weird prednsione question

I just called a pharmacy and they said that distributor to distributor should not vary with quality of bill.

Sorry, but I respectively disagree. My daughter and I were involved with a drug weirdness a couple years ago. I was given a script for Tramadol - it made me terribly sick and I couldn't take it. Shortly after she had back surgery and was given that same drug - it worked fine for her. Then when she refilled it at her pharmacy they said they only had 4 of one manufactuer, 8 of another and 12 of another. Each of the three were different shapes and the oval one which she had before caused no problems but when she took the round ones like I had taken, she immediately had a bad stomach reaction.  So, for what it's worth - there CAN be a difference. I also believe some generics are fine and others don't work at all - may vary from person to person but that's our experience.

Diagnosed with LS UC 1984, suffered for 16 years, high doses Pred and eased off to Azulfidine; remission for 9 years, just flared recently. Asacol 3, 3x day; 20 ml. Pred.. Heading into remission again with addition of: prayer, deep breathing, walks on the beach and: 4-1000 mg.garlic twice daily; 2 zyflamend twice daily, SuperFoods RX multi-whole food vita twice daily, SuperFoods RX Omega 3; 3 Asacol 3 x day with 3 Vitamin Shoppe Ultimate 10 Probiotic; Metamucil morning and night - no dairy, hardly any coffee, lots of water and green tea. Was using L-Glutamine but read that it can aggravate?

I spoke to my pharmacist about this very thing a while back - she said that although the active ingredient is identical, the filler they use to create the shape of the pill, or the stuff they us the pack the capsule with can (and often does) differ.

Usually the drug works the same, but people get bad stomach reactions if they are allergic to the filler used.

Thats what I was told anyway - and it makes sense to me.

I am convinced that the potentacy of the CVS brand to the Meijer (Walmart) brand is different. I have only had 2bm's today, still some blood but now somewhat formed pellets for bm's which is what I have gotten before I had perfect bm's. I have had 10 or less bm's and all water "d" for the past month with all undigested food and today is totally different. I think that it is important to be aware of this when you are in a flare. Perhaps it is "generic" or maybe outdated prednisone that I got but I sincerely believe that it had made an enormous impact on getting me some relieft that I have not been able to achieve for over a month.

Just to add. I was talking to my sister about this who does computer consulting for doctors. Anyhow, she said that she asked a doctor one time the difference between generic and the doctor said that there can be a 30% "swing" on generic. I don't know the specific perimeters etc but I do think in this case of this "prednsione" for me that the prednsione at one place and the prednsione elsewhere turned out to be totally different.

Chili what surgery are you having?