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I've been on xanax for over two years and have had multiple different drug makers for the generic form of this pill. The maker of this particular pill, Qualitest, is the absollute worst. I've had to take three times the amount of pills to feel the same way I do on any other manufactureres pill. It's so bad that we took the bottle back to the pharmacy and told them they can just throw them out becaue it's garbage. Please don't accept xanax from the maker Qualitest. I promise you will be dissapointed!!

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Thank you everybody re: Qualitest and hydrocodone; Kaiser just switched to Qualitest from Mallinckrodt, and the norco 10/325 are so very bad! They do not work at all, and the acetaminophen will, I'm sure, still poison your liver. And it looks like it was this way in 2010, also. I want to complain loudly for a change; anybody know how? And though it will cost me a young fortune I will have to take my prescription to Walmart where they still use Mallinckrodt, today anyway, 12/09/12. I have to have them for any quality of life at all.

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I to have also been switched to these alprozolam generics and I have had the worst month I've I had in a long time. These pills particularly the blue football 1mg are not as effective as any other brand I have ever taken. I have been taking then since I was 22 and am now 43. There is definatley somthing wrong or missing from these pills.

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Your damn right greenstone is the best lab for xanax especially if there the 1mg or bars

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I have Kaiser in SoCal and I still get the Mals, not Quals for my Norco 10/325... It looks like we ALL have different reactions to diff brands!! I can only use Mals or Watsons!!!! The Quals suck balls!!!

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Listen up people: When I use Mallinckrodt hydrocodone and compare it to Watson or Qualitest hydrocodone I am disappointed. It takes roughly twice as many milligrams of Mallinckrodt to give the same effect as Watson or Qualitest Vicodin, and the Mallinckrodt Vicodin high feels "unclean" like the buzz is offset by some other chemicals. However, when I take the mallinckrodt vicodin and do a cold water extraction, being left with only hydrocodone and none of the s*** fillers mallinckrodt puts in their pills, I am VERY pleased. When filtered, the Mallinckrodt pills feel just like the Watson or Qualitest pills that ARE NOT filtered.

Anyone speculate on why Mallinckrodt pills are s***? I could understand a little discrepancy when comparing brands, but the Mallinckrodt brand is just grossly ineffective at producing the buzz that hydrocodone is designed to give. Despite this forum's majority of saying Qualitest is a good 5mg Vicodin, it's still better than the 357's....!!!!

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Go to a different pharmacy two pharmacys right across the street from each other could have completely different distributorscall a couple pharmacies and make sure they don't have the qualitest ones and then get them there as a consumer you have the right to choose

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Sigh ... Well if your insufflating them OBVIOUSLY you wouldn't notice because sometimes the problem is the way the pill is digested. Ugh

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My pharmacist changed my Losartan to one made by Qualitest and my BP has skyrocketed. Anyone else have the same results. My doctor doubled my dosage to 100mg and it came down to 180/70....still very bad. Anyone else have the same results? Would appreciate your input to convince my doc to change my prescription.

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Everything you wrote, is the absolute truth.......it's called integrity ! Thank you from a nurse that does her home work for 25 years

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Ditto! I just had my bad experience and I've taken them for 17 years, sure other name brands , but I never had a physical reaction from them, at first thought the doctor gave me the wrong medicine after investigating, it was Quailtest! Took me a full day to fight, my pharmacist about changing them, the bottle said Sandoz, but they finally told me it was Quailtest, my side effects are as follows, severe mouth burns, sore throat, bloody stringy clots in my urine, no other urinary symptoms, nausea and vomiting, and a pill I bought that's done this to me, that doesn't work!
I also have the Nausea after taking!

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Alll Qualitest products I have received were considerably weaker and unless you check at the store you cannot return it. I now ask when I drop off an Rx.
There is an FDA site to leave the info

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Hey I just moved from Peru I take 8mg of alprazolam a day. I don't know where to find any! Any samples? Or where do I get?

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Same thing is happening with Rhodes mfg. Just putting a warning out there about bad manufacturing.

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I too have a problem with Qualitest Hydrocodone not helping with pain and causing me to be dizzy. Having taken other brands since an auto accident that worked to reduce pain, my first thought when I got dizzy from the Qualitest brand was that the Pharmacy had put the wrong pills in the bottle. I found your responses because I did a search to see if anyone else was having the same problem. I will take your advice and let the FDA know about my experience. Thanks for sharing

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WHY WHATS WRONG WITH THE TWO MG. MYLAN 4 APRAZOLAM

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Um I agree the Mylan round purple ones don't work I took two today and it did nothing. I like the light baby blue some call light purple whatever aka purple footballs which I believe is 3mg two of them equal a bar! Now I just took a BRIGHT BRIGHT ASS BLUE football "oval shaped" Xanax and I've been hearing they are 1mg??? Is that true because I was paying as much for them as I was the 3mg light blues....regardless the bright ass blue ones SUCK deff. Don't snort them they light your nose on fire no kidding you'll be coughing for 10 to 15 minutes and your eyes water up like crazy and now it feels like my throats on fire....I've been trying to research about these f***ers but I can't find anything (just that ppl don't like them) if your a snorter then of coarse your not going to like them they are NOT smooth like the light purple footballs (my fav) ....I just want to know why they BURN SO DAMN BAD AND LITTERALLY CANNOT STOP COUGHING THIS IS HORRIBLE the other ones don't do this to me!!! And work 100X better!

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Kaiser switched to Qualitest, and their norco 10/325 is worse than useless. I will have to go to Walmart although it will cost me a small fortune; they still use Mallinckrodt, and I have to have it for any quality of life at all. thanks to everybody who reported this so I can prove it's not just 'in my head'.

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