Oyml77
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- Comment on Honestly impressive how pharmacies are able to find a new type of problem every time I go to pick up my meds 3 days ago:
Possibly. There are branded products that she is allergic to and she’s not allergic to the generic, but it tends to be the generics using the ingredient she can’t have.
My point is that the generalizations are MOSTLY true, but there can be exceptions. People who discount all generics out of hand are usually just blowhards.
- Comment on Honestly impressive how pharmacies are able to find a new type of problem every time I go to pick up my meds 3 days ago:
My daughter has an anaphylactic reaction to an inactive ingredient that is present in some generic products but not others. We have to be very aware of what company makes the generics she takes to make sure exactly what they contain. That’s why I say most people can take them and not everyone. Some medications will harm her more than help because of an inactive ingredient.
- Comment on Honestly impressive how pharmacies are able to find a new type of problem every time I go to pick up my meds 3 days ago:
I don’t know if you are in the US, but AB-rated generic equivalents are determined to have a release profile that is within an acceptable range of variance from the reference product to still be considered equivalent. I’m not saying that all diltiazem products are equivalent because obviously Cardizem injection is not the same as Cardizem CD is not the same as Cardizem LA is not the same as Cardizem regular tablet. What I’m saying is that Cardizem CD 240 mg capsules and all of the AB rated equivalents a pharmacy would substitute for it may have some subtle differences, but in general they don’t matter clinically for patients.
- Comment on Honestly impressive how pharmacies are able to find a new type of problem every time I go to pick up my meds 4 days ago:
The active ingredients are exactly the same. The inactive ingredients may differ and there may be some slight differences in bioavailability that for most people are not significant. There is no reason that the vast majority of people can’t take a generic equivalent of a branded medication. That said, there are sometimes exceptions that need to be considered on a cases-by-case basis. Anyone who says “I can’t take generic medications” is full of shit.
Source: I am a licensed pharmacist.
- Comment on Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates | The state would be the first to scrap requirements that children be vaccinated to attend school, among other rules. 8 months ago:
Kids living into adulthood is WOKE!
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 9 months ago:
I can, but it is sometimes tricky. Usually I can make the image go into 3D mode without too much trouble, but I sometimes can’t figure out what I’m supposed to be seeing. Like, I can tell that things are at different depths but I have a hard time resolving it into a complete cohesive image. I think it is mostly due to the weird random pattern that makes up the image and the difficulty in finding how the edges work together. It could just be shitty stereograms, though, since most of them work fine.
- Comment on You just want a break sometimes 11 months ago:
If you don’t put reptiles in your machine, do you still have to descale it?
- Comment on There was a time when everyone had common sense 1 year ago:
Only hearing about the crazy shit is the same reason Florida seems so crazy. “Sunshine Laws” in Florida mean arrest records are public information in Florida. A cottage industry has sprung up around scouring arrest records for ludicrous arrests or weird things that happened around them. It’s not that Florida is any more crazy than the rest of the country. We just hang our dirty laundry in the front lawn for everyone to see. Don’t believe that crazy ass shit isn’t happening in your neck of the woods, too.
That said, Florida is kind of crazy, though. At least some of it is imported crazy from other areas, though.
- Comment on So this is how liberty dies... 1 year ago:
He is an old, overweight man who eats too many hamberders to last forever.
- Comment on So this is how liberty dies... 1 year ago:
It is even more terrifying to think he is next in line to be president and Trump appears to be not long for this world.