Well This Is Interesting

I received a letter today from Group Health. Mind you, it's been eighteen months, give or take, since I've been a Group Health member, but they wanted to let me know of a drug recall. Teva Pharmaceuticals has recalled a specific lot of capecitabine that was sent to pharmacies sometime between June 6 and June 9, 2014. Group Health can't tell who got drugs out of that lot, or even if they actually did, but since I was prescribed capecitabine they wanted me to know.

Great. I know. Not that there's much that can be done about it now. It's not like aspirin or something, where you buy it just to have it on hand. If you've got capecitabine, at $100+/pill, you're taking it. Well, unless, like me, you opt out of chemo. But that was later. Any pill I was given in 2014 I took. 

So what was wrong with the pills? The particular lot in question was apparently found to be "unstable." The letter doesn't say what's wrong with unstable capecitabine, but it does assure that serious health problems are "unlikely."

Which is good. I can't afford anymore serious health problems. 

But I actually could've done without knowing the extent to which drugs tend to get recalled. Scary. Some things you just don't want to Google...