[ENF]

Xanax has been incorrectly included on lists of gluten-free meds.


From a Pfizer website:

Table 2. Pfizer U.S. Pharmaceutical Products That Contain Gluten as an Ingredient

Halcion® (triazolam) Tablets (a benzodiazepine derivative drug.)
Xanax® (alprazolam) Tablets
Xanax XR® (alprazolam, extended release) Tablets


www.pfizerpro.com/product_info/viagra_pi_ingredients.jsp

[FootballFanatic]

Inactive ingredients: Cellulose, corn starch, docusate sodium, lactose, magnesium stearate,
silicon dioxide and sodium benzoate. In addition, the 0.5 mg tablet contains FD&C Yellow
No. 6 and the 1 mg tablet contains FD&C Blue No. 2.

Which of those is glutenous?

[FootballFanatic]

Also your link doesn't lead to a real page.

[ENF]

I don't know why that link didn't work, but you may have to google Pfizer Pro Gluten Xanax

https://www.pfizerpro.com/product_info/viag...ingredients.jsp


Here is another way to see it:
http://64.233.169.10...FlKKx...;celiac disease=1&gl=us

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https://www.pfizerpro.com/product_info/viag...p;FullView=TRUE

[FootballFanatic]

Does anyone know of a generic that is gluten free.

I just had to switch my birth control pills, because I noticed that they weren't on the gluten free list but I called the generics and one of the generics is gluten free...

I have written down the numbers to call on Monday, but it's the weekend and I take it 4xday.

[FootballFanatic]

Generic Alprazolam made by Mylan is gluten free.

I am waiting on some more email replies from overseas companies, will post if they come back positive.

[FootballFanatic]

Novopharm alprazolam IS gluten free.

Actavis can not guarantee their alprazolam because they do not test.

[darlindeb25]

Well, darn! I guess we all know we can't trust Pfizer, we have been warned enough times about this company. I have taken Xanax for years, only as needed. For the last several years it has been in a generic form. In September my doctor gave me a new RX for it and it is from Greenstone labs, I will be calling them today, if I can find a phone number for them. I do not know which lab my old pills were from now. I do know that taking them was always a big decision for me. I had to decide if I needed them bad enough right now to deal with tomorrow. When I take Xanax, the next day I usually have a bad day, a day of jumpiness, on edge, a day where anything can set me off--could that have been a gluten reaction----who knows.

How sad to know we may be glutening ourselves when we felt we were being safe.

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 darlindeb25, on Oct 24 2007, 08:14 AM, said:

Well, darn! I guess we all know we can't trust Pfizer, we have been warned enough times about this company. I have taken Xanax for years, only as needed. For the last several years it has been in a generic form. In September my doctor gave me a new RX for it and it is from Greenstone labs, I will be calling them today, if I can find a phone number for them. I do not know which lab my old pills were from now. I do know that taking them was always a big decision for me. I had to decide if I needed them bad enough right now to deal with tomorrow. When I take Xanax, the next day I usually have a bad day, a day of jumpiness, on edge, a day where anything can set me off--could that have been a gluten reaction----who knows.

How sad to know we may be glutening ourselves when we felt we were being safe.

You've been glutened. I had similar symptoms, and other reactions, the day(s) after taking Greenstone's Alprazom, which is generic Xanax.

Sorry to tell you this, but Greenstone is owned by Pfizer, and the ingredients, including gluten, are the same in both companies' Xanax. We called Pfizer and confirmed it.

[darlindeb25]

I too called Pfizer today and talked with their pharmicist--he confirmed it too. Greenstone is their company and makes their generic which also contains gluten. I told him how unfair they have been to us--first telling us it is gluten free, only to have lied to us. How disgusting is that. It makes me so sad.

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 FootballFanatic, on Oct 23 2007, 09:51 PM, said:

Novopharm alprazolam IS gluten free.

Is there any official documentation that Novopharm alprazolam is gluten free, such as on their website(s)?

[codetalker]

When the prescribed medication contains gluten, an option sometimes is to use a pharmacy that does its own compounding. An example is Stokes Pharmacy in Mt. Laural, NJ. I attended a support group meeting in Cherry Hill where the pharmacy owner talked about the process. They can check the medication and identify which component contains the gluten. If the component is just the filler, they can often compound the medication using a different filler. Sometimes, they can change the medication from a tablet to a liquid.

The URL for Stokes Pharmacy is http://www.stokesrx.com/ There are no doubt other pharmacies that provide the same service.

[ebrbetty]

I was on it for years then found out it was not gluten-free, My Dr switched me to Ativan...he said its gluten-free, sure hope hes right!

[FootballFanatic]

Novopharm told me on the phone that it is gluten free.

Along with Mylan.

Actavis does not test, so they can't guarantee.

I found the Mylan at my Walmart pharmacy but the other pharmacies in my town used Actavis and Greenstone