Hydrocodone Pill That Says U03 (Page 5)

Has anyone seen a hydrocodone pill that has u03 on it?

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I agree. I was taking IP 110 and those meds wasn't even touching the pain. Now the Doc has me U03 and I think they work on most of the pain I have. I really didn't like the yellow and I don't think they worked as good as the blue Watson. The Blue Watson were the best for pain

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Meier just switched my Rx from the yellow ones to the UO3 and I get nauseous every time I take one... Anyone else? And the pain relief definitely isn’t the same. Does anyone know of anyone besides private pharmacies that still dispense the yellow ones?

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Usually I don’t complain about the switching of a med...if it’s effective, but when I started to take this, I immediately felt the difference. For 3 weeks now, I have felt like I’ve been beaten with a stick. I’ve actually been in tears by the time I get home from work. Something seems very off with this substitution and it is not my imagination!

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Yes, they are made from a different Pharmaceutical. The pill is better than the IP/110 the U03 is still 10/325 hydro/apap Norco generic

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Re: Fred (# 82)

Meijer still have the yellow ones I got my script and got the u03 the next day my brother in law got his he got the yellow the u03 makes me feel like I’m in detox and it does not help with my pain with this being said I’m pissed for them switching mine and when I fill my next script I’m telling them to give me the yellow ones

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Re: Fred (# 82)

They do not make yellow anymore, the newer ones are just white with a V.

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Re: Granny (# 79)

You can say that again!!! Not only the government is trying to take them away, you go get your meds and you have always look over your shoulder so you dont get robbed and beaten for them. The town I live in this is a daily occurance, it makes me lose all faith in humanity. ??

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Re: Yea (# 86)

I get mine refilled every month with the yellow now !

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Re: Fred (# 82)

The same thing happened to me last night when I went to Meijer to get my usual monthly prescription. Personally, I have bad spinal problems which there is no surgery for so for the past 8 years have been on the yellow colored Norco, then suddenly yesterday Meijer changed my prescription to the white colored u03.

So far it seems like all the u03 does is make me feel sleepy, but does not seem to help the pain levels as much as the yellow colored Norco 10/325s. I can definitely feel a difference between the two different brands (Norco 10/325 versus u03), and it does not feel like the u03s provide as much pain relief at least for me.

Once again, it looks like those of us who live in chronic pain are being penalized because of those within our society that are drug abusers or drug addicts.

(FWIW: Quite a few primary doctors in this area now require drug panels of patients prescribed opioid painkillers to make sure they are taking their prescriptions and not selling their prescription on the streets. As well as to make sure those patients prescribed opioid painkillers are not using fentanyl or any other illegal drugs.)

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FWIW: Just searched on the internet and saw a comment at Glassdoor by an alleged employee of Aurolife, the company distributing the U03 tablets in the USA (for Aurobindo - a generic pharmaceutical company headquartered in India), and the comment at Glassdoor by one of their employees said:

"Products are very cheap. The medication itself doesn't work as well as others."

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Re: Cyndi (# 64)

The tablet which says U03 are distributed in the USA by Aurolife, a subsidiary of Aurobindo Pharma Limited a generic prescription manufacturer which is headquartered in India. There are also media reports online with concerns about the quality of generic prescriptions manufactured in India.

The following is what their own employees said at Glassdoor.

1) One of their employees said on August 29, 2017: "Products are very cheap. the medication itself doesn't work as well as others."

2) Another of their employees said on March 25, 2016: "Quality assurance is ignored or overuled by production. Extremely high employee turnover. Training is non existent. Deviations on every batch. Extremely high amount of customer complaints. It's a miracle the FDA hasn't shut this company down."

3) A different employee said on April 5, 2015: "under-staffing and employee turnover results in haste and costly repeated mistakes."

4) And yet another employee said in May 7, 2015: "Management overrides critical QA (quality assurance) decisions. I don't know how they pass FDA audits because they even circumvent their own internal procedures."

Complaints by their own employees of deviations on every batch, their products do not work as well as other brands, and quality assurance being ignored by management!

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I want to WARN everyone, i was shocked to see the pill change at Meijer myself. This is all about getting a cheaper cost at our expensive. Several years ago i was filling my script at a different pharmacy, they changed there Norco to a white pill, after a few weeks i started getting violently ill. Nausea, vomiting, i would go thru these bouts, i had no idea what was going on...then one day, i got so sick i ended up in the hospital. In there they didn't know what was going on..(of course no one had tested that pill) i get out and for some reason i took my script to another pharm, well, guess what, no more sickness. It was that NORCO!!!! So, here i am reading this, some are saying there getting sick.. If any of us ends up with these kind of symtoms i had years ago, then have someone test your blood for any chemicals related to this newer pill. Then we should go after Meijer for this.

This is a India company making these. There own quality control says there not good! So, i want to warn everyone, now i am stuck with this month script. After what happened to me before, i will be looking for a new pharm. By the way, everyone needs to fight the DEA Gov for violating OUR civil rights. I could give a CRAP about anyone abusing drugs, that doesn't include me, so we need to fight this discrimination against us! GO TO **** DEA!

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Re: cd (# 92)

I got the same white pills from MEIJER and got very sick too. They need to bring back the yellow ones.

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Re: Yea (# 86)

They do still make the yellows here in OK. Get them every month and still am...

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Re: cd (# 92)

where can i complain cause i agree big time. These white pills have less ingrediants and more crap in them

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In response to post #86,

They are still making yellows. I get them every month.

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Re: Lilmamakc (# 2)

Same drug=Hydrocodone is Vicodin, Lortab, Norco, common brand names.

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Re: Blondie (# 5)

Same here! Calling my doctor tomorrow.

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Re: Jess girl (# 32)

I stick to my 30mg M salts. Just 1 per day and a pain pill later. But I like the M salts, they work nicely.

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First let me say I have herniated discs protruding into my spinal cord. It is NOT people's imagination the Hydrocodone pills have been altered. The pharmacist gave me the run around.. I was told he needed to call my Dr so maybe later on that day..then he said the fill date is too early..I go every 4 weeks and Never fill early!!!! Then I showed the pharmacist a calendar to show him the fill date ..as IF he can't count (he compounds medications for God sake) then says "oh I guess your right" REALLY??? Then he gives me these horse pills that say Hydrocodone on the label with U03 on it... THEY SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I took them as prescribed and they NEVER took even a little bit of my pain away.. my pain level remained at a 7 out of 10 ALL MONTH LONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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