help, my med is being discontinued!
i have been living w/chronic pain for yrs, Have been taking Darvon for the last two, it has done best at taking the edge off w/out making me a zombi! Now i have found out they will no longer be making this med. I absolutely cannot take any meds with tylenol in them. Is there any besides ultram(not strong enough) that i can take? help!! Thanks!
Are you sure that Darvon is being discontinued? I know that an FDA panel recommended that it be discontinued my understanding is that the FDA eventually decided to allow the drug but added an extra warning label to it:
"Propoxyphene should be used with extreme caution, if at all, in patients who have a history of substance/drug/alcohol abuse, depression with suicidal tendency, or who already take medications that cause drowsiness (e.g., antidepressants, muscle relaxants, pain relievers, sedatives, tranquilizers). Fatalities have occurred in such patients when propoxyphene was misused."
I can't find information on the web indicating that it's being discontinued. According to Wikipedia:
"A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel recently voted to recommend that dextropropoxyphene be removed from the market, based on its weak pain killing abilities, addictiveness, association with drug deaths and possible heart problems, including arrhythmia. A subsequent re-evaluation resulted in a July 2009 recommendation to strengthen the boxed warning for propoxyphene to reflect the risk of overdose.[26] Dextropropoxyphane currently carries a black box warning in the U.S., stating"
Hopefully it will still be available for you.
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