The White Watson Norcos Don't Work At All!

I have been on pain management for 10 years due to severe car wreck. I have taken all of the generic brands in the past and to me the yellow watsons r the best followed by qualitest with the mallins not worth taking. So last month i go to docs get scripts and go to walgreens to get my norcs, i get my pills and notice that they were white, So i take a couple and nothing, i take two more,nothing! So im stuck with them all month and everytime i took them nothing, Watson is now Activis or whatever, All i know is that they r not watson norcos, they might have the name and numbers but they r not the real deal. So this month i went to a different pharmacy that sells the qualitest yellow norcs with the v on them. They r waay better than the white watson/activis norcs. So from now on, i will get the qualitest norcos for sure.

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Hi Rumbala,

Sorry to hear about your complications with Watson's white norco tablet. From what I can tell, Watson seems to have a number of quality control issues. Just within the past couple months, I noticed several people complaining about them not being nearly as potent. And I think it may be that Watson is simply putting less and less of the actual active ingredients in their generic tablets, making more room for binders and fillers. The FDA "allows" up to a 20% difference in the dosages of generic medications versus brand name drugs.

Just out of curiosity, does you happen to have any feedback on Mallinckrodt's generic version of Hydrocodone (5mg) + Acetaminophen (500mg)? A family member of mine is taking this medication for nerve pain and I'm wondering what others think of it's overall efficacy compared to say, Qualitest's version? The Imprint on the pill is M357. Thanks!

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IF YOU THINK THAT IS BAD, WAIT UNTIL THEY PUT YOU ON IP 110 BECAUSE THEY ARE CHEAPER THAT IS WHAT MOST PHARMACIES ARE GOING TO, AT LEAST THE ONE IM USING. I NOTICED WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT WITH THE WATSON 853, BUT STILL WAY BETTER THAN THIS IP 110. JUST HOPE YOU DONT GET THOSE. IM A SPINAL CHORD PATIENT, BEEN ON PAIN MANAGEMENT A LONG TIME MYSELF, HAD MOST ALL OF THEM... BUT THIS IS GETTING SAD.

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I completely agree. I'm so upset with the ip 110. Do NOT work!

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