ARGGHHH!

[alfreda89]

First my antibiotic is in short supply, so they change my drug. Now they want my painkiller. IIIIIIIEEEEEE! Cthulhu comes!

Group Seeks Federal Ban on Darvocet

Darvon, Darvocet and related painkillers should be phased out and eventually banned, a watchdog group said Tuesday in a government petition that cited the accidental deaths of at least 2,110 people between 1981 and 1999.

http://my.ev1.net/english/news/newsarticle.asp?articleID=50175786&subject=health

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[lasofia.livejournal.com]

woah.

how well do you tolerate codeine or vicodin? Not well? darvocet always felt more gentle to me, though I know others who reacted horribly to it.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Sometimes Vicodin makes me dizzy. I'd never be able to drive or do a massage under its influence. I have the same experience as you do. It's much gentler, my Darvocet generic just takes the edge off. Of course, I only use one pill at a time, for a six hour period, so by many standards, I'm not getting any. But I was afraid of so much acetaminophen so I'm careful with it.

But I'm not supposed to take aspirin with Celebrex, and motrin seems to help headaches but not much else. So this implies going to a lot of other choices with side effects that get much nastier. Celebrex has been threatened, too. ARGH!

[hoosier-red.livejournal.com]

What IS this with the FDA banning drugs willy-nilly? First TNH loses her narcolepsy scrip, then they pull Celebrex (sob!), and now Darvocet because in close to 20 years, slightly over 2K people died. Accidentially. What does "accidentially" mean, anyway? Were they using it recreationally? Did they accidentially sprinkle it on their Cheerios or what?

I'd like to have the ability to make a decision about which meds I can take. Is that too much to ask?

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

They haven't banned Celebrex yet, but they're eying it. Actually, there's a watchdog group trying to push out drugs they feel have an unacceptable risk. Problem is, many of us on these drugs know there's a slight risk--for example, my blood pressure went from 102-106/70 to 116/78 while taking Vioxx. But if they yank Celebrex, I'll get the leftover stuff and use it, and the leftover Celebrex, because my hands become claws without it.

It's my antibiotics that could become a problem like TNH's--life altering beyond description. There are other painkillers, but they are harder on the stomach. or have really creepy side effects.

I have too many other things to worry about--I'd rather I didn't have to worry about my medical stuff!

[tia-tarina.livejournal.com]

They can have my Darvon and Darvocet when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

That stuff is a miracle drug.

I want credit for the fifty or so highschool students I didn't go postal on while taking this drug applied against the people who died while using it incorrectly.

That's only fair.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

I want credit for the fifty or so high school students I didn't go postal on while taking this drug applied against the people who died while using it incorrectly.

That's only fair.

You have a very good point, but not sure they'll go for it. Perhaps we could run the numbers of how much income we make and money we spend back into the system versus our being on SS disability. That's going to be part of the letter I'm about to write my Governor, Senator, etc. about hounding Lyme Literate medical personnel out of the state.

I need to go double-check what my Ex's disability would be--as I understand it, if you were married longer than 10 years, you have the right to choose the highest of the two for yourself (or half the higher income, can't remember which...)

[tia-tarina.livejournal.com]

Just tried to renue my perscription for Darvon and was told it is now unavalable

Darvocet is avalable only by special order in bottles containing a hundred pills. Cost wil be about $100.

It's just not fair.

I can't get my cough syrup, I can't get my painkillers.

I'm not a junkie, I'm just a person with occasional serious pain and occasional serious cough (it took me four years to go through my last bottle of codein cough syrup and six years to go through my last bottle of Darvon).

I'm hoping that as the boomers age, people will realize that drugs are not the enemy.

Crap. I'm just gonna have to go to Mexico.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Crap. I'm just gonna have to go to Mexico.

Canada is good, too. I just renewed a generic of Darvocet-N . . .Propoxy-N/apap 100-650. Will it work for you? Costco filled it.

I sure hope I don't have to go to a pain management clinic just to get the meds my specialist usually gives me. High deductible insurance, me.

I'm typing without my left index finger today--thank you for Celebrex and Darvocet-N! And the freedom to take double Celebrex for one dose, when needed badly . . ..

[tia-tarina.livejournal.com]

I've got the propoxy. It works OK, but not as well as the original. :(

Normal people can't be trusted with drugs, money or politics in this country.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Normal people can't be trusted with drugs, money or politics in this country.

It does feel that way sometimes.... Thank heavens for books and cats. They both help.