Medication recall today
 

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! :eek: 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.

I don't think any customer LOSES the right to complain after leaving the store. An error is an error and must be corrected.

Pharmacists who grumble are only hurting themselves! (and that has been proven).

If you consistently have errors, I'd save those bottles and report to your state licensing board. An error here or there can happen to anyone. But consistent errors, is negligence!

The pharmacist in my old town said exactly that. "its YOUR responsibility to check your purchase BEFORE you leave. Once you leave my counter, I have no idea what you do to this stuff, and therefore you lose your right to complain." He really said that! So, from then on I made a heinie out of myself and stood to count and examine each prescription before I left. What a jerk! it was the only pharmacy for many miles around, and I had to watch him like a hawk. I put him on notice that I was not going to walk away quietly.

I do understand there are folks who tamper with thier stuff in hopes of tricking a pharmacy into a free refill or a settlement even, but you cant distrust all your customers, can you?

Luckily my pharmacy was quite gracious about their mistake and even offered to bring my correct prescription to me at home! I live less than a mile from the drug store but they didn't know that when they offered. They apologized forever and even offered me a store gift card. The pharmacy tech that made the error apologized, too, and didn't try to make excuses. Just said he got rushed and should have double checked his orders. I doubt it will happen again. I guess I could have been ugly about it but they corrected their error and it hasn't happened since. But I do check my meds. I think we all have a responsibility to make sure we get what we are supposed to.