Does that make her anxious? Trolled by the pharmacy.
lowlightliving on
Pharmacists will fill prescriptions of the same generic drugs made by different manufacturers in the same bottle when one runs out and they have to complete the script with another manufacturer’s. I’ve had that happen to me on occasion from multiple pharmacies.
SecureProfessional34 on
Time to head back to the pharmacy. And I don’t even have anxiety, lol.
dusklavanna on
You need to put everything back in the bottle and go back to the pharmacy. It could be that they finished a bottle from the manufacturer and the next one had different shapes but it could be a mistake and it’s super important the pharmacy clear it up for you. You can identify pills by the id numbers/letters on them but again this isn’t something you need to handle yourself.
DarkKingfisher777 on
What are these pills?
According_Arm_6170 on
Buspirone? Google doesn’t like hexagonal because it’s not a hexagonal pill 😁
PositionParty1454 on
The bottle was probably labelled two different manufacturers with a sticker or hand notated on the label. It is done often!
godspareme on
Thank God its not OCD medication
Darq_Fox on
So. Yeah. This is bad pharmaceutical elegance. In my field, ‘pharmaceutical elegance’ is making sure the labeling, drug, and presentation are all very clean and proper, including things like how the label looks (not crooked or damaged) and the consistency of the pills. When these things are ugly, crooked, or dirty – it creates distrust with patients. As it should. If the presentation of the medication is poor, it implies poor attention to detail, and that the drug could be inaccurate.
In your case, I believe you got two different brands of buspirone 10mg, …which is fine… except the pharmacist/pharmacy technician should have taken you aside to the window to counsel you and tell you this is the case.
I would go back to the pharmacy, anyway, just to make it clear they made you uncomfortable because they did not properly inform you of the situation. They should have.
I worked in a pharmacy for a couple of years about 12 years ago. Whenever we didn’t have enough of one manufacturer to fill an entire script and had to use another one, I was trained to write a note on the script and separate the two pills with cotton so people wouldn’t be alarmed or have to check the Internet to make sure they got all of the right prescription.
LastPirateAlive on
I had meds that looked like those once and I called them pillow-shaped but the bottle said ‘barrel’ and I liked that, too.
phylter99 on
This happens to me with various of my pills. The pharmacy just gets them from different vendors.
Spez_is_a_dickbag on
Use the drugs.com pill identifier
Muttandcheese on
That would give me anxiety
MsMarkarth on
In the same bottle? Someone fucked up.
In theory you can fill a prescription with split generics for a patient like this, however the standard way of doing this is to count out how many you have of the short stock say 32/90 and print the label for that generic with that count.
Then you select the generic you have that isn’t short stock and the system automatically prints the matching label for that brand as 58/90.
This isn’t just for fun, or for pharmacy stock either, not that this pharmacy seems to concerned about that.
It’s a patient safety issue. Anyone (US for sure) can go grab any prescription bottle in their house and it’s gonna have the description of the pill inside it. That’s so you know what you’re taking.
BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE. Did you know that Teva once oopsied and put a little bit of glass in some pills they made? Just as an example. Medications get recalled for all sorts of wild or banal shit. Your RX number is permanently linked the the exact bottle those came from. Or is supposed to.
Also, y’all I went to double check the Teva glass recall because that particular memory is from the the Pleistocene and wtf there are so many manufacturers out just putting glass in medications.
Source: I spent eight years getting yelled by people looking to score Sudafed for their meth cooker and parents with sick kids as a Pharmacy Technician. And one weird lady who yelled about Obama every single time she came in.
Tittop2 on
That gives me anxiety
FaceMcShootie on
Seems like that’s definitely not best practice, ESPECIALLY if it was not disclosed prior to now.
This_Influence_9985 on
I’ve had bottles of split manufacturers… Should say the label if it’s one manufacturer and anoother.
AtariAtari on
Gorthax on
Good luck buddy
fiendishrabbit on
Pharmacist should have told you when they gave you your prescription, but they’re the same drug (buspirone 10mg) from different manufacturers.
* 351 White, Oval pills are supplied by Radha Pharmaceuticals
* 10 White, Barrel-shaped pills are supplied by Strides Arcolab
For anyone else in the US that ends up in this situation; [https://www.drugs.com/pill_identification.html](https://www.drugs.com/pill_identification.html) is a great page. You simply type in markings, colour and shape and it will spit out a number of possible results. On most pills it provides not just the active ingredient but also the filler ingredients (which is helpful for people whose digestion react differently from seemingly identical drugs from different manufacturers).
tinterrobangg on
They did this shit to me once, no mention of it by the pharmacist or on the bottle. Cannot explain well enough the panic attack that ensued when I wasn’t sure which pill I needed to take to calm down. 😪
darealstiffler on
Ayyyy gotta love the souped up Benadryl lol. Those definitely make me less anxious but they make me tired af
xXGray_WolfXx on
This is buspar right? I have both of these in my old bottle when I changed doses. Probably different manufacturers. Contact your pharmacy to check.
PaManiacOwca on
One pill has bigger cut, it’s deeper and wider in middle due to inflation 😂
moonlight_wolf on
It was done to test her to see if the different pills would give her anxiety
BLT_Special on
These look almost exactly like generic vs name brand Zyrtec
Pixelatorxl on
This itself is anxiety inducing
RampagingElks on
I work in a vet clinic – if we need to fill a script of say 50 pills, but have 15 left of Brand A and an unopened bottle of Brand B…. We are going to open the new bottle. It’s the exact same drug, but slightly different shape, and we are going to hear about it by phone call, email, Facebook post that we are trying to poison them…..
Longjumping_Stand647 on
I would take one of each every time just to be sure.
Business_Sandwich227 on
It’s fine. Just carefully sand the edges off the bigger ones to match the smaller ones. Oh and the numbers too. Problem solved.
GreyWind92 on
This is called misbranding and it shouldn’t have been done. They should have given you two separate bottles.
RandomredditHero on
The first thing you should make sure to do is tell her to relax. It’ll definitely go over well
TroublingThumbs on
this would also happen to me sometimes with buspirone 10mg, until i switched to 15mg
arctic-apis on
That’s definitely more than two pills. Sheesh can’t even count.
cleverburrito on
It drives me bonkers when my meds are different shapes or colors from one bottle to the next refill. It causes problems with medication adherence for me. I can’t even imagine the suffering caused by two different pill shapes IN THE SAME BOTTLE!!!!
AgapitoVelezOvando on
Dude, tell her to take them with alcohol to maximize efficacy.
x_rye_chip_x on
If they did not clearly label both of these manufacturers, this is not mildly interesting. It should be infuriating.
Mhykael on
They’re fine, it’s just the same Rx made by two different manufacturers. They probably ran out of one and filled with the others.
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Does that make her anxious? Trolled by the pharmacy.
Pharmacists will fill prescriptions of the same generic drugs made by different manufacturers in the same bottle when one runs out and they have to complete the script with another manufacturer’s. I’ve had that happen to me on occasion from multiple pharmacies.
Time to head back to the pharmacy. And I don’t even have anxiety, lol.
You need to put everything back in the bottle and go back to the pharmacy. It could be that they finished a bottle from the manufacturer and the next one had different shapes but it could be a mistake and it’s super important the pharmacy clear it up for you. You can identify pills by the id numbers/letters on them but again this isn’t something you need to handle yourself.
What are these pills?
Buspirone? Google doesn’t like hexagonal because it’s not a hexagonal pill 😁
The bottle was probably labelled two different manufacturers with a sticker or hand notated on the label. It is done often!
Thank God its not OCD medication
So. Yeah. This is bad pharmaceutical elegance. In my field, ‘pharmaceutical elegance’ is making sure the labeling, drug, and presentation are all very clean and proper, including things like how the label looks (not crooked or damaged) and the consistency of the pills. When these things are ugly, crooked, or dirty – it creates distrust with patients. As it should. If the presentation of the medication is poor, it implies poor attention to detail, and that the drug could be inaccurate.
In your case, I believe you got two different brands of buspirone 10mg, …which is fine… except the pharmacist/pharmacy technician should have taken you aside to the window to counsel you and tell you this is the case.
I would go back to the pharmacy, anyway, just to make it clear they made you uncomfortable because they did not properly inform you of the situation. They should have.
[https://www.drugs.com/imprints.php?imprint=10&color=12&shape=1](https://www.drugs.com/imprints.php?imprint=10&color=12&shape=1)
[https://www.drugs.com/imprints.php?imprint=351&color=12&shape=11](https://www.drugs.com/imprints.php?imprint=351&color=12&shape=11) – this one doesn’t have a photo but I also recognize the pill from work.
Edit: Phrasing.
I worked in a pharmacy for a couple of years about 12 years ago. Whenever we didn’t have enough of one manufacturer to fill an entire script and had to use another one, I was trained to write a note on the script and separate the two pills with cotton so people wouldn’t be alarmed or have to check the Internet to make sure they got all of the right prescription.
I had meds that looked like those once and I called them pillow-shaped but the bottle said ‘barrel’ and I liked that, too.
This happens to me with various of my pills. The pharmacy just gets them from different vendors.
Use the drugs.com pill identifier
That would give me anxiety
In the same bottle? Someone fucked up.
In theory you can fill a prescription with split generics for a patient like this, however the standard way of doing this is to count out how many you have of the short stock say 32/90 and print the label for that generic with that count.
Then you select the generic you have that isn’t short stock and the system automatically prints the matching label for that brand as 58/90.
This isn’t just for fun, or for pharmacy stock either, not that this pharmacy seems to concerned about that.
It’s a patient safety issue. Anyone (US for sure) can go grab any prescription bottle in their house and it’s gonna have the description of the pill inside it. That’s so you know what you’re taking.
BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE. Did you know that Teva once oopsied and put a little bit of glass in some pills they made? Just as an example. Medications get recalled for all sorts of wild or banal shit. Your RX number is permanently linked the the exact bottle those came from. Or is supposed to.
Also, y’all I went to double check the Teva glass recall because that particular memory is from the the Pleistocene and wtf there are so many manufacturers out just putting glass in medications.
Source: I spent eight years getting yelled by people looking to score Sudafed for their meth cooker and parents with sick kids as a Pharmacy Technician. And one weird lady who yelled about Obama every single time she came in.
That gives me anxiety
Seems like that’s definitely not best practice, ESPECIALLY if it was not disclosed prior to now.
I’ve had bottles of split manufacturers… Should say the label if it’s one manufacturer and anoother.
Good luck buddy
Pharmacist should have told you when they gave you your prescription, but they’re the same drug (buspirone 10mg) from different manufacturers.
* 351 White, Oval pills are supplied by Radha Pharmaceuticals
* 10 White, Barrel-shaped pills are supplied by Strides Arcolab
For anyone else in the US that ends up in this situation; [https://www.drugs.com/pill_identification.html](https://www.drugs.com/pill_identification.html) is a great page. You simply type in markings, colour and shape and it will spit out a number of possible results. On most pills it provides not just the active ingredient but also the filler ingredients (which is helpful for people whose digestion react differently from seemingly identical drugs from different manufacturers).
They did this shit to me once, no mention of it by the pharmacist or on the bottle. Cannot explain well enough the panic attack that ensued when I wasn’t sure which pill I needed to take to calm down. 😪
Ayyyy gotta love the souped up Benadryl lol. Those definitely make me less anxious but they make me tired af
This is buspar right? I have both of these in my old bottle when I changed doses. Probably different manufacturers. Contact your pharmacy to check.
One pill has bigger cut, it’s deeper and wider in middle due to inflation 😂
It was done to test her to see if the different pills would give her anxiety
These look almost exactly like generic vs name brand Zyrtec
This itself is anxiety inducing
I work in a vet clinic – if we need to fill a script of say 50 pills, but have 15 left of Brand A and an unopened bottle of Brand B…. We are going to open the new bottle. It’s the exact same drug, but slightly different shape, and we are going to hear about it by phone call, email, Facebook post that we are trying to poison them…..
I would take one of each every time just to be sure.
It’s fine. Just carefully sand the edges off the bigger ones to match the smaller ones. Oh and the numbers too. Problem solved.
This is called misbranding and it shouldn’t have been done. They should have given you two separate bottles.
The first thing you should make sure to do is tell her to relax. It’ll definitely go over well
this would also happen to me sometimes with buspirone 10mg, until i switched to 15mg
That’s definitely more than two pills. Sheesh can’t even count.
It drives me bonkers when my meds are different shapes or colors from one bottle to the next refill. It causes problems with medication adherence for me. I can’t even imagine the suffering caused by two different pill shapes IN THE SAME BOTTLE!!!!
Dude, tell her to take them with alcohol to maximize efficacy.
If they did not clearly label both of these manufacturers, this is not mildly interesting. It should be infuriating.
They’re fine, it’s just the same Rx made by two different manufacturers. They probably ran out of one and filled with the others.
Quite the irony!