Oops! Meant to put this on ASD. Will put it there.
"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> This is a strange one. I do up our pills, two weeks at time in those
> oversized boxes with sliding tops that are marked off for 4 times of the
> day. I keep mine near the computer and Angela's were here too but hers
> were in a bad place and kept getting knocked off. So I put them on top of
> the little refrigerator. It is not actually in the kitchen proper but at
> the edge of it, under a piece of countertop that sticks out into the
> dining room. On the other side of it is the laundry room.
>
> Angela takes Colestipol which is a cholesterol med. She does not take it
> for that reason. It is off label for the problems that her Glumetza
> (Metformin) is causing her.
>
> I noticed last night that some of the Colestipol pills had a split down
> the side. Some but not all. Then by this morning, they were split wide
> open. And now? It's as though they exploded from within. They are still
> split but are HUGE!
>
> I did have something like this happen before with some L Carnitine
> tablets. Then I read on the bottle that they must not be removed from the
> original bottle or this would happen. This didn't work for me so I
> switched to the capsule kind.
>
> I just called the pharmacy. I should have known better. Was just there
> to get my own refill and was waited on by an Asian woman who not only is
> slow but doesn't speak English well. I had difficulty understanding her
> but it was worse on the phone.
>
> She told me that maybe it involved moisturizer in the bathroom. Uh huh. I
> think she meant moisture and I know enough not to put pills in there.
>
> I haven't done anything in my kitchen or laundry room in the past few days
> that would have caused excess moisture. I did cook green beans and rice
> the other day. But the rice had a lid on it and there was only 1/2 a cup
> of water in the beans.
>
> So... Has anyone else had a problem like this? The pharmacist didn't
> know and said that she would have the head pharmacist call me tomorrow.
> They did switch to a different brand and some of the pills appear to be
> harder than the others. These appeared to be rather soft from the start
> and they're HUGE! So I don't know if she could even take the exploded
> ones because of the size and I don't know if it would be safe to take.
>