New Dose of Riba-RibaPack

[illona]

My doctor gave me a new prescription for Riba. it's call RibaPack.
I am usually taking 2 in the morning and 3 in the evening but with a new medication I have to take 1 in the morning and 1 in the evening.
does anybody taking this pills?
illona

[illona]

I did not get them yet. I just got a prescription.

[FlGuy]

In the end, riba is riba.  Probably just fewer capsules.  Let us know what it looks like when you get the rx filled.

[NYgirl]

Still...you have to remember to pick up the pack twice a day...same thing as picking up the "bottle" twice a day.

It's the darn "twice a day" that gives me trouble sometimes you know?  Thank God it's not more often then that!

[FlGuy]

I think that I read in one of those VX-950 trial thinggys that it's dosed every 8 hours.  Riba is a little more shotgun like but it seems like with Vertex compliance is a little more strict.

[lilmoma]

Yeah, we get those, they are 400 mg each, hey I think its easier take less pills, same miligrams.
lilmoma

[jmjm530]

I would call the pharmacy before cashing the rx and confirm the actual dosage in each pill, as doctors and NP's do screw up more than we'd like.

I say this because you're now taking 2 in morning and 3 in evening, so unless the RibaPak formulates each of the two pills differently, to me your new regimen indicates a dosage change. This may be intentional or unintentional but I would check it out now, even though I'm pretty sure it's OK.