Heads up folks!

I picked up a huge bottle of Baclofen last week and noticed that it was different from what I usually get, looked more like provigil than baclofen. I brought it back to the pharmacy and they took it back and told me there was a recall on it. I went into my email later and found this...



Upsher-Smith Expands Recent Recall to Include: Amantadine, Amlodipine, Androxy, Baclofen, Bethanechol, and Oxybutynin

Upsher-Smith Laboratories, Inc. is voluntarily expanding its previously announced recall of Jantoven Warfarin Sodium, USP, 3 mg Tablets to include products that were packaged on the same packaging line between May 17, 2010 and November 17, 2010. The company is initiating this expanded recall as a precautionary measure because a single bottle labeled as Jantoven Warfarin Sodium, USP, 3mg Tablets was found to contain tablets at a higher, 10mg strength before it was dispensed.

The following products were added to the recall:
Amandatine 100 mg
Amlodipine 5 mg
Androxy 10 mg
Baclofen 10 mg
Bethanechol 5 mg, 10 mg, and 25 mg
Oxybutynin 5 mg

The accidental substitution of a different medicine may lead to a change in the effectiveness or possible side effects from the medicines involved.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.mediguard.org/r/0Ng32YwSljY6
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WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? Upsher-Smith has determined that the risk of serious injury in someone taking any of the recalled products is low and has only recalled these medicines at the warehouse and pharmacy level only. That said, if you take Amandatine 100 mg, Amlodipine 5 mg, Androxy 10 mg, Baclofen 10 mg, Bethanechol 5 mg, 10 mg, and 25 mg, or Oxybutynin 5 mg, please check your prescription and follow up with your pharmacist if your tablets do not look the same as what you usually receive. If you have concerns about this recall or think you are experiencing side effects, please follow up with your doctor, pharmacist, or other healthcare professional.

Consumers and pharmacists can call the Upsher-Smith at 1-877-492-4791 for more information and to access product details, Monday-Friday between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. (EST). Healthcare professionals and patients are encouraged to report adverse events or side effects related to the use of the recalled medicine to the FDA's MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting Program by telephone at 1-800-332-1088, by fax at 1-800-332-0178, by mail at MedWatch, FDA, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20852-9787, or on the MedWatch website at www.fda.gov/medwatch.

Hoo boy...I just went and looked up the different images of all generic baclofen and found that my pharmacy was covering their own mistake! What I got was NOT the recalled baclofen!!!

I usually get 10 mg tabs made by Qualitest. I didn't get 10 mg. tabs, they gave me 20 mg tabs made by Qualitest. Good thing I didn't start popping them before I checked them out with the pharmacy. They were mislabeled as 10 mg tabs, and the amount was the usual amount that I get for a 90 day supply!

I'd have surely looked like a walking drunk if I had started taking them thinking they were 10 mg tabs! GRRRR!!

I usually ALWAYS check my meds when I pick them up but I had picked up a large order with my meds and the man's meds, and his was 22 bottles, so I hadn't gotten around to checking mine yet, since I had some left from the last refill.

Not too happy with my pharmacy right now...sending an email to the head pharmacist now!!!

Good thing you checked before taking - everyone should get into this habit! Pharmacists aren't robots, and even robots can make mistakes.

In this case if the pharma was covering up or giving you something that wasn't the prescribed medication, wow... that's a really bad scene.

Makes me kind of glad that I quit baclofen earlier this week. (dont worry, I stepped down 5mg at a time for a few weeks before I stopped. I didnt do it cold turkey)

I just checked my bottle that I was using when I was still taking it, and they're just normal 10mg baclofens.

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?

RW, let us know what the response is to your email. I would have been livid, too.

My pharmacy did something similar with my HBP meds when I was taking them. Not only did they give me someone else's prescription (bottle and all) but it was the wrong dosage of the med! Same med, different mg and wrong person! What's so scary is the pills were very similar and had I not put on my glasses and looked at the bottle first I would have probably taken them!

I realize folks make mistakes and anytime a human is involved there is that risk.....but some jobs should require a double check system.

my mom got prozac once instead of prilosec. (at least she wasnt depressed about it HA!)

I ALWAYS check my pills BEFORE I leave the counter. I learned long ago that pharmacists make mistakes and then they get quite grumpy when you point it out later. I also learned that once I leave the counter with my purchase I lose the right to complain later. I have received generic instead of brand name, missed counts, missing pills, even got the completely wrong pills in the bottle. I dont care if the person behind me is impatient. I am not leaving till I double check my stuff. If I find I am constantly short on my pills, I will go to a new pharmacy. I cant sit and count all my pills, but I can make sure what is in the bottle is what I am expecting.

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!

It was one specific manufacturer. I called my pharmacy last night just to make sure that the bottle of baclofen that I've still got (but not using at the moment) wasnt part of the recall. My pharmacy doesnt get their baclofen from the manufacturer that's being recalled.

just a few days ago, got a call from the local pharmacy. (there is a new pharmacist there) she wanted me to come pick up my morpheine. um...I already picked it up 3 days ago. She wanted to argue saying it was still hanging, please come. I went a few days later, but had the bottle in my pocket. I showed it to her, that it was filled just a few days ago, and I didnt know what happened, but please dont double charge my insurance, or make my MD think I am double dipping please. She got really quiet and then said "well, ya see, we made a mistake and I need to fix it." She went on to explain on the day in question I got several items at the pharmacy register including my prescription and the cashier forgot to ring it up or include it in the total. She wanted me to bring in my receipt to prove I paid for it.

I told her that I remember getting several items, and I dont know if I had the receipt but would go home and look. 2 days of looking and its not here. I went back and admitted that I have MS and dont remember well. I may or may not paid for them, but I remember counting them, and checking them on the day I picked them up. She wanted to RE Ring my pills and have me REpay for the co pay! I bawlked. Told her that if I could remember clearly I would happily share it, but since I cannot and her cashier made a mistake perhaps we could split the difference. She DEMANDED that I pay for the meds.

Long story short my friend owns the pharmacy. I called him at home and he came down to the store. He told the new girl to STOP. I have been a long standing customer, and it was THEIR fault that the cashier didnt ring it. She was not to mention it to me again. I felt really badly. I swear I think I paid for the pills, but dont know for sure. I do remember examining them, so why wouldnt the girl have rung it up? I signed the thingie near the register to say I refused to see the pharacist for questions, doesnt that mean it hit the register?

I dont have a good track record with pharmacies. I am just glad I dont live near the old one anymore. That place would take 2 weeks sometimes to get my pills in stock. I think they went out of their way to try to force me to go elsewhere.