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Change (lower) in BP after changing pharmacy?
Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Sep 10 8:48am | Replies (15)Comment receiving replies
I'm afraid, and am aghast, that you may be right on the money. And if you still have some of the old prescription, even one representative tablet, you may wish to take it to a university chemist and ask them to assay that/those pills for their relevant content per gram weight or volume. With a formal report, you might present that to the state board and see what happens. If you were being ripped off..............................mind you, they may have received no feedback from customers and not have been the wiser. It's not as if they test each batch they purchase. But the FDA should be aware of the problems with your supply. And from whom it was purchased.
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I doubt that you will find any Universiy "chemist" willing to go to bat for you. From what I read a place like Walmart has each batch/lot of pharmaceutical that they purchase analyzed. They also have it re-analyzed at a later time.
There is a code on each tablet or capsule that identifies it. You should make a note of that before it could be subject to destructive testing. Or find a way to get more of them.
Could be the first pharmacy was giving you the right thing, but also seems like pharmacy #2 is giving you something that's way too strong. I'd be after the second pharmacy first if I was you and then call your doctor to ask if that strength would be right for you. IMO what you found doesn't automatically indict the first pharmacy as being wrong since you were getting good BP numbers while on their medication source.
Seems like the one that went bankrupt was giving you a better med than the new one.
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I was afraid of that particularly since the first pharmacy closed due to bankruptcy. They may have been obtaining medications from an unreliable source to save money. New pharmacy has different manufacturers for both medications. Unfortunately, I did not have any of the old ones left. These types of issues are what makes us all so untrusting of the medical fields.