[TennesseeGirl]

My mother-in-law just received her letter from Walgreens. The recall covers digoxin bought from Walgreens from April 2007 - April 2008. This "accident" took a full year of dispensing error before being caught??

[BossLady]

WOW! This didn't take long....LOL!

Digitek-Lawsuits.com

http://www.digitek-lawsuits.com/?gclid=CP3zuJLwoZMCFSQtagodsg_MoQ

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Maybe I had better toss the ones I have hanging around my neck—and in the refrigerator at home.

[i_dont_chat]

Likewise, my mother took the over-dose, dispensed by Walgreens.

She did have many of the symptoms.

[ToastedHead]

Hi Tennessee Girl!

The generic manufacturer of Digitek sent out a press release two weekends ago to all drug distributors that there is a possibility that some lots may contain an inconsistent amount of active ingredient. Immediately upon receiving this information, every pharmacy I know, including Walgreens who I work for, pulled this drug from the shelf and began substituting the brand name drug Lanoxin, or Digoxin. We began the process of contacting everyone in our computers who we have record of having dispensed Digitek to within that time frame.

The good news is that there is no report of anyone having experienced anything outside of normal. All retail pharmacies give out this drug hundreds of times every month, and if there had been a major mess up at the manufacturing plant there would be stories out there by now (especially because Big Pill is such a target of hate.)

Make sure Mom is getting the new replacement, either the brand name Lanoxin or the generic Digoxin. And if it will make her feel better she can talk to the doc, and schedule a check up if she hasn’t been feeling well. I have not seen any doctors make any changes to prescriptions.

Sorry for the freak out! I always wonder whats it like on the other side of the counter. I promise, no one is trying to kill you!

[Son House]

Digitek digoxin tablets recalled: Possible double dose released by accident
April 29, 2008
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Whose logged? And are these ‘Made In China’ pharmaceuticals?

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping.

[PGalt]

Thanks very much for posting, TennesseeGirl. (thanks for the ping, granny)

Health/life BUMP!

[SuziQ]

I'd finished my last dose of Digitek about two weeks before the letter arrived. I'd been on a low dose of it since landing in the hospital on Christmas Day with A-Fib and high blood pressure because my heart was functioning at about 25% of normal. My Doc couldn't figure out how I was able to walk into the ER, much less have sung The Messiah and week before, and Midnight Mass the previous evening!

After almost a week of testing and lots of meds, the function was back up to 50%, so I went home with prescriptions for Digitek, lisinopril, carvedilol, lasix, and warfarin. Thank God for Wal-Mart's $4 generics program! I went back last month for a follow up Echo, and my heart was back to full function, and he took me off everything except the BP meds. The tests in the hospital showed NO blockages, heart damage, or even any heart disease, so they think it must have been a virus that attacked my heart. I've known for years that I have a 'wiring problem' and I'll get A-Fib from time to time. I've been taking a low dose aspirin every day for years, but bumped it up to a full dose, when the Doc took me off the warfarin during a follow up visit in mid.-Feb.