Percocet/oxycodone M523 10/325 (Page 3)
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Hello all,

First off I'm new to posting here and I must admit this is probably a topic that is quite frequent and I have done days searching but can't seem to really find any info on my specific situation. I apologize in advance for the long post but I will introduce myself and situation.

I've been on oxycodone 10/325 for a little over a year now from a botched foot surgery and diabetic neuropathy in this same foot. It helps tremendously and seems to be the only relief I can get is from taking these. Whether its first thing in the morning to be able to stand up and get moving or whether it's to let me settle down and drift off to sleep which is something fairly hard to do. I also was recently diagnosed with PTSD from my job and I am currently out of work for this. It is not fun. The oxycodone also seems to just ease my mind as well as my pain and its honestly the only thing I've taken that helps with both.

I am under the care of a pain management doctor which I've been seeing since August 2015. My script is 90 for 30 days (3 a day). I try my best to stick to this as it is the dosage I'm required to abide by.. But at times I find myself taking 1-2 more a day than the normal 3 a day I'm supposed to take. Thus, resulting in my script "running out" early. So I turn to other means and each time it's usually something different. Nothing other than oxy but just different milligrams (sometimes 5s) and most of the time it's different manufacturers (sometimes it's pink only oxy no acetaminophen, sometimes yellow Vs and sometimes white IPs).

This last time I was given white ones with m523 on one side and 10/325 on the other. I became suspicious right away. After further examining them they also look rather "beat up" almost as if they were in someone's pocket for 2-3 days or drug across the ground. All the writing on them is lined up properly on each one and well centered. They seem very light weight. Almost like a hollow capsule would feel. Very chalky looking although there is a slight glaze on them in the light but nothing like the glaze that mine from the pharmacy have on them. And also you can very easily "chip" the pill with your fingernail and easily rub off the writing with your fingernail as well. And they dissolve into a chalky paste very quickly almost instantly as soon as they hit your tongue.

Which leads me to the next point.. Yes, I did take one. I noticed nothing different than normal for the first 20-30 minutes which is usually when the rush hits me. It felt like oxy. It was very short lived. All feeling was gone well within the hour and I was left extremely thirsty with an odd dry taste in my mouth and a dull but worsening pressure headache in the back of my head. Felt kind of odd. Not as I usually feel anyway. Kind of dizzy and couldn't really focus or bring myself to do anything. Was very sleepy actually and I felt as if I may throw up.

Anyways, this was my experience in a nutshell. I know a press for this particular pill can be purchased on on the internet for 150 bucks. I'm really on the edge about these. I feel like it could go either way I guess but I'm still suspicious. Like I said, I definitely got the "oxy Rush" that I'm so used to.. But is this something that can also be achieved with someone cutting these pills with fentanyl or xanxax or something else?? Im not taking anymore. I know the above aforementioned can easily kill and that's not something I'm going to play around with. Well I guess I covered everything that I wanted to cover.. And I do have pictures of these if you can even post them here and if I can figure out how.

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Just FYI the prescription I got at my pharmacy looks exactly as you described but has 523 on one side and 10/325 on the other.

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You didn't say where you received them. To help you with your suspicion on if it's fake or not, then answer question #1. I just received mine from CVS (mallinckrodt.com). If for some reason, you think they're fake, then go back to the source and ask for a replacement, reimbursement, contact a lawyer if you're suspicious. By law, each manufacturer has to chemically produce equal amounts in my opinion. But, hey, if the pharmacy refuses to take action, then take the pill, contact the DEA, and have them analyze it in a laboratory.

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It's obvious you let that person get to you. Stop that! He or she as just St one person spouting off their personal thought. EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT in tolarence and I have been on Percosett for over 10 yrs. The one you identified is real stuff. I was first prescribed 30 mg/7 times daily, I was Wonder Woman fully hooked. Not knowing a darn thing about them pills. Another Dr. Cold turkey me and I was feigning I did have honest pain after being trampled by a horse, screws in my neck, plate in the front of neck, lamanectomy twice of spine, scars on fac, knee Surgery-legs tore up. I turned to ibuprofen for pain and started eliminating dark runny poop. Thought it as the alcohol for my pain causing diarrhea. Next I think I knew I was being ambulances to save my life. The ibuprofen-ate holes in my stomach and I was bleeding out through the holes. I had last St half my blood almond St coma tossed. Be very careful of NSAIDs. Back to Percosettes, I am on them now after a dry spell of 4 years and so much pain. Alcohol only made my body and life worse. Please don't go on the same path as me, it was hell. I now take the 10/325's and suppose to take 2 a day .....ouch! I am taking 4 to 5 but I do run out early and I call in my clean up period. I am protected of myself and do not ask for anything more. I am grateful for what I do get and I have a perfectly healthy body and liver.......imagine that. Being a heavy equipment operator and commercial fisherman and crabber, I have kept in great health and good eating habits that saved my life. I am fortunate for what I put myself through. Seriously never again. I love climbing those Mt. Clearing land or sailing those hi seas and eating lots of fish, brain food. P.s. Still love horses and living. Dawn

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Nothing wrong with the m523 pill all in your head I been taking them a long time.

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M ..represent s malenkroft. They r lousy u need to always go to get your meds@ Walgreens they carry Watson brand way better

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You don't mean to lecture yet that is all you've done. With the feds cracking down on pain killers it has become harder and harder to get them for legitimate purposes. And if someone wants to feel high, what's it to you? Why so judgmental? Everyone has vices and/or addictions. I believe all drugs should be legal--then there would be no need for counterfeiting. And what I put in my body is my business, as long as I'm not endangering the lives of others. Personally I like plant medicines--mushrooms, cacti, cannabis, which have been used for thousands of years safely, but if you want to take some zannies or a few norcos to forget about the ugliness of the world for a few hours--more power to you. Be safe, be kind.

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Just wanted to say that I get mine from the neoro pain center..then straight from the pharmacy. They are exactly as you described them. I am thinking perhaps the anticipation of not knowing for sure what you took could have added to the...what I would guess was some sort of panic attack. You are aware that panic attacks can cause many physical symptoms..including the ones you described. But I am no doctor..just wanted to give you something to think about. Mine are real...straight from the pharmacy..and they are exactly like the ones you took.

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I feel the same way. there's also two others. ip and a333 r fake. they dont help at all. every time i had to take them i never felt anything.

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Yes these are most definitely FAKE. I got taken off my 30 mg morphine for a month due to cough syrup prescribed by my Mds office. So as we all know withdrawals are not pretty, but then I was given a prescription of these 10/325 and they did not take away pain. They caused more pain and made me sick to death..I noticed right away after only taking two of them and no not at a time..I do not abuse my any of my pain meds. This is why I could tolerate the withdrawals at the first month.. just a slight hot n cold feeling..But besides that my question is, why are the pharmacy's not doing anything about these fake meds? I am fixing to take these back and ask for a new prescription...And no they do not have fentanyl in them. If they did I or any of us would not be sick...I agree they are made with a xanax of some form..and yes I have something worse than cancer and was in a motorcycle accident and broke hundreds of bones and just burned my foot in a fire. I'll be darn if I am going to be stuck with FAKE MEDS..someone needs to contact the drug administration office on this...I am extremely poisoned by these meds.

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Sounds like you are a pill popper. Like you are only taking it for a rush because you get upset that the rush is not longer lasting. I suggest you find help because pill addiction is real and it seems like it have you in its grasp

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I get the exact pill you described from a very reputable pharmacy and they work very well for me....there are several generic percoset pills on the market and what you got probably changed hands 3-4 times resulting in the worn or chalkiness of the pill....and one of my fears is that there may be 'chemists' in the factories that produce these that just don't give a s**t about what they're doing, and often the final product goes unchecked through the system...my suggestion would be to ask your doctor for just oxycodone, 10 mgs, without the acetaminophen or other additives....

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Telll people factual information. Like pharmacies are allowed to sell you generic pills with as little as 66 percent of the advertised amount. Meaning that a 10 mg pill might only be a 7 mg pill. The Federal Food and Drug Administration states that as long as a pill is not more than 33 percent off, it passes for generic. I guess you are taking a prescription, fill it name brand if your worried about the amount of medicine or color, texture and taste. I'm saying factual information. By the time someone realized they should of stuck with what their medical doctor is telling them they might become a victim. There is no way to tell if pills bought on the street are real. I hear people say they're throwing meds away? Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy a drug panel instead of risking your life?

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Exactly no one knows how it is with chronic pain or can even pretend to understand unless u have severe pain n chronic widspread then u will understand I pray for all of u to be pain free and myself. I JUDGE NOONE!!!!!!!!

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Hi all, first of all I hold a master's degree in nursing, and worked in the field 30 years. I am not a doctor, or a pharmacist. I went to a nursing school that demanded we always knew anything and everything about the meds that we have our patients take. There are times i have had to correct doctors and pharmacists about medication administration as they don't hand the pills with the direct intention of that person taking that pill right then, and there, and the one directly responsible for that person once they take it. When a doctor or pharmacist gives you pills, you are supposed to go home and read the literature about it. When a nurse hands you pills in the hospital she is responsible for letting you know what you need, or wish to know about it.

That being said; I am also a chronic pain sufferer, and have been for about 12 years now. The physical reasons have retired me from nursing, due to the pain, and the effects of the meds I take to deal with that pain. I have been seeing my current pain management doctor for 10 years, for prescriptions and 2 of them are opiates. It is just in the last few months that my doctor, of whom we have a wonderful doctor patient rapport, has increased dosages, frequencies, and medication types to some that I can function fairly well on. I'd say about 40% functional. 10 years. I was not in a big hurry to up anything, even though my previous prescriptions really were lacking greatly in helping my pain. They took the edge off if I was doing nothing more than lying in bed watching tv. I still can't walk more than for about ten minutes without being done, but I do have more desire to try and be more functional.

No one wakes up and says "gee I want to be an addict" if you have been on regular doses of narcotics for an amount of time, that differs from person to person, you will become dependent on that medication. It's a fact. I can bore you with what all goes on in your brain to cause this if you want, but most won't. Basically narcotics rewire your brain. I'm not saying that no one can quit cold turkey, or wean off. Some can, some can't. But chances are most people are dependent on those pills if they have taken them long enough for whatever time each person's body takes to become dependent.

A few visits ago, when my doctor made these miraculous changes in my meds I mentioned the word addiction. He said to me "you are not addicted" - I then told him the list of symptoms that occur if say I'm not hurting at bed time and maybe didn't take many meds the day before, and I wake up with symptoms of beginning withdrawal. He said to me first of all the fact that you have days that you don't take the maximum is a good indication. So basically after this long conversation what I gleaned was this. Yes, we do become physically, or mentally, or both, dependent on these meds but the term addiction is used more for behaviors, and lean toward abuse behavior. Constantly running out early, and yes I have taken an extra dose or two on some days. That just means I take less on others. Either because I'm not hurting as bad as usual, or well I took extra, and that leaves me with less because I don't wish to run out so I have to ration for a day or two lol.

For years I was on the three a day/90 A month train. If you have chronic bad pain 3 Norco 10/325 a day does not usually help. I suffered so much back then, but being a nurse I know what behaviors they use to red flag you as an abuser. That doesn't mean everyone that acts like that is abusing their meds, but unfortunately for all of us the ones that do have set the parameters for everyone. I live in a state that allowed the pill mills to go on, and on until a few years ago, and then they made the laws so ridiculous they hurt all of us, along with raising the medication costs so high even ppl like me with good insurance can barely afford them.

Anyway, I somehow found myself on this forum today trying to show someone how to look up code numbers on pills, she lent her room mate some and when room mate paid her back they didn't look at all like what she took and with me not having passed pills in a while I wasn't sure either. My heart goes out to anyone with chronic pain. Please, let's not all use name calling, and accusing everyone of being an addict and such. Let's all just try and help each other staying informed, and safe in taking these medications. I am not here to judge who, or why anyone takes narcotics. As a nurse we are taught not to judge the pain of others. We are taught to assess a need when giving people pills but that is a whole different topic. In my 30 years I never denied anyone their pain medicine. The doctor ordered it, he's way more educated than I lol. For those that feel the need to purchase on the street I don't judge you either. Some people in a lot of pain do that for many viable reasons, no insurance, long wait lists to become a patient, etc. I have been fortunate enough, or too scared to do that myself but to each his own. Just please be careful. From reading some of these posts there are some dangerous fakes going around. I just wanted to write today because a particular post got my attention, and sympathy. We don't know what the others are going through so please let's try not to speak hurtfully, or in an accusatory manner to each other. There were some excellent educational, and precautionary posts on here, good work people! Blessings to every one.

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IMO if I was laced with fentanyl you would have definitely felt more as its more potent them oxy . I recently got my script of 100 Percocets I usually get the alvogen brand the yellow ones well I got m523 this time straight from pharmacy and to me the m523s are alot weaker . I have to take 2 of them sometimes 2 and half to do the same thing for me that 1 yellow one does

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Wow...you sound very scorned or in withdrawal. He answered you the best he could and you took everything so personal. You weren't berated, but sure reacted like it.

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In a response to a good time release med . My Dr. put me on Opana ER 20 mg. Its time released 12 hours and percocet 10/325 works well for me.

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They seem to be legit. My friend gets those from Walmart w the same markings. They are generic 10 mg Percocets

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Can Percocet/ oxycodone with one side m523 and other side 10/325 be fake ?

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I don't think that you should feel shamed or scorned. Pain management is tricky because some days you hurt more than others and you need to take more but your pain management plan you can't and your doctors don't want dependency issues ( which let's be honest if you're on them and have been for a year straight there are already dependency issues and there is a difference between drug dependent and drug addict a very distinct difference) or they don't want to have liability. I just got this medication from my Pharmacy with that manufacture with the numbers on the side so I looked it up to see because they are bigger than the usual ones that I get and I didn't know if that was because I was cash pay and not insurance this time, because I lost my insurance. I haven't noticed a real difference between my old ones and these ones. I do however when they're the round tablets that Walmart often carries, those ones don't work at all for me. And unfortunately people who have never suffered from chronic pain don't know what it's like to want to just not feel pain for an hour out of an entire day. Because out of 24 hours you hurt every hour you're awake, every minute you're awake, and sometimes when the pain is really bad nothing helps take it all away. The medications help take the edge off, but for me being a chronic back pain suffer, nothing ever really takes it all away and unfortunately for me it will only get worse as I age. And I've come to accept that this is what it is. Don't let anyone make you feel bad for looking outside of the pharmacist or your doctor to try to help with the medications and the pain just be careful what you take and be very careful. Sometimes we act out of desperation because we hurt so bad, but I would assume because this came from a CVS Pharmacy, that it is a legitimate pill and it's not a fake one especially if it has the 1 and not the I.

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