Coumadine from Australia

[Igor]

Hi,

I received a new batch of coumadin 5 mg pills from CandaRx and I was very surprised to see that they were green color. It was also manufactured by Boots Healthcare from Australia and on the bottle it said that it was made in UK. Is has COUMADIN written on a pill along with the #5 for 5 MG. The unusual part of it is that it?s green.
I am wondering if anybody has been taken it or heard anything about this kind of COUMADIN?

 

[catwoman]

In the U.S., all warfarin (generics as well as Coumadin) use the same colors for each size tablet -- to avoid confusion.
I thought that was standard globally, but it appears that it's not.

 

[Ross]

That is odd. Almost sounds bootleg, but I can't find the pill ID to dispell this possiblility. Might check with Mr. Lodwick on this one.

 

[tobagotwo]

Basically, I would argue at this point to know your source.

Buying prescriptions on the internet is a crapshoot. This particular one says it will get prescription medicine from wherever is cheaper. But you don't know how well it's been stored and handled, or even if it is exactly what you think it is. It is often very difficult for experts to determine if drugs are the real McCoy. Do you think the buyers for that website are truly expert enough to spot a fake shipment?

Drug companies in the US are going to great lengths to thwart counterfeit prescription drugs, which damage the reputation of their products and harm their customers. Many imitation medicines now seem to come from Asia, where Counterfeiters have gone to great lengths to try to imitate security measures. Unfortunately, their pills are either entirely fake or greatly diluted in strength. Seems like for their trouble, they could just as easily make the correct pill.

I'm not saying that the pills you have are fake or incorrectly dosed. But wouldn't it be better to get your prescriptions from a source that didn't make you wonder about it?

Best wishes,

 

[Cris N]

I Googled "coumadin australia" and found this site... Australian Prescription Products Guide.

http://www.appco.com.au/appguide/drug.asp?drug_id=00099050&t=cmi

Product Description
What it looks like
Coumadin tablets are available in three different strengths.

Each strength has a separate colour to distinguish it from the others. Be sure you are taking the right tablet by checking the colour and strength.

Each strength appears as follows:

? 1 mg: round, light tan, scored, marked 1 and Coumadin on one side and plain on the other.
? 2 mg: round, lavender, scored, marked 2 and Coumadin on one side and plain on the other.
? 5 mg: round, green, scored, marked 5 and Coumadin on one side and plain on the other.

Each bottle of Coumadin contains 50 tablets.

Ingredients

Coumadin tablets contain 1 mg, 2 mg or 5 mg of warfarin sodium as the active ingredient.

The other ingredients in Coumadin are:

? Lactose Anhydrous
? Starch - Tapioca
? Stearic Acid
? Magnesium Stearate (470)
? Amaranth (123) - Coumadin 1 & Coumadin 2 mg
? Indigo Carmine (132) - Coumadin 2 mg
? Brilliant Blue FCF (133) - Coumadin 5 mg
? Quinoline Yellow (104) - Coumadin 1 mg & 5 mg

Coumadin contains NO sucrose, gluten or tartrazine.

Further Information
you have any further questions or if you are not sure about anything relating to the use of Coumadin, your doctor or pharmacist can best assist you.
Sponsor
Coumadin is supplied in Australia by:
Sigma Pharmaceuticals Pty Ltd (ACN 004 118 594)
96 Merrindale Drive
Croydon VIC 3136%
Ph: (03) 9839 2800
Australian registration numbers:
? 1 mg tablets: AUST R 42269
? 2 mg tablets: AUST R 14937
? 5 mg tablets: AUST R 42279

This leaflet was updated in March 2005

 

[Guest]

I would be very surprised if the colors were the same between different countries. Colors mean different things in different cultures. The drug companies try to get colors that convey the desired meanings in different countries.

This thread also confirms what I have maintained all along. If the drugs actually came from Canada, I would have no problem with that. However, just because Canada is in the name doesn't mean that is the ultimate source. We have a person here in Pueblo who was recently jailed because he was convicted of selling counterfeit Viagra. He is seriously disabled and the judge suspended his jail because of this on the condition that he not have anything to do with a computer. He went right back to counterfeiting, so the judge jailed him. OK counterfeit Viagra - how much harm would that do???? But what if the company that you have been buying from gets sold to someone greedy who decides to sell counterfeit warfarin???? Is saving a few bucks worth the risk of being paralyzed???

 

[Gemma]

In the UK, warfarin colours are as follows:
5mg pink
3mg blue
1mg brown

Sounds like if the green 5mg was manufactured in the UK, it was done so for use in Australia rather than the UK. Having done a Google search, it seems that other countries have different colours again for different strengths (and indeed, different strengths of pills).

Surely the best thing to do is buy drugs that were produced with the intention of being used in your own country. If for example, a doctor was to look at a pill and try to work out what you've been taking, they could make huge errors by looking at a foreign pill and applying their country's criteria to it.

 

[Guest]

My last post in this thread was a "what if", but it just came true.

I just saw a woman who had been to Mexico and purchased a sealed bottle labeled "Warfarin 5 mg". She has been taking it daily for a week. Her INR today was 1.0. She showed us the pills. They were thicker than the usual warfarin tablets, white and had absolutely no ID marks on them. (I think there is a requirement that a prescription medication have an ID on it - in the uS at least.) Lactose is a type of sugar that is in most medications to cause the ingredients to stick together so the pill isn't just a powder. It was obvious to an "old timer" like me that this was nothing but lactose.

 

[INRtest]

I received a batch from "planetdrugsdirect.com," also green 5mg tablets from Australia. After reading Al's comments, I've been rather naive about legitimate vs. illigitimate drugs. In any case, I had been on this batch for a wk. when I tested 3 wks ago and my INR was within my normal range of about 3.0.

Hope this helps.
Jess


I received a new batch of coumadin 5 mg pills from CandaRx and I was very surprised to see that they were green color. It was also manufactured by Boots Healthcare from Australia and on the bottle it said that it was made in UK. Is has COUMADIN written on a pill along with the #5 for 5 MG. The unusual part of it is that it?s green.
I am wondering if anybody has been taken it or heard anything about this kind of COUMADIN?[/QUOTE]