opana availability/prices

[Aces N 8s]

In my area I am the only person I know who can get Opana and thats only because Im a cp patient. For a while was on 40mg ER per day and 20mg IR per day for bt pain. But that much Opana made me really apathetic so we switched me to fentanyl patches with Opana IR for bt.

When ever Ive thought about fair pricing for the IR Opana I just compared it to Dilaudid. An 8mg Dilaudid around here can go for over $20 each sometimes. Intravenous 5mg IR Opana is (analgesically) equivalent to 8mg Dialudid IV (disregarding incomplete cross tolerance), but with much longer legs. I cant comment personally on how they compare IV because I dont inject, but Ive eaten and snorted both and they seem about equal there. So I figured if they're about the same strength and euphoria then they ought to be priced similarly.

I also agree that doctors are largely looking to Opana ER to replace Oxycontin. This is probably because of how difficult the Timerx system is to defeat, and that it can do the same job but doesnt have the stigma that OCs do. When I first entered PM my doc put me on morphine but I had too many side effects from it. The very next drug he put me on was the Opana ER, which absolutely stunned me because I had heard how strong they were and thought that would be the last medication he would put me on. I should probably go back to them because then I could just rail my day's worth instead of swallowing it and I was still on schedule. But now with the fent patches, if I have some fun with them then Im using 2 days worth of meds, which puts me behind.