RetiredDirector

Hi Trina,
There's absolutely no reason why you should feel sick taking this new medication. Do you know if you have been dispensed the brand name medicine or has it been generics? It really doesn't matter, but most pharmicists are dispensing generics, if your doctor signed the script where it says "subsitutions permitted", due to the cost of the brand vs generics. If you were taking two tablets of Vicodin before he switched you to the Norco 10's, either way you were taking Hydrocodone. Before it was 1,000 mg of apap and 10 mg of Hydro and now it's 325 mg of apap and 10 mg of Hydro. Same med only 675 mg less of the apap.

When I was taking Hydrocodone, I would always get the generic Hydro, no mater how it was written by the doctor. I can only remember one time when the doctor wrote a script for Percocet and he signed it on the line where it says "dispense as written" and when I picked the med up at the pharmacy, my co-pay was like $20 instead of the $5.00 I was normally paying. When I asked about it, the pharmacy tech told me the doctor had written it that way.

Hang in there and if necessary, take your med with food (or milk, if you drink it), but it's the same med you had before. It should level out soon.

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