Watson Lortab Formula Change (Page 9) (Top voted first)

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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The Lortab 10/325 are what is given now. They do come in white but they also come in yellow. Where the 7.5/325 come in peach if not white.
As a nurse I know they are the same no matter the color but watching my patients and people I know personally makes me question. Why the blue dye is taken out but not the others? Why is there not the same relief in pain? Some of my patients have no idea of the color change and yet they have the same complaint.

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they can't get the opiod like before.if you read the news, there is war in afganistan getting the opiod.

the afganistand people know that america are desperate for them,and they are killing people before they get to them.

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It's the pharmacies, not the manufacturers. Pharmacies are looking for higher profit so they are selecting lower quality meds at the risk of their customers. Believe me, what we use to get is still being made. Everyone should write to the Board of Directors of their pharmacies and complain. I encourage writing and putting the pressure back on them. It's not us, it's them bottom line.....

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On top of the change, it's now been moved to a schedule 2 medication.. Meaning you can no longer have refills on them. Also meaning we'll have to go to the doctor more often to get prescriptions written. Everything I read was about people abusing Meds... So they change the rules and hurt the people who actually need them.. Even though the new medicine doesn't help as much. Anyone find a new one that helps better?

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I've always had to make monthly doctors appointments. I've never had refills for Norco. So after this many years, it is something I'm already use to.

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Not Pharmacy . It is the dea &governor.please ask ur doctor.do your research.

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If everyone googled fda u can see there email &phone no.bombard them with emails &phone calls.let them know what they r doing to us.

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I'm currently without insurance. I need help paying for my meds. Please.

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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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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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