Hydrocodone-acetaminophen 10/325 By Mallinckrodt (Page 5)

My pharmacy changed my meds from the yellow 10-325 v 3601 norco to the 10-325 white m367 mallinckrodt. I've been taking the yellows for years with no problems. Today I started the whites and feeling dizzy, a little weak, kind of panicky. What is different about the two meds that would cause this?

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Re: Lynn (# 80)

if you got oxy instead of hydro I wouldn't say anything and just be happy. hydrocodone would be the Norco, Oxycodone would be Percocet. Percocet is noticeably stronger.

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Re: RhoRhoRho (# 3)

I switched to Kroger pharmacy with mallincrodt brand, it's ok but not a quality generic, it doesn't give me the bad side effects like amneal did,but I have also cut back on amount per day. I am having a intermittent pain in my stomach,I have a complete physical soon, it's not my colon! Hope everyone is doing well!!

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I've only ever had Watson but in all the different generic brands of other meds I have never noticed a difference. Sometimes I wonder if people just think it's acting differently. I know generics can vary, ever so slightly, in the amount of the drug that it may actually contain but hydrocodone is hydrocodone and acetaminophen is acetaminophen.

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Re: Verwon (# 2)

They are not slight fluctuations. That is the garbage the generic producers have been feeding us for years!! Its a crock!! The white pills are crap!! We know our bodies well enough to know when something is off!! Its all garbage these days!! Just like all the sizes of food in grocery stores is getting smaller so is the active medicine getting lesser in our meds. Its so f***ed up!! Ive been on the same medicine for ling enough to know when its effectiveness is being tampered with!! Stay away from the Amneal medicine!! It is pure s***!! It caused me anxiety, upset stomach, migraine and no pain relief!! I cant stand what is going on with the medicine I need to give me quality of life!!

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Re: ThunderHeart (# 84)

The pain meds are so bad and they think we are so stupid that we don't know the difference because in their minds we are all drug seekers with no real pain. I say bulls***. I also know my body and have been taking hydrocodone for years and mallincrap is just that crap and the only good one out there was made by Abbvie. If any of you out there have been on Abbvie Vicodin I hate to inform you they also are not making them anymore, but what is worse, the pill bottles they still have on the shelves are NOT the same, it is a bait and switch. Same manufacturer on the bottle, same medicine but it is not the same, there is no hydrocodone in them anymore. Mikart is now making the remaining bottles and they are the ones who put the poison in the pills now. I feel sorry for anyone who had the good stuff from Abbvie all these years and now try to find anything that works - you will be very depressed and in pain now. Also, Verwon is a forum watcher or mediator or whatever, he has been on these sites for years, be careful.

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Re: blankfrank (# 15)

FYI about Walgreens...they have a free prescription card (you have to ask, they won't tell you). My insurance temporarily didn't let us use Walgreens, and since they were the only ones carrying Watson I paid out of pocket. It was about $90 for my prescription. One day I went to a different Walgreens and the nice pharmacist there told me about the card. It lowered the cost to I think $18.

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Re: mama bear (# 20)

These drugs are full of poison - there has to be something in them besides fillers and binders that are making so many of us so sick from headaches to stomach issues to just no pain relief at all - I was forced into withdrawals when suddenly the vicodin i had been taking for over 3 years stopped making them. The manufacturers don't give a s*** about us. I have now tried at least 3 different manufacturers now and none and i mean none of them even come close to the vicodin i had been on all these years. Don't tell me they are all the same. If someone tells you they are all the same and it's in your head then ask them what they are basing that on and what drugs do they take? I guarantee you they are taking a "cocktail" of drugs. When you are taking multiple drugs every day sure you don't notice any difference. But I only take ONE drug and that is vicodin so when they screw up my medicine I know immediately within 30 minutes of taking one pill. Watch out for any narcotics made by Mikart out of Atlanta. They put poison in the pills now and will lie to you and act innocent when you contact them as I have personally done. It's all lies and bulls*** and we will suffer from now on because they have taken the medicine OUT of the pills.

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What is up with this brand Mallincrodt Hydrocodone 10/325? It does nothing for my pain! I have been taking this medication for 5 years, and in the last year or so it's been hit or miss (but mostly miss). This seems to be the ONLY brand of this medication on the market these days. I know for a fact there cannot be much hydrocodone in these pills. I don't know what's going on but something is definitely up. Is someone at the warehouse switching out black market junk clones and taking the authentic stuff? They must think people are generally stupid. Someone needs to get them analyzed in a lab and do a write up and expose what is going on. I'd say at most these pills don't have more than 4 to 6 mgs. of hydrocodone in each pill, if that. I think I'd know after being on them for 5 yrs.

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Re: Kaydollasign (# 88)

I agree with you.....The company making Mallincrap must be giving pharmacies in Austin big price reductions because most of them in North Austin is carrying it now......I have to go up to Cedar Park to get Norco pain pills now.....I do say though that the CVS right near the Cedar Park line was carrying Lupin a month ago.....guess the salesman hasn’t hit it yet......they’re back to carrying Sun Pharnacy’s tablet, btw bu I switched to Norco because that tablet didn’t work well.......Norco yellow tablets work!!!

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Different adjuvents & fillers. Mallincrodt use to be decent now i have never been so sick from the. Mallincrodt generic. Everytime i take it, chills & stomache cramps for abt 20 -30 minutes. Got really sick at first. watson brand was really effective & no side effects! Talk to your doctor asap!!

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Re: Kaydollasign (# 88)

Personally, i think they have reduced the opioid level & more fillers & even placebos!! Request formula for your lot( rx).?? Don't know if you will get it or how long it takes??? You have the right to advocate for your health & always talk to your doctor!!

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Re: Verwon (# 4)

I have been on Brand name Vicodin for 2 1/2 yrs and was told by Rite aid and Wallgreens that they stopped making my brand name and stopped me just like that! Then my Dr gave me script for hydrocodone same strength but is like it was sliced down middle! I would not even put it in my mouth! I've been trying to get a natural alternative,but no success! It has been very painful as I have chronic pain from Fibromyalgia, Hashimotos Thyroiditis, Osteoarthritis, Bursitis, Tendonitis, Double Scoliosis, and my right leg being 1 1/2 shorter than the left making it
very painful to stand or walk. I can only walk with walker or cane but only short distance!

I went from taking 2 pills, 4 times a day(8) of my brand opioids to 2 pills at 10am and 1 pill before bed (3). After going through Hell for a few months! Ingot very sick for a month and a half with all symptoms of Pneumonia! Maybe withdrawal?? So so sick for long time, nothing to help weaned myself down cold turkey off them to 3 pills a day from (8)! Want to go on ULDN. and don't want any opioids ever again!

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Re: RhoRhoRho (# 12)

" But sadly, insurance will NOT pay for name brand drugs."

I contacted multiple pharmacies, mom and pop, you name it. Not one would let me purchase the name brand Norco or even another generic besides malcrap. I was told the only one they could give me was the malcrap. I'll pay the full price! Where do I get it? Now, we can't get our meds like we used to and have to settle for this substandard so-called med? we need to go to war....

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Re: Lynn (# 91)

They have DEFINITELY taken out more of the active ingredient and put in garbage!! I noticed 2 weeks ago the difference when I picked up my new script. I almost threw up when I took the first pill. SOMETHING is different!! Ive NEVER had that happened before. I am still nauseous and my appetite is gone and I have upset stomach!! I've been taking the Malinkrodt for awhile but this new batch made me sick!! If big pharm is trying to "control" the opioid epidemic by putting s****y ingredients in pain killers it needs to be called out!!

Where can I get a test kit!!

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Re: Jusy (# 89)

I absolutely cannot get the name brand Norco in the state of California. What pharmacy are you using?

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I hear now from a pharmacist that the reason only one or two pharmacies are carrying one or two pain med brands is the result of the hurricane in the Islands, where a good part of these pain meds have been made in the past...........and so, the companies that haven't been using those companies in the islands, but get their meds somewhere else still have plenty of the meds to sell.

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I agree with you 100%. !! I have been getting so many nasty side affects! Like you I only take 1 type of pain med so I know when things are different. Why are we not allowed to choose what brand medicine we can take? Who put this nasty decision in effect? Or is it just more crap from the people who are trying to control pain meds? Such bulls***!

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