Posted on 05/30/2008 7:26:51 PM PDT by AngieGal
THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO SAVE CFC ASTHMA INHALERS
Contact us at: sponsor@saveCFCinhalers.org
ATTENTION WARRICK CFC ALBUTEROL INHALER BUYERS: GILLESPIE'S DRUGS DOES NOT WANT TO SELL ANY MORE WARRICK INHALERS because the aggressive, demanding attitudes of too many callers have angered their pharmacists and staff.
We just found out about this and asked the owner to give us ONE MORE CHANCE, and he has agreed, as long as callers follow the following guidelines:
1. Please treat all Gillespie's staff with RESPECT AND COURTESY.
2. All Warrick CFC inhalers have a January 2009 expiration date. THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF WARRICKS YOU CAN BUY IS 2 PER MONTH (if your doctor prescribes that amount) TIMES THE NUMBER OF MONTHS REMAINING BETWEEN THE DATE OF THE ORDER AND JANUARY 2009.
3. NO ARGUING, NO WHINING, NO ATTITUDE, NO EXCEPTIONS. IF/WHEN THEY PULL THE PLUG AGAIN IT WILL BE FOR GOOD- AND NO OTHER DRUG STORE WILL TAKE THIS BURDEN ON NOW.
As long as callers follow these guidelines, WARRICK CFC AND ARMSTRONG CFC ALBUTEROL INHALERS WILL BE SOLD WHILE SUPPLIES LAST: CALL 1-740-732-2356. See pharmacy hours, address, website, fax number, email below)
Have You filed YOUR HFA inhaler online MEDWATCH Complaint(s)?
Please... Just do it... it takes 3-4 minutes (file one complaint for each HFA brand you had a medical problem with), just fill out what you can- the most important information is the BRAND of the HFA inhaler (ProAir HFA, Proventil HFA, Xopenex HFA, Ventolin HFA) and the DETAILS OF YOUR MEDICAL COMPLAINT WITH THE HFA INHALER... and OLD reports are better than NO reports (some reports are filed years later- but we need them in NOW)
The FDA says that they only received 415 HFA rescue inhaler MEDWATCH complaints in 2007. We've received more than five times as many HFA complaints on this petition just between October 2007 and May 2008.
After studying these figures carefully, we suspect that possibly one or two of you might not yet have filed your online HFA MEDWATCH complaints.
Please file your MEDWATCH HFA inhaler complaints(s) here. This is the ONLY CHANCE we're going to get to save CFC inhalers. Only about 1% of drug complaints get reported to MEDWATCH every year- we want 100% of HFA complaints reported.
Your complaint does not have to be complete. Just do the best you can, and explain your medical problem(s) with the HFA inhaler(s)- one complaint per brand- (Ventolin HFA, Xopenex HFA, Proventil HFA, ProAir HFA, Atrovent HFA, Flovent HFA, etc.) as clearly as possible. It is never too late to do this. Your name and email address is required but YOUR ANONYMITY IS GUARANTEED.
File your HFA inhaler online complaint NOW, or learn to love HFA inhalers LATER:
tinyurl.com/pqy6l
TO GET WARRICK AND ARMSTRONG CFC ALBUTEROL INHALERS (about $30 plus S&H) call Gillespie's Pharmacy in Ohio. Submit the receipt to your insurer for possible reimbursement. We are not compensated in any way for this referral.
GILLESPIE'S DRUGS 44523 Marietta Road Caldwell, Ohio 43724 Web: http://gillespiesdrugs.com/ Email: staff@gillespiesdrugs.com
PHONE: 1-740-732-2356 FAX: 1-740-732-7381 Have your doctor phone or fax your Warrick CFC albuterol prescription to Gillespie's to save time. HOURS: Monday-Friday, 8:30 am to 6:00 pm, Saturday 8:30 am to 1:00 pm EST
Thanks for posting this. I will be signing the petition and making the necessary phone calls. I will TRY and be nice.
I thought you all would be interested in this way to complain to the FDA and sign a petition about you and your family’s experiences with the new inhalers. Also see the first reply for information about how to stock up on the old inhalers. They will work for some amount of time past the expiration date. Hope this helps!
Holy crap!!! That is one of my primary triggers. Why is the FDA trying to kill me?
Thanks. None of my family has an asthma problem, but I’d be happy to sign the petition. The idiots who govern us are, apparently, willing to kill off asthma patients for a law that can have only a minuscule impact on the environment—if that.
Everyone of good sense and good will toward others should surely sign this petition.
I hope you also mentioned this on the other thread, which I read earlier.
Thanks for the thread and I did sign petition. This is ridiculous and just nuts.
Government at its worst.
My wife just got the new inhalers from her doctor. Says their crap and costs more money. She is pissed. Oh but they have a little puff counter on it now....ARRRRGGG
Stupid fraking bureaucrats making changes like this for stupid idiotic envirowackos.
thank you.
Small world. Gillespie’s is just a few miles down the road from me. I think I’ll drop in and chat a while these good folks.
The FDA is not trying to kill you. Environmentalists are. Eliminating CFCs to “save the ozone” is a complete scam, just not as successful at creating hysteria as “Global Warming.” Even most environmentalists have now forgotten about it, but the laws are still on the books. As with much of the modern environmental movement, their ulitmate goal is to save the environment by killing people. Modern greenies want us humans, possibly excluding some of themselves, dead. Don’t take it personally, it’s who they are.
I have a feeling we're going to be in the middle of an ice age and "global warming" laws will still be on the books.
Signed and sent to my sister.
And it's nice and "green". '(/sarcasm>)
Don’t forget to complain to the FDA separately (just in case someone missed the link). Apparently the FDA says that they only received 415 HFA rescue inhaler MEDWATCH complaints in 2007.
Here’s the URL: (I wish I knew how to make it come up as a link.)
tinyurl.com/pqy6l
I cannot fathom why ANYONE would think these stupid “puffers” are a good idea - they don’t work and they’re made with freekin’ CORN ETHANOL??? What da ???
They are flat insane...
In the past year I have had asthma attacks so severe that I have lost consciousness. And in this time the one thing that worked for me was the old fashioned CFC powered albuterol inhaler. The liquid albuterol solution in the pump diven nebulizer also works but I can only tolerate that at night. Proventil is crap. And in fact every other HFA mediated inhaler has also proved to be insufficient in the long term. Advair was also designed to replace a CFC delivered steroid and long term beta 2 agonist (a bronchial dialator) therapy but in formulation the only beta 2 agonist that remained stable in a solid delivery format was only a partial agonist that has adverse effects on realy severe cases like mine. In addition Advair and Asthminex in their dry powder form often are irritants and patients tend to cough them up right after inhaling them. Don't get me wrong the do work for some people but for me they failed. I have had some success with Symbicort, the new HFA delivered steroid/beta 2 agonist from AstraZeneca but in this high pollen climate in PA its effects are waning. I am under the care of the premier asthma guy on the east coast who happen to be at U Penn in Philly. He has done wonders with me. But the end game may be in the immunotherapy of Xolair injections. This is a very costly neutralizing antibody therapy bu I am told if it work it is life changing. But doctor are reluctant to give it as it requires strict patient compliance for to showing up for therapy. This stuff is very expensive and if not delivered during the time its has been made into its injectable form, it goes bad; costing the clinic $1500. And even on this the FDA has a “black box” warning because it a biologic and hence has a risk of anaphylaxis. This is absurd as in an anaphylactic response the very reponse protein this stuff takes out must by induced for a severe allergic reaction
This is just a taste of what we are in for if we get government health care. The other bureaucracies will wave sway on medical protocols, therapeutic packaging (right down to the composition of saline bags, syringes and medical therapy formulation). If you think its bad not wait til any of these three chuckleheads running for president get it. Rush is right, we are screwed.
Let me have my old inhaler back so I can resume my life
I believe you will be proven correct in less than 20 years.
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