Watson Lortab Formula Change (Page 10)

Does anyone know what Watson did or why they changed their formula for Lortab 10/500? It used to be blue and when I picked up my refill today they are now white. I still have a few days of my blue left but I swapped a few so I can try the white. I'm waiting for it to start working and I took it over 2 hours ago. My rx is 1-2 every 3 hours not to exceed 7 in a day. (my pm dr wants me on a stronger med but anything above hydrocodone makes me euphoric and I can't function) The blue color lortab starts to work within 15 mins. I took my first white color lortab 2 hours ago, waited an hour and took the 2nd and nothing. I will wait 30 mins longer and switch back to the blue until I run out. This sucks. I'm a full time law student, disabled, single mom and can't use my dominate arm because the pain level is too high. (My shoulder dislocates every time I move my arm, even after 3 surgeries the last one being a bone transplant to the shoulder.) Sorry about any typos, I am typing with my left hand and don't have the coordination in this arm/hand that I do with my right. Thank you for any information that you can provide me.

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Connie - do a Google search for UNA prescription discount card. You can fill out the info or sign up as anonymous. (They only ask name and I think DOB anyhow.) Either print out out or write down the info it gives you (Group #, rxBin, etc) tell your pharmacist to run your Rx under your UNA discount. The savings are unbelievable! I wouldn't have survived without it before getting on medicaid/medicare. The bigger savings are on generics. To give you an example my muscle relaxer was $70 cash, it was $17 with UNA!!! Since they've reformulated the pain meds I haven't used it, but I think my old meds were about $50 on it rather than nearly $200 cash. I hope this helps you! Good luck! Best thing is they aren't sticklers about anything, like early refills. And most any pharm takes it. The prices do vary - discount is less at Walgeens and Rite Aid, best at CVS and some of the grocery store pharm chains. Good luck!

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It's nice that you aren't having a problem with this, but your remark that it isonly in their mind reminds me of a lot if doctors who minimize the pain people are feeling. If you experience pain yourself, you should be more intelligent about this and not so insulting.

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I agree 100 % myself I went through 5 surgeries on my shoulders 3 on my right shoulder and two on my left and I'm in much more pain now and it took 2.5 year's too go through all these surgeries and on top of that I have lower back problems and a bone spur on the back of my left knee and I've been on pain medications now for about 8 year's and I have been going to a pain clinic ever since I had my last surgery done and I say I'm in much more pain now than I was before I had the surgeries done and that why I have a fear of letting them do any surgeries on my knee and I have gone through having my nerves burnt in my back the first time I had it done they did both sides at the same time and they told me that I would have to wait 6 months before they could do it again so the next time I seen him I asked him if he could only do one side at a time that way I would know witch side is causing the pain and he agreed with me but I do have to say once they burn them he has told me it would take about 30 days before it would start working and I have to say it starts working on the pain within about 2 or 3 weeks but it really only last me about 2.5 months before the pain comes back and because I'm on medicare I have had to switch doctors 3 or 4 times over all the year's but out of all the pain doctors I've seen said they wish I could afford to pay them out of my pocket because I am one of the vary few that they know they can trust me because out of all the year's I've been on these medications I'm one of the few that has the rite amount of medications left when I go to my next visit and all the pain doctors I've seen since my first one has told me the same thing and they have all asked me how I can manage my medications so well and all I could tell them is if you ever found yourself laying on the floor because your back went out you would never risk running yourself out because I don't ever want to find myself back on the floor ever again but I'm having to go through a lot more pain because my doctor has told me that it was because the State of Tennessee was threatening him to take his license away if he did not start lowering everyone's dosage and that's wrong. What rite dose the State have to tell my doctor how to treat me that's flat out wrong.

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The name brands listed ingredients are Tylenol (apap) and hydrocodone. Generics still have same active ingredients.Legally, batches/lots of generics can vary in actual active ingredients quite a bit. Was 20 % a couple years ago, not sure of % of actives regulation is currently. Example: Half of script comes from 2 different lots at pharmacy, (their big bottles), could provide different amounts of active ingredients in different doses.

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I have been taking Hydro since July of 2014 for arthritis in back and knee. Also got the steroid injections and they have helped, but I still need the hydros from time to time. My pain management Dr. prescribes them for me each month since the legal change. My last bottle was Watson 3202, the 5mg/325 pill. It is now white with red specks. I took my usual dosage of these and it made me violently ill for about 6 hours. I only take one at a time, usually about 4 hours apart. I have never had this reaction before. Tried it again later that night and it also made me very ill, and extremely sleepy again. Something is wrong. I called the pharmacy and was told "no one has complained" and that I was probably developing an allergy to the hydro.

I called my Dr. and I have to go in and see him so he can write a different script. He says many of his patients have complained about the watson pills. Something is wrong and we need to get together and find out what it is. I am calling the FDA tomorrow. If any others want to get together with me and demand better formulations from the FDA please let me know. I will try to get something started...I cannot live in pain all the time.

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i'm interested in grouping up to fight watson!

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Sorry but that is some total BS. If you were prescribed these tablets and if you knew anything about how the these companies operate, you would know the formula is definitely not the same. Everyone has had the same complaints about watsons new formulations, including me. They used to be the best generic, now they are the worst. Generic mallinkrodt that I used to avoid now do more for me than these pathetic tablets. Actually in 2012 Watson had a few recalls due to the active ingredient of the tablet not being the specified amount. I don't care how many pharmacies you called or what they told you, they aren't an authority on the subject believe it or not. I recommend you fill your scripts at a CVS from now on.

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That was true the blue tabs were way better than the white. They dropped the Tylenol level to 325mg on the slick because they were planning to make doctors stop writing lortab and lorcet and write norco which I find even with taking a extra Tylenol isn't as good as my blue Watson 540s were. It's not in your head because I noticed and so many others, that the relief hasn't been the same since they took the blues off the market

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All lortab's have been changed as of jan 2014. pay no attention to these i***** that say it's all in your head. it's all in the difference in the pill. if you have taken these pills you are the expert on what they do and what they don't, so don't waste your time with some so called pharmacist that has taken a five dollar course in a two dollar school and has never taken anything stronger than an aspirin 81. these quacks that were instructed by the gov to make changes in the hydrocodone has formulated it next to poison, so going from one brand to another is not going to help all that much. it's all bad. now all the addict's have gone to the street and are now more of a threat to crime than ever before. Now people in real pain are having to be prescribed morphine or a stronger drug to ease their pain. Common sense was not looked into when a good working pain medicine was changed and reformulated by these i*****.

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I have friends that have expressed the same problem and they say if you take a low dose 50 tylenol along with the 325 Tylenol thats in the pill, it helps it to become just as effective as the Loratabs were/are..... hope it helps and that all find relief......

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Hello are you still getting lortabs 10/500 ,even if they are white

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I found out that norcos contain hydromorphone at really high levels. If they put u on those in about 15 months it will be worse.... It was for me anyway. My last er visit made me do a toxicology report... I was shocked! I'm considering legal help at this point. I do tech support for a very big company and have difficulty maintaining train of thought without keeping notes. I was hoping the pinched nerves were doing it. But can't find proof of that anywhere

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Jenn, Norco only contains Hydrocodone and Acetaminophen, there is No Hydromorphone in Norco.

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Oh yes there is a difference in the blue and white Lortab. I took the blue awhile back. My pharmacy always had blue Watson. On the white it never said Watson. There is a difference, the white does not work as well and it's not in my head. Go tell that to an i****.

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Kose, Watson Pharmaceutical acquired Actavis Group in 2012. In 2013, Watson changed their name to Actavis.

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I feel the same way and I have heard the same thing from a lot of other people as well that it seem as thou it really doesn't seem to work as well and I was also on morphine as well and was took off it and changed to methadone 10 Mg. Tablets twice a day and after about a year I was moved up to 3 tablets a day and they switch me from Hydrocodone 10/500 Mg. Then to Oxycodone 10/500 and now I see they don't even make the 10/500 Mg. Anymore from what I'm told so the have been switching me back and forth between the Hydrocodone 10/325 and Oxycodone 10/325 about every 3 months. I just don't know what they have done but I know one thing if it gets to Where they are not working rite I'm either going to start calling other states to see what kind of help I can get with my pain I'm even considering going to a state where marijuana is legal because I will admit that I took one hit off a joint about a year ago rite after my doctor gave me a drug panel so that I knew it would be out of my body by the time I had to take my next drug panel and I have to say after just two hits off that joint my pain level was the lowest it has been in year's. Why don't they make it legal everywhere?

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Everyone needs to stay away from Walgreens

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If its all in your head then tell me if I drink a quart of whiskey am i going to get drunk even tho its been said it's only in my mind? I think not. Yes our mind is a powerful thing so tell me another having surgery and have go be put to sleep but I say in my mind no I ain't going to sleep. Ha I'm here to tell you it is NOT in our minds. So please do your research before you say its just only in our minds!!!!

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I've had the same problem. .. They have figured out how to take out the euphoric ability of the drug . And now they make your heart pound and u feel no relief . I've called Watson and complained . They have got together with federal gov. Hoping do lesson the amount of people on pain mess . Basically making the drug not fun to lesson the wish to do it . But it's just frustrating people and moving them
To stronger meds.

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I agree, It is almost as though they no longer work at all. Takes forever and I am no longer able to work.

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