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Author Topic: Help in identifying new med or maker  (Read 5279 times)

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Offline dragonslayerinprogress

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Help in identifying new med or maker
« on: February 05, 2016, 03:20:56 pm »
I just got a box delivered and the Ribavirin is different

I was taking capsules that were white (ivory) and had za-12 inprinted on it with 200mg on the bottom

Today's drugs came in and it says  Ribasphere and has a 3 R P on it and 200 on the other side. it's blue and alot smaller. Is this a generic? Is this the same? I had to switch pharmacies and this is from Accredo in Indiana.
Any help or anyone taking the bllue pills?
Geno 2b
dx in 1990, 52 years old
Origin: unsure. Might have been infected at birth
Tx Naive
Pre tx labs 12/7/15
VL 1,315,890 6.119
ALT 188
AST 161
Started tx Solvadi/Ribavirin on 1/19/16
4 weeks undetected
8 weeks undetected
12 weeks undetected
16 weeks undetected
20 weeks undetected
24 weeks...no testing
EOT 4 wks UNDETECTED
ALT 34
AST 42
EOT 8 wks- UNDETECTED
ALT 38
AST 50
Platelets 49

Offline gnatcatcher

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Re: Help in identifying new med or maker
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2016, 05:03:53 pm »
9/29/71 transfusions
HCV genotype 1a
7/09/15-9/30/15 Harvoni

Before treatment:
Viral Load 9,490,582
FibroScan 19.5 kPa [F4]
ALT 262
AST 217
ALP 183

Most recent:
VL still UNDETECTED (SVR 102)
FibroScan 7.6 kPa [F1-2]
ALT 15
AST 20
ALP 85

Offline Lynn K

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Re: Help in identifying new med or maker
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2016, 03:02:54 am »
I was getting my riba through Accredo also. There are several companies that make Ribavirin.

I was also getting Ribasphere RibaPak but I was getting the 1200 dose package so they were dark blue and had 600 marked on them one in the morning on at night.

Which was convenient until I needed to dose reduce so for like a week I was just taking one 600 mg pill until I could get the 1000 mg dose pak sent to me which had a lighter blue pill marked 400 and still the darker blue pills marked as 600.

I ended up throwing away a lot of ribavirin when I completed treatment. So I wish I had just had the 200 mg size much easier to change dosage and less pills going to waste. I turned them into my doctors office when I finished TX


http://images.medscape.com/pi/features/drugdirectory/octupdate/ABB32240.jpg

http://images.medscape.com/pi/features/drugdirectory/octupdate/THR01060.jpg


ZA-12
Ribavirin 200mg Capsule
This medicine is a white capsule imprinted with "ZA-12 200mg" and is manufactured by American Health Packaging.

Ribasphere is manufactured by Kadmon Pharmaceuticals

Looks like Ribasphere also has a copay card $5 a prescription

http://www.ribapak.com/hcp/index.html

Good luck with treatment
Lynn
« Last Edit: February 06, 2016, 03:05:31 am by Lynn K »
Genotype 1a
1978 contracted, 1990 Dx
1995 Intron A failed
2001 Interferon Riba null response
2003 Pegintron Riba trial med null response
2008 F4 Cirrhosis Bx
2014 12 week Sov/Oly relapse
10/14 fibroscan 27 PLT 96
2014 24 weeks Harvoni 15 weeks Riba
5/4/15 EOT not detected, ALT 21, AST 20
4 week post not detected, ALT 26, AST 28
12 week post NOT DETECTED (07/27/15)
ALT 29, AST 27 PLT 92
24 week post NOT DETECTED! (10/19/15)
44 weeks (3/11/16)  fibroscan 33, PLT 111, HCV NOT DETECTED!
I AM FREE!

 


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