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Was In Car Wreck

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Unfortunately I was involved in a mva this evening. The other car ran a red light and hit me broad side. I ended up going to the hospital just to make sure everything was ok. The left side of my neck hurt and was swelling. I went because I have experienced people who, after a car accident, are walking around with a fracture in their neck. Anyway, nothing is broke but I sure am sore and stiff. I probably will be worse tommorow. The ER doc gave me a precription for lortab 5's prn for pain. My insurance will fill this with a generic. When I went to the pharmacy I asked if it was gluten free and if they could tell me the what the non active ingredients were. The told me it had starch. Are meds the same as food that they have to declare the source if it is wheat? The clerk could not uderstand what gluten was. He was trying to list me as having some allergy in a drug class. I told him I don't have any drug allergies and that gluten was a storage protein found in bla bla bla. <_< Anyway, someone else came to his rescue and then I just blurted out I have celiac disease. I just told them to fill it and I would ask later. I just found out that the generic manufacturer is watson pharma.

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Roda Rising Star
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Just looked on their website and does not state anything, just starch as an inactive ingredient. I tried the customer support and of course at 10:30 pm est. there is no answer. I will try to call them in the morning. If I get painful enough tonight, I think I will just take my chances.

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I'm so sorry about the accident and very glad you weren't seriously injured. The only way to know for sure if your med is gluten-free is to call the company and ask--unless someone here has experience with it.

Hope the pain doesn't get too bad and you're able to get some sleep tonight. :)

home-based-mom Contributor
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Are meds the same as food that they have to declare the source if it is wheat?

Unfortunately, no. It makes no sense to anybody except the manufacturers trying to save a buck, but that's the way it is, at least for now.

Hope you are feeling better this morning.

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When I went to the pharmacy I asked if it was gluten free and if they could tell me the what the non active ingredients were. The told me it had starch. Are meds the same as food that they have to declare the source if it is wheat? The clerk could not uderstand what gluten was. He was trying to list me as having some allergy in a drug class.

I had similar issues when I decided to go gluten free and inquired about the inactive ingredients in my birth control pill. The pharmacist and I leaned in together to squint at the tiny writing to try to locate them and ended up finding nothing. I decided that since I have no symptoms when I'm gluten free (to my knowledge) and I take this pill every day, that by process of elimination they must not have any gluten in them. I would feel more comfortable knowing, but I haven't gotten around to calling the manufacturer.

Roda Rising Star
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Well I did not ever find out if the generic lortab was gluten free. I got desparate for sleep and took one that same night. I took another one before bed thursday night and neither time did not seem to have any issues out of them. Mostly I have been sticking to ibuprofen. Thanks for the info.

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