Doctor suspects 'bad batch' of medication responsible for woman's sudden symptoms

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Doctor suspects 'bad batch' of medication responsible for woman's sudden symptoms
Topic Started: Sep 15 2015, 02:35 AM (597 Views)
Darcie	Sep 15 2015, 02:35 AM Post #1
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Quote: Her doctor ran tests that eventually revealed the drug that had worked for years seemed to have stopped working: Mitchell's hormone levels were way out of whack. All the symptoms of hypothyroidism were back, including fatigue, itchiness and more. "I did a very thorough review of care," Mitchell's physician, Dr. Ajantha Jayabarathan, told Go Public. "And having ruled out all kinds of other reasons why she had the symptoms that she did, and why her [thyroid] levels were so high I had to come to the conclusion that there was an issue with the [medication] she was taking." Dr. Ajantha Jayabarathan Dr. Ajantha Jayabarathan says doctors and patients should know where their medications are being produced. (CBC) Jayabarathan changed Mitchell's prescription to a different thyroid medicine, and in less than a month, her hormone levels were back to normal. However, her recovery has been slow. Go Public provided the company that makes the drug with a sample of what Mitchell and her doctor believe was a bad batch of medication. It tested the pills and determined "the claim of lack of potency is not substantiated http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/doctor-suspects-bad-batch-of-medication-caused-hypothyroid-symptoms-to-reappear-1.3222953?cmp=rss&cid=news-digests-canada-and-world-morning Same thing happened to me with my asthma medication. When the doctor prescribed the original rather than the generic everything was OK again.



Trotsky	Sep 16 2015, 02:32 AM Post #2
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	I always rankle at these stories because I know how much more profit is made with the "brand name" meds. And thus there is a lot of financial incentive to damn the generics. Chances are just as good that a brand named purveyor will screw up his production methods as will a cheap generic. But then I guess there are people who will continue to buy $12 Bayer aspirin rather than Dollar store $1 acetyl salicylic acid. Edited by Trotsky, Sep 16 2015, 02:33 AM.



Darcie	Sep 16 2015, 02:38 AM Post #3
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Trotsky, for me it was the additives, that the generics add to their product. If the cheap stuff works for some fine, for others it just does not. I do not pay any more for mine as the manufacturer gives them to the pharmacy for the same price as the generic, I have a special card for these.



Olive Oil	Sep 16 2015, 04:18 AM Post #4
Gold Star Member Posts: 4,747 Group: Member Member #785 Joined: June 10, 2010	Maybe I'm missing something here but I think they are saying that the brand name drugs also use ingredients manufactured in China, etc. I was completely under the impression that our drugs were made in North America under lab conditions. This is rather troubling.



Trotsky	Sep 17 2015, 08:27 AM Post #5
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	The only thing wholly made in North America are the ads.



Darcie	Sep 17 2015, 09:30 AM Post #6
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	I was told that different manufacturers use different additives. The additives do not have to be of the same components.



Trotsky	Sep 19 2015, 01:27 AM Post #7
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	Darcie Sep 17 2015, 09:30 AM I was told that different manufacturers use different additives. The additives do not have to be of the same components. So then you would be just as likely to get bogus additives which affect you badly whether brand name or generic.



Darcie	Sep 19 2015, 01:31 AM Post #8
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Maybe, but it did not happen - twice.



Darcie	Sep 19 2015, 01:34 AM Post #9
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	I may be wrong but I don't remember ever seeing drug ads on TV in Canada, I doubt that is permitted. Even my pharmacist here, and in Montreal, say there are differences especially in the generic. What do they care, they don't make any more money dispensing either one or the other to me.



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