No, I didn't tear the pharmacy apart with my bare hands....

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In a message dated 5/16/2004 9:54:29 AM Pacific Standard Time,

rleone@... writes:

First, does generic metformin 500 mg tablets from Labs smell like

vanilla?

I have taken this drug for over 3 years and to me it smells like long dead

fish. It is a gross smell. I wish it smelled like vanilla.

I hope there are other pharmacies around you on your plan; I would switch

TODAY!!!!!

a

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Hello everybody!

First, does generic metformin 500 mg tablets from Labs smell like

vanilla? It's an odd question to start with, but I had a bit of trouble at

the pharmacy.

Here's how it happened. Dr. Edno prescribes Avandamet 2mg/500mg (we're

lowering the metformin content to see what happens). HMO doesn't LIKE

Avandamet. At all. They didn't give me permission to take it, so on the way

to diabetes eduction classes I waltzed into Dr. Endo's office before he left

(startled the heck out of him, because everyone else had gone!) and got a

script for Avandia 2mg and metformin 500 mg.

And that's where the fun begins -- Dr. Endo may be a Nazi (he wants my bg

range from 110 to 130!), but he's also a poster child for why calligraphy

classes should be Continuing Medical Education. I go to the pharmacy where

they'd been struggling with the HMO over the Avandamet prescription, told

them to try this one. Then I walk out, have a double espresso (I had about

3,000 words to proof and edit and add fun things like currency conversions

that evening), and come back to pick up my pills.

After (yup, I should check these before) I write the check I check the

pill bottles to make sure they're alright, and I see they've given me

Avandia 8 mg! " Oh no, not again! " I think. I don't know what I said except

it was loud and profanity-free. The pharmacy technician, the pharmacist (who

eventually clears things up by saying " He knows what he's taking " ) and I

squabble over whether that's a 2 or an 8 on the prescription slip (from what

I recall from two-decades-ago paleography and history of mathematics

classes, it looks more like a 2 in classical Arabic orthography than a 2 as

English speakers are used to, but it also look a lot more like a 2 than an

8! Odd, because Dr. Endo's native language IS English), so I've already got

a head of steam up when Pharamacy Technician says something to the effect of

" They don't make Avandia in 2. " No reference to a book or database or drug

list -- just says it.

goes from steamed to so livid he has to maintain some semblance of

detatchment by referring to himself in the third person. gets pretty

demonstrative, and starts using vigorous arm gestures to punctuate remarks.

Punctuates other remarks by pounding desk. still quite sure he didn't

use profanity.

GlaxoKline DOES make Avandia in 2 mg, by the way.

But, after that astounding gaffe (nastygram written to pharmacy manager,

copies to pharmacy HQ, Dr. Endo, Dr. Primary Care Practitioner, Diabetes

Educator (who needs the reminder that I write world-class nastygrams),

Registered Dietician (who could use a good story to cheer her up, poor lady

never smiles) and HMO (wanna make sure they get billed for Avandia 2, not

Avandia 8!)(nastygrams and carbon copies already in mail, too late to stop

me), is it any wonder that I want to make sure metformin tablets smell like

vanilla?

Leone, rleone@... " Only you can prevent long sig files. "

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My 850's are from Torpharm(Apotex) and do not smell like vanilla either.

Les

Re: No, I didn't tear the pharmacy apart with my

bare hands....

Mine are from IVAX pharm, but they don't smell like vanilla.

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i have never heard of them smelling of vanilla...but maybe that's generic?

, I luv ya...you sure make everything a bit easier to bear with the

way you put things. I think I would have been alot...a whole lot...less nice

about it!!

Hey, remember one thing...at the rate diabetes is being diagnosed, WE will

be a majority....and...hahahahaha...we'll rule the world!

(someday.)

Tam