Guest guest Posted June 18, 2005 Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 At 06:28 AM 6/18/05 -0700, you wrote: >Hello Everyone, > >Just a quick question about my husband's most recent bottle of Gleevec >tablets. We use a mail order pharmacy that gives him a 3-month supply of >400mg tablets. The old ones were a brownish orange color and one side had > " NVR " printed on it and " SL " printed on the other side. >They were not scored. The new ones are scored and say " 400 " on one side >and " SL " twice on the other. He's not really concerned that the new ones >are the wrong drug, but we couldn't find a picture that matched these >tablets on Novartis's website or any other website. Just curious whether >anyone else has gotten these tablets. > >Adrienne Hi Adrienne, Yes, the look of the 400mg pill has changed and it is now scored. Now that the dose is usually 400mg, 600mg or 800mg....this works better. Before the folks taking 600mg were often having to get the 100mg pills or 2 separate Rxs for some 400's and some 100's......so now they just pop one pill in half. C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 19, 2005 Report Share Posted June 19, 2005 , Thanks for the info. Adrienne Cogan <ncogan@...> wrote: At 06:28 AM 6/18/05 -0700, you wrote: >Hello Everyone, > >Just a quick question about my husband's most recent bottle of Gleevec >tablets. We use a mail order pharmacy that gives him a 3-month supply of >400mg tablets. The old ones were a brownish orange color and one side had > " NVR " printed on it and " SL " printed on the other side. >They were not scored. The new ones are scored and say " 400 " on one side >and " SL " twice on the other. He's not really concerned that the new ones >are the wrong drug, but we couldn't find a picture that matched these >tablets on Novartis's website or any other website. Just curious whether >anyone else has gotten these tablets. > >Adrienne Hi Adrienne, Yes, the look of the 400mg pill has changed and it is now scored. Now that the dose is usually 400mg, 600mg or 800mg....this works better. Before the folks taking 600mg were often having to get the 100mg pills or 2 separate Rxs for some 400's and some 100's......so now they just pop one pill in half. C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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