Does anybody use this? I know about hydrocodone, but what is the story on Chlorpheniramine? Any side effect, long term health risks, dangers of overdose?
I don't see anything much posted on Tussionex - which I use for a chonic asthma related cough. I think I saw aomething posted on here a while ago - on another thread - someone asking for any information regarding record OPs that will handle prescriptions for Tussionex. If anyone has any input - or any pharmacy folks reading this site have any input as well - I'd be curious to know where I could turn to.
Maybe I'm missing something, but how would this be any different than just taking regular hydro plus a Chlor-Trimeton? I use generic chlorpheniramine maleate for seasonal allergies & also a version w/ dmx for colds (hope that's over with for the year !) Seems like that would be a lot cheaper & easier.
Back in the 70's, the formula for Tussionex was different---it was just hydrocodone in a suspension. (Liquid that you had to shake the bottle every time.) It became very popular with recreational users (which I was at the time, though that part of my life has been over for about 25 years) as it seemed to last longer and be more effective at a lower dose than hydrocodone pills. Also, hydrocodone pills were still very new on the market, and the drug of choice of most doctors was Tylenol #3. I think one of the reasons they changed the formulation was to discourage recreational use, but as has already been said, it's just like taking Chlor-Trimeton with hydrocodone. Probably they figured that people who were drinking whole bottles of the stuff---and many were---that it would either put them to sleep or make them sick. Just a bit of history...
As for who sells it, I used to get in from a now-nonexistent OP called erxonline.com. The site has been gone for a couple of years by now. Probably because Tussionex got such a bad reputation, doctors, both local and online, are hesitant to prescribe it. The only person I've known in the last few years who had it prescribed by his PCP was taking it for coughing due to lung cancer, and he got pretty much anything he needed by that point.
I personally prefer taking hydrocodone without all the liver-damaging APAP, but I think the marketing folks for Tylenol have the market sewn up for everything. Does anybody remember Percodan---oxycodone with aspirin instead of Tylenol (Percocet). How many years has it been since anybody's seen any of that? Must be more profit with Tylenol, and as we all know, if the pharmaceutical companies can make a few bucks more, they'll do anything to get that little bit extra.
I was having trouble with my pc the other day and could not bring up a couple of websites. I was trying to check some prices on different OP and NROP sites. When I attempted to get on National Health Resource Group - it would not let me. So I dropped the s from the http: to try and get on the site without the secure option on my pc. (don't ask me anymore on this - someone once just told me if I could not get on certain sites to try this - type in http:www... INSTEAD of https:www....)
Anyhow : CHECK OUT THIS PAGE I found on the site. I tried to get this same page taking the regular route and could not.
Thanks all, interesting, both the history of Tussionex & the "secret" entrance. Nuisance about how hard it is to get aspirin combos. There was a thread a while back, people looking for Fiorinal instead of _cet, and it's really hard to find. I think maybe part of the "prejudice" about aspirin got started when they discovered that rare but sometimes fatal reaction adolescents with some kind of fever/virus can get to ASA but not APAP. Reyes Syndrome, I think it is. So not only the Pharma profits, but the lawsuits. Time will tell if a huge number of older folks start turning up with liver failure due to oh-so-safe Tylenol.
Im glad to see this because I almost started a tussionex thread. I have been posting around here in various places that I have had brinchitis for 3 weeks. Well I went to ER the other night, thought I had cracked a rib coughing...seriously, IT HURT SO BAD. I mean like...wow. Anyhow they took x rays and basically said "sorry, yeah that really hurts..bye bye" Two days later I crawled into my docs office in tears, the pain had spread to entire upper torso..front and back.He said I had ripped all the meat off the bones so to speak (describes eating ribs...eeeewww) ANYHOW, he precribed Tussionex. Said it was strongest cough syrup on market and would make me sleepy. I mentioned I take norco for pain. No problem he says. So I stop at close pharmacy (cause Im rushing back to hosp. where son is about to get out of surgery tonsils...) and they fill it...give me no brochure or consult. I said..hey I take norco too, is it ok to take it together? They say sure..I said so its not that strong then...they say yeah it is but no problem. OK. On the way home from hosp with son we stop at a LOngs pharmacy for his codeine. I start talking to nice guy and somehow the tussionex comes upo (oh yeah I was looking for a rib belt) AGAIN, I say so you think its ok to keep taking my pain pills while on the cough syrup? Again, no problem. Well guess what? I took it together, wenmt comatose for 12 hours, son couldnt wake to help him after he had just had surgery, I was talking drunk talk, slobbering and drooling etc. AWFUL.Does anyone know whats in this stuff? I mean I know hydrocodone but like how much am I getting in 1 teaspoon? Im scared to take more than 1/4 teaspoon now. It was scary, honestly when I came around at noon the next day (so actually slept longer than 12 hours) I was shook up, felt like I could have ODed or something. Luckily my mother in law and hubby were here all day for the kids sake. Anyone else have any experince with this stuff? That really scared me, I felt like I was hallucinating in my sleep...eeewww.
Quote: I was having trouble with my pc the other day and could not bring up a couple of websites. I was trying to check some prices on different OP and NROP sites. When I attempted to get on National Health Resource Group - it would not let me. So I dropped the s from the http: to try and get on the site without the secure option on my pc. (don't ask me anymore on this - someone once just told me if I could not get on certain sites to try this - type in http:www... INSTEAD of https:www....) Anyhow : CHECK OUT THIS PAGE I found on the site. I tried to get this same page taking the regular route and could not.[url=http://www.nhrg.md/category.php?catid=3] Apparently it is like a back door to the COLD/FLU products listing has quite a few more medications.
One thing to be careful with on site entrances that are slightly different from the main entrance is that they're often scam sites set up to steal your identity. Of course, since you're thinking that you're at a legitimate site, especially one you've been to before, you're going to give them your credit card number, etc. You should see some of the scam sites they try to direct people to pretending to be big companies like ebay and Microsoft---they use all the trademarked graphics and everything.
What I've been told, and I'm no expert in computer security, is that if the page you're on when you're putting in your credit card info, name and address, birthdate, etc., doesn't say "https.www" in the address bar that you're on a site that's not secure. I have used some sites for meds, etc., that were insecure by that definition before I learned about that and nothing bad happened, but with all the scammers out there trying to get our credit card numbers and such, I'm much more careful now. And it would make perfect sense for a scammer to copy a legit web page that only sells light-weight meds to create a page that's identical except that the meds are much better, and put it out there. Sites can be registered that are only one character different from a legit site---I'm not sure how they do this, but I know it happens. I'd really like to hear if that site you mentioned turned out to be legit or not. Let us know, OK?
PharmacyWatchers.com 
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