Class Action Against Purdue/hmo's/dea Reformulated Oxycontin

'K. I'll try 2nd report about my personal experience and need for any help to find a Class Action Sit against Purdue and all invoved in the mistreatment of Chronic Pain Patients who have been prescribed the reformulated oxicontin OP. Some of my history of treatment for my Chronic Pain. I have suferred since 1980's : was prescribed Vicodin until I could no longer tolerate tylenol and was referred to the "Pain aClinic in my HMO. I was prescribed 80mg of Oxycontin and 5mg Oxycodone for break through pain. The intake Physician said that if I needed more to contact him. I was told at the time that Oxycontin/codone was entirely safe for the treatment of pain without the damagiing effects to the body. I was given injections to try to releive the pain but eventually I was told to see the Prescribing Physician for the Pain Medicine, When I visited that Dr. I told him that I would like to try a different med. and he worked out a titration schedule for going on Methodone. The Methodone did not work and made me ill; nausea,vomiting,stomach pain and more.I asked the Dr. to retitrate me back to Oxycontin. I was returned to Oxycontin at 40mg tabs every 8 hrs, which was far lower than the original dose. When I attended my next DR appointment, he asked" how I was doing on the REFORMULATED OXYCONTIN." I responded "IS THAT WHAT IS WRONG WITH IT??" IT DOSEN'T WORK" I reported the same side effects I had with Methodone; and that it did not treat my pain. The Dr has tried to push other things i.e., Fentenyl path and Lyrica. I have children whose experience with the Fentynol Patch was nery negetive and I refused this option. During my titration changes I received call from the Pain Dept.. Staff questioning everything possible about my medicine administration; "what was the dosage schedule for that weekD? What else was I doing to relieve the pain? On the 1-10 Pain Scale; the worst least and average. "whether I was constipated etc. The elapse time perion for all of this started early 2010 and continues. The Dr. refuses to treat my pain and continually reduces the strength and amount of this useless oxycontin-OP, which I refer to as Oxy-Placebo. There are RX Meds that I have requested in the past and was denied with the explanation of dangerous side effects, but now that I am continually ill, the Dr. has prescribed to me. This is a direct contradiction to his previous statements. The last conversation with this DR went nowhere and he has ordered a referral to see another DR fore a consult. I told him that I have little faith in a DR within the same HMO and beleive the physician are being given their "marching orders" by upper athorities. After enduring all of the pain and misinformation haded out by my HMO and no help in sight, I am hoping that this site will advise me of any
class Action suit to compensate honest people who trusted their Dr's for legitimate pain treatment. The unreformulated Oxycontin worked for me. I was able to conduct daily work. Now I am in constant pain, and side effects of "meds". I have been treated as an addict and humiliated by Dr's in other Dept's. as well as negative remarks by Pharmasists. I have worked hard all my life and approach 70 yrs. in age. I am ready to take action against Perdue, Kaiser permanente. and the DEA. This is a "Battle Cry" from someone who is a good fighter for a rightous cause. PLEASE ADVISE!!

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I am very sorry that you are suffering, I always hate to hear of people that are going through this.

However, first, the DEA actually has nothing to do with this, so it would be pointless to try to include them in any lawsuit. They do not have anything to do with approving any medications that are on the market or etc. The initials stand for Drug Enforcement Agency and they only deal with illegal drug activities, such as diversion and trafficking.

The agency that you would have to question for approving the new Oxycontin formulation would be the FDA. They are the ones that actually control what makes onto the market in the U.S.

On a further note, I have not found any information on any class action lawsuits in regards to the new Oxycontin formulation. In order for one to have grounds and get anywhere, those involved would have to be able to prove that when Purdue Pharma reformulated this medication, they did it with the intent to do harm to those that were using it.

Clearly, they didn't, they reformulated it in an attempt to prevent further harm to people by making it harder to abuse.

I am sorry, I realize that this is not what you want to actually hear, but it is, nonetheless, the truth.

It really seems that your biggest problem is with your doctors, rather than the drug manufacturer.

However, even in regards to that, your doctor isn't obligated to treat you or make sure you have pain relief. He doesn't actually have to prescribe anything. The only time a doctor is actually obligated to treat someone is if their life is in danger. At any time he chooses, he can decide to stop accepting you as a patient and/or refuse to continue to prescribe you any medications.

As to your problems with the Oxycontin, the best thing you can do is report these issues to both Purdue and the FDA, the more people that do so, the more attention will be paid to the problem. You can contact them at the following numbers:

Purdue Pharma number for drug safety/medication issues:

888.726.7535


FDA MedWatch number:

800-332-1088

https:/­/­rxchat.com/­wiki/­OxyContin/­

Are there any other questions or comments?

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Purdue is not doing anything with our calls and complaints. Maybe we could do more - is there someone we could write that could help us?

Thank you.

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Verwon - First I apologize for chatting with you awhile back and didn't get your login name right! Please accept my apology. Now, do you mean to tell me that the doctor that put me and others on this s**t can refuse or drop us as patients? How is that legal? I would go through withdrawal! And STILL BE IN PAIN. Please address this for me as I am being sent to a pain clinic next week. Do I have to accept what they offer? Or can I decline? Thank you in advance for your time!

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wtarin1, no worries on the username, I am used to people getting it wrong, they do it with my first name as well, which is Verleen. I get every variation you can think of and it doesn't phase me. LOL

As to your question, yes, it is legal for them to drop someone as a patient or refuse to continue to prescribe, as long as at the time they do so, your life isn't in danger. The reason they can is because even if you do go into withdrawal later, there are emergency services available to help you. If you go into an emergency room and are in danger, the doctor's there HAVE to treat you, under the law, regardless of what put you in danger.

However, if you browse our site and others, you will see posts from many people whose doctors have dropped them or stopped prescribing controlled substances and they have no recourse.

If you're bleeding to death, the doctor has to help, however, that is where their obligation actually ends in the U.S. It is sad, but true.

As to pain management, no, you also have the right to refuse any type of treatment, however, that still doesn't mean they have to offer you anything else. If they want to give you Vicodin and you refuse it, because you feel Oxycodone works better, it doesn't mean they have to give it to you.

You do, however, always have the option of walking out of their office and finding a different doctor or pain management specialist to try again.

These are all the same reasons why a doctor does not have to see someone whose insurance they don't accept or who is uninsured and can't pay. It's why a pharmacy doesn't have to hand you a prescription for a medication, even if it is life sustaining, if you can't pay for it or have no insurance to cover it.

I had severely high blood pressure, but couldn't afford to see a doc and, except for when I was in the hospital in danger, there was no way to make one agree to see me, without coverage or the cash to pay for it. I could not afford the medications the doctor prescribed, they amounted to more than I earned in a month and there was no way to obligate any pharmacy to give them to me, regardless of the dangers I was in. I finally went into congestive heart failure, however, I have no recourse against anyone, even though I could have died.

I am sorry if this information upsets and disturbs you, but this is just how it works.

If you have any more questions or anyone else does, feel free to post them and I'll get back to you!

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I also have Kaiser and had the same situation, I would like to talk to you. Please email me back to get in touch.

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I also have kaiser and had the same problem, I would like to talk to you about the Pain management program and the bs that goes with it.

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It is my belief that until all of the PHYSICIANS start complaining to the FDA and Purdue, nothing will happen. Doctors are already too busy to fight against a huge, drug company, but they need to be the voice for their patients.

Instead, they (Physicians) are taking the easy way out, by increasing the dosage, to match the relief of the original formulation, or changing their patients to Opana. This is so much easier for busy Doctors and they really don't want to get on the phone with the FDA and Purdue.

Some Pain Management Physician SHOULD do their own study, to prove that the new formulation does NOT have the equivalent bio-availability as the new Oxycontin Formulation.

BEG YOUR DOCTORS TO CALL THE FDA AND PURDUE PHARMACEUTICALS! Until enough health care professionals complain and PROVE that this new formulation is not as effective, things will not change.

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But the Dr.s don't care nor have the time to call Purdue. Again the patient with Kaiser I would like to get in touch with you Re: Kaiser and Pain program and Op oxycontin.
Thank You

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Hi No one in the world hates Purdue Pharma like myself, they took and destroyed my life my medical prescription class action is a good start but insurance companies will do the paying, push for sending the bastards back to Canada along with addiction/doctors call dependency I am goin through hell weaning off and other meds I could do I believe it is laced with a cocaine type additive but do not have older oxy to prove claim and the FDA is about has useful has tits on boar pig government should get rid of 16 highest FDA bosses, along with addiction, bad hips artificial neither Zimmer or DePuy Johnson & Johnson could care less this week brought the final I am 60 and don't abuse meds but noe I have blood cancer and the blame is medication, can one beat Mayo a bunch of liars arrogant bastards who cannot admit wrong doings I have been with firm that is enacting class action suit email me I will forward address remember the top starters get the most and I need to provide for family, my disability income is less than $800.00 that total in a year is less thanObama 's kids swing set probably paid by taxpayers and I wish this guy would explain the real 12/03/10 trip to Afghanistan it is questionable and if the Feds want to arrest me so be it one year of life free room and board
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Pate I need to get in contact with you. Re: Kaiser and Pain Doctors and being labeled as drug seeker and reformulated OP. Please need to talk to you asap. Thank You.

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i am interested in talking to you. i am a kaiser patient, 54 yrs old with severe fibromyalgia pain and me/cfs which also causes burning pain.

for a decade i have been on 30mg X 3/day oxycontin and two 10mg breakthrough for the worst days. at the beginning of 2011, following pressure from my family, and not knowing that one of the reasons oxycontin wasn't working the same way due to the reformulation, i decided to try a titration down with the help of pharmacist. once i hit 20mg x 3/day, i hit a pain wall. it's been getting worse ever since.

when i decided to titrate, my pain specialist and gp both said that if it failed, "you'll just go back on the oxycontin. now they refuse to give me back my former dosage and are forcing me to rotate to any other opioid, methadone, morphine er, fentynal or opana. i am in so much pain that i have told them i will try methadone (which i did try in the past, also morphine but both were way too sedating and nauseating). i had an appt with the pain mgmt dept head, a chart review, and two appts with a second doctor. no one will prescribe oxycontin. i wrote a four-page letter, the doctor said he couldn't argue with anything in it. except no, he can't prescribe oxycontin. i found out kaiser is studying it with funding from perdue until april 2014. why can't they leave me alone. i've been on the same dose for a decade and was satisfied with my pain mgmt, although i did notice a big degradation after the reformulation, although no one told me about it. what to do, what to do?! i'm supposed to start the rotation on nov 19th. once i'm off the 20mg x 3, they will never give it back, even if everything else fails.

i'm desperate. i know oxycontin is the best drug for me as it doesn't knock me out, even with the reformulation. for kaiser, it's an across the board policy not to prescribe oxycontin anymore. there is no individual consideration.

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Kaiser has taken PM patients and playing games with our medicines? Please get back to me to discuss.

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i'm still fighting. have taken my complaint to kaiser member relations and am waiting for reply.

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Only addicts would want to have a class action done against PURDUE for the new oxy. It is the same as the old, except it can't be abused, like the old oxy. e.g: shot, shorted, crushed.

Basically, OP your problem is that your doctor has reduced your medication intake and that's why you are feeling the pain, not because the OXY OP isn't working. So, get your doc to prescribe you, your orginal dose and it should be back like it used too.

Sorry, but I too suffer from chronic pain and took oxycodone for 4 years at 200mg a day. Always taken as prescribed, orally and I became addicted and had to go through a suboxone detox. I believe that you probably have the same problem and are addicted and need help. Perhaps, you should clean your body of all those chemicals and start from scratch. I have notice that since I have stopped taken Oxy, my pain has lowered, weird how your brain works when it's under chemicals....
Look it up!

Good luck!

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i'm not looking for a class action myself... i just want my old dose back which i titrated from myself and have been at 1/2 the level for five months and in excrutiating pain. 30 mg X 3/day... for a decade. took myself down from 50mg X 3/day because it was too much drug... please don't assume we are all addicts. 200mg, sure. glad your pain is better. xoxoxo

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i forgot to add that the reformulation did degrade the efficacy of the drug and most pain patients confer. so i don't want a law suit but i do want my doctors to stop screwing with me. why should i pay because doctors (yes i blame them) handed a serious pain medication out like candy to people who were having a tooth pulled. i went to japan in 2002. i need a form with authorization from the american embassy to bring the drug into japan, and they counted my pills going in and going out. that's the way you handle a drug like oxycontin. so i/we pay again because our health system SUCKS. and we pay and we pay... ~laura

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Class Action I would join because at the time none of the Dr.s or Pharmacist even in PM had no clue. For me my pain dictates how much sleep I get if any. I had many issues that Purdue couldn't answer, to include clinical trials? I did my own study as I had received my last few orders with half new half old. My migraines when on a good regime with meds is fine, when on OP I went through a rebound migraine for sure because I did this twice. Took normal dose Old meds and Blood Pressure ok and sleep ok, Pain ok. OP my Blood pressure went up and my sleep down and pain level was up. Then back to original and again all good. Need email to get in touch. Thx.

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please send me your email and i will reply with mine. i'm leary of publically posting my email...

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Laura and other's with Kaiser having issues, and anyone who know's of lawsuits Re: Reformulated Oxycontin or just Attorney's handling this stuff. Please email me

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I have tried to give my email.

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It's not just Oxycontin, but they ruined/reformulated the IR Oxycodone too! My original Dr kept upping my dosage to ridiculous levels, I complained/noticed it's drastic change about 1 yr ago. My Dr just kept denying any changes to meds formula & blamed my way of administering doses etc etc I was always precise when dosing fast fwd new Dr this year, I tell him my thoughts on the difference he instantly agrees & says "Oh yeah they 100% changed ALL Oxy formulas etc" & nothing can be done try Vicodin fap fap fap.. It's a total joke! It does NOTHING for pain I could take 120mg on empty stomach & feel nada, vs just 1 30 mg old formula oxy IR in less than 5 min any break thru pain instant relief I'm living in constant 24 hr pain now, cant take Vic as tylenol is killing my liver, & nothing else on the market works.. Thanks junkie losers for ruining anyone w/ genuine pains existing years... Seems like the DEA/FDA could better manage such misuse & let the rest of real pain suffers have access to old working formula IE we're ALL in their data base, why not ONLY release it to those of us who've NEVER had an abuse or any sort of misuse prob in the past??? I mean they've def cracked down so hard recently you cant even get reg Vic refills w/out seeing your Dr monthly or getting the Blue triplicate script in person anymore its a tot joke/hassle for those in true pain to visit Dr so often etc etc..

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I JUST SAW YOUR POST I KNOW ITS OLDER POST BUT MAYBE YOU CAN HELP ME.I HAVE BEEN.TAKING 80MG OXYCONTIN OVER 20 YEARS PLUS TONS OF OTHER PAIN MEDS.SINCE PERDUE HAS SWITCHED FORMULAS I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ME BUT THEY NO LONGER WORK.IM.SUFFERING AND PAIN MANAGEMENT DR DOESN'T CARE,HOSPITALS THINK YOUR A JUNKIE.I REALLY NEED HELP I HAVE REFLEX SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY AND SUFFER HORRIBLY.DO YOU KNOW OF ANY LAWYERS I COULD CONTACT ABOUT THIS ISSUE.OVER 20 YEARS AGO WHEN I STARTED PAIN MANAGEMENT NOBODY EVER TOLD ME IT WOULD WRECK MY LIFE.I HAVE BECOME A SLAVE TO THE MEDICATION AND WOULD LIKE TO LEGAL ACTION.IF YOU KNOW OF ANY LAWYERS COULD YOU PLEASE REFER ME BY.EMAILING ME.SORRY FOR ALL CAPS ITS FROM THE REFLEX SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY OK TAKE CARE.

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Yes, I have a comment to your post ... you are obviously a doctor and not a pain patient. My husband has suffered with constant pain since 1976, like the original poster, and it is not fair that the med that works was reformulated to deter the CRIMINALS from abusing it. Yet, these poor people get treated like the dang CRIMINALS when they are just trying to get some relief from constant ... and you get that it is constant, right? ... pain. Pain ... I banged my thumb with a hammer, but in five minutes it's gone ... not for them ... it's CONSTANT! We just fired our pain management doctor, because we had repeatedly asked him if they had reformulated the OxyContin and he repeatedly told us that they had not. My husband's exact words were, "The medicine seems to be 'running out' after about 10 hours". It's supposed to (and the original formula did) last 12 hours ... it doesn't any more! He doesn't want to be high ... he wants to be out of pain long enough to walk the grocery store with me ... but he can't!!

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I completely agree I'm in so much pain with fevers headache etc my doctor will up my dose and has been and nothing changes.

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my stomach is killing me... on oxycontin.. had similar pain in 09 to the point of stabbing pain and could not even eat.. had Barastat endoscopy which proved I now have "visceral hypersensitivity".... in other words.. . could not put a thing in my stomach and had to go on tube feeding food orally for 3 mos and take atavan and nortyriptalene... and detox from oxycontin and any and all narcotics.

I finally got better. Now it is 2014.. just had double back surgery and back on OXYCONTIN!! gettiing stabbing pains in gut back again! scared.

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Same experience for me with reformulated Oxycontin. Dr. switched me to Opana which was fine until it too reformulated and now does not work. It seems the problem comes from the Federal level as they forced the drug manufacturers to change these products so the street users could not easily crush or burn their extended release tablets in order to get the full effect "high". So...manufacturers were forced to change the coating/shell of these medications by adding fire retardants along with polymers to make them crush proof. Problem is - this resulted in making these meds less effective for those of us who were successful in using the non-reformulated meds for pain control. And...I've been told the street users have found a way to slip this outer shell off the reformulated meds in order to get to the drug inside to use it as they may anyway!! So...what else can we do? Contact any and all Legislatures with our stories. Let them know that the street users will always find a way around the safety protections to get what they want so they need, no must allow these drug manufacturers to go back to making their product the way they were which is also the way that provides the most success for pain control for so many legitimate people out there. Not a law suit of the drug companies as they were forced by Congress. You have to start there my friends. Good luck. I'm still searching for my level 4 on the pain charts pain control again.

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I agree with you. My back surgeon screwed up my surgery and damaged my leg nerve. Only pain medication that works is Oxy and I just started reading this forum and learned that the new formula doesn't work as well. Now I know why. I have never responded to pain medication my entire life. I have red hair which I have read effects how Rx's act differently on red headed people. I have to take a boat load for it to effect me. I cannot take methadone because it makes me so sleepy I cannot get out of bed. I am really tired of being treated like a criminal because a pain medication works and that is what is it suppose to do. Pain patients need to start showing up at their gov reps offices and start complaining. I am now doing this very thing because this Rx costs Medicare $4000 a month for my medication because a surgeon screwed up. My back surgery was to be just 4 hours but went to over 8 hours and he already had a 4 hour surgery before mine. When I woke I was unable to move my left leg and could not feel it either . Slowly when the feeling came back it was massive pain that I did not have before because it was a sciatic back leg pain. The surgery fixed the original pain but he damaged my front thigh nerve and it was worse than the sciatic. The surgeon did not put a word into my medical file aabout any of the complications or what happened in surgery. I had to file for social security disability and received it 4 months after I filed. That was 2001 and I have been on Oxy ever since.

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Just found this discussion site. I too agree reformulated oxycontin is not as effective as original. Someone suggested possible illegal meds in this product as reason for reformulation. Actually, if you research it, our wonderful Congress are who we have to thank for it as part of the war on prescription drug abuse. They enacted rules which the pharmaceutical companies had to follow to make these meds crush proof, burn proof, etc. I was told the only difference is the outer shell. I was also told it now contains a type of flame retardant along with crush proof polymer. I also started to experience new side effects that had not been there during the many years prior to reformulating and when I had successful pain control. These included hair loss ~ especially in the front areas of scalp; leg pain; mysterious upper right side pain that my Dr. was unable to diagnose despite several tests, scans, etc. Upon learning about reformulation of oxycontin & discussion with my Dr. I decided to switch to opana er. This seemed to work out ok the first 2 months and my side pain went away, hair stopped falling out by the handfuls plus leg pain went away; therefore, leaving me and my Dr. to believe these symptoms were in fact from the reformulated oxycontin. Then I had a note attached to my opana script saying half the pills looked different but they were the same medicine, just new pill shape.It's been 7 months or so and I've lost my pain control. The opana doesn't last like it used to. My hair is falling out again. My right side has been aching off and on again. Researching opana I discovered that it too had to be reformulated for same reason as oxycontin ~ congress ordered. And, there are sites like this where many folks share the same findings as me ~ the reformulated opana er does not work like it used to, and it's causing new side effects. This truly sucks. It's one thing to have to deal with so many who want to label us as drug seekers til they truly get to know us at medical facilities (or as my Dr. did for me, he has it noted in my file that he is not concerned about me abusing my meds in any way so to please respect that fact and treat me accordingly ~ it works wonders too.) plus having to sign contracts that include random UA's &/or pill counts to prove trustworthiness. But, the street users have caused this entire fiasco of ruining what was once great pain control for those of us who need it by abusing these meds to point Congress stepped in and said change it. Yet, these same street user/abusers have already found a way around the new outer shell reformulations ~ {edited for safety reasons} Just like they did with the original pills. It just takes a little longer to prepare nowadays. In the meantime, we who take it as directed are left with having to leave that shell on in order for the release rate to be accurate ~ which it no longer is. What a catch 22. I'm considering going back on the oxycontin as they're more options with it as the main stay than in using opana. Any helpful info would be appreciated. Also, I'll gladly jump on the bandwagon in search of a positive resolution to this problem if someone finds a direction to go. Thanks for letting me have my say.

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Thank you for your service in the military!

I am a Kaiser member. Like you, I was on 10mg Oxy-C 1-2 3X/Day and it did not make me pain-free, just took the bad edge off the pain. In addition, I have radio frequency ablations on my cervical and lumbar spine regularly. The nerves that exit the facet joints (on the sides of each vertebra) are located via needles into the areas, then those needled areas are tested via electric pulse. Once the nerve location is verified, lidocaine is injected. After all needles are in place and tested, they are hooked up to a machine that heats up (ablate means burn) and kills the nerves. It is not pleasant, but it does provide another vehicle of pain relief. I suggest you ask your pain doctor if s/he does this procedure. I would have jumped off any available cliff long ago if I did not have this avenue of additional pain killing. Nerves regenerate, which means that whatever pain those particular nerves may have caused will likely be back in 3-6 months. Then you can get it done again. If you can get on the procedure schedule. I have had at least 41 of these procedures in the past 10 years.

I learned just a couple months ago via a phone call from my primary care doctor that Kaiser was no longer RXing Oxy-C or Opana (a close 2nd), period. My choices were: morphine, fentanyl patch or methadone. I don't really consider any of these a choice. But, I'd tried the fentanyl patch and it nauseated me something fierce, plus I felt intoxicated, droopy, wilted. Methadone just has a built-in prejudice since it is basically heroin's red-haired stepsister. So, I take morphine, which is not so effective, besides causing major mental distraction. I feel that it keeps the user distracted about his/her pain rather than lowering it effectively. But, I had to choose.

I leared from my KP pain doctor, whom I LOVE, that primary care physicians at Kaiser basically declared war on the pain doctors by going to Kaiser bigwhigs and demanding that pain doctors not be allowed to prescribe ANY painkillers for their patients. So, the specialists are being hand-slapped when they are, in fact, the only people in touch with and trained on present day pain care. Additionally, pain doctors are allowed to perform procedures like RFAs (as I described above) and epidurals (steroid shots). However, in SoCal, my pain doctor has ONE patient room in which to engage in pre- or post-procedure appointments with her patients. So, pain patients are taking quite the hit. As are the pain doctors.

As if things aren't weird enough, there is a NEW pain department that is headed by a shrink! I was told that Kaiser wants out of the painkiller business altogether. My primary care doctor wants me to see someone at the NEW unimproved pain clinic regarding my pain. To date I have not done so as I decided I needed a vacation from doctor appointments for a month, at least. I don't want a psychologist telling me it's all in my head. Can you imagine being a cancer patient with end-stage cancer being sent to a shrink with regard to your pain? To me it seems just plain sinful on the face of it. Maybe it is a good change. I am highly skeptical.

I know how hard it is to even begin taking narcotic pain killers. I had to be talked into it after all other forms of pain relief had done their jobs on my stomach. I used to eat ibuprofen like it was candy. That was before I knew it could kill me. I tried Vioxx (wiht its heart attack/stroke side effect), Celebrex (with its heart attack/stroke side effect), Neurontin (really weird and dangerous drug - suicidal feelings side effect), etc., and ad nauseum. All of us pain patients have something in common. We are not taking narcotics because we want to. It is not something I like to tell people because often they either want some because they think it's fun to take or they act like I am a weak human seeking sympathy and a high.

There is no one to sue. We all have the right to move on to another provider. Doctors don't have to prescribe any drugs.

When the generic Oxy-C was removed from the marketplace, that was the beginning of the end. What had been a $10 co-pay for the generic became a $400+ co-pay for the name brand. I got an exemption because I had tried all alternatives. Then they decided not to prescribe it at all. But, just by looking at the price difference, it is very hard, indeed, to think that Kaiser is playing the role of secret savior of American society by stopping all prescriptions of Oxy-C and Opana. It's all about the $$$. If generics were suddenly available, they'd be handing it out like fishes and loaves. My opinion. My premium is $1,001/month. One month of named-brand Oxy-C was over $400. I think the picture is very clear. Profit. Bottom line. Greed. Capitalism.

FYI, folks should bear in mind that if you are taking ANY generic drug and you have a terrible side effect, including, but not limited to, death, you can't sue anyone. Only the ORIGINAL maker of the drug is responsible for all its flaws. Those companies that make generics are doing so based upon the science of the original drug. This was upheld by the US Supreme Court and it makes as much sense as putting psychologists in charge of the pain departments of the largest single medical provider/insurer in the U S of A, Kaiser.

Thrive!

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Has anyone else known oxycontin to rot the teeth? I used to be on vicodin until my doctor told me I needed to switch to ...

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switching back to original form ## Would you care to elaborate? What is your source? ## Yes, we would like more details ...

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I've been taking the oxycontin oc for years now. I want to know what exactly is in the new oxycontin op? PLEASE HELP...

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