Will Oxycontin Be Changed Back To Original Formula (Page 29)

is Oxycontin going back to their old formula? OC instead of OP.

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Fanovanagan, i hope your correct that they are going to bring the old formula of Oxycontin back in the US, so many people are suffering from the terrible side effects & inadaquate pain relief. They brought the OP form into Australia & many of us went through months of hell, thankfully another company released a generic of the old formula so we have a choice. Good luck with it.

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Soldier Of One--- i agree with much of what u wrote..im also a suboxone patient. but i feel like an addict still, as i am dependent on it, and when i withdrawal from it my first thoughts are to go find opiates. i had tried marijuana in my teenage years, and i never really liked it, rarely ever smoked it. I experimented with other drugs, but one day I was offered an Oxycontin, 80mg pill. I had tried 20's in high school. I took half it, and it was like nothing i had ever experienced. Wasn't long before i was hooked. Years later they changed the formula and oc disappeared. People are going to abuse drugs as long as they are available...the oc was changed...and all it did was increase the use of illicit drugs. All the law MAKERS AND Pharm companies did by changing the ORIGINAL OC was turn all of their oc junkies into other junkies, and they then caused pain and anguish in all of their legitimate pain patients. Changing the formula was an idiotic idea. It hurt the people who it was meant for, and all the addicts just switched to a cheaper easier to get, and more dangerous drug. A drug provided by cartels. I watched my best friend die because of an infection that he would have never gotten if he was still just taking oxy's, rather than a drug mixed with God knows what. Also, to any pain patients that may read this, i apologize for having been a part of the problem, helped pain patients get oxys in the past, and have seen how disabling pain can be. I have been on nothing but suboxone for about 3 years now, but i fear going off of it.

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Eho ssid that I never seen it are you sure you got your story straight Michelle?

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Yes im 100% right on this. Ive been on this medication for a long time due to a rare painful disease that has no other treatments available. Im allergic to many medications & this has been the one med thats worked without to many side effects, but the new formula made me really sick & didnt control my pain as well. It was a relief to be able to get the old formula & have been back on it simce release.

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There are new reasons for new medical findings everyday and for you to say hair thing is bs????? You dont know jack, so post real findings not your opinion.

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Hair thing?? I said nothing about hair, get your facts right! I have an extremely rare disease, only 200 recorded cases in medical history.....there's no research as research costs a lot of money, & grants are used for research into common diseases like breast cancer. I spent 10yrs chasing any treatment possible, natural & western medicine.....dont try to tell me theres new treatments every day, its just not true when you have a disease most doctors havent even heard of. Any information ive shared on here has been facts ive found, & discussed with my medical team. GP, Pain Specialists, Pharmacists.... always to try & help other people that are struggling.

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Michelle, I live in the U.S. Just got my new script for generic oxycontin. It has all the abuse deterrant & fillers as the OP, just a cheaper made version. I asked the pharmacist if any generics are available in the U.S. that are comparable to the original OC formula. He said "No. All generics sold in the U.S. must be produced to be comparable to the OP formula." And there is our answer. They are never bringing the original back & we who have to take it are stuck with an inferior product with all sorts of side effects that we did not have with the OC formula.

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Im so sorry Jeanie, thats terrible news.....we are very lucky this has not happened in Australia....although there is a bit of talk in the health department of late about the generic original version. Time will tell if it goes any further. I guess all you can do is look into other medications. Im not surevwhat you have available over there. Do you have a pain specialist? If not, you really need to get one, they are the doctors specialised in this field & able to be the most help.

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It doesn't. I found small green pieces in my stool but they say it's the same. BS.

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Wow Michelle you got attacked by the head butting girl...I just thought I'd let you know you have done nothing but give me helpful advice. So thank you.....

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Thank you Sandie, thats all im interested in doing.....when you've been sick as long as i have, in constant pain even with pain medication you grow a thick skin. I have a disease most doctors know nothing about, so explaining it to regular people is not easy....people who've never faced long term illness/pain have no idea & can often be judgemental. Headbuttgurl most likely falls in that category, & probably needs to slow down on the head butting! I hope your doing well Sandie,
Cheers.

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The Sandoz generic for Oxycontin is made by Perdue Pharmaceutical here in America. I talked to Sandoz when it first came out and they told me that Perdue was making it for them and it is the exact same formula as the OP version. What they have in Australia is a generic made by Sandoz which is nothing like the Purdue made generic version here in America. The Australian government stood up for their suffering citizens and didn't let this junk OP version that has bad side effects and only lasts 6 to 8 hours to continue to be used and allowed the real Sandoz generic to be sold, but the 60mg and 30mg doses are still under patent and as far as I know only the original doses are available for generic. I heard that Purdue is currently evaluating new versions of tamper resistant Oxycontin, but it is still at least 2+ years or so before we will see it in a pharmacy. They'll more than likely package it with Naltrexone which is an opioid antagonist. I also heard the trials so far have had a very high drop out rate because it didn't work very well, so they'll have to redo the formulation and try again. I'm sure we'll see many versions of tamper resistant Oxycontin styled medications so they can keep a strangle hold on the patent. They don't care about us or how well it actually works for chronic pain patients! They just care about keeping a strangle hold on the patent keeping market share all to themselves. Now tamper resistant and abuse deterrent are words they'll be using to create new pills for generations of patients to come and we're the victims of drug abusers and a government completely out of control who thinks drug addicts are more important than suffering human beings.

It's sad to know the innocent patients who do everything correctly will be punished because of a low percentage of people who only care about themselves and could care less what their actions have caused to happen to suffering human beings.
I think this nightmare is here to stay because they can't stop drug abuse, so now their going after the legitimate patients. We're just the victims of the failed war on drugs! Whose next? Street drug abuse is fixing to be an epic nightmare caused solely by our government and we've all seen this epic failure already... My prayers go out to those who are suffering and will continue to suffer until medical choices and decision are ripped from the hands of the government and placed back into the hands of the competent medical doctors with sensible monitoring programs in place instead of the gestapo like tactics being used now...

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Thats totally correct Mark, i dont know if you read many comments on here....but this has been said a few times by myself & others. It is disgusting what is happening in the US, & here we need to keep our fingers crossed that we will continue to have options in regards to formula choice, its precaurious though & all we need is a politition with an addict in their family to come into power.....that could force us to follow you guys. Addicts will change drugs, its what they do they dont get clean because their first choice is no longer available

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I pass a 40mg and it was NOT A SHELL it was the pill it just turn white but it was the PILL!!!!!

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Where are you located Barry? If you are in US the new oxycontin OP is made out of a silicone material...its tamper proof, with medication dispersed throughout the tablet, therefore what passed is not a shell (it will have the medication in it.) have you told your doctor you are having problems with your medication?

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Oxycontin, created by Purdue, owned by a family of the American Oligarchy, was purposely created to addict and to administer intravenously. It was no different than the conversion of opium to illicit drugs. They disregarded their silicone base for ER, like they used in their morphine ER, and used a separable wax base for intravenous use. The drug stopped pain no more than morphine but due to its chemical arrangement it caused the brain to produce large amounts of dopamine causing euphoria and addiction - taking the purpose out of and destroying millions of lives. Our government allowed this to happen and many were paid on way or another. What they are doing now, after a decade, is adding naloxone to their pills which will cause horrible and instant withdraw in those who try to use it as it was truly intended by Purdue. Illicit drugs will take its place. This is an evil country controlled by psychopaths and ran by psychopaths and sociopaths.

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Everytime I have seen a pain specialist, my GP tells them that the goal is to get me off all pain meds by trying everything else available re: injections, physical therapy, accupression, accupuncture, TENS machines, etc. Each time, I became a human guinea pig. It cost me thousands and I had to endure increased pain. And since I no longer want to see the pain specialists because of what they put me through, my GP will only keep me on the nasty OP formula. It is better than nothing but, not by much. Thank you Michelle for your advice. I do appreciate you taking an interest. I wish I lived in Australia. I would be doing a lot better like I was before. I hope they never change it for you guys. I read that Canada is thinking of going completely abuse-deterrent too. I cannot understand why they are concentrating on drug addicts and the drugs they abuse instead of giving pain sufferers the drugs they need, whether they have a potential for abuse or not. It should not matter. The goal should always be relief from pain. Instead it's, "We'll give you this medication with tons of polymers and other fillers. You will only get partial relief from pain and you will probably have a stomach ache everyday. But, look on the positive side. No one else will be able to abuse your prescription. Now, doesn't that help your pain and your stomach ache." Whatever are they thinking?

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When they first turned Opana plastic which I did not realize until I got massive heart burn feeling.. when I went in to ask if anything changed they initially lied to me and told me it was my age 38! Upon my own research I did see Opana went plastic.. I don't misuse it. So I only noticed change but used to getting change in shape of meds. That is when I found out they had made oxymorphone a lot cheaper too after a month to clear out plastic, all heart burn gone. By the way they just came out that antacid medicines cause cancer or something. I just saw it on the news 2 weeks ago.. isn't that nice...

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Changing the formula made several messes that were unintended most likely but should have been caught but since most people seen what was coming I'll elaborate.

1. When a pain patient is in distress the IR is very important and there are folks that need this kind of instant pain relief.

2. People will always abuse medications or drugs but by changing the formula on folks like me & others on this site is wrong. To make them unable to abuse these medications the govt made purdue use known carcinogens. How nice when you need this medication to get through the day.

3. The death rate is now higher than ever due to the changing of the formula and the drug dealers are making a killing from the Taliban to the cartels, very pure opiates are pouring into the country to fill the void created by the changing of oxycodone.

4. So it comes down to the lesser of two evils for those that will abuse these medications they can just go get the cheaper stronger illicit drugs but those of us that take our meds as prescribed and in moderation we don't have that option.

5. Since the folks that abuse oxycodone knew the dose they were getting it was safer than the 50% increase in overdoses created by very pure opiates so there you have it.

6. Strange how people in power see percentages: .03% is a huge number if it fits a political narrative but 5% can be small when it doesn't fit the narrative.

7. If you think changing the formula on oxycodone stopped or slowed opiate abuse down you are very ignorant on the subject so do a little research and see the bigger problem that's going to affect everyone with crime rising, terrorists having more money, cartels get more powerful, more opiate death, higher healthcare costs etc..

8. This doesn't even take into consideration the pain & suffering those of us that get some quality of life from these meds but I'm sure the liberals care so very much about the small % of us that have chronic pain right? nah we don't fit into any political narrative so we're of no use to those in power.

9. There are good doctors like mine that prescribe oxycodone only to those in real bad condition with walkers, wheelchairs, we're talking about folks that have a hard time getting out of bed in the morning due to the damage to our bodies. The bad doctors hurt all patients & they hurt doctors like mine that prescribe in moderation only to people with severe damage & proof of that damage while the government harasses good doctors like mine it's sad.

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Hi Michelle , I've been watching your conversations on here for a while . I am on the sandoz formula (works much like the original formula) u said u were in Victoria, is the health dept there still making u take the op formula? I'm terrified that this is going to be rolled out over all the states. I'm in Queensland and can't face going back to the ineffective op formula . So basically I'm asking if the health dept have allowed u to go back to sandoz .

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