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JPD --

The problem is that my insurer will only pay for the real McCoy if the generics are NOT available or have been pulled by the FDA, so what I really need is to find out if the FDA has ordered Teva's products not be produced or distributed, either now or in an order effective sometime in the near future.

Thanks for your prompt comment,

Best,

Mike 

King --

Thanks for the FYI!:).  Where can I access this kind of information, as it seems my pain control has been "tethered" to Purdue-vs-generic disputes?

Thanks,

Mike 

   Dont know if you have Albertsons in your area, but they no longer stock generic OC's. naturally that would be the only place I got mine filled.

                                               .....MUD  ;)

 All the other companies that has to discontinue manufacturing last year where able to still ship what they had left after the stop production date. Just they same, the Pharmacies and Distributors are allowed to keep selling them until all supplies are depleted. My advice, if you are not under a contract switch to a pharmacy that no longer has any generics available.

"but many of us knew the time was going to come"....

 Not Me! I hadn't heard anything about the companies discontinuing their making of Generic Oxy.! Can anyone tell me WHY?

Why were they making it, and then not making it? Not enough profit?

Or does it have to do with Purdue? I thought the copyright issue had been settled to the "Generics" benefit side of it all. How could they have the right to make it and then not?

Do any of these companies stop to think about people who might have been taking these meds for extended periods of time, only to be suddenly told...."They don't make it anymore!"

And again, No, I hadn't been told until I called the Pharmacy about my months prescription. "We don't have any and they've stopped..."

For a person in non-stop pain, those words are DANGEROUS!

I just don't understand it at all....WHY??? HOW???

sorry for typos but i'm hurting 

Brand name companies used to have a 17yr patent but I imagine because of the hundred's of lobbyists they got kicked up to 20 yrs. Anyway Perdue sued them all and won in the court. That simple really.

"We will all see what happens. I certainly wish everyone well with this situation, who relies on this med to manage chronic pain."

This was part of the last comment. And as it turned out, for 3 prescriptions for the month, I wrote a check for $1056.92!!!

I've had Chronic Pain now for over 4 years.

Have been taking Oxy in one 'brand' or the other the entire time.

'But' with a monthly cost such as this, being on Social Security Disability Income only, I guess I won't be on it for long.

And, I've developed a New Chronic Pain!

It's in the location of the first word of the third sentence back (this being number one).

So Purdue will be the loser as well. :p

$1,100.00 for a month's supply? And they charged Purdue Pharma with making criminally misleading statements about the habit forming properties of Oxy?

They should have charged them with a violation of basic moral principles, terminal and felony greed, excessive pig like pricing, cruelty to the poor, and, on top that, war crimes (as in making excessive profits off of the "Drug War") and some petty misdemeanors just to keep the indictment balanced:).

Every month I get tempted by my insurance agent to give up my straight BC/BS because it's expensive. On the other hand, my co-pays are $10 per script, max. With all the pain meds, diabetes meds, and digestive enzymes, I could not afford a 50% or so co-pay.

We oh so totally need a single payer system!

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