Re: Medication listing?

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> Does anyone have the book that tells you which prescription meds.

have gluten or are gluten-free? Or do we contact each manufacturer

directly? I keep thinking I've done good for the day, then when I

take my night-time meds, I feel yucky.....it's the only thing I can

think of....

> Thanks,

> Cheryl in Maine

> who's still pretty new at this!

>

I don't have the book but if you Google enough, you're likely to find

an answer that was valid at some point in time. Your pharmacist should

be able to help you. Sometimes there's no choice but to call the

manufacturer.

I'd advise that you request your doc wrote " no generics " on all your

prescriptions. My experience with generics is that the fillers and

binders, coatings, and such, are commodities. And therefore, it could

be corn today, potato tomorrow, and wheat the third day. With a label

name medicine, the ingredients list is likely to be more stable.

Talk to your pharmacist.

For me, getting glutened by medicine has been a pretty clear

experience. For example, I was GF and feeling well and then I took one

vitamin. One stinkin' vitamin. A generic that I'd taken in the pre-GF

days. I didn't even think twice about it. Man, oh man, oh man - I was

sick for a WEEK! And to add insult to injury, I had JUST bought the

300-pill bottle. And worse, when I bought it, it was Buy One Get One

for a penny. So, I had JUST bought 600 (yes, a 2 year supply) of them

and then ONLY took one. Just ONE. Called the pharmacist. He said

" Sorry. The ingredients in that store brand are commodities. I can't

tell you that it won't have wheat, or other gliadins. " Sigh. Gave all

599 of the remaining vitamins away to friends who could use them.

Good luck!

I still don't know if Primatene tablets are GF or not. A list I found

on the web said they ARE GF, but things like that can change. I took

one Primatene tablet last week and suffered quite a bit. Coincidence?

Cause? I don't know. It did stop the wheezing, though, which is a good

thing since I was far away from my inhaler at the time. Ran into a CVS

and bought the Primatene. Sometimes the need to breathe outweighs the

need to avoid " D " and cramps and all the other tummy complaints.

Something about breathing. You can only stop for such short periods. :-)

Sorry I'm not more help.

Call your pharmacist.

Oh, and I've called many manufacturers. That's a pain in the behind,

though. One time I had an Rx that I filled on a Friday afternoon of a

holiday weekend. The manufacturer was not only in a different time

zone, but in a different country. Believe me, asking the manufacturer

about THAT medicine was a challenge. Luckily, I got the standard " CYA "

reply of " no gluten ingredients but we can't promise lack of

cross-contamination " . Good enough for me. Gulp.

Esther

[Guest guest]

Clan has a gluten free drug list. Included in the list is each manufacturers phone number. I've had pretty good luck going to the company website and finding what I was looking for. If it's not too personal to say what it is, some of us may know from personal use.

Medication listing?

Does anyone have the book that tells you which prescription meds. have gluten or are gluten-free? Or do we contact each manufacturer directly? I keep thinking I've done good for the day, then when I take my night-time meds, I feel yucky.....it's the only thing I can think of....

Thanks,

Cheryl in Maine

who's still pretty new at this!