and it seems to be that way with so many other drugs, tylenol is very toxic in large doses and your only suppose to take so much in a life time plus not to mention if you have/had any type of liver problem it's straight poison to your liver. I know i had hep c. from a blood transfusion back in 1970 before they screened for that, so i have to be extremely careful not to consume any tylenol if possible  but that's pretty hard to do seems like everything has tylenol in it. Anyway great blog hope everyone reads it and learns from all your hard work you put into the research i was VERY IMPRESSED need more people like you to put all that info out there, alot of people don't do there home work on meds/side affects etc. Would like to add you as my friend do you mind? Margie

Hi SleepTech,

I wouldn't be surprised to see that this is just the first of the many drugs to be taken off the market due to people selling them.  I don't know about you but I can't be offered enough money to sell my drugs, and I need the money!  The only way we are going to prevent others from being taken off is write letters, sign petitions, and bombard the person introducing the bill with letters.

You mentioned Lortab.  I know drugs affect people differently.  My doctor wouldn't prescribe Darvocet due to potential to be addictive, but it wasn't his drug of first choice either, said it wouldn't help me.  I have been taking Lortab (Hydrocodone/Vicodan) for five years now without side effects other than being sleepy after taking afternoon tab.  I fear the day I cannot get Vicodan.  I tolerate pain now when the Vicodan isn't working and won't tell my doctor because I don't want to advance to anything stronger.

I was glad to see FDA approved Lyrica although I am going to stick with the Cymbalta and Neurontin for now.  My brother used to work in upper management for Pfizer so he sends me info frequently.

I don't have time to do the research you are doing so keep me posted.   I have been working trying to get The Doctors to listen to us.  They have finally but not to our advantage or help.  I am trying to organize a chronic pain support group down but have had to put everything on hold for the past two weeks (my crisis period).

Peggye 

Food for thought... (1) approximately 23 million prescriptions of Propoxyphene pain medications are written every year (very large market) (2) Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals is the owner of Darvocet / Darvon (propoxyphene) and is working in "cooperation" with the FDA and the study panel to remove propoxyphene (3) Xanodyne has a new pain medication for moderate to moderately severe pain in their pipeline called Zipsor awaiting FDA approval! Sounds like $$$$$$

Furthermore:

All of the doctors I have spoken with have never had an issue with the efficacy of propoxyphene & acetaminophen.

If you remove propoxyphene, you eliminate a C4 and practically force doctors to jump from a Motrin (NSAID) to Hydrocodone (C3) for increased pain. Food for thought ... http://www.cato.org/research/articles/michaels-040229.html

For those that are allergic to hyrocodone and may have stomach or GI irritation with NSAIDs, what are their options?

My last thought, as someone mentioned previously... irresponsible use of any opiod or even NSAID for that matter can be toxic and or fatal.

Later

Michelle, it is strange, but just yesterday I was having a conversation with a coworker who happens to have a degree in pharmacology { being a military spouse and posted to a small town where that degree and the others she holds unfortuneatly she is unable to use},about different drugs on the market. We were discussing different pain meds I had been given and I had said I would take Advil over Tylenol because I felt it worked better even though the latter was not as hard on your liver. She told me that in fact the most toxic thing you can put in your system is Tylenol. It effects your liver, stomach and intestines. I never knew that. As for taking one drug off the market and leaving a stronger one then siting suicide, the stronger one takes less to do the job. Deb

I have taken darvocet for 8 yrs for a hip injury and it works just fine with me and does not leave me drowsy i am allergic to lortab and toradol and cant take ibuprofen because of stomach upset.

     I'm not so sure there are too many drugs on the market, differnet drugs will work differently for different people, I think it is important that doctors have a wide range of choices to give a patient the lowest dose of a drug posible to be effective.  For someone like me who has allergies to 13 different medications and counting, it is good to have more then one option for a problem.  The problem is not too many drugs on the market, the problem is we live in a society that believes there's a pill for everything, and if one Doctor won't give you the pill you want, there are 10 more in the wings or on the internet who will.

Well it sounds like to me anyways the drug company that is making Lortab must be getting funding from somewhere( CONGRESS ) to have this Darvoset taken off the market. I can only take this med after my surgeries.Morphine makes me have severe  horrible reactions as well as other meds.

If they say people who are taking this are more likly to commit suicide what about other medications are they gonna start with darvoset and work there way down the line !!!

Lisa

I dont like taking pain pills anyways but after my latest surgery i had no choice. the pain was INTENSE.