Hydrocodone-acetaminophen 10/325 By Mallinckrodt (Page 2)

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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I went to my doctor, and he prescribed (and any doctor can specify this) that the tabs be the yellow oblong ones. Watson was recently bought out by another company, but the medication is the same. I have contacted my attorney.

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I think the Mallinckodt hydrocodone is horrible. I much prefer Qualitest.
Any thoughts?

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I know I can't believe what's happening, it should be illegal, they regulate the meds so much these days, why not regulate what goes in it, regulate the fillers that are making people sick, why are we getting ripped off! Why are we buying our meds from other countries! This is a total nightmare for people whom live in pain everyday!

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Watson company has recently been bought out, BUT the yellow pills are still available. Your doctor CAN order the yellow capsules, which means that the PHARMACY -- if they want to keep your business -- WILL order those particular meds.

However, I believe the day will come when a legal case is filed against the company because of all the problems with it.

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Mallinckrodt hydrocodone has a different formula on the bottle label on the bottle of qualitest Norco formula I found it once on the internet but I can't find it again but I did find it once

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I honestly do not know. All I know is that there is very little regulation on additives to generic drugs. Generic Hydrocodone MUST have at least 7 to 10 mg of the active ingredient.

When I took this drug, I immediately went into a massive allergic reaction.

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Oscar Western Vista, all hydrocodone and acetaminophen combination drugs have the same active ingredients. The fillers and binders vary from one company to another. Generics must have
8 mg-12 mg of the active ingredients, if it says it has 10 mgs on the label.

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I found a pharmacy in Irvine Ca. that carries Qualitest. They will not take insurance for this product, but will for the Tris. They carge $1.50 per pill for the Qualitest Hydrocodone 10-325. Don't know if my insurance will reimburse, but find this policy odd and troubling. Any comments?

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I think the fact that you been taking the yellow and are use to it. Change pharmacy I did when mine ran out, and another one had the yellow norco 10. There is a diff, if you put 180 pills of yellow up against some of the white 10/325 pills there bigger. And are diluted down, not all of these generic pain meds meet the standard. But that's what insurance pays for, or we pay full price. This is what I think!

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Well, they may "all" have the same ingredients, but I went into anaphylactic shock after just ONE dose of the 10-325's from Meckenrodt.

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Hi Jennifer, Chances are the pharm you go to want to cut cost so no telling where your new generics are coming from. I have noticed changes myself in potencies when pharms did that to me. I simply went back to a pharm I trusted when I moved further away from them to a new place and now make the trip. These new generics I think get the stamp of approval because how are they going to manage Quality Control if the person checking them cannot check one against the other by ingesting them. Well that's just my theory anyway.. But it feels right to me.

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I have been taking Oxycodone 10-325 for the past 12 years for my chronic back pain after a failed Lammy. After getting a refill from Wal-Mart the other day I have noticed that the pain still lingers. I take a pill every 8 hours which the last two hours can ,at times, be unbearable. My doctor refuse to increase my intake to every 6 hours, which is within the perameter of this pain killer. He is to concerned about the feds watching him instead of treating his patients. But my real question is what is the difference between Hydrocodone and oxycodone. My script calls for Oxycodone 10-325, but after getting my refill and looking up the the 10-325 mg Mallinckrot on Google it states that my script is actually Hydrocodone. What gives?

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I don't know, but I think what it amounts to is that your doctor is actually prescribing Hydrocodone.

I would look up the formulary for this item, and even talk to your pharmacist.

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The companies can have up to a 20% difference in the amout of drug in each pill so some lots can have 10mg and some lots less.

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Exactly! I have read literally hundreds of messages from people with the exact same problems with this particular brand.

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I'm taking oxycodone and I'd like to get someone's opinion about what works best for them...? Oxycodone...or Hydrocodone..? The oxycodone I take doesn't seem to help me...? They have a V on one side & 48/10 on the other. I know the yellow hydro I used to get from the VA helped me the best but I asked my doctor to try the oxycodone...and it hasn't worked as well...and he doesn't want to switch me back to hydrocodone... I feel like I'm dieing I hurt so bad... please help.?

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I don't know. But there has to be some kind of an additive in the drug. I'm going to contact an attorney requesting a legal case.

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I really don't know what we can do , for me does not work

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This is all new information for me and have read through almost all of the comments. I've gone from angry to shocked to incredulous and now I am incensed.

Here's my question. Where do Insurance companies... who of course have much more wisdom and apparently know what is best for each and every one of the thousands (millions?) of patients (which are actually human beings, not statistics or worse, lab rats), much more so than do our individual PCP's and other doctors, who, you know, actually see us and take our blood pressure and speak with us for at least 5 minutes... where do they get this wisdom? And why don't they share it with the medical community? They get it from the great wallet in the sky, you say?

OK, then let the insurance company pay the generic price for the manufacturer pill and we pay the difference, simple, right? Oh no! They wont allow that, but it is OK to have us pay a co-pay but it is not OK for us to pay the difference between generic & brand name. Why not? We'd get that choice if we were buying, oh, I don't know, a toaster oven!

Because if this happened the generic manufacturers would go out of business for having a sub-par product, because like anything else in a 'free' market, people tend not to buy junk, at least not a second time. A truly free market helps to ensure quality.

So it is perfectly fine for the FDA and insurance companies and whatever other powers that be, to regulate medications in such a way that it strips away the 'freedom' from the market which in and of itself would produce better quality, uniformity and safer drugs among drug manufacturers.

And as I think RhoRhoRho said, they have the perfect patsies to do a bait-and-switch on, passing along their culpability to the chronic pain sufferer whose mind, you know, are addled by narcotics and opioids, can't trust those people.

I am one of those chronic pain patients whose mind is addled by pain medication. I do not wish my condition on anyone however, the day is coming that many of these people who screw with the system (for financial gain or other reasons, such as the insurance companies, FDA, even doctors themselves) are going to experience some medical malady and then they will know what they have perpetrated upon us. That is if their minds are not addled with pain because they cannot get the medications that they need, only sub-par, possibly even dangerous medications.

I said pain, and not pain medications because it is pain that makes it difficult for someone to concentrate and think. Someone in actual chronic severe pain does not feel high or feel euphoria when taking these medications. I never felt anything but pain reduction which makes it possible for me to be productive and still have some quality of life.

We have been insulted, stigmatized, marginalized, made to jump through rules and regulations from doctor's to insurance companies to pharmacies (many of which are in direct contradiction of the rules of the other) and are actively being treated as lab rats without our knowledge.

And we have no recourse. Because our health is gone we neither have the strength nor the financial ability to fight for ourselves. We're easy pickings.

Doctors have a huge coalition of power that they don't mind using to lobby Washington for financial gain with but will not use it to help the patients that they swore an oath to 'first do no harm' to, shame on them.

That oath apparently has lost its meaning. They must still do it for sentimentality reasons, it is quaint, you know, it's like saying "I Do" until, well, "I Don't".

If you made it this far, thank you for reading. I wish you well.

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RhoRhoRho, If you are still around, I'd be interested to hear about how things have been going for you, any better or worse?

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