No stock of orlistat !!!!

Yes execise is difficult when you have joint problems ..I have had two prolapsed discs so have to be very cautious.. I rang two different pharmacies yesterday and both said they have heard they may get some stocks in the first week in June ..so will be phoning around again end of next week..

The "hard to get medicine" nhs site said it was a change in packaging that was the problem..

Wouldnt it be good to just get some straight answers.

Hi..It's my first time on this site and I just wanted to say that I too am having problems with Orlistat but I am slowly starting to change my diet instead. Orlistat is a 'aid' to weight loss not a solution. And also I've heard that there is a alternative available and I think it's called Teva, it's new and I don't know if it's available yet.

ondon, ON - A review of patients taking the diet drug orlistat (Xenical/Alli, Roche) in Ontario, Canada over a seven-year period points to a 2% increase in acute kidney injuries within one year of patients starting the drug [1].

The findings were reported by Dr Matthew Weir (University of Western Ontario, London) and colleagues in a research letter published April 12, 2011 in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Separately, drug-safety watchdog Public Citizen has sent a 31-page letter to FDA commissioner Dr Margaret Hamburg demanding that the agency remove both prescription and over-the-counter orlistat from the market, citing new data obtained from FDA adverse-reaction files, including 47 cases of acute pancreatitis and 73 cases of kidney stones. This is the second time Public Citizen has petitioned the FDA to pull the drug from the market.

Orlistat, which is sold as a prescription drug in Ontario (it is sold both by prescription and over the counter, at a lower dose, in the US), has been linked to "oxalate-induced acute kidney injury" in previous case reports. Back in May 2010, the FDA issued a warning about the risks of severe liver injury with orlistat use, based on 13 reports of liver toxicity in which two patients died of liver failure and three required liver transplants.

Two recent reports of renal injuries prompted Ontario investigators to look at the incidence of new reports of acute kidney injuries (acute dialysis or a hospital diagnosis of acute kidney injury) in their province in the year prior to patients filling orlistat prescriptions and in the year after filling them.

Among 953 new orlistat patients identified between January 2002 and March 2008, five patients experienced an acute kidney injury event in the 12 months prior to starting on the diet drug. By contrast, 18 patients experienced an event within 12 months after filling their prescription (p=0.01). As a "test of specificity," Weir et al also tracked upper-gastrointestinal bleeding in the same fashion ("since there is no plausible reason why orlistat would be associated with this outcome") and found no differences in rates of upper-GI bleeds before and after orlistat prescription.

Weir and colleagues believe their analysis addresses "an important safety issue," although they cannot prove that the kidney injuries were a direct result of orlistat prescription. Despite several limitations of their analysis, they conclude: "In the appropriate setting, physicians should consider orlistat as a potential cause of acute kidney injury."

Late in the day Thursday, GlaxoSmithKline, which sells over-the-counter orlistat (Alli) in the US, announced that Alli is one of the products it will be dropping in 2011 [2]. A company press release says it will be contacting interested buyers for this product and others, with the aim of divesting it by late 2011.

According to that, from my understanding, they won't be putting Alli back on the shelves?

@zulf

You are correct Teva do there own orlistat i have been in contact with them and they said

Many thanks for your enquiry.

We are sorry to hear that you are having trouble acquiring Orlistat. We do have

generic Orlistat on the market, but not enough to cover the demand which has

come about since the branded version, Xenical (produced by Roche), went out of

stock. This is probably why you are having problems. We are expecting more

stock, but all we can advise is that you keep returning to your pharmacy to

check on their stock availability.

Apologies that we cannot be of more help. Please contact us if you require any

more information.

Kind regards,

From this i think the likely-hood of getting orlistat from them first will be the case as when ever i try to get information about the exenical orlistat i get told all different stories from them and other sources

Teva orlistat is just the same

I am down to my two last weeks of orlistat

I was taking the teva version of olistat, but that is now unavailable aswel due to high demand and it still contains the same ingredients as the orginal one so we wont get that one either. Its ok changing your diet i have been on a low fat diet since having my baby 2 years ago and still can not move the last bit of weight so orlistat was a last straw for me.

Im also fairly careful with my diet.. but as I cant exercise as much as I would like the orlistat gives that extra bit of help .. It worked really well for me a couple of years ago lowering my cholesterol and blood pressure as my weight came down by two stone in two months with their extra help..

Hopefully some may come back in stock in June ..we shall see.....

I just spoke to roche and they said that it is having a CHMP review in 2 weeks and then they should have more info and hopefully it will be back by the end of june. She also confirmed it is a manafacturing issue.

Hello all,

Just been to doctors on another medical matter (one of many )

And the pharmaticst informed me that they had been told that they should be getting it back october! - I said that not too worry, as i'm still losing weight without the orlistat - so might aswell do it with out pills!

(have managed to lose 5.94 punds in the last 3 weeks)

I am being weighed at my doctors twice a week - and have been given a booklet on portion sizes - this i've found is very helpful, as i ahd allready decreased my portion sizes - but still need to do it more!

Good luck to all that are waiting for the pills.

This is from the norfolk area.

I have been phoning around all manner of chemists this week and there is nothing here (tamworth) area . I was just starting on xenical Su really feel like I needed the pressure as I emotionally eat and its not an easy battle to win. Boots told me they weren't expecting any stock in now till November! So I am going to have to think of something else, I enjoy excersize but can't do much as I am awaiting knee replacements maybe a trip to the weight loss nurse once a week may do it.

Fingers crossed

Von

Hi,

Same problems with stock in Scotland!

Finally got my doctor to agree to let me go on orlistat and now its out of stock!

Just my luck!!

Hi,

Same problems with stock in Scotland!

Finally got my doctor to agree to let me go on orlistat and now its out of stock!

Just my luck!!

There is definitely some stock in UK, but I certainly can't find any

Just saw on eBay someone selling a box they bought in Boots today. There's a receipt with today's date:

http://bit.ly/K1FcTW. Maybe it's in already for some stockists? Or maybe it's old stock? I can't find any in

Liverpool and phoned some big Boots in Manc too and they all said they've no idea when it will come in.

I WANT A BIKINI BOD!

i want a bikini bod too but is not happening at the moment. I dont see how they have got it as there is no stock being produced anywhere.

I have lost from 236 down to 185 in 5 months without those pills, it can be done, you just need a lot of will power. I do still eat chocolate it is just slim fast now . I would like for them to come back on the market, with safety first but if they don't, I'm not just gonna say forget it, I can't do it without them.

Hang in there guys, It can be done and I have PCOS to boot.