Hydrocodone Yellow Norco 10 325 Availability (Page 2)

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I have already gone that route, about a year before the law went into effect, the chain pharmacy I was driving 20 min. One way to get them at stopped carrying the yellow ones (10/325mg) norcos and went to the white malli's. So I called around & found a small independent one that was 45 mins drive one way & switched them for about a year and a half. Then just as the law was changing a friend wanted to know where I got them so I told her. She went and they told her We are not accepting any new pain patients because supplies are limited and we want to be able to take care of the patients we have. Then they stopped being able to get them also & went to the white watsons. They also start limiting how many they gave out & right after the law changed they said we aren't going to be able to give you all of these at once but then they noticed how far I was driving and made an exception. I have had people I know tell me they had to wait 2 weeks to get theirs. Just last week a friend called me & said they took theirs down to the pharmacy and couldn't get it for 5 days. I live in a small town with 2 pharmacies but it is like that all over this area. I live in central California. So changing might not be smart right now. But if I could find them I would still want them over the others because they work the best for me.

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Wow-Your doing alot of driving for those. Is there any towns closer to you that have them? My pharmacy said to give them a few days notice before ordering them next time so they can be sure to have them. The price is higher to them to order the yellow ones. Thats why so many went with the useless white ones, their cheaper. But they don't work, and people are mad, and refusing these bogus white things. If I can't get the yellow, I'll tell my doctor, and have them put me on MS Contin, their both now in the same schedule 2 category so no difference. Both have the same laws.

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No as I said I have already done that called all the pharmacies within about 50 miles, but they started disappearing in this area before the law changed and now I can't seem to find them anywhere. There is a medical group pharmacy private for low income that gets small amounts of them but they only give them to the low income which I am not.

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Well, in that case, if you have the time and money to find these, I would simply do a larger search. They are out there. I get them every month, and I found them about a mile from my house. But, if I had to go all the way out of town to find these, I would simply talk to my doctor about getting something different.

The next best drug for pain is the morphine based meds. You can take a low dose of MS Contin, and have the same or better pain relief as the Norco. And, they are both in the same schedule 2 category now, so it should be nothing to change to these as our government now considers them the same level of pain relief. I can't believe all the local pharmcies no longer carry the yellow ones.

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Yeah me either it's crazy isn't it? The larger towns might have them but I can't see driving to them because then I would have to spend at least a half day just to get them. And since the price of gas here is up over 3 dollars a gallon again it just wouldn't be smart.

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JUST FYI, AS A HEALTH CARE PROFFESSIONAL, THERE IS A DIFFERENCE IN COLOR, GENERICS HAVE DIFFERENT CHEMICALS IN THEM AND THEY DO NOT WORK THE SAME WAY, THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BTWN THE WHITE ANDYELLOW ONES. THEY TELL YOU THERE IS NOT BUT TRUTH BE KNOWN, THE DIFFERENCE IS THERE, I WORK PHARMACUTICALS.

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Marybell- Thanks for that. We, in the community of chronic pain sufferers, have never been fooled by this bait and switch scheme that has been perpetuated on the public. Anyone that has spent any amount of time with the yellow Norco can instantly tell the difference between them and these new white fake Norco. The reason for this fraudulent move is really simple. It's about the money, as usual. I spoke to my regular pharmacy here, and they explained that the heads of their chain decided to not buy any more yellow Norco because the white ones are much less to buy. They can still sell them to the customer, and/or the insurance companies, and/or Medicare and Medicaid patients for the same price as the yellow ones. Therefor, increasing their profit margins for their stockholders.

My theory is that the drug companies and their insurance company partners, are looking for ways to increase profits, due to their loss from having the new insurance laws that make them provide insurance for people with major health problems. They can no longer turn away potential customers because they have an ongoing health problem. So, a person with cancer or their 25 year old child can now be covered and they can't say anything to prevent that. So, they are willing to seek any new form of revenue they can find, even if it means redoing a popular drug and taking away or cutting way down, on the properties that make it effective, ie. codeine or codeine substitute. In other words they are frauding the government, and that means you and I, and they need to be stopped. They are pushing drugs that don't work, and they know it. Why is the FDA not doing an investigation of this? The white pills sell for a lot less because they have no pain relieving chemicals in them other then possibly some acetaminophen. A few Tylenol will give the same pain relief as these bogus pills. So, as long as people keep excepting these fake white Norco from their pharmacies, the company will keep pushing them on the public, and the American taxpayer will continue paying into Medicare and Medicaid for a medicine that does not work. So, why is there no action being taken? Someone in government needs to evaluate these pills and then make this company repay the government for all the millions they have sent the insurance companies for useless pills.

ALSO, MARYBELL, PLEASE DON'T SCREAM ON THIS SITE, IT HURTS PEOPLES EARS-lower case works good-is your's broken?

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I have taken Norco for chronic pain off and on for 20 years (multiple spinal fusions, joint replacements, acute arthritis, nerve damage and migraines). Over a year ago I noticed the pills were no longer yellow but I was told they were the same. I assumed I was crazy because I noticed a BIG difference in pain relief. It takes much longer to take effect and I have intermittent bouts of itching that I never connected to the norco. I've had 9 major surgeries in just the past 12 years and the pain meds given to me pre-post surgery have also caused rampant itching. Morphiene causes me to break out in a hive-type rash and the alternative medicines do cause itching though less severe. I found a random white pill just now, searched to identify it and found these posts. THANK YOU! It's a relief to know I'm not imagining this yet I am disappointed at the lack information given by my local pharmacy. I will now seek out the yellow Norco, hoping for the best.

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I think its amazing that they watch pain meds so closely while street drugs flow freely, I think, I don't take street drugs

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Does anyone know if target /now Cvs will ever have gualitest 10/325 again .last month. they gave me,caracos been sick as a dog does nothing for pain ,don't know where to go this month can someone help let me know

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This is not true!! Qualitest still makes them, it's just true pain sufferers are paining for the i****s who abuse and do what they shouldn't, I've taken for years and new mallinckrodts are a joke for relief and Watson whites are not as good but close, we are being lied to and pharmacists are rude with discrimination as others walk out with the brand qualitest. I always have taken what works and was productive with relief! Fact! It's all over the Internet for true sakes, and if the same why not serve the same or give option to pain sufferers what's best, same prescribed dose right? So what does it matter, maybe we should all consume state legal marijuana. Try that conclusion.

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I have had same problem, took yellow qualitest for years, worked great, less high feeling with extended pain relief just before the laws changed the pharmacy I was using stopped carrying, for about 6 mos found small owner op pharmacy that still had then they couldn't get either. After a long time maybe 8 mos I started hearing from others that people on public assistance were getting
Them, I have also heard that occasionally Target pharmacy gets them but usually runs out same day. I don't know how it is other places but in central Ca. there are pharmacies
Saying sorry we only get alloted so many no more pain patients, so now instead of just going to most convenient place you often must drive around looking & ,I live in center of 4 small towns all opposite directions so it can be a lot of driving if you go one direction. & are unable to find any there that have it.

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