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Originally Posted by Doody
I didn't even know they still manufactured Darvon! Wasn't Darvon that one that used to be in a capsule form, and druggies would take the 'magic' little tiny pill from the filler and shoot it up or some such nonsense?
My best friend takes Darvocet and she's a recovering alcoholic. Darvocette doesn't do a thing for my pain.
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That was so long ago! Wow, you are betraying yourself, Doody.
Yes, it was Darvon Compound with the little pink pellet inside the capsule. (was the propoxyphene part)
Here is a story for you. When I first was training-- I did a summer in a hospital. One of my tasks was to remove the pink pellet from Darvon Compound capsules (Lilly) for orders from surgeons on the OB/GYN floor. Seems this rendered the capsule to an aspirin/caffeine placebo and was a test to see if the hysterectomy patients were "really" in pain.
Darvocet came out when the patent expired on Darvon Compound. Back then Tylenol w/Codeine was just coming out.
The only codeine mixture then was Empirin Compound #3 and 4. That oldie had phenacetin in it (APC w/Codeine) and the toxicity of phenacetin was being revealed, so the Tylenol formulation was considered a huge medical improvement.
I only took it once... I had two wisdom teeth pulled in the morning and went to work with the RX and took one there when the numbing wore off, and that drat @#$% Darvon made me so sick, I couldn't even stand UP. I was so dizzy from it, and had NO pain relief! Never took another! Always regarded it as evil actually myself!
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