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   | | Comment about: The Generic Bandwagon | | | November 08, 2007 | | Questions Generic Drugs and their safety from other drug companies out side of the U.S. | | I would like to see some more data and statistics of Generic Drugs and how safe they are. In most cases, they are pretty safe and a cheaper alternative to Brand name drugs. I always questioned my patients who swore that their heart of BP meds were not working as well for them when they took Generic drugs, until I had a bad experience myself. Just who makes these drugs? Where are American U.S. Hospitals obtaining these generic drugs? The internet? Canada? Overseas? I want to know the absolute truth. I have been on BloodPressure meds for years (it runs in my family). From month to month did you know that Hospital Pharmacies across the U.S. shop for pharmeceutical companies like we shop at an auction? They want the lowest cost item for the money to keep them competitive and in business for the lowest possible cost. I found out that they shop for the AWP = Average Wholesale Price and they can change these month to month withour telling the patients. You find out when your meds "aren't working as well as they used to", or when you have an allergic reaction to the "fillers" and or dyes that are mixed in with the drug that alot of people report to their pharmacists problems......they tell us it is because they changed the drug company or supplier that they are getting it from because they went with the company that was the cheapest. I had a reaction to the fillers in my medications and until I reported it......I had no way of controlling what kind of meds I received monthly. I had to take a chance on each different company and hope and trust what was being prescribed to me as safe from my Doctor & Pharmacist. ( I am a licensed Nurse.) My Pharmacist is the one who told me that they see this happen all of the time and are told by their employers and the BIG Drug Companies to "keep it hush" and just note the patient record and keep a supply of the same drug without fillers for that particular patient. How can we ensure the potency of the drugs we are prescribed and the safety of the generic drugs that we take? I used to think my Heart and Hypertensive patients were a little bit overeacting when they told me of their suspicion to the effects of generic drugs, until I became a victim myself, which almost landed me in the hospital. I am now skeptical of Generics. How can we ensure their safety when the Pharmacists and Big Drug Companies know how big business is really being done? I found out the hard way! The general public is now finding out the hard way. What is being done to ensure their safety? How can I prevent this from happening to me and my patients? Where are the drugs really being purchased from? A unknown internet site? A Drug warehouse overseas? Need help in FL | |
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