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That's interesting. The only medication quality issue I have ever had has been... Glenmark XR tablets that refused to dissolve properly and gave me massive dose
by exmadscientist 2y ago
That's interesting. The only medication quality issue I have ever had has been... Glenmark XR tablets that refused to dissolve properly and gave me massive dose spikes. In my case this wasn't KCl, so I survived, but I did have severe vision problems for an hour or so. More than once. The other generic vendor who supplied that medication in this area had no such issues for the exact same drug and dosage. And I've been left with extra eye floaters that have never gone away since the last incident. Fuck you, Glenmark. At least I barely notice them most of the time.
It turns out there is no way in the US (at least according to my doctor) to write a prescription as "anything but Glenmark", so I was out of luck for that prescription. Fortunately I can take the immediate release version at only a minor convenience hit, so that's sorted. Still... very frustrating.
I guess I should have filed an FDA complaint. It's always hard to know what's "my problem" and what's actually their fault.
- jart 2y agoYou have permanent floaters in your eyes because you took bad pills? Wait what?
- exmadscientist 2y agoYep! The explanation I've gotten is that the bad pills gave me a massive salt dose very quickly, raising my blood pressure sharply. This increased the pressure on my eyeballs, of all things, producing visual effects indistinguishable from a scintillating scotoma (but not actually those, because it's really coming from the eyeballs themselves, not the brain). The pressure difference crushed my eyeballs slightly and ruptured blood vessels, releasing floaters. They have gotten better over the last couple years but they are definitely still there. Fuck Glenmark.
- jart 2y agoThanks for sharing your story. Wow that sounds brutal. Almost sounds like having a blotch on your eyeglasses you can't clean. Do the floaters move around in your vision too? Because if they stay in one place, I imagine it could be tuned out, like your said, but it would be incredibly distracting if it moved.
- exmadscientist 2y agoThey do move around, but they drift down to the bottom of the eyeball, so they're not very noticeable when looking forward. I really only remember they're there at all when I'm looking down. The standard advice for dealing with floaters is "wait six months for them to settle out", so I didn't bother seeking out a doctor. And most of them have settled (maybe still are settling?), but it's now been long enough that I should probably check in with someone....