Posted by noa on February 16, 2003, at 19:00:34
In reply to Re: Here's how our pills can be bungled..Mitch » noa, posted by Ritch on February 15, 2003, at 22:55:48
Were those medium blue pills generic? Why was it labeled "Adderall" then?
Now I take the XR, so I can't check on the scrip label for the blue onees.
Interestingly, recently at my GP, he was writing out my scrip for Cytomel, which in name-brand, and we looked in the 2002 PDR, and the picture in there of the 25 mcg. pill was different than what I have taken for 7 years! OTOH, the 50 mcg. pill looked exactly like what I've been taking for 7 years. I think it was actually a mistake in the book, though, because I have had this scrip filled over and over and by a number of pharmacies over the years, and all of them look like this and all of them say "25 mcg." on the label. In any event, it has been working!
About your brother--how insensitive can the pharmacy be? Instead of talking to your family about getting back the meds, they should be on the phone with their attorneys, no? Or maybe it was the attorneys who told them to get the meds back, so your family would have no evidence.
I just thought of another mistake that happened to me. I filled my adderall a few years ago, then opened them and they were purple--ie, 20 mg instead of 10 mg. I called the pharmacy and spoke with the pharmacist who had filled it, and he was very upset and asked me to bring it back asap. I asked couldn't I just break them in half and benefit from the fact that the supply would last longer (I was actually serious, though I kind of knew what the answer would be) but he begged me to bring them back. I had found this particular pharmacist particularly helpful on a number of occasions, so I didn't want him to get in trouble. Heck, I would have brought them back anyway, no matter who the pharmacist was. (I called the pharmacy to report it, didn't I?).
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