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fourwinds
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I was just told by my pharmacist that this drug is being discontinued!

Has anyone else heard this....?

I've googled but haven't found anything (yet).

I HATE flagyl....ugh!

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What is the tindamax for ( l form or cyst ) .I was about to try as FLAGYL makes me horrible and bloating.
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cyst buster....
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Is Big Pharma trying to screw everyone in this country?

If they can't make enough money, they discontinue the drug. Thanks a lot.

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and they are trying to block us getting meds from Canada too..Call your Reps !!!!
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What about Tinidazole? I took this. Is it still available?
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I'll look into this but I highly doubt its truly being taken off the market. Tindamax is, for the moment, under patent which means generics are not available. Thus, it is very profitable due to its high price ($400+ a bottle). As an antibiotic, it has a relatively wide spectrum and has a MUCH better toleration/side effect profile than its closest commonly prescribed relative, Flagyl.

It doesn't make financial sense for it to be discontinued unless there's some massive blackbox that just appeared and thus its being pulled entirely from market (HIGHLY unlikely). If anything, by now it should be going generic - pharma does everything possible to keep this from happening, but even in the event it does (and it should!), they still don't discontinue the original and instead produce the "prime" generic; look to what happened to Lipitor recently (The most profitable drug in the world, if I recall correctly) - when it went generic, Pfizer bent over backward to get pharmacies to purchase "their" brand over other competing generics, not simply abandoned it.

Tindamax is highly unlikely to be abandoned unless I'm missing a major safety issue somewhere.

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Not to worry. Just have Tinidazole compounded. It's not expensive to do so and cost less than Tindamax.

Or if you are in a foreign country you can easily buy Tinidazole, as it's made by Pfizer but was never marketed for use in America, only abroad, under the brand name Fasigyn.

You can buy it in Mexico and all of the world, except in America.

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It appears that I had an incompetent pharmacist....

Upon going to pick up the small quantity they were able to get me I spoke with the "other" pharmacist.

She said she would check it again... it appears
that many pharmacies have "caps" on dollar amounts. This particular drug is $200/bottle of

40 and they would have needed 14 bottles to fill my 90 day supply... ergo maxed $$.

Was as simple as her verbally calling it in and requesting an "override".. suppose to be here on Tues.... we'll see

Then, to top it off, I was to have a 90 day supply of Azith and they gave me a Z-pak, LOL. Had to get that changed as well.

The incompetence of saying Tindamax was being discontinued is not acceptable....

But I am thankful I was able to get it (hopefully) straightened out

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GiGi
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I was told the same --- being taken off the market.

Tini is readily available in Canada, with faxed prescription. Azith is available at Walmart with tiny co-pay. Other in-town pharmacies want an arm-and-a-leg for either one.

Write me for Can phone #.

Take care.

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