Hydrocodone Yellow Norco 10 325 Availability (Top voted first)

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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Verwon,

You keep giving out bad and/or misleading information on these pills. Why is that? Do you work for Mallikrap, the white bogus pill co.? There is a big difference, way beyond the color my friend. Remvoving food dye does not remove potency, or it's not suppose to right? Well then, what else was removed?

There are thousands of people right now saying the same thing about these new white ones, on the web, in many forums like this one. They are simply garbage. And yes, Qualitest is still making the yellow ones but they are not sold in the big box stores-try the smaller pharmacies. I just picked mine up today-112 yellow!

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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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I just went to the Target today and had my script filled in Cedar Hill. They gave me yellow Qualitest 10/325. I have never been so happy after having to deal with the the white crap after all the Mansfield pharmacies switched. I live in Mansfield but work in Cedar Hill. I only went there because I couldn't wait to go to my usual pharmacy in Mansfield because I was in pain. So I dropped it off in CH. Went back and was pleasantly surprised they came back yellow.

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He either works for a competitor or is LE...I have several MRI, I have had over several years and guess what it has changed over the years ...getting worse. Surgery is inevitable. We are waiting as long as possible because surgery isn't guaranteed to help me. I was a athlete and had a really bad car accident and two children. By back is jacked. Simple as that. Won't heal,won't get better,just worse as I age. Have nothing to look forward to..imo. but for now with help I can continue to work. If they take away my pm ..I will have to file for disability sooner rather then later. These are facts. I know pm will likely lead to dependence but what is the alternative? I choose the lesser of two evils. I hope I will continue to have a choice.

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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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O Great-I see my Dr. every 90 days anyway, as per state pain contract. But, now they won't be able to phone them in on the other months? That;s stupid and means I will have to drive all the way to his office every month to get my refill? Who's great idea was this and why? Hopefully there's aloophole in this new law. Why make people burn gas to drive across town when the phone works real good?

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Robspace1:

You can have or ask your doctor to issue multiple prescriptions. Federal law allows 3 months worth, but it has to be 3 separate scripts.

Typically, the Dr. will write something like "Do not fill before Month, Day, Year".

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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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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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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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CVS pharmacy a carry the yellow ones also ask for name brand not generic. Hope this helps. Lisa

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you can get more with a new script (hard copy) the dea is punishing patients with true need because of those that abuse their prescription ---- as always it easier to punish lawbiding people than punish the criminal

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Any one tried levorphanol,

Norco isn't strong enough for me anymore

And those yellow norco were definitely stronger but I haven't seen them in years. In fact I never had a problem taking more pills until I stopped getting yellow norco and started taking white ones.

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I have degenerative disc disease and numerous other painful bone conditions. Six years ago my Dr. called me at home and said my liver test was very high, what was I taking? I was taking the recommended amount of tylenol arthritis. He switched me to Norco 10 mg. and said only take this nothing else. It worked great! Since then I have been taking the Norco. When the government put the hammer down everything changed, and not to the better! I got fake ones from major pharmacies!! Once you pick up your script your stuck with them whether they work or not. Can't get another script filled for a month regulated. The restrictions on filling them is nearly impossible. I have to pick up a Rx from Dr. and go to several pharmacies to find them in stock. The pharmacies are regulated by the government on how many bottles they get a month. Odd that USA invaded Afghanistan, Iraq, where the majority of poppy flowers are grown and turned into illicit drugs then sent in body bags by our government here. Here where opioids are at epidemic proportions and people are dropping dead all over the country. Good Dr.'s who thought they were doing the best for their patients were lied to by the pharmaceutical companies who rule the country. They are now scrutinized and threatened to have their licenses taken away by the same people who instructed and pushed them to prescribe narcotics. But so much opium is pumped into our country and people are getting hooked. It's cheaper, very easy to get, your not red flagged, and works for pain! So our government pulled the carpet out from giving out narcotics and replaced it with tons and tons of opium!!! Does the government care about it's people, obviously not! Regarding the V on yellow 10-325mg, the V should be facing the same way whether you turn it east/west or north/south. It seems like common sense. But when I get them and they are different in the same pharmacy bottle, it seems like something is wrong. My opinion is the government should lift these brutal restrictions and regulate how narcotics are made and distributed so as in a more consistent manor.

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Reminder that begining Oct. 6, 2014, Hydrocodone Combination Medications will become a Schedule II. If you have refills left, you will not be able to get them. Schedule II can't be called in or refilled. You must see your dr at least once every 90 days. Some pharmacists say they will no longer refill these meds after Oct 3, so be sure and check if you have any refills that are due before Oct 6.

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Your dr can still do 90 day supply on 1 script or write 3 30 day supplies at 1 time but laws do vary state to state somewhat like TX will not fill out of state narcotic scripts and in Ohio you must see dr every 90 days to get a script. So search laws for prescribing schedule 2 drugs in your state.

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This answer is bs. The yellow Norco have more % hydrocodone in them than the white. The white ones still contain enough hydrocodone to justify existance as an honest generic, but as I said.
This was explained to me by a registered local pharmacist.
Know your facts.

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Re: Verwon (# 1)

The yellow ones do me better then the white we want them back in the Walgreens Pharmacy

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Darwinski , Thank You. I apologize for my error. If the rx was written with refills before October 6, 2014, they must be refilled by April 8, 2015.

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