Armstrong Pharmaceuticals

I have used an Epinephrine inhaler for over 20+ years. I can afford the Albuterol inhalers, so cost isn't an issue.

THE PLAN FACT IS THAT IN SOME PEOPLE THE ALBUTEROL DOESN'T WORK!!!

I think that Attempted Murder charges should be filed against the FDA and Armstrong, the manufacturer of Primatene. I firmly believe that Armstrong has NO INTENT to produce any kind of Epinepherine inhaler, and/or the FDA has NO INTENT to ever let one on the market in the US again. CONTACT YOUR US SENATORS, US REP's, the FDA, ARMSTRONG (ps their petition is one sided, designed to bring $ to ARMSTRONG, not help asthmatics.

CONTACT the Health and Human Services Department CONTACT your local TV station. We shouldn't just lay down and suffocate without a FIGHT!!!

Lets see also the precription albuterol that was a generic in areosol form and been simply redesigne dinto a powder but still albuterol is now a NON Generic.. That is like taking a generic Asprin crushing it and saying now that it is crushed it is no longer a generic..

BULL ***.. All they changed was the delivery method..

Pharasutical Companies need their *** sued.. :(

Albuteral inhalers DO NOT WORK . Primitene mist DOES WORK let's take it off the market so millions suffer....

great idea.

Kill the asthma sufferers so the small amount of CFCs don't harm the ozone. Might as well kill all the cows cause they *** and kill the ozone.

I was thinking about crushing the tablets and inhaling them. What do you think?

I've had light asthma most of my life. Used Primatene Mist a couple times a week and never had any major issues.

Now, Albuterol makes me worse, after the first day I end up using it 5 times a day as my asthma attacks become regular. I'm suffering, smothering, and miserable.

I need Primatene Mist. Armstrong, please help us.

Facinating that the self righteous *** that run the United States government would be so arrogant they would remove the only over the counter option asthmatics can use to breathe...THE ONLY OPTION AVAILABLE.What kind of sick *** removes THE ONLY OPTION AVAILABLE WE USE TO CATCH OUR BREATH ?? I hope you *** know what it's like one day to wake up with nothing to help you catch your breath because you have no health insurance.May the sick,selfish,money grabbing jerks get what;s coming to them one day.

I've used Primatene Mist for over 25 years and to leave us with nothing when the removal of this product has been in the works for years, amounts to murder. There was plenty of time to develop another method of dispensing this product so it doesn't damage the Ozone layer.

What about all the inhalers that require a prescription, nothing wrong with them.

Oh, could it be the issue helps the Pharmaceutical companies and doctors??? I haven't found anything that brings up the Phlegm, help, I'm choking and the doctors just smile.

Yeah, I too used PM for years and am not forced to suffer.

Although the Albteral works for me I spent a night in an ER to get it and after this one runs out I am sure I will be back in there again soon.

I have used Primatene Mist for over 20 years, I have also spent many days and nights in the ER when my inhaler ran out . I have been prescribed many many different medications to help treat my asthma , but out of 20 years of experience Primatene Mist was the ONLY one that work and was readily available over the counter, Now that you have taken it off the market over some BS reason, I am currently smothering to death, THANKS FDA,.

I think I am going to file an attempted murder charge on The FDA and with todays lawyers I will win.

You are indangering my life every minute that Primatene Mist is not available to me. GIVE ME BACK MY MEDICATION !!!!!!!!!

I have COPD and I tried 3 or 4 different times to use albuterol and it made me worse. After just 4 days of using it I woke up in the middle of the night having trouble breathing which I don't normally do.

I switched to Primatene Mist and it works wonderfully for me. No rebound effect like albuterol had. I stocked up when I heard they were going to stop making it but my stash won't last forever.

Please replace it with a CFC Free version soon. :sigh

May the idiots who made the decision to remove primatene mist slowly suffocate and choke like my husband does daily. And by the way albuterol doesn't work

well really how long does it take to change the gas in a little bottle? which could be the same as whip cream cans LOL

it about the money and paying off the US government.

It's disconcerting to read how many PM users are so totally clueless in how the drug development process works. This whole thing is SOLELY the result of EPA crusaders having their dirty work carried out by the FDA.

"Why is Armstrong taking so long with the HFA inhaler?" you ask. Again, the blame lies solely with the FDA - their clinical study requirements throw a monkey wrench into the development process, slowing the process down to a crawl and burdening the company with million$ and million$ of cost to develop it. Armstrong would LOVE to have a replacement on the shelf already (their studies are done), but again the FDA is dragging their feet in approving it, as they do with approving every other new drug product that's been introduced in the last 40 years. (Why? They claim that it's all in the interest of keeping YOU safe, because they are convinced that we are all idiots.)

The issue of development is another thing. It appears that many people here think that you simply have to put some epinephrine in a bottle with a magical propellant and it "just works." Sorry, it just doesn't work that way. To get a single item that both functions properly, delivers the legally required dose EVERY TIME, and doesn't make you *** when you use it requires dozens of iterations or trial combinations. The technology (equipment) necessary to generate these items is highly specialized and unGodly expensive, so they have to create partnerships with companies specialized in developing and producing them.

Quite simply, this isn't just putting a new tire on the car... it's reinventing the wheel.

You want to complain to somebody? Complain to the FDA or your congressman - they're to blame. Not Armstrong.

I would like to thank all the (so called experts) for keeping me safe from a product that actually worked with ouy a prescription. thanks to them my asthma is worse and it is hard to breathe.I am laidoff without health insurance and cannot afford the doctors solutions to this problem. these same experts are probably protesting the war,but killing asthmatics

Armstrong Pharmaceuticals is playing Russian roulette with the millions of asthma sufferers. I shutter to think that they are in this business for profits alone.

But what goes around, comes around. Just as the banks abused their power and is now paying for it, the same will befall Armstrong Pharmaceuticals.

Not sure what really prompted the removal of Primatene Mist from the shelves, but it is not a solution to anything. I notice that there's a link in the main group of Armstrong links on Google for Albuterol. Were Primatene Mist OTC sales cutting into potential, and more profitable, sales of the prescription inhaler?

Whatever, PM should be put back on the market with a propellant that doesn't harm the environment, or the product should be provided by a company that is more concerned about making a useful product available to the general public.

I've had asthma for 57 years, though my younger years were the worst, and now it mainly a concern during allergy season. I CAN imagine how scary it is for some parents with a young child who is struggling for breath but for whom they have no medication. There are literally millions of families who have no insurance or other means to pay for a visit to a doctor to get a prescription to then go buy a drug they can't afford. Primatene Mist is important to have available.

I don't remember hearing one incident ever that would justify taking PM off the market. I have used it for years with 0 adverse affects and when allergy season is done, it stays in the medicine cabinet without any any need for it other than for breathing assistance.

I'm going to start writing to my senators and congressperson. I'm going to send an e-letter to the White House. I don't have a personal thing with Armstrong Pharmaceuticals. I'm glad there is a comment thread provided to accept my opinion and those of others. But PM is a useful product needed and used by many and it's not right to withhold it for reasons that don't justify the inconvenience and even harm.

I would recommend that others who read this also contact your political representatives and the White House in addition to Armstrong Pharmaceuticals at info@***g-pharma.com

I have used Primatene Mist for 40 years,never ever had a problem.When I used prescription inhalers I had to use it more frequently,suffered from nervousness,heart palpitations.Never ever had this reaction to Primatene Mist.I think it is horrible that the only over the counter inhaler can no longer be purchased,

Please hurry with the HFA-propelled epinephine product as with most people its like breathing through a juice box straw, ventalin etc. just doesnt cut it.,again please hurry !

I wish someone could explain to me how this mist product hurts the ozone. The product is released into the mouth and inhaled.

How does that adversely affect the ozone? I doubt people are going around squirting it into the air.

Taking this product off the market is another example of Big Brother government. Yes, I need it handy, because there are times I have a sudden attack and Primatine worked FAST.

I have an RX inhaler, but it is too expensive for my income. Give it back!

I relied on primatene mist for a long long time as a low cost rescue inhaler,now im struggling to maintain my asthma,i think is cruel and cold heart that your withholding your new product to create a pent up demand for it

Write to them:

info@***g-pharma.com

This certainly smacks of some kind of "Price gouging" conspiracy. I feel that Armstrong

may be the primary culprit in this. If the price of this "new" inhaler is significantly

more it certainly would require an explanation from them. It pains me to think that some greedy boardroom execs would sit around and drool over the profit increase that a "new" product costing 4 - 10 times

as much as the old one would generate. If only these greedy ghouls could wake in the middle of the night fighting for a breath of air and have no product that in a timely fashion would restore the simple life-saving lungful of air they would crave.

Has armstrong Pharmaceuticals come up with any thing???????????? We need it now. I gave used primitene Mist for years, You would think they wouldn't want to lose all that money they maked off us.??

This is crazy I been using primeateme for years now its gone forced to use the not so fast pill it works but when I wake it I need the mist worked wonderful only thing that ever worked didn't think so many people used it out their hopefully hfa mist comes out soon

I agree that there is something not right about this situation. There are still so many things that "ruin" the o-zone but NO hurry to fix them.

I'm guessing that's because the medical industry is losing money due to a non-rx inhaler that works better than all rx ones.What I do not understand is that I put this inhaler and expel its contents into my body..just how harmful can it be.

I'D LOVE TO SEE THE STUDIES!!!!

I have asthma and one lung and NOTHING works as good as Primatene Mist did as a rescue inhaler.

There is something not right about this situation and I sure would like someone to tell me whats going on ..They put changed the propellent in their albuterol, but in 4years they havent been able to do it Primitine?Someone who knows how ,please get this to 60 min.

I used primatine mist for years.im struggling and have no insurance.Taking this away from people is criminal.I truly dont know what to do.Im sure a trip to the er is in my future.until then I have to rely on others to get inhalers.ive been getting inhalers from people. So im a criminal now because im using others meds not perscribed to me. Thanks piece of work government

I am also a COPD person. I have RX ones that do not do a thing only cost me $152 every two months!

With Primatene gone now and useing the others I can not walk 1 block without stopping! Before i could walk without stopping for over 10 blocks!! The price was right for fixed income people! It was sold for years,years and years!!

WHY NOW IS IT GONE????

How about the new one that is due out from Armstorng??? WE NEED IT BACK!!!

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