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Originally Posted by hollym
I am tired and may not have read that quite correctly, but are they saying they may have accidentally put Amantadine in a bottle that should have Baclofen (as an example)? Are they also saying there is little risk of harm?
As someone who has taken 80 mg or more of Baclofen per day for about 4 years now, I have been warned of the risk of seizures if I suddenly stopped taking it. I would say that it could be pretty harmful if my Baclofen was not really Baclofen!
Oh and I would be kind of livid with that pharmacy for giving you the wrong dose. What if you were driving and got really drowsy not knowing you were taking a double dose?
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Hi Holly!
I believe that they found ONE bottle of ONE medication that had been filled with a strength that was double the strength listed on the bottle. In order to ensure that every med packed there was correct, they did a recall on ALL meds packed during a certain time, to ensure none were packed as one strength but actually contained another strength. It would have been the supply bottle that pharmacies get, a sealed bottle with hundreds of pills in it.
If a pharmacy was busy, or a pharmacist was distracted, they could miss that the pill was NOT as it should be and use it for a refill on a prescription and not know until someone like us called or showed up and asked questions. It can be even more confusing when it's a generic med that is made by more than one company, as is the case with the meds recalled. My baclofen made by Qualitest does not look like the recalled baclofen, it's oval shaped and has a v on one side and numbers on the other. The recalled Smith and Hawken baclofen was round.
The baclofen I received was made by Qualitest but it was in a 20 mg strength and LOOKED like Provigil, and that is what first keyed me in to this. I had also picked up a 90 day supply of Provigil 200 mg tabs and thought maybe they sent some mistakenly labeled Baclofen, and when I looked at it I realized it was NOT Provigil and it was NOT my usual baclofen. I didn't know it was 20 mg baclofen until after I came home with the right bottle of meds and decided to look up the "recall" that I realized the pharmacist was covering up a mistake, even though there WAS actually a recall on SOME type of generic Baclofen.
I would suggest that anyone who gets a different looking pill or that now knows about this recall should look up an image of the recalled pills and make sure you do not have the recalled medication. If you find that you DO have the recalled medication, call or visit your pharmacy and have them check the med to make sure it is not part of the recall. I believe that it only has to do with the strength of the med packed in the pharmacy supply bottle, and they should know by now whether they got the wrong strength in a supply bottle marked with a different strength.
LMAO! Clear as mud, ain't it!
