PHARMACY MISTAKES

[Guest guest]

This is a good news bad news thing. It happens is the bad news.

The good news is that the drug will wear off in time and you should not have any lasting effects. 4-ap is used to help with stiffness and spasms. In your case it helped too much and that's why you had the rubbery legs. In large doses it is a pesticide in small doses it has been shown to help. There is a clinical study going on in NY with S/R 4-ap. This is also good news. It should be one cap a day dosing, at most two a day.

Pharmacy's make mistakes. Good pharmacists beat themselves up over it. We have a very special relationship with our patients. You trust us to be right all the time. We try to be right all the time, but it is not humanly possible to be right all the time. In our practice, and in most good compounders practices there are at least 7 checks before the drug goes out the door. When the order is taken, only by a pharmacist, when the order is imputed, only by a pharmacist or a certified pharm tech, when the order is checked again only by a pharmacist, when the order goes out to be compounded by either a pharmacist or a cpht, when the order is compounded by a rph and cpht, when the order is filled, by a rph when the order is bagged, by a rph, and when the order goes to the front, by a cpht. The final check and the most critical should be the patient. If the capsule is a different color, if there is any change. ASK. Don't be bashful! I counsel people all day long, that's why we go to school for six years and have to pass a state board. Its also the law in most states, so ask, that is one of the things you are paying for.

If your pharmacist is worth their salt, I will guarantee they are punishing themselves right now and will have increased their diligence a hundred fold. If not, get a new pharmacist.

Dr.Skip

[Guest guest]

Dr. Skip;

I have know intention to file any suit, due to their mistake, we are only human, we do make mistakes. I want to thank you for the information you provided me over the phone today, you answered my question I had before having my surgery next Wednesday. I did notice there was a little difference in color of the capsule, that was my mistake, not to question it immediately.

Best regards;

Jim H

[low dose naltrexone] PHARMACY MISTAKES

This is a good news bad news thing. It happens is the bad news.

The good news is that the drug will wear off in time and you should not have any lasting effects. 4-ap is used to help with stiffness and spasms. In your case it helped too much and that's why you had the rubbery legs. In large doses it is a pesticide in small doses it has been shown to help. There is a clinical study going on in NY with S/R 4-ap. This is also good news. It should be one cap a day dosing, at most two a day.

Pharmacy's make mistakes. Good pharmacists beat themselves up over it. We have a very special relationship with our patients. You trust us to be right all the time. We try to be right all the time, but it is not humanly possible to be right all the time. In our practice, and in most good compounders practices there are at least 7 checks before the drug goes out the door. When the order is taken, only by a pharmacist, when the order is imputed, only by a pharmacist or a certified pharm tech, when the order is checked again only by a pharmacist, when the order goes out to be compounded by either a pharmacist or a cpht, when the order is compounded by a rph and cpht, when the order is filled, by a rph when the order is bagged, by a rph, and when the order goes to the front, by a cpht. The final check and the most critical should be the patient. If the capsule is a different color, if there is any change. ASK. Don't be bashful! I counsel people all day long, that's why we go to school for six years and have to pass a state board. Its also the law in most states, so ask, that is one of the things you are paying for.

If your pharmacist is worth their salt, I will guarantee they are punishing themselves right now and will have increased their diligence a hundred fold. If not, get a new pharmacist.

Dr.Skip