New Opana Is Out Now - March 15 (Page 5)
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I got my new Opana Prescription this week and it is the new formulation. The old ones were six sided and the new one is round.

The new formulation, that the FDA approved, is supposed to be the same quality as the old Opana we are used to. I hope so.

I am going to include the links to the articles that discuss this at the bottom, the latest article is directly from the makers of Opana and is from February.

The old stock of Opana is all supposed to be gone from the shelves by now and the pharmacists are all supposed to be using the new formulation.

Let us know here how you think the new stuff is working for you. Is it the same as the old stuff? IS there a coating on the new stuff that changes its effectiveness like the way the new formulation of Oxycontin did when it came out in 2010? Let us know.

Mine only started a few days ago so it is too early to say. It is the Opana long acting. They had to change it to stop people from crushing and abusing them.

Let us see if it works.

here are the article links;

This one is from Endo Pharmaceutical directly, the company that makes the drug;

Crush-Resistant Formulation of Opana ER® Approved by the FDA

Here is the second one ;

Endo Announces FDA Approval of a New Formulation of Opana® ER Designed To Be Crush-Resistant

Hope it helps everyone!

Peace, Keith

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Roni-Sorry your getting so sick from the new opana meds. When you said, what a waste of money...your NOT kidding. I mean I have insurance BUT! If it dosent come in a generic form then I have to pay more, more co-pay and it's not cheap!. These pills in my state anyway, (Ohio) are between $600-$700 for 60 pills if you dont have insurance. I do agree, Endo will lose some business ($$) like oxycotin did. They need to understand that some of us just can't do those damn fillers!

Roni, hope you feel better and hope your PM gives you something to help your pain.

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PainGuy-I agree with your post that some abusers are messing meds up for us chronic pain suffers. I just started my new opana today, one pill so far and have had some problems. Irritaed, shakey, bad mood and a small problem with my stomach. Not as bad as when they oxys were changed over. As I said in another post-I'm going to try and give this a week....maybe my body will adjust to this. Must be some type of filler in the new opanas that are making me feel this way? Not so sure. I also had to take an extra break through med myself because the new opanas didn't seem to work as well. Time will tell. Hope your well. GOD Bless my friend.

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Has anyone read any replies on the topic of the new opana on other sites? If so, are they getting the same reaction to the new formulation or are they different?

Does anyone have any links to them?

I don't mean links about people wanting to know how to crush them or snort them or trade them for Justin Bieber CD's, but real patients taking them for pain.

Thanks in advance

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Its NOT the Docs that are full of it, its the goverment and the pharmacys-people that were abusing the old opanas didnt know how strong they were and some starting OD'ing. Plus pharmacys were getting robbed for opanas. Here in Ohio anyway.FMGIM

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Got mine today, it did make me a little sick-not to bad. What I experianced most was being shakey, aggravated feeling, VERY moody? Don't have the upset stomach like I did when the oxys were changed over to the OPs I'm going to give it a week to see if my body adjusts to them before I call my PM doc.These just seem like they should be generic to me anyway, but NO they change them to crap and we still have over a $700 bill. Thanks ENDO. If they keep making me fieel I'll endo lost me. Will keep all updated. Really hope everyone has a great evening ;)

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Just took.my first .40.mg op ever never had.the good.version either but took.this endo pharmacy one and what a joke. and this Shyt so.weak.n.ineffective i wasted time and money for these genius pharm companies to.think.they are bettering the community. When really they just candy coated this pill and its not helping anyone's pain even.to.the smallest amount of pain no.joke it just another ploy thatvthe idiots are going to bs their way thru not having the correct.pharmaceuticals in order to.continue how well they did.n.the past for pain meds. Now we have to.suffer cuz the.docs.are.just full.a S***. If anyone has a way to.get the working pain.medication.let me know

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I'm very sorry to learn that people are having problems with the new formulation of Opana.

We had many people that complained, when they changed Oxycontin, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. I think that in their efforts to prevent abuse, the manufacturers sometimes forget that it still needs to work, too.

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Has anyone else tried it and do you have any experiences to share with our site users?

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Yea they suck its like a plastic pill worse then OPs

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Tell me are there problems with new Opana like the new OxyContin?

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Oh Roni, so sorry. That stinks. I know how hard it is to find a good pain med for us chronic pain patients. It is what makes me so mad at these people who abuse them, break them down, sell them, etc. hurts the rest of us, forces the drug makers into these kinds of actions. Just like OxyContin before (that made me sick and didn't even work, didn't even know they switched that one so I thought I was in a major CRPS flare and was suffering horribly for almost a month! Dr nor pharmacist told me!!! Arghhhhhhhhhhhhh

Problem is the abusers are a tiiiiny minority! The average chronic pain patient does NOT abuse their pain medications, and frankly would prefer to not be on ANY medication if possible. We don't get high or a buzz from them, at best we get a little relief from our horrible 24/7 battle with pain.

We even take as little medication as possible, especially opiates, because of the side effects; constipation, drowsiness or insomnia, dopiness, inability to handle machinery like cars sometimes, memory loss, just to name a few.

Roni, I hope u can find a other opiod agonist that works for you as well as or better than opana. I have been lucky so far. No stomach issues and it seems to be working nearly as well as the old version. I have had to increase my oxycodone 5 mg, that I take for breakthrough pain, but so far only one more per day.

Have u tried taking it with food by chance?

Peace

K

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yes i got my new prescription yesterday, so far they are making me soo sick on my stomach that i don't think im going to be able to continue takin. The first one i took didn't stay down an hour. I dont know what they did to the med but gettn ready to change, n if im not the only one endo pharm is going to b loosing alot of money cause ppl can't take that "snot" concocsion!!!! Smart move on their part...NOT. now i gota go bk to pm dr tomorrow to get something else. they lost my money.

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