Hydrocodone Yellow Norco 10 325 Availability (Page 3)
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I have a prescription for the yellow norco 10 325. I've taken these for years and now I can't get them. The white ones does not help. I have Arthritis very bad and I really need to know who still carries them in the Mansfield, Arlington, Texas area. I'm 70 and these are the only ones that helps without me having to sleep my life away on the stronger pain meds that I have taken. I'm 70 so I'll probably be sleeping soon enough. SO in the mean time I would like to have my yellow norco 10 325 back.

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I also was used to the yellow 10/325 mg. Norco now I can't find them anywhere. If anyone knows a pharmacy near Visalia,, Ca.
Please respond and let me know as they always worked best for my inoperable disc problem. I have called and for a while a small privately owned pharmacy had them but when I asked they said the price would be too high to get them. I would be glad to pay extra beyond my copay of 5 dollars in order to get what works best for me.

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JJ-You, as the patient, are the only one that can get the Yellow Norco. The doctor won't search the pharmacies for you. I'm lucky, in that my doctor has the secure system, that allows him to continue to fax the rx to the pharmacy. But, it has to be a pharmacy that is on that system. I lucked out again in that my pharmacy has the yellow ones AND their on the secure system.

So, the new law has no effect on me. If I were you, I'd refuse, in advance, any white Norco. Just ask the pharmacy when you drop off the script, if they have the yellow ones. If not, take it to another pharmacy. I just called around town and asked who had them. two places still had them, so thats where I went. You can change pharmacies any time you want. If my pharmacy stops selling the yellow ones, and I can't find them anymore, I'll ask my doctor to put me back on the MS Contin again.

Their now both in the same drug category 2,. But, thats morphine and norco is codeine, big difference between relaxed and zombie state. I prefer the relaxed pain relief of Norco. The morphine is just too much. Makes me want to sit down and not get up! lol - the Norco makes me get up and do my dishes, even in some pain. But, just call around, they still make em!

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All of these people are being told there is no difference between brands but the qualitest do work the best and we can't all be wrong. I don't know what other people take them for but I didn't have a choice I went to 7 different surgeons & they all told me the same thing that surgery wouldn't help me & that I would be in pain everyday for the rest of my life. Please give me back the pills that work for me. So I can have some semblance of a normal life again instead of trying to convince me that they're all the same, they are not the same.

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My mother's Rx was just as you describe but she says she cannot tell any difference. But she got them from a pharmacy that usually has the bright yellow with the ornate "v" on one side. I have a friend who insists on the yellow but is having a problem each month getting them at his regular pharmacy. He has waited as long as 5 days for them to get the yellows before he finally goes elsewhere.

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Does a pharmacy have the right to refuse to give a refill on a prescription written and first filled in September 2014 (with two refills) after October 6th, 2014, even though the federal law allows them to do so. If they refuse to give the refill, which they can do under the new law if the refills are before April 2015 and the original prescription was in September, 2014 and they have no reason to refuse to give the refill except it's too much trouble to bother with it, are they being out of compliance with the new federal law or do they have a right to refuse to give the refill just because they don't want to be bothered?

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Della,
Your going to have to call all the pharmacies in your area. Start with the smaller mom/pop type stores first. Ask them if they still carry the yellow Norco made by , Qualitest . Those are the ones you want, not the white. Some larger pharmacies are feeling the pressure now, from the negative feedback on these white fakes, and are ordering the yellow again. Mine did, but I now pay about $5.00 more per script. Well worth it. The yellow pills are still being made, but you need to find them. Good Luck.

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I"ve got the yellow Norco at Meijer store. There the only store I could find that still carry the yellow 10/325.

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Robspace1 , Federal Law states that your dr can give you up to 3-30 day rxs. He can give you all three rxs at the same office visit, although he may not choose to do that.

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Darwinski , it's not my pharmacy. Someone I've been helping uses that pharmacy. But, I do know the pharmacy manager from church. He said that is the policy the home office has adopted. They were busy when I went in to inquire about it so we didn't have the opportunity to speak at length about it.

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I'm just going to ask my doctor to write out 3 scripts at one time for me to hold onto and use as they come due. Hopefully he does this or I will simply have to do like I did when I was taking the morphine pills. Make a long drive to their office every month to pick up the script. It's a hastle, but still much better then living in pain.We have the i****s that steal and then overdose on these pills, to thank for this new law.

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Wow, that is too bad. I checked with my pharmacy today, and it is any NEW prescriptions - just the way the law was written. So, if you have refills as of the 5th, you are fine.

If I were you, I would go on the internet to your crappy pharmacy's website, and transfer it to another pharmacy that actually knows what they are doing.

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Darwinski, the pharmacist said it is their decision. Just like it is their decision if they fill a rx. I have heard of other pharmacys telling their customers they won't be able to get refills effective Oct 6, even if the rx was written before Oct 6 with refills.

I wonder if the pharmacys will say it is due to costs being more connected with Schedule II's than Schedule III's. It will be interesting to see how wide spread this will be. But, even though it is part of the federal law, I have no doubt the DEA will side with the pharmacy.

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BL:

While that may be the case, there is an exception in the LAW set forth by the federal government, that specifically states that any remaining refills "that are issued before October 6, 2014, and authorized for refilling, may be dispensed in accordance with 21 CFR 1306.22-1306.23, 1306.25, and 1306.27, if such dispensing occurs before April 8, 2015."

Prescriptions. All prescriptions for HCPs must comply with 21 U.S.C. 829(a) and must be issued in accordance with 21 CFR part 1306 and subpart C of 21 CFR part 1311 as of October 6, 2014. No scripts for HCPs issued on or after October 6, 2014 shall authorize any refills. Any prescriptions for HCPs that are issued before October 6, 2014, and authorized for refilling, may be dispensed in accordance with 21 CFR 1306.22-1306.23, 1306.25, and 1306.27, if such dispensing occurs before April 8, 2015.

deadiversion.usdoj.gov/fed_regs/rules/2014/fr0822.htm

So, either you mis-read the patient notice, or the pharmacy that published it is misinformed and/or doesn't know or care.

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Darwinski, I saw a patient information notice from a local pharmacy. It states that if you have a rx that was written before Oct 6 and it has refills that you will not be able to get them as of Oct 6.

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Darwinski , Thank You. I apologize for my error. If the rx was written with refills before October 6, 2014, they must be refilled by April 8, 2015.

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Yea, that's what I'll do. I used to have to go across town to their office every month when I was taking the nasty/strong MS Contin-that stuff is too strong, and I asked them to cut me off it. I know most junkies would kill to get it, but, I wasn't looking to get strung out on anything. It took me years to get off the booze, and I didn't need morphine in my life. But, the Norco works good (yellow only), so for 8 years, it's been that and Tramadol. I'll call them on this,
thanks

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Robspace1:

You can have or ask your doctor to issue multiple prescriptions. Federal law allows 3 months worth, but it has to be 3 separate scripts.

Typically, the Dr. will write something like "Do not fill before Month, Day, Year".

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BL,

If you had a prescription with refills that was issued before the cut-off date of October 6th, you can still get the refills.

This was an exception included in the law.

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O Great-I see my Dr. every 90 days anyway, as per state pain contract. But, now they won't be able to phone them in on the other months? That;s stupid and means I will have to drive all the way to his office every month to get my refill? Who's great idea was this and why? Hopefully there's aloophole in this new law. Why make people burn gas to drive across town when the phone works real good?

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Darwinski, Schedule II meds can't be refilled. Norco and other hydrocodone combination meds will be moved from Schedule III to Schedule II October 6, 2014, by Federal Law. Which means this will go into effect in every state. You have to have a new prescription from your dr each time you get it filled. They also will no longer be able to be called in.

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