The Most Important Thing: Do NOT Stop Taking Your Medication
This cannot be emphasized enough. The FDA explicitly advises patients not to stop taking their blood pressure medication without first speaking to a healthcare provider—even if their prescription is affected by this recall.
Suddenly stopping a beta-blocker like bisoprolol can be dangerous, potentially triggering a rapid increase in blood pressure, chest pain, or in some cases, more serious cardiac events. The risks of abruptly stopping your medication are likely greater than the risk posed by the impurity itself, particularly given the Class II classification.
If you believe your medication is affected, the right steps are:
- Check your bottle against the lot number and product details listed above
- Call your pharmacist—they can tell you whether your prescription came from this lot and arrange a replacement if needed
- Contact your doctor to discuss whether a switch to an alternative medication is appropriate for your situation
- Continue taking your current medication until you have spoken to a healthcare professional and have a confirmed plan in place
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What are the names of the medications. You’re not helping anyone when you don’t even listen the names of the medications
The recall affects Bisoprolol Fumarate (2.5 mg) and Hydrochlorothiazide (6.25 mg) tablets — a combination medication commonly prescribed to treat high blood pressure. The affected product comes in 100-count bottles and was distributed throughout the United States and Puerto Rico.
Exactly! Probably a scam to show all the ads on the site
Read the article. It’s listed!
Tell us the brand of meds you’re talking about.
The recall affects Bisoprolol Fumarate (2.5 mg) and Hydrochlorothiazide (6.25 mg) tablets — a combination medication commonly prescribed to treat high blood pressure. The affected product comes in 100-count bottles and was distributed throughout the United States and Puerto Rico.
The recall affects Bisoprolol Fumarate (2.5 mg) and Hydrochlorothiazide (6.25 mg) tablets — a combination medication commonly prescribed to treat high blood pressure. The affected product comes in 100-count bottles and was distributed throughout the United States and Puerto Rico.
thank u for the info Mary
thank u for the info Mary. My husband isnt on that brand of meds.
Did not request this site info
Who believes the trump FDA or the trump anything now days anyway. They are lead by a HHS Secretary quack-job who fired the real experts protecting the health of the country and the world, He replaced them with his fellow quack-jobs and therefore are no longer the premier go to health/medical authority of the past. Gold standard no…corroded penny at the bottom of the swamp yes.
The “Trump FDA”?! That’s news to me! FYI, the drug problem has been around WAY before Trump; the REAL issue is bad powerful pharma and how the drug companies mislead doctors. The real problem if that big pharma owns the FDA. Please look up the FDA approved Oxycontin crisis which was going on for years until 2010-2013 (and yet the Sackler family who was behind the drug is worth BILLIONS even today) or the FDA approved Thalidomide drug from the 1950’s to the early ’60s. Seems with your logic, the presidents during those years weren’t “protecting the health of our country” at all. FYI, guess who signed an executive order to classify fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, our current president whom you despise. If we all keep this in mind “a log in your own eye” Matthew 7:3-5, our country would be united again.
For your own knowledge Floyd, push away you TDS blinders and look up the history of bad pharma in our country and how they pretty much call the shots, no pun intended.
The FDA did not approve thalidomide in the 50’s and 60’s for use in pregnancy . Look it up. they have approved other harmful medications over the years however.