Where To Purchase Paregoric (Page 4) (Top voted first)

I've used Paregoric for 15 years and can't find it. Is there anywhere in the U.S. or other countries where this can be purchased?

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The FDA thinks we'll all become addicts to the opium. Thats the bottom line. Ive never gotten high from it. I doubt my dr will write an opium Rx. I don't think that would be safe either. Thanks FDA- you suck and have ruined my life due to hyper motility.

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I am in the same spot. I have used it for years and it is the only thing that worked well for my IBS. It IS back on the market, at least in Maryland. My doctor, fortunately, gave me a prescription for it and I got one bottle, but now the pharmacist tells me it is no longer available again. I don't know what is going on!! Also, another RX I use for IBS is DONNATOL and this is now not covered by my insurance and it quite costly. If anyone on this site can help as to where Paregoric prescriptions can be filled, please let me know here. Thank you.

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This is not a substitute for Paregoric, but have you tried Donnatol? I use it since I, too, cannot get the Paregoric. I suggest you google Donnatol and ask your doctor but, again, it is not the same as Paregoric.

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I too have found insurance no longer covering Paregoric but am able to get from a compounding shop. Paying out of pocket but at least can still get it.

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If Paregoric, just like any other medication, is used correctly, it is not addicting. Can it be? of course, there are always individuals who will abuse a medication and/or take it incorrectly and overuse it. It is too bad, though, that for the people who need Paregoric for certain conditions, and for those patients who have not abused nor over-used the medication, they are denied it. For those of you who are still trying to get their prescription filled for Paregoric, I live in Maryland........it was off the market for about two years, and now it is back on again and available in Maryland.

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It does not matter what medication you are taking whether it is a synthetic opiate or an opiate if you take it for any length of time you will become addicted. Now that does not mean you are a drug addict by any means I want to make that clear. Those of us who have to take this medication on a daily basis yes we are addicted however we are referred to as drug dependent, as long as we are using the medication properly. Unfortunately I know people that have had to be put on medication for pain who were recovering alcoholic for many years. They succumbed to addiction because they over used the medication, not just for pain management, however their past addiction craved the high. Any medical professional who does not tell you that yes, your body is addicted to this type of medication is a liar. You should change doctors. Again I want to reiterate that doesn't mean that you are a drug addict seeking a high it simply means that you are dependent upon the drug and should you try to take yourself off of the drug you will go into withdrawals just as a drug addict would! Life-threatening withdrawals. I had a situation recently with fentanyl patches. Within 12 hours I realized I was not getting enough fentanyl. I found that the FDA had already been investigating this particular manufacturer. I literally thought I was going to die, I ended up putting on 2 patches, 50 micrograms. It happened over the weekend I called my doctor first thing, basically I self medicated to get through the situation by adding the extra patch, of course I called the manufacturer. They were absolutely of no help. This type of fentanyl patch is made of aluminum foil, what a joke. Now I realize that they make it this way to cut down on abuse, however if somebody is going to abuse fentanyl there's not a damn thing you can do about it because believe me they will find a way. My doctor actually got on the phone with my insurance company trying to get the patches replaced because the kind or the brand that I normally use I could not find, the day after New Years. Cvs is about the only pharmacy who will order Milan brand in my area. My preferred pharmacy deal in the cheaper brands. They are difficult to stay on... And this particular aluminum foil brand, oh my god. I was in withdrawals at my doctor's office and she was literally raising hell with my insurance company. She finally decided to give me morphine sulfate er the equivalent in addition to a cocktail to assist with the withdrawals. Unfortunately no one had the damn morphine in my area. Thank God she was the doctor on call, she was so pissed off and has been so aggravated with my preferred pharmacy of Walgreens she got on the phone with them and raised eternal hell. She insisted they order the morphine, however it took about 4 days. So yes indeed I am addicted to fentanyl and opiates, percocet, of course the percocet helped a little bit with the withdrawals but not enough. If you have ever been in withdrawals you will know you are in hell. I have been in pain management clinics since 2004, I take a U/A per say every 30 days and I have never failed one. It is a conundrum I would not wish on anyone however it is a part of my life and my pain is well managed and I have well documentation that I don't abuse the medication obviously they would not write a prescription if I failed the U/A. Those of us who suffer from chronic pain also suffer from the ignorance of doctors who lump us in with the drug addicts. A pain management specialist knows your addiction or dependence on this type of medication you can even get addicted and have mild withdrawals from Tramadol which is a synthetic opioid. You can get addicted to any kind of medication as far as that goes. That is why they tell you not to get off medication without consulting your doctor. Some of it of course is ok but some of it can be life-threatening. For example any kind of diazepam or benzodiazepine. Literally can kill your ass. This is why the average primary care doctor screams DEA when they are asked to write such prescriptions. Believe me, I went through hell after being called a drug addict by my primary care doctors physicians assistant whom at the time I thought was a doctor! He literally made me feel like a piece of s*** and scared the hell out of me. I was able to get into a better pain clinic and get help after I tried to get off fentanyl by myself which nearly killed me of course. Since that time, I have been labeled a drug addict by my former, primary care doctor whom at one time considered me one of the most intelligent patients he had! He never had a problem with my seeing a pain management specialist however the time had come for me to change, because I went into withdrawals when a drastic change was made in the dosage of my fentanyl by a very lazy Dr who did not want to call in a prior authorization to my insurance company. In fact after further investigation with Medicare, I found this pain management clinic was over charging and basically they were out for money as they had almost 12 clinics come on working on there 12 when I left. I am fortunate to be with this group, because now many doctors do you know who would get on the phone with your insurance company and fight to try to get your medication refilled because your life was at stake! Not very damn many.

I realize I am going into a lot of information but I am just giving you some history, and again yes paregoric or any other medication that is synthetic an opiate, or an opiate based medication such as paregoric is most definitely addicting! Just read the information that is included with the medication or should be. If it's not that's a violation of the FDA and the DEA in the United States. Again good luck with your situation and hopefully if that is the only medication that helps you, you can find someone in the United States that manufactures the medication and work with your insurance company, perhaps your doctor will work with your insurance company to get this medication for you. There are always exceptions to the rules and unfortunately we chronically ill patients must fight every battle is uphill, nevertheless fight! You might be surprised at how many battles you win. Good luck!

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The reason I said that your Dr can work with the DEA regarding opiate drugs is because they can. Not only can your doctor work with the DEA but you can get information your self by calling them to find out exactly what is going on with the specific drug is it has truly been taken off of the market and why. There is another organization that helps pharmacist regarding medications that are being taken off of the market or temporarily discontinued for various reasons ASHP. Check them out. Google compound pharmacies for those of you that are looking for this truck and see if it is possible they can make it up for you it will be more expensive and sometimes your insurance is not going to cover anything made by a compound pharmacist or rather a pharmacist that 'compounds' drugs meaning they mix it themselves. There are more now than ever. I hope that answers your question. Anytime you have a question about why a drug has been discontinued especially if it is a controlled substance pick up the phone and call the DEA and ask them, if you don't want to ask them, have your doctor call them and ask. You would be surprised because they can tell you that some drugs are no longer federally controlled - only state controlled. I have never dealt on the state level but I am getting ready to in regard to my migraine medication fioricet. It is no longer federally controlled but is controlled in five different states and of course they're in the Bible Belt! Begging anyone's problem but that's where I live and that's what I have to deal with! Another issue is the VA. They dish out pills two people who really need to be in pain clinics, which would be former addicts. Unfortunately this happened to my brother and he was in rehab three different times with the VA regarding opiates because as a very young man he was an addict. Of course once an addict always an addict and then when you start taking opioid based medications, that being in your system of course it caused him to want to go back to other substances. He's dead now. He was doing very well when he got out of rehabilitation VA hospital, his last follow-up visit they finally referred him to a pain clinic which was something I had been begging him to do after his serious back injury and permanent disability / chronic pain. If it were not government, we would have a legal case because if a doctor has been giving you an opiate medication and has not been monitoring your use by pill counts and for lack of a better word a U/A every 30 days to make sure you're not abusing the drugs, they are doing you no good. That is only asking for trouble. The fact of the matter is when a doctor discontinues giving you that type of medication and tells you you need to start going to a pain clinic they are supposed to give you at least a 20 day supply so that you can get into a pain clinic otherwise you're going to go into serious withdrawals... And of course if you are an addict which you are drug dependent however if you have been using other illegal drugs most likely you'll go back to that before you can get into a pain clinic. This is a difficult story for me to even talk about but hopefully I'm making sense to someone. Do not ever let a doctor take you off of medication that is opiate based without giving you something for withdrawal or giving you a substitute that is equivalent. Apparently that is what was done to this person who was taken off of the paregoric, they were given tincture of opium which is the same thing it just tastes bad. Take it with a spoonful of honey! However if it does not work and if you feel you need the paregoric because it works better for you, your best bet is to contact the DEA and find out if that drug has been discontinued all over the United States. They will tell you!

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When my mother gave me paregoric in the 60's for severe menstrual cramps, she would put the liquid in an orange juice glass with 1/2 glass water and a teaspoon or 2 of sugar to get the bitterness out. I would then go to bed and when I woke up 4 hrs. later I felt like I never had the cramps in the first place. That's what I used it for and when I was teething. Wish it was still around because codeine and morphine does not help my pain these days. I have a broken foot that could not be fixed for lack of insurance (Codeine for that) and an injured hand that could not be fixed (tramadol and generic Lodeine for that)

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This whole paregoric situation is insane. Im so sick today and need my medicine. Id be better so quickly if I had it. Of course there is a lot of pain pill addiction BUT Ive NEVER heard of anyone addicted or trying to hunt Paregoric on the black market. Maybe there just wasn't enough need so they discontinued it?

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I heard you can buy it from the Dominican republic. Guess we have to book a cruise to get. It is an old medication but works wonders.

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Paregoric is "camphorated tincture of opium." It works on GI problems and pain. It is addictive because it's opium. Use it wisely. It can cause severe constipation in some people.

If it's prescribed for you, be very careful with the first dose, the first few doses, until you find out how your body reacts to the drug. Never drink alcohol with it. Check with your doctor or pharmacist about drug interactions. Don't try to be slick and inj. it; the camphor is part of the drug to prevent inj.

Every woman I've known who's been told she has irritable bowel (including myself) has eventually been diagnosed with endometriosis. It can cause intense pain, severe bowel damage, internal hemorrhage (you'll have pain between your shoulder blades, so get to an ER), and permanent infertility. Don't treat it with paregoric.

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I know this is an old post, but I remember other people, and myself was given this as a child. But when we were on a cruise 2012, I seen it on a shelf in a drug store, I think it was Cozumel Mexico, or one of the ports in Mexico, and I picked up a bottle around $4.00 hadn't seen it since I was a child, many years ago, but don't know if they even still carry it.

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Paregoric drops (the original) have been used by my 88 year old mother since she was born. Used it for menstrual and regular stomach pain. Now of course it's considered a drug by the "very smart" FDA. You can buy it in the islands (Santo Domingo, Jamaica, etc.) but of course you need to know someone or go there yourself. Here in Miami they sell a papaya enzyme with the same name, but not the same.. Also sold on AMAZON, but not the original. It appears to be "close" but never the same. At last resort, drink an anisette liqueur made in Spain called "Anis del Mono". It is sold in most liquor stores especially in the Hispanic side of town. It is very good and sweet - has been on the market since 1870 - if it doesn't take the pain away it will get you drunk and the pain WILL GO AWAY ! :)

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Saoirse, You've given some really great advice on a wide array of topics that DO come with chronic pain and the meds prescribed in the U.S. and, for me, the hell the FDA puts me through. I can only walk a few horrendously painful steps so I've mainly been confined to a wheel chair for over 15 years and I'm still having to piss in a stupid cup every other month which as long as the so-called "Pain Doctors" in Kentucky will let you without them seeing you again so they bill Medicaid over $300 bucks and ALL of us are treated like addicts and criminals and I'm getting so sick of all this crap that I'm really very close to saying, 'To hell with it all' and stop taking all of my medications. When a human being is so sick and in horrible pain, WHERE is the humanity from any dang doctor? "First, do no harm..." I don't think so! I don't take anything as strong as most of the people putting posts on this forum and I'm still treated like a criminal or a junkie. I take 3 Oxycodone (Percocet) w/ 325 mg. of Ibuprofen, 3 x per day and that's it and it doesn't cut it but I can't take any other type of pain med. other than I.V. Morphine (*NOT Morphine Sulfate!) or Morphine inj's. so, basically, I'm screwed. I have left two doctors because of their inhumanity, only to find that third doctor is just the same. They are Anesthesiologists, Gas-Passers, people, who make tons of money as Anesthesiologists working with surgeons on the days and/or hours they're not at the Pain Clinic and they don't know crap about diagnoses or the myriad of diseases that I endure 24/7. My best suggestion is a whole lot of prayers OR if there's a TRULY GOOD man out there who lives in an island country where Paregoric or CBD Oil & THC Oil is legal and is looking for a great woman: here I am!

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I've had a hemicolectomy, i.e. partial removal of small intestine and large intestine, necessitated by (old) radiotherapy damage to bowel. The result was horrendous and unrelenting diarrhoeia. Prescribed by gastroenterologist, I now take Cholestyramine sachets and a spoon of Normacol Granules Natural High Fibre (each 10g contains Sterculia 6.2g) (for bowel regulation the box says). I live in South Africa but guess products with similar ingredients should be available I hope! This pair of meds works for me as long as I eat sensibly and stay off the high fat foods and 'moving' veg etc. Before the op I used to use codeine phosphate 30mg tabs and they were also very helpful.

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt, my heart goes out to those still struggling with the scourge of uncontrollable diarrhoeia.

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I read these posts as we are all suffering, with more pain. How does a thing like this happen? Do junkies even know about paregoric? Im so sick and tired of the government in my life. They're all criminals, not us. The world is becoming a bad place and WE have to suffer? Give me a break! Im sorry for the rant but Im down to my quarter of an inch of paregoric and truly scared.

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Since I was a child I’d have severe cramps and diarrhea. A dr determined im allergic to food products. Preservatives, fillers, corn etc., as a kid my mom would give me a juice glass with whiskey and ginger ale. Then she explained to my dr. He then prescribed paregoric. Usually one teaspoon would kick it. I never used it unless I had an attack. Never craved it. Only sought it when I needed it usually a few times a month. It’s embarrassing and painful when you go to a wedding or an outing and you can’t do nothing but sit in the bathroom for hours. Well in the 80’s my doc retired. His new partner boo hood it. Now if you ask a doctor they act like you’re a junky or something. The stuff tastes so harsh how could you crave it??? Well big pharma the main culprit has new meds for that and they are not opiates, wow!!! They do carry bad side effects. The problem is our government and the DEA are sticking their noses too deep into our business. I still as I age get worser episodes. I’m so dehydrated when it stops hours and hours later. I cry and moan from the pain. I’m so angry. Besides now they forced most dr.s into not prescribing or under prescribing and the human toll in suffering is getting worse. There was a time when scientists called the opium poppy a gift from god for human suffering. We are not all looking to get a high. There needs to be a coalition of patients, dr's and lawyers to sue for compassionate treatment. And tell the DEA to go stop the illegal drugs from pouring into our country. That’s why they were created. They're so helpless against H and fentanyl coming into the country killing hundreds of thousands of people. Who decided they have a role between the patient and Dr? They don’t go to medical school? We need to get pain suffering patients what they need. Ironically the more pain patients cut off of needed meds the more illegal drugs are destroying lives. I’d like to have a better quality of life again.

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My insurance did not cover it as well. I had to pay nearly 100 a month for it when I got it. I do not think any insurance company will cover it.

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When my son was an infant the Dr presribed paregoric for him because he was throwing up his milk. So I would put a few drops in his bottle. Worked like a charm. I had a huge bottle left over. I was shoved to the back of the bathroom closet, forgot all about it.

Eight years ago my husband passed away from cancer, so I started cleaning out his medicines and came across the paregoric and thought it usless since it was from 1978. Poured it out and took all the cancer drugs to the pharmacy to be disposed of. When I told my pharmacist about it she said OMG! I thought I was in trouble because I poured it out, she said you poured out liquid gold that you can't get anymore. It never goes bad.

So the Brazil angle is interesting. My son goes fishing there every couple years with about 10 of his friends. So maybe that might be an option if any one knows of someone that goes there. Ask around in your community, it's more popular than people realize.

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A family member mentioned how we used to take paregoric as kids and I googled it. Now I know it's off the market. Seriously, though, you must not criticize the FDA. After all, in order to get on the FDA you have to have been thrown out of Freddie Mac for stupidity!LOL.

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