Vent - Apotex Pharmaceuticals

[GFmonkeii]

I really want to share this with you - I am furious right now - the ignorance of some companies like this one

I was suggested by my surgeon to take Apo-Naproxen tablets USP 250mg meds (anti-inflammatory) after my recent surgery - but the hospital wasn't able to find out whether the tablets were gluten-free and the distributor wasn't available over the weekend. There was no ingredients list with the medication anywhere.

The hospital just asked me to email the company myself. So doing other people's job but I got accustomed to it over the past year. It meant I haven't able to start my medication yet.

Anyway so I just got a letter from Apotex and it says,

This letter is in follow-up to your request for information regarding Apo-Naproxen

[darlindeb25]

Now that's really passing the buck. There is no way for your doctor to even know what ingredients are in that med...not gluten anyways. I would ask the doctor to write the script for something else.

[Lisa]

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Here is a listing that might be helpful. It would be wise to get a second confirmation.

You response from the company as well as your lack of support from the hospital was very disappointing.

[jerseyangel]

I understand your frustration. I was prescribed Flonase and my insurance company substituted the generic, from Roxane Labs.

They would not give me or my pharmacist any information on the ingredients (by phone or email)--saying only that their formula and ingredients are "approved by the FDA"

Our only recourse, really, is to ask our doctors to prescribe something else, and tell them why.

[GFmonkeii]

Thanks so much, you are right the doctor will need to prescribe something else . I just can't believe the brush off

I can't keep going back to Australia (real home) for every little medication that I need to take, there they get it big time . Amazing how countries not that far apart can have such different level of awareness.

Momma Goose, the list is very very helpful, thank you.