Shortage Oxycodone (Page 4)
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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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My online pharmacy does not carry schedule II medications. Although this might work for some, be careful that the online pharmacy you choose is legitimate.

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I UNDERSTAND YOUR FRUSTATION.THE BRIGHTSIDE IS YOU AT LEAST HAVE A DOCTOR WILLING TO GIVE YOU A SCRIPT.THAT IS ACTUALLY THE HARDEST PART.

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CVS told me they quit making Roxicet...I can no longer get it....period!!!! I can get the Fioricet w/codeine, so far, if they take that off the market (or so they say) then I am doomed. My Nurse Practitioner tells me to do a slow taper to get off them, how can one do that if they don't give you enough to taper with??????????? Now you know why ObamaCare doesn't care about people, I hope you all understand this, he only cares about the poor...!!! Ask the druggist if you can pay cash for your meds, see what your answers are!!!!

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I was told it is only going to get worse....by a Pharmacist. It will take voting down ObamaCare, so make sure you write your senators and congressmen or women. Pay attention to the politics of healthcare. It will take amassing with others who are willing to march on Washington DC to get this changed....be sure to get it "out there", or those in pain WILL die. I am one of those, my pain pills have been cut in half, CVS will not renew my prescriptions until they are good and ready to, no reasons except I have to wait 30 days. Even my doctor called and told them I needed them NOW, they still refused! I don't think the doctors are in on this, I think the Insurance companies, druggists and D.C. are our bosses/doctors. Offer to pay cash....see what you are told!!!! I paid cash and got my pain meds!!!!!

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HELLO.YOU NEED NOT WORRY.GO TO YOUR FAVORITE SEARCH ENGINE, IE BING.LOOK UP ONLINE PHARMACY,OR OXYCODONE ONLINE.YOU CHOOSE THE BEST DESCRIPTION FOR YOUR SEARCH. YOU WILL FIND AFFORDABLE AND ESTABLISHED PHARMACIES EVERTWHERE WHO WILL SHIP TO YOUR DOOR. BLESS YOU AND GOOD LUCK.

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I've been praying untamed you've been able too fill your medication. Also hoped you were able to be added to pain network thru fb. If you get a chance post how you're doing. God bless

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Untamed, she will accept your friend request. I know exactly how you feel, it's so wrong of them to do this to us. I called corporate walgreens last month and reported the pharmacist. A corporate a**hole called me back and said, oh, it's for roxycodone, right? I said yes, and he proceeded to talk to me like I was a piece of sh** and said they have the right to not fill amd prescription if the pharmacist isn't comfortable with it. I stated that's wrong, and he said that's the way it is. This whole thing is so out of hand, and legitimate chronic pain patients are paying the price. The only thing I can suggest is a mom and pop pharmacy. It's hard to communicate where we each live on here. I'll try to find you on the fb page I referred to previously. Take care and see if tomorrow you can get you med filled. Blessings

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Oh I do hope I hear from her.I did send her a add a friend with a note. Today was another day from HELL. wasted a full tank of gas to be told yes we have them and no we WONT fill them.What bull s*** to know the wal-greens are now starting to get them and they are profiling people and just to scared to fill scripts....

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Friend request the name in my previous post. She is an advocate who is tirelessly working to help chronic pain patients. There are strength in numbers so let's band together, and maybe we can bring about change.

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Fight for pain action network, fb. Ratliff Donna.

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Her name is Donna Ratliff and this is the name of the network is: "Fight for Florida Pain Care Action Network". She is on Facebook,friend request her, and she will accept, as she wants as many people as possible to join and fight for us in Tallahassee. God Bless.

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I too have filled at walgreens for almost 2 yrs. The pharmacist also told me she wasnt comfortable filling roxy script. Unfortunately, they have the right to not fill bc it's their license on the line too. If a dr writes a script,the pharmacist should have to fill it. I will post the link to the fb page of the woman fighting for pain patients rights. We can also notify our congressman, Senator and governor. I will get this info asap. Blessings

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yeah gotta love the new commercial w3here the walgreen pharmacist gose out nof thier way to help you what a f&^%king joke!

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PLEASE JUNEBUG, let me know of the person on FB who is fighting for pain patents so I can address her also. Thank -you UntaimedspiritL

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I want to know what we can do about this.Yesterday my husband got his script, the same one hes been getting for over a yr now, and from the same Dr and we go into a wal-greens to fill them and guess what the pharmacist said this time? OMG your not going to believe this one! SHE said to my face I'm sorry I don't feel comfortable filling this script, I asked WHY? because of the Doctors script writing habits! I said WHAT?I told her its the same medicine hes been taking for over a yr from a pain management clinic. Where does one go for pain meds I ask her and what Doctors do you feel conferable filling from. SHE SAID oh I don't have a LIST! SO she just decides to play GOD and chooses not to fill my husbands medications because she personally didn't like his DOCTOR....WOW what the Hell is this coming to. This is the United States of America....I am calling a lawyer Monday and I'm going to try and sue Walgreens for discriminating . Oh ya they were filling the older peoples scripts.Please EVERYONE lets get together and sign a petition against wal-greens

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I don't know either. I emailed governer rick scott, but of course never heard a word. I also am in so much chronic pain, always bring meds with me to my dr appts, submit to monthly drug tests, and feel like a damn criminal when I try to fill 1 narcotic prescription. I'm also prescribed lyrica and flexeril for nerve pain and muscle spasms. I've never asked or wanted more than the oxycodone. It's the only med that helps me without making me sick to my stomach. I just started the opana yesterday, and I'm holding back from puking and have a wicked rash on my arms, legs and back. I know I'm having an allergic reaction to this poison. I did some research on it last night and all the junkies say they love it because it feels the most like heroin out of any of the opiates. Idk.. I've never done heroin, nor would I ever do it. When I was @ drs yesterday, I heard the dr say no more oxycodone prescriptions because I wasn't the only 1 waiting for another script. An older person couldn't fill either, and the pharmacy that ripped me off said the opana is hard to get too. I guess we're pretty much screwed. I plan on notifying my congressman, governer and the president too. What about terminally ill cancer patients? Are they to suffer their remaining days? I'm 50 something and the more I learn the less I understand any of this. I will go on my fb page, there's a lady on there who is fighting for pain patients rights. I will post her info when I'm feeling better. God bless

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This is so crazy!!!! Thought the data nase n shutting of pill mills was going to male it better for legit pain pashants...its worse omg so much worse....i cant belive we cant fill legal perscriptions....the pain amd suffering the dea is causing is amazing....HOW DO WE BAN TOGETHER? HOW DO WE FIGHT THIS? HOW DO WE REGAIN THE RIGHT TO TAKE A COST AFFECTIVE MEDICINE THAT ACTUALLY WORKS!!! OXYS WORK GREAT...ITS A WONDER DRUG...I CANT MOVE MY NECK/HEAD WITHOUT MY MEDS....WHO DO WE COMPLAIN TO....HOW DO WE GET HERD BY OTHERS THAN US...
KNOW.WHAT I MEAN LOL

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Still couldn't fill roxycodone prescription. I brought script back to drs office and was given a script for opana 10mg, 150 for month. Pharmacy could only fill 90, so I had to lose 60 of them. This opana is awful, I'm so nauseous it's ridiculous. I'm lucky I can take 2 a day, they make me feel like crap. They're not cheap either. I was so annoyed that pharmacy pulled that bs on me. I was so sick and tired of driving around, it wasn't a hard decision. How's anyone elses luck with filling roxycodone? Peace.

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I too have been out of med for a wk now. Nothimg even given to wean off. Go to same dr, and was told he wont rewrite prescription. I've been so sick, I can barely get out of bed. I'm so pissed off @ the system, the dr, no one cares. The w/d are the worst. The pain is one thing. Ive given up looking, I don't have the strength to go out anymore. Been clean for a week, so I'm done playing this dangerous game. Even if I could fill them, next month another nightmare? I had trouble last month, I can't live this way. Thanks dea,and all the junkies who put legitimate chronic pain sufferers in this horrible situation.

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Can not get oxycodone filled in SWF. The doctor that wrote out my scripts last month was busted in an 18 month sting up in spring hill fl. nov. 1 2011 and his clinic hope pain management was shut down. He was signing blank scripts and giving to a women doctor who was not a doctor at all and was getting the scripts filled herself. I have called thr FBI and FDLE and CCSO and they have done nothing. If you want to get mad then we all need to be upset with all of the governments and not just the DEA. Although I do happen to think that they are not yet smart enough to do the right things to change it for the better. I take 40mg oxycontin twicea dayand take 30mg oxycodone 3times daily. I have been without any oxycodone since the 23rd of may and have been through all the withdrawels and I'm in a great amount of pain but walgreens will not fill it. Dr Sleight even told me when he gave me my scripts that my walgreens was boycoting his scripts in paticular my walgreens that I have had my scripts filled for well over two years. Both my knees are shot my lumbar spine has so many injurys I can't even list them here and my cervical spine has tomany to list. I also think now I was over exposed to arsenic in the 1980's and 1990's. I just took a 24 hour urine test to check for heavy metals. I believe it is the root to my inflamatory arthritis and mant other problems I face everyday. I pray that things get better with the medications or Imay not be alive much longer.

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