Good for you for checking! I was prepared for you to say the white pills
were the generic of the Zocor, which has happened to us--the appearance is
different and that's the reason---but never a different drug.
Thanks for the reminder to always question and irregularity.....
>Last night I was setting up my mothers pill box for the week and grabbed
>for the new bottle of Zocor (cholesteral drug <sp?>) and noticed that
>the pills were round and white as apposed to peach and triangular (sort
>of). So I looked at the old Zocor pills and saw "ZOCOR" printed
>directly on the pills. The new round white pills had "LANOXIN" printed
>on each and the pharmacy label said Zocor 20mg on the bottle. After I
>got home I hopped on the web and did a search to find that Lanoxin is a
>heart drug. Needless to say, this incident has terrified me! Luckily,
>I caught the pharmacy's error and no harm was done.
>
>Has any one been through something like this? I will be calling her
>doctors office and plan on stopping by the pharmacy after work tonight.
>I do not want to see something like this happen to anyone else.
>
>Kathy Barras cg mother (Florence 75/Sept 1997)
>Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Camilla Flintermann, CG for Peter 81/70/55
Oxford, Ohio
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