A big FUCK YOU! to Actavis Totowa

Those jerks are the ones responsible for the recall of Bertek and UDL's Digitek. Digitek has historically been the cheaper of the two brands of digoxin we've carried (Lannett and Bertek were our choice), so we let the Lannett expire. Plus, it WAS a good $3 cheaper, and at my CorpoPharm, we like to be nice to the old people for the most part. So, we got the cheap one, let the old Lannett 125's expire, and rolled on. Until just a few days ago, when we received notice of the Class 1 Recall. In my career, I've never seen a Class 1 Recall. My PIC (who, granted, is fairly young) could not recall a Class 1 before. So, we had to spend yesterday calling patients, and ask them to please return to us their Digitek, so we could give them our Digoxin stock, which, our wholesaler was out of. Yes, our wholesaler fucked up big time and RAN OUT of Digixon. They told me they won't have any until at least next week. We had some Lannett 250's that are expiring in August. The problem is that we only have about 6 patients taking 250's, and about 30 who are taking the 125's. I managed to procure 300 off of other stores, and I'm going to have to go on a mission to get more today. We already owe 2 people 90 day supplies. If worse comes to worse, we will have to partial them out until we can get SOMETHING next week.

If you're a patient and reading this -- chances are that your pills were NOT in the affected batch(es). You'd probably have some sort of sign of problem if they were double the thickness. There's a lot of fairly obvious signs of digitalis toxicity. You'd probably see at least one. I can't guarantee you would, but I think you're okay for now. See your doc if you're concerned. The docs we talked to yesterday said they're not too worried, and that they're going to do the blood tests as a precaution at their patient's next check-ups. They don't feel that a rush to get blood tests by their patients is warranted.

We had a ton of people come in and tie us up for over an hour, extremely concerned about the fact that they had a recalled medicine. I know it's scary, but TRUST US. It's our job to know what's going on. We also don't have any FDA info, nor an information sheet from Actavis Totowa with the specifics of HOW much % the affected pills were off from what they should be and technicalities like that. Stop asking us these things, and CALL the freakin' 800 number for the jerks at Actavis Totowa who are doing their job being proactive, but not releasing enough information to satiate the public's fear.

Like I said. JUST TRUST US. We're going to get you through this. Worse things have happened.