bad news for me, as the practically keeps me alive.. buuuuuut..
excedrin has been pulled from store shelves, due to a major mixup with prescription meds.. apparently they were getting mixed together somehow and the prescription meds wound up in the excedrin bottles..
for people like me, this is ultra-devistating news, as their migraine and back and body pills are the ONLY things that seem to work, INCLUDING prescription meds (refuse to take any narcotic related meds).. from my understanding, they won't be reaching store shelves anytime soon..
so if i disappear, you'll know it's because i've basically become a vegetable.. i know it's not funny to say that, but it's partially true.. most mornings i have to fight with all my will and strength to get out of bed
but to the root of why i'm really posting this.. what is the world coming to, when we can't even depend on pharmaceutical companies to keep their sh*t in order? good god, if this is the direction we're headed in.. what's next?!
I doubt you will be completely unable to find it. Sucks for you if you can't. It's the only thing that knocks down my headaches when I do get them. I'll be hording mine. JK
Bleh!
Hope this gets cleared up soon, Excedrin works better than the prescription "Immitrex" they were giving me for Migraines.
Thanks for the heads up.
same here! my doctor put me on a 3 week trial with immatrex a couple years ago and it didn't do squat..
i asked the pharmacist at cvs where it was, because they even took the pricing off the shelves, so i thought they moved it.. she's the 1 that told me it was taken off the shelves.. i said something to my friend jess, who's the shift manager and she told me it won't be back anytime soon..
Immatrex bad, made my head feel like fire. Fiocert is amazing but gives killer rebound headaches the next day (contains barbitutes)
All and all when I get a migrain the only thing I can do is sleep it off, luckily I only get them 1 maybe 2 a year.
SIDE NOTE: they pulled a bunch of birth control as the hormone in it wasn't sufficient to prevent pregenancy. Which would be an unpleasant surprise.
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The Swiss drug maker has recalled bottles of Excedrin, Bufferin, Gas-X and NoDoz which may have included mixed up pills.
Now the FDA says some of those over-the-counter pills may have accidentally been packaged with powerful prescription painkillers made at the same facility.
FDA officials say they are not recalling the drugs because they are medically necessary and the likelihood that they contain stray pills is low, however Novartis said it has voluntarily suspended operations and shipments from its Lincoln, Nebraska, facility to rectify the problems at the site"
LOL, Probably why it worked to begin with. Obviously I don't believe that but if it were true when it came back into production it would likely suck like everything else. I always assumed it worked well because it has caffeine in it.
that'd be enough to make me super pissed.. i believe that man and woman were put on earth to reproduce, but it's not my cup of tea.. i enjoy the freedom of being free, with nothing to hold me back.. except the law and money.. LOL
doubtful, as i've been taking excedrin migraine and back and body for years now.. i'll be pissed if they re-release it and it doesn't help
i believe that's the same article i read when i googled it.. i'm a bit pissed that they didn't announce any kind of expected time frame for it's return to store shelves
Should probably take this time to find a better way to deal with your issues. It's not healthy to be on meds like that constantly.
tried.. doctor even tried getting to the route of the problem.. he had me quit smoking for a week to see if it subsided them, no luck.. drank nothing but water for a week, no luck.. changed my diet for 2 weeks, no luck, except in REALLY g me off lol.. as for the back pain, it's a slipped disk in my lower back.. probably from my bang bang crash em up rookie year in the micros, riding trails and racing bmx since i was 11 or 12.. wouldn't surprise me if my bike is the cause, as it's also cost me thousands of dollars in medical bills and loss of time/money with the shop.. can't give it up though, i love my bike and the adrenaline rush of blasting off the starting gate or flying over a nice, smooth 6 pack out in the woods.. helps me escape the real world for a little while
Well, I'd have to say it's not looking good for you then kid.
i know.. wheelchair bound by 30, dead by 40.. 45 if i'm lucky lol
Did a little shopping at wal mart after work tonight....plenty of excedrin there, and even generic brand.
guess who's making a 6am trip to walmart.. lol
Did they have it at your store?
don't know.. i went back to bed lol.. going out later to get 2 new tires put on my cobra r's, so i'll check when i'm down that way
(semi) GOOD NEWS!! i don't know if i've just been over-looking it or if it's new, but CVS has their own 'brand' of excedrin migraine.. of course, i was skeptical, as most people would be.. but.. IT ACTUALLY WORKS.. i even took my usual 3 pills and my headache was gone in under 1/2 an hour.. i didn't, however, see any store brand 'back and body' pills.. luckily, i still have 30 or so of them left
but the store brand migraine pills are called 'migraine relief..' red and white box with the CVS logo in the top left corner
Yeah, wal mart here has now pulled all the brand names of "excedrin", but still carry the generic equate version...odd.
the walmart store-brand is terrible.. they're basically over-loaded asprin.. yuck
The body has tremendous capacity to heal itself over time, if given the chance. I hurt my lower back 42 years ago and suffered for years with periodic outbursts of lower back pain and sciatica down one leg. Eventually, I moved away from a road job to a desk job--just by quirk. Over time I learned that one of the worst things for a back is driving a vehicle, especially if the seats are lousy. Anyway, the indoor work must have been part of the factor in healing. I can not remember the last time I had a crippling attack--it has been over 15 years now. I, too, thought at the age of 30--while laying in bed one fine day (because I could not stand up straight), will I be a wheelchair case at 60? Nope.
Well, not to whine or bitch..I'm 35. A totally pain free day hasn't been seen since 1996. Wrecks, poor posture, a damaged ankle playing high school football, and not eating right/too much alcohol in my late teens/early 20s has played a role. Still, I'm in better shape now than ever, and it's just pain. I can still do everything I always could before.
Over the week's course, i probably take no more than 8 OTC pain meds, tylenol, ibuprofen, etc, usually for headaches from wearing safety glasses at work.