Mallinckrodt Hydrocodone Side Effects And Info Needed (Page 3)
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I was prescribed hydrocode 10/325 by my md. I was getting yellow pills.now I'm getting pills that i believe are from mallinckrodt the hotel says manufacturing company is MLKCM. My concern is that this MLKCM brand make me feel ill. It causes heart palpitations, increased bowel movements, and it does not help the pain as well add the other. Is this mallinckrodt and had anyone else had these symptoms with this brand? Thank you so much for any help you can give on info with this brand

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Hello DAR / Doodle and everybody else; this is Manuel;

It makes me "angry(sh)" to hear the more and more people reporting horrible side effects created by by the MILLINKROFTD brand medicine, and these are but just a few who were able to ASK questions....but think about the other many people who have not come to the REALIZATION, that the same medication they are taking to help them; is actually KILLIING THEM.. (or killing us...)..You and me DO NOT HAVE A PHARMACOLOGY degree or training to know what kind of chemicals we are digesting...and we, just quietly take the trash;BUT Pharmacists KNOW...And they are YOUR PHARMACIST...!!!They should be able to advise what STUFF is BETTER for your health..BUT THEY DONT..!!! I don't want to sound unfair, but in this game ..is the PHARMACISTS fault...!!! If you come across 100 people on the street, you know, about 50% of them would be legitimate, while the rest might be a little 'shady'.. because we are humans, and pharmacists are too..so there's a pretty good bunch of 'shady pharmos' outhere. A year ago, I would think a 'pharmo' would be a divine personality vested by the great powers of the heavens assigned to help you with your meds..But you learn a lot by swimming in shark infested waters....Once bitten, never bitten again...They are not bad peoples..!!!

They are just looking to MAKE MORE MONEY for the pharmacy they work for...nothing wrong with that...!!! They will serve the meds that will make money for them and the supplier, so you DON'T GET the stuff you need...you get the stuff they want you to have and 'whatever is available' according to their agenda...So right here we are dealing with no more, no less, than just a simple Street Drug dealer..(with a certification and minus, the glowing red eyes....) But that is it...!!! As you arrive at your favorite pharmacy, you drug dealer is waiting with a smile....ready to "drop a deal"..so you just have to learn the 'moves' and 'speak' the LINGO, then the deal turns even for everybody...and everyone goes home with a smile.. Our troubles begin with our ATTITUDES towards DOCTORS and PHARMACISTS... For ages; they have gained a DIVINE STATUS...An almost GOD-like attitudes...They don't speak...they don't 'mingle'...So when you begin to speak the 'RIGHT' language; they become UNCOMFORTABLE and begin to shut you down, for having the 'INSOLENCE' to approach them...!!!! and ask questions...you poor mortal..!!! It is sad..but this is what I have personally found out outthere...But sadly, my health and well being goes beyond any GODS anywhere...!!

Pharmacists are just selling MILLINKROFTD, because is the 'cheapest' thrash they can get for the money, and they will continue to sell it until somebody (you or me) ends up at the ER with two little crosses in the eyes..(like a cartoon...)...DOA...(dead on arrival).. Then the pharmacy, begin their protocol;..We're sorry for your loss.....but we are going to contact our supplier....(B.S...!!) "Actavis" (White Oblong white pill stamped "A332" -with no score mark on back) sold by Walgreens, has been a life-saver for me...and your doctor will be able to write you up a specific brand/pharmacy combination prescription.
I'm not a journalist, a news reporter or anything else to create this report..again I'm an old engineer unable to work due to an injury in the spinal cord and suffer with pain and numbness in both arms and legs....and I've spent the last year going throught all this and nearly died from this medication..!!! I'm glad you got this far....stop taking anything made by MILLINGKROFTD and ask your pharmacist ALL questions, even if they seem busy....ASK, ASK, ASK...some of them are pretty helpful. cheers..!!

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Manuel
Thanks for posting. I took same company brand of hydricodone acetaminoph 5/325. Up all night with
stomach issues.
Used to old Watson brand too
It is awful what they've been doing with
these meds.

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Don; This is Manuel again, regarding the MILLINGKROFTD brand medicine. Urge your pharmacist to advise you, whenever they serve with medications, to INFORM you if they are going to be giving you SOMETHING different from what you usually take, specially pain medications. In the new age of jet airplanes and people that speak like computers; and dogs that speak like people..nobody anymore has the COURTESY and the WELL MANNERED will to help anybody anymore...We are so far from 1940 anymore...you almost have to pry-off vital information from people nowadays, specially when it comes to deal with doctors and pharmacists..they are not Gods..!!! You have to be pro-active and ask all questions..!!! Regardless...It's your health and that is most important than any social etiquettes...Please get rid of ANYTHING made by MILLINGKROFTD...You don't want to go through the stuff I went, just because I RAN OUT OF CHOICES..!!! I'm an engineer who cannot longer work because and injury in the spinal cord, but that is not going to stop me from going through this REDTAPE B.S. pharmacologic mess to get what is safe for me and in fact, for anybody reading this blog; I have to report a NEW FINDING..!!!

Walgreens, now sells OXYCODON made by the old Watson brand, but now it is sold under the brand name of "ACTIVUS"...It's a mellow (er) version of the old Watson (7.5/325), but very effective at getting rid of the pain..I been back to my old self for 1 one month now and, even they will deny having the medication available when you get there, just tell them (If you are not in a crunch...) that you will pick them up whenever... and they will say It will take 8 days to arrive, but in reality, they will call you within 24 hours...I hope I was of any help, I read this blog every 2 days, just to see if anybody runs into a wall like I did, and be there readily to help...Cheers..!!

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hi i am haveing the same problem with the white meds i am haveing head acks and upset stomack i was takeing the yellow meds but they changed them to the white 367 malli they do nothing but make me sick so i do understand what you are going throught me to!!!! ty

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hi i have been giveing white pills 10-325 vicodin i was takeing the yellow but the drug store gave me the whit ones and are makeing me sick so i know what you are talking about does not even help me at all just get sick from them

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Hello..My name is Manuel. I'm the one I sent the original mail to the Millinkroftd medicine manufacturing company back in 03/03/2014, regarding their Oxycodon pain medication product. I knew I could't be alone in this...and sadly Millinkroftd never did anything about anything...They were nice enough to call me on my phone and spent about an hour asking all kinds of details and after that phone call, nothing happened..They were very upset when I mentioned the word 'monopoly'...How funny it is, that we do not live in Russia, but yet, we already ran out of choices in this country...!!! Since they are the only one company supplying that medication to ALL hospitals, clinics and ERs from Nogales to Flagstaff..!!!

Also; Isn't the pharmacist professional responsability to advise you that you are being served with a medication manufactured by a different company..???.Just in case you develop some potential health side effects..???....I had to continue taking the only available medication on the market from East Phx to West Phx.,Millinkroftd Oxycodon 7.5/325 (White oblond pill Labeled M522) until I ended in the emergency room with pain so hard in my chest ; I was suffocated and I could not breath..After 3 days in the hospital, a small army of doctors came in to report that after all the studies done..It was the pain medication that sent me to the hospital..The Neurologist doctor tells me..go home and don't take that same medication..I angrily responded....And what do you want me to take..??!!!! (I had already explained the whole story to him) ..he said..I can't help you with that...2 months went by and kept nursing the pain with Hydrocodon 5mg my doctor prescribed , but I was waking up with extreme pain and no comfort in sight...

But here is the good news and bad news...I became a cruzader of pain medications..I stopped at every pharmacy, hoping to find relief from somebody, and finally came across a honest pharmacist, who'd asked not to be identified or involved in all this..She said "walmart' pharmacies had began dropping MILLINKROFTD from their shelves; because people began to complaint about the 'powder detergent' taste and intense headaches after taking those pain pills...!!! and they began replacing that medication with another brand called OXYCODON AMNEAL brand!! as of Sept / 2014..except that you need to place a special order and most times is not available...And now, to the bad news...lately is getting very hard to get you pain medication, even if you have your prescription..!!! Pharmacies now deny they have your medication available for fear of being robbed..!! And this a report learned personally as I was in search of all this B.S...so try figuring all this.!!! I'm not a journalist, or a news reporter or anything else..just an old engineer who cannot longer because this neurological dysfunction I suffer and the pain associated with it... And now a personal note of advise...Please, please , stop taking those pills..endure yourself thru pain until you find anything NOT made by MILLINKROFTD..!!!! For me..it was a near death experience.

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I have had the same side effects from the Mallinckrodt 325/10mg. Hydrocodone pills. I was taking the yellow 325/10mg. from Qualitest and was doing fine on them, then my pharmacy switched to the Mallinckrodt and I started getting the heart palpatations and severe diarrhea and the medicine does not remain in your system, so I wake up with severe pain in my back and hips which is what I was taking the medicine for in the first place. I think these pills need to be checked out by the FDA and banned until they find out what is going on with them. My cardiologist had to give me a pill for the heart palpitations, I don't need another pill, I need my pain medicine to work and not cause other problems!

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Hi; you are not alone..!! read the following... From an email I sent to Mallinckrodt today (03-03-2014);

Hello; My name is Manuel; I live in the Central Phoenix area in Arizona. I been taking Oxycodon 7.5 for pain due to a neurological damage for the last 5 years.The brand I usually take is produced by a company called "WATSON". In the last 2 months I noticed horrible side-effects from the pain medicine. (nausea from the strong detergent-like taste of the medicine, weakness and continued pain) I consulted my doctor on this issue and he noticed the difference in brands given to me by the pharmacy, he suggested I ask for the usual brand "WATSON" at the pharmacy desk, except they told me that "NOBODY had that brand anymore, that all they had it was, your brand MALLINKRODT and that is why they gave to me for the last two months.I decided to go to different pharmacies (privately owned and county.) I visited 15 pharmacies around the whole county of Maricopa trying to find the "WATSON" brand, but instead they all had only MALLINKRODT..!!????One pharmacist explained that you guys are the only Oxycodon supplier for all the pharmacies in the whole state of Arizona..

My doctor said to me that that is all that he could prescribe to me. I been sick out of my mind with pain, because I cannot take your medication. and it's the only one available in the whole world..!!! My question is:..Am' I the only person dealing with this problem or is there an alterantive to what it looks to be a corporate monopoly...? Please advise...thank you

Manuel (..still waiting for any response from Mallincrapt....)

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Hello again...I believe the markings on the medication are correct I just feel that either the medication was not compounded right or they use an inactive inexpedient that does not go week with me. Do you know if there is a way to get ALL of the ingredients? I've noticed a couple other posts with the same complaint of the intestinal issues? Very strange...any help or info would be greatly appriciated. Again the markings are M367 thanks for you help and interest

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Thank you for the reply! The markings are M367 white oblong with a score mark on back. I got them from my pharmacy Yokes

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Hello, Dar! How are you? Sorry about the problems that you're having.

What are the markings on the pills in question? I really can't provide you with any information on them, without knowing that. Sometimes the manufacturer listed by the pharmacy is actually just a licensed distributor and not the company that actually made the medication.

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