Mallincrodt Vs Rhodes 5 325 Oxycodone

I'm 69 & suddenly suffering from Neuropathic pain in shoulders, hips, & lower back which radiates into extremities. Cause and effect or coincidence? this all started right after a Prevnar 13 shot. I am in FL where MAJOR tightening on Pain Meds is being implemented.

Costco sources through Mallinckrodt & Interpharm. Walmart, Publix, Sams use Rhodes. Rhodes does not give me the same level of pain relief and also leaves me feeling agitated and nervous/shaky.

Costco Corp policy is also becoming very strict. Diagnosis codes from Prescribing Physicians is required and used to decide if they will fill or not fill. They also require over night wait before you can pick up a filled script.

Going to explore where CVS sources and if they coerce you to moving all/additional scrip there to be filled in order to be a customer for the Oxy fill. MANY Pharmacies, like Bad WALGREENS, will NOT Just Fill (although strictly speaking it's NOT LEGAL to do so) the Oxy Script. Lucky Costco doesn't play that game, because they are almost an hour drive each way. My Son in law who lives close to my Wife's place of PT employment is authorized to drop off and pick up on my behalf, as he passes by to and from work in the eve while Pharmacy is open. But this adds about 5 days to my refill cycle which needs to be accounted for and accepted by Pain Med Doc.

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Hello, Ken! How are you?

Yes, unfortunately, it is actually legal. No pharmacy is required to fill any prescription that they cannot validate, or that feel is suspicious, for some reason. They are allowed to take whatever time they need to validate it with your doctor, or to refuse to fill it. I know that's not helpful, but it is the way the current laws stand. They aren't even required to stock any particular medication, so some have stopped carrying controlled substances due to the high risk of theft.

Does your doctor have a problem giving allowance for those extra days?

The FDA classifies this medication as a narcotic analgesic, so it has the potential to be habit forming and may cause side effects, such as nausea, dizziness, drowsiness, dry mouth and constipation.

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I got the 15 MG and they don't even feel like oxycodone is in them. I took 3 at once and still nothing!!! I am going to run out of my meds early this month because of it. I have a few of my normal ones and took one and felt a buzz from it which means either there is something different in them or not much oxycodone in them becaise my tolerance was that much lower. I felt horrible the last few days and now I know it must have been withdrawls. So upset you have no idea.

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Frankly, I don't even understand that you feel a "buzz". I never feel any buzz in the slightest, no matter what brand I happened to receive. Pain medication in the proper dosage (when used in chronic situations - not a hospital situation ), shouldn't even cause a buzz, as it doesn't reach those brain receptors. Every mg. of medication is used up just trying to alleviate pain, nothing left over to reach the pleasure center of the brain, which is how it should be.

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Thats my point, The rhodes 15 mg cannot contain 15mg cause they did not work and when I took one of the mayne I normally take I could feel it after being on those rhodes! I have been in pain management for 13 years. I have MS and Lupus very sick chick! 35 and already wheelchair bound! I can skip my chair when my meds work! Oh and the idea that your not sposed to feel a buzz in pain management is not true! Everytime my dose gets raised or my meds are changed I will feel it for a period of time!

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I am currently taking 5 mg oxycodone by rhodes and they ABSOLUTELY do nothing.
I told my pharmacy they are awful and they keep saying that they are made by the same people who make oxycontin.
These do not work. I can usually tell when mt meds work and do not. These do not.

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Don't bother with CVS anyone, they have changed 3 of 4 prescriptions I am on in the last MONTH. I was not told, and only noticed each had changed as I started to either notice new side effects after taking, feeling like I do when I forget to take them (even though I had taken them), and/or that they no longer helped. CVS is making a massive move to change a large number of their medications to cheaper generics. I mean, I'm only on 4, and 3 have changed in the last month, that would correspond to a 75% rate of change. I called around and found your best bet is a hospital pharmacy, everyone. Many will order in your preferred brand, and can get them in by the next day (because hospital pharmacies obviously receive more frequent shipments). So, if you can get your script to them the day before you need it filled, they can have the brand you take the day you need to fill. I will stick with hospital pharmacy now, as I have gone through this with 3 different pharmacies (Walgreens, Wal-Mart, and now Target/CVS) and as you all know, every time the pharmacy decides to cheap out, you get to be miserable for a month. There's no reason people should be having to switch to stronger meds when the med they take works for them, but the generic makes them feel sick or is diluted so much as to provide insufficient pain control. I've seen many on these forums who have had to switch to stronger medications when their pharmacy refuses to provide a quality generic. So because of all these measures to keep drug abusers from enjoying pills, the people who need them have to switch to stronger meds, which means more stronger meds out there. And what does the FDA think, the drug users won't just switch to buying stronger medications? They are only making the problem worse and hurting the people who the medications are for in the first place. Leave it to the government.... Not looking for responses, just hoping this will help someone going through the same.

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That’s not quite accurate, chronic pain patients taking meds daily should not get a euphoric feeling because the levels of pain meds in their system is consistent. The oxycodone opioid binds to mu receptors regardless of pain levels, but the euphoria has nothing to do with how much pain your in and has everything to do with how much binds to your receptors. Chronic pain patients like me that take it everyday consistently have medication bound to receptors everyday, so unless there is a significant enough increase in dose and/or strength to bind to more receptors than usual then u should not get euphoria. This is what amazes me too... True chronic pain patients can tell u that u don’t get euphoric when u take it everyday, u just get some pain relief...... at least hopefully depending on what crappy brand the pharmacy has this week.

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