Switched From Oxycodone 10mg Pink K56 Pills To Norco (Page 5) (Top voted first)

Does norco 5/325 have the same ingredients as the little pink pill k56 which is oxycodone 10mg? My doctor switched me due to the strength. The k56 pills are stronger he said and i needed a weaker pill to be able to work. So he prescribed me the norco. What i'm saying here is that are they the same, but different doses?

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How long ago was this? Because any combo pain medications containing more than 325mg of APAP can longer be dispensed, this changed I believe April 2014? Plus the med with 650mg of apap is generic for Vicodin HS and it would (or should) have been specifically requested to dispense that much Tylenol...Mistaking Oxy/APAP 10/325 for Hydro/APAP 10/325, (obviously a mistake that shouldn't happen but..) could be understood ...but 10/650? Percocet is not even available as 10/650 ...not sure but that pharmacy seems to have serious issues with it verification procedures

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VICODIN-ES (previously C-III; now C-II) used to be HYDROCODONE 7.5mg/APAP 325mg. Oh, APAP is shorthand for ACETAMINOPHEN which most folks knowbetter as Tylenol. (I only wrote for Tylenol #3 and #4, knowing my patients would get generics.)Now, the APAP (Tylenol) has ben reduced to 300mg. I don't think was REQUIRED, just good PR on the part of the drug companies.

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Dr. Joey last post till later what should matter is this.

Generic opioids are FDA allowed to include LESS than up to 47% opioid.

That is why generics are cheaper and less effective.

Also why a patient switched to brand who has been on generic can overdose on the proper amount.

Examples of my medication:
Duragesic brand 100 mcg. is 16.7 mg. Fentanyl
Watson 100 mcg. IS NOT at 10 mg.
Mallinkroft 100 mcg. IS NOT at 11 mg.

Yet Duragesic 75 mcg/hour is HIGHER at 12.8 mg. Fentanyl.

I need a physician fast and also to beat SSA locals to a pulp I'm in serious ****.

Email me Joey when we get your approval perhaps you can refer me to a colleague. I cannot live on this amount I saved (been 7 months without due diligence from comp insurer/employer).

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Joey not brand MAALOX and I've done some research studies when I did my huge pain support groups on utilizing MAALOX, yogurt and gentle walking due to those with intractable pain over time dying of organ failure. It was interesting but with me in current crisis I can not make sense of anything am afraid I might give up this crisis the system is actually taking everything I won without cause.

Cannot buy regular bleach it was changed to concentrate.

Generic MAALOX not the same brand is gone.

It can work miracles!

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I"m fine with that How can we do this?

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Joey sorry I am ready to crack the system has really harmed me and normally pro se I win (and did) but when you are fighting two systems one federal and one state (WC) as you know it is a nightmare.

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Very glad for that. I even located original copies of all my creds. I was going to pack it in after that horrific Parking Lot Accident and the iatrogenic follow-up,courtesy of Ketamine. Had everything boxed up and stored with other personal effects of all of us after my Mom's recent death.

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Regretful decision to tell doctor that the 10/mg oxycodone was too strong to work on... coffee with extra shots or break in half...they make a respectable...norco...10/325...mellow yellows

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It sound's to me as if Lynette is just someone who has nothing in life better to do then to complain about nothing. Or as they say " Make a mountain out of a Mole Hill." I mean really it's not as if it's HIEROGLYPHICS its just as they said Typo's. If you are lacking the ability to decipher the grammer then just do as an intelligent human being would do, which is clearly move on to the next thread. So how about this as a simple solution find a new hobby like "Checkers" or make legitimate complaints worthy of the discussion. And if needed i can surely prescribe you some Cheese to go along with that Whine. No need for thank's. Your Welcome.

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oxycodone is also an opiate Norco is hydrocodone oxycodone is a little stronger to begin with. Oxycodone 10 therefore is twice the strength of the Norco 5 the doctor for some reason maybe wanting to lower the dose of the opiate.

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Dr. Joey Dr. Tennant did one of his studies when the buccal swab evaluations came out for P450. Structurally the injury blew lumbar and cervical discs-developed systemic RSD now called CRPS within 2 months yep; FM, IBS, CFS, nerve root compression, end stage DDD as of 2000, we have not done the full BAK cage lumbar fusion so there are about 400 other diagnoses.

Although I am now living proof that I do not hold opioids long enough, need them more frequently literally on DNA for this lab does a blue print for the physician and I carry a card in case I am unconscious and some hospital does not realize I need not only my normal pain regimen but if acutely injured or ill also acute treatment closer, higher and more rapidly then others well does not matter.

Why?

Odumma.

Why can't you buy Maalox? Off the shelf now?

Odumma.

Why all physicians must have NIP or insurer won't pay medications?

Odumma.

Why household bleach went off the shelves some years ago?

Odumma.

Wondering whether anyone realizes the "first" is not a minority candidate for President it's the danger of what this man represents to our Constitutional freedom.

Give me liberty what did voters do and say?

Odumma.

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That was an error. The original VICODIN-HP has 660mg of APAP. If it's 600mg now, great. Wen I write for pain meds, I only prescribe Oxycodone/APAP and that isn't very frequently. I have a large staff to supervise and my own private patients to keep me busy; pardon me for not counting milligrams that clinically mean nothing unless the pt has been taking them for 200 or 300 years. "When was that?" How old are you — 12?

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I have an MD and a PhD in Pharmacology, about six sub-specialty certs in PSY and I can absolutely back up my esteemed RN colleague's statements. I've been first author, principal investigator and also checked research on dozens upon dozens of articles published in medical journals.

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I agree there. Sounds like you're doc is that man Artha Franklin and JFK made famous — "DOCTOR FEELGOOD". This is irresponsible prescribing and God help him if he worked for me. You don't even mention why he's taken this quantum leap into poxy-land. I'm an MD (psychiatrist with five sub-specialist) and PhD in Pharmacology. I had undiagnosable, implacable migraine-type headaches for about six years. And I had the best docs on Long Island and NYC poking around. Since I had to work, see treated the pain with Percocet 10/325 Average 6 tabs daily) and the lassitude with Adrenal 3omg IR (Sandoz) or Ritalin 20-40mg BID This wasn't for fun, believe me. Eventually we figured out out, but it took about 150 years of experience and 15 graduate degrees at work on the same patient. Enrich hydro to stop the pain made me nauseous and some days, had to say home, cancel office hours or hospital rounds and take a couple of Percocet 10s and 50mg of Thorazine so I could keep them down. I feel you, but this is just not a tactic that spells anything except selling scripts and selling pills. I know some legit docs who would have charged a couple of hundred bucks for a month's supply of these legal scripts. (Also, Klonopin for anxiety; great pain is the first cousin of great anxiety). My colleagues charged me nothing — professional courtesy reciprocated.

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No, they are not the same.

The Norco contains the narcotic Hydrocodone coupled with Acetaminophen. This is a narcotic analgesic, so it has the potential to be habit forming and may cause side effects, such as nausea, dizziness, drowsiness, dry mouth and constipation.

Is there anything else I can help with?

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No thare not the same you doctor should have took you to the 5mg oxicodones with no acciptiminophine norco is hydrocodone with apap your little pink pills were oxicodone 10mg oxicodone and hydrocodone have almost the same potentcy 30mg oxicodone = to 29mg hydrocodone = 60 morphine = to 12 hydromorphone = to 20 oximorphone = to 600mcg fyntynal these are all oral convertions remember bioavalibility changes with rought of administration

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Derek-Norco is Oxycodone, NOT hydrocodone. I'm an R.N. and know this for a fact.

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