before I can fill and my dr's apt is next week!!! WTF!?!??! I've spend so much gas money just driving around every wallgreens and cvs just for them to roll their eyes and tell me off the bat that they don't have any. I feel like suing someone! How can we bring attention to the cause. Does someone have to die from withdrawls and their family having to sue the state/pharmacies in order for someone to care?? do they realize how much stress and pain they are causing us? I can't afford to be wasting gas just to track these down. Seriously, I've gone every day, spending 3-5 hours driving to each pharmacy and I'm only limited to local pharmacies since I have to stay within my zip code, which is ridiculous!!! The pharmacy in Longwood won't accept me because she said I'm out of the zip code, I live in LONGWOOD, it's even on my driver's license, although I live on the other side of town but still!!! I'm just so pissed and sick and tired of the pharmacist treating me differently, like i'm such a bad person. I'm just a person with pain, if that makes me such a bad person then so be it.

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I think that they arent being honest with you. They usually tell customers "we dont have this in stock" when they have a problem with you. Sometimes they really are out, but you never know for sure unless you get ab honest person who says "hey your doctor has a bad reputation and we dont fill his meds" Whats your quantity? Walgreens in your area wont fill over 120 oxy IR pills, regardless of strength.

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After visiting numerous pharmacies regarding the oxys and there being none to be had, I've been told the following; Cardinal (the main manufacturer here in Florida and/or all the others) have reached the allocation for 2012; therefore the pharmacies now are ordering from manufacturers out of state which, of course takes more time to receive and get regular shipments going. The last of the shipments were given to minimal pharmacies last week so this has just happened and hoping that by Tues after the Labor Day holiday there will be some shipments received. Wishing all best of luck with this awful position we are all placed in right now. One pharmacist suggested to go online and lookup 'pain killer comparison' and it will give you a list of all the other medications that compare to the oxys and rate them by number (higher number, higher pain amount covered)

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@taylor, that's ridiculous! This state sux.Walgreens and CVS don't even wanna deal with c2 meds. The small pharmacies were my only hope. I still can't get roxycodone anymore, even from small pharmacies. The 1 pharmacist who filled my opana said as long as I'm not filling oxycodone or dilaudid, he'll fill the opana. So stupid bc that's what opana is, part of each of the previous mentioned. It's all about $$$. No profit in the roxycodone. Hope you have luck filling meds. God bless

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i was doing the medco mail in service for a few months and then this month they call me and tell me they are no longer able to fill my schedule 2's anymore bc due to recent changes in laws in florida, you need to be terminal ill inorder to continue mail in orders...ex cancer, MS, or even arthitis...BULLS***!! and this was working out perfect for me since I didn't have to deal with walgreen's bulls***, but with my luck..I always get screwed...if it's too good to be true, it normally is!

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@ redd, it sickens me a Vietnam veteran who served our country can't fill their meds. As for the ignorant statements of others, they obviously don't understand chronic pain. God bless you and thank you for your service. I hope you can fill your meds tomorrow

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@ redd, bc those people are ignorant idiots. Thank you for serving our country, and it makes me especially sick a veteran can't get their pain Meds. God Bless and prayers u can fill your meds.

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ve checked into online pharmacys and all the ons especilly walgreens has out of stock so now what i too have been looking for 2 days short of a month and know people who have turned their scripts in and got new ones and on the second week with those now some smart a -- on other forms say if you hurt so bad how do you ride so much simple when your in that much pain its willpower and hope and when thats gone then people start taking their own lives what will they say just another addict shame on the goverment that i served my country to be treated like an outcast when has that ever happened oh ya Vietnam GOD BLESS AMERICA

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I agree with your post so much. What if all the DEA agents suffered from the pain that we do and could't get their medication? Or even worse they were on the medication and then had the problems that we are having. Oh I forgot, they probably wouldn't have these problems because of who they are. Most of them have never been through the things we have and have no idea what it is like to deal with horrible pain on a daily basis not being able to live a half way normal life. I wish you luck and hope this nightmare ends soon.

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David, maybe C 2 narcotics are prohibited, but I get my benzos and my spouse gets his C3 pain meds delivered thru mail from V.A. just wanted to share that. Blessings to all.

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US Mail prohibits narcotics, but private sector overnight delivery services can deliver it, even across state lines; I used to get my scripts from the mfg. via Fed-X every month. Yes, the prescription needed to be there 3 weeks early, but they were pretty darn dependable even when I was occasionally late with my end of the deal.

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I live in Va. when and have chronic pancreatitis. Very painful .I have been reading all these statements regarding the availability of OXY medications. I'm afraid we are going to experience this in Va. Let's all of us patients who really need pain medication and group together and start fighting this goverment bureaucracy. NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Molly, I am in the same situation as you and I have been on disability from all of my injuries for three years now. I am also facing several surgeries which have to be done at a University hospital which of course there are none in the current county that I live in. I have been saying the same things as you about the DEA. I wish that all of them could live in the pain that I have to endure and not be able to have any kind of pain medication. I also wish they would have to go through the painful suergeries that I have had with no pain medications. I called Medicare and there is no shortage and the pharmacists are making up stories due to pressure from the DEA. Every time you are turned down from a pharmacist you need to get their business card and write down what they say to you especially if they are disrespectfull as some have been to me. Then call Medicare back and they will file the proper complaints against these people. We all need to get together and fight this. Pharmacists and DEA agents are not MD's and have no right to decide what medications we should be on. They no nothing about our conditions or the pain we are in. Thank you for speaking out and good luck to you. Check with your insurance company to see if they have a mail order pharmacy and if they will fill them through the mail. Several of them will. Best of luck.

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Lets ban together. I am in Piellas Florida and havin the sane problem. Hit me up at xxxxx@xxx {edited for privacy}
we need to do something asap.

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I feel bad about what you all are going through. I too have been going through it too. I have made a choice to stop all this madness. I have decided to stop taking pain meds. I have very serious problems with neck, lower back and both knee's. I have been wondering about something for the past 2 plus years and now I can stop wondering. Opiates cause more pain. Yes I did say Opiates cause more pain. I finnaly have the proof I've been seeking for 2 years. Of all places I found the proof at a rapid detox facility here in Florida. I'm slowly detoxing myself and it is vry painful but I have to do it because what I found out was more frightful than the detox. Anyone ever heard this term? hyperalgesia – increased pain. Check it out. If you want to know everything that goes on in your body when using opiates than check this out. Myself by cutting down I have already noticed the proof is in the pudding.
floridadetox.com/wellness-programs/chronic-pain-chronic-pain-treatment-chronic-pain-syndrome/

I have nothing to do with this place but I'm greatful for the full details of what is happing to us. I just skipped my pain clinic appointment and it was hard to do but in the end I know I will work out the pain somehow. It's takes a leap of faith to do this but I was always convinced that the opiates were causing more pain. The pain clinics are getting rich off of us and don't even care about us. I'm sure most of you have seen this lately. I even had a place to fill my scripts but when I found out the facts I got more upset at myself for not looking harder. Do yourself a favor and paste that address and read the one page. It won't hurt you to read a page. I can't go for rapid detox because it is 15 thousand dollars but it would be nice because it is only 2 hours and your done. Good luck with your refills to everyone and god bless. I know life with out opiates.

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Seems to me you are bed ridden because of the withdrawl from not having your proper medication, i myself was on oxycotin for years, I took myself off because my old pain dr, didn,t think methadone was a good pain med, well i am here to tell you it is and instead of feeling high and not being myself on the oxi, i found dr that did give me methadone and its great, no high feeling, just pain relief and thats all i wanted, oxi changes people, and the withdrawls are nothing i ever want to go thorough again, my advise for you to be able to care for a child and work and be in the right frame of mind, get on methadone!

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Dear Nac, I hope you feel better and appreciate your kind words. I just had a cluster h/a and the imitrex nasal worked. I too have a dog and she is a Godsend to me too! Many blessings and prayers sent to you. Anytime you would like to vent, most are kind and helpful. Good evening to you :)

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Panicnpain, thanks for the support, I really do appreciate it...very much!!!! No, I guess that is the only thing I have NOT tried...Imitrex nose spray. But I surely will mention it to my NP on my Friday visit with her! So, thanks for that!!!! Also, I will be seeing my dentist in a couple of weeks, he has helped me so much, I am down to 1-2 or 3 headaches a week...that is a miracle!!!! Had no idea I had TMJ...plus I have Facial Trigeminal Neuralgia...and Neuralgia throughout my body. But I am determined to overcome it all by taking the least amount of pain pills possible...and hopefully eventually to get off them entirely!!!! THAT IS MY GOAL!!! I have many other ailments but will be starting medical YOGA that goes along with my Pain Specialists' treatment, will start that at the end of the month. I also just found out I have low blood sugar....no wonder I can't get going in the mornings???? I am thinking it is because I need a pain pill.....so now my whole world will be different!!!! I am always watching my weight, so I never eat sugar or not a lot of foods that have natural sugars....but that has to change......maybe I then won't need any pain meds. That would be prayers answered, and the doctor who works with my NP is a rehab doctor....he is guiding my NP in helping me!!! There IS help out there for those who WANT to get off pain meds, I had to hunt and hunt but even at age 73......and believe me it was a huge struggle....but I did it!!!! Pain meds are not the way to go if possible, it takes hold of your body, you no longer OWN your body....the meds do. I always feel better when I take the least amount, when I take a lot with an intense migraine I get angry, because I have to start all over again with the "withdrawal",,,,I hate that. It is so difficult to get out of your body, but my doctors won't let me go cold turkey......so my complaint was re: the druggists....I am tapering.....it is a must....so they have to cooperate with my doctor...and I will give my insurance a call AGAIN to inform them AGAIN, what is going on. If it doesn't work this time, I will be in contact with my attorney...I don't think it is right, when I am cooperating with everyone and following the procedures they request. Thanks for your reply....and here's hoping we all get some help...it is out there!!!!!! I just hope you don't end up like me, dependent on the only drug that worked for my migraines, for 45+ years....I went for 20 years with "zero" help. God Bless my doctor who is with us no longer, if it hadn't been for him giving me Fioricet w/codeine at age 28, I would never have had the wonderful life I had!!!! BUT, I started out taking one a month....and ended up taking 6-7 because the TMJ was so severe after so many years, along with the other several ailments I have. By the way....I have a few SOMA I have kept from my long departed doctor (I keep them in the refrigerator), when mybackis goes out from over exertion or I have my Sciatic pain I take one and it does help! But my doctors will not give them to me thus far, I am still trying to convince them that just ONE does help, they are afraid I will become addicted to them...I have had the same prescription since 2003, my doctor prescribed 50. I still have 12 left....now tell me....am I an addict???? I don't think so, I don't think I ever have been....I just deal with a lot of pain!!!! I keep telling my NP I have a low pain level....she told my husband and I last week, she has never seen anyone endure pain like I do!!!! I thought she was kidding!!!! She said with all the ailments I have, by rights....I should be on a lot more than I take!!!! I was shocked!!!! So I guess I am doing okay....though at times it is difficult!!!! Got myself a little dog....she is helping me a lot!!! You know, DOG is GOD spelled backwards....animals can be a God send for those in pain. I love dogs!!!!!! :-). Thanks again!!!!

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I won't take the low road in your response. You're obviously here for the anger and shock value, to which I won't again respond to you.

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Oh my, those are some strong words you've chosen to use here. Very disrespectful. Good for you, you've chosen to not take medication. Not all conditions can be surgically corrected. Prayers sent your way.

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I already called insurance co. I also called Walgreens corporate and complained. I had my call returned by a nasty drone, who said " I bet you're complaining about oxycodone"? Then proceeded to tell me in a condescending way, if the pharmacist isn't comfortable filling rx, that's their right. I've told Dr office all the trouble not being able to fill, and all they say is, keep trying. Sorry, don't mean to be a drag, but it's a lot of bad Drs writing too many prescriptions in this state. I read on 1 website, 1 Dr in the orlando area wrote prescriptions for more roxycodone pills than the whole state of Cali wrote combined. Then we wonder why we're having such an awful time. Too many rotten apples literally putting the hurt on legitimate chronic pain sufferers.

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