Worst/Best smelling drugs????

[jawnly211]

i almost puke everytime i fill a metformin rx.....

thank goodness for sandoz (60# bottles) and for the doctors who know how to properly prescribe it.....

pen vk still makes me gag......brings back memories of when i was a child taking it

as for the nicer smelling drugs......benicar is definitely up there.....strange, yet pleasant aroma

any others??????

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[njac]

we have a lactulose that smells like butterscotch or taffy. Yet it's bright green. But smells so yummy.

Ditto for Keppra solution (grape flavored).

The Clindamycin solution smells like cherry flavored ass.

 

[UofMN2010]

benicar smells like butter popcorn jelly belly's and we (WAGS) have a brand of PNV that smell like cake frosting !!

armour thyroid is the only one that i can think of right now that smells REALLY bad

 

[Avelox]

Armour Thyroid is the most disgusting smell evar. Prenatal vitamins tho like cal-nate smell like beautiful heaven!

 

[WVUPharm2007]

The worst is Cleocin suspension. Gah. Dishonorable mention to Mucomyst. I'd imagine a mizture of the two would be interesting. Cat piss and rotten eggs. Yum.

The best is either phenytoin orange suspension or Benicar.

 

[futurepharmer12]

I would have to agree that Armour Thyroid is the worst, although metformin comes in close. I like the smell of benicar and Tussionex.

 

[Asrai]

One of the best is suboxone...it smells like candy (and coincidentally, many people seem to take it like its candy as well)

and while benicar does have a nice buttered popcorn jelly bean kind of smell to it, I just can't enjoy it due to my not liking popcorn flavored jelly beans

 

[slaitken]

Chemet is horrendous...worse than Armour.

Anything made by Abbott is heaven in a bottle.

 

[GatorRxGirl]

Reconstituted Fortaz = cat pee. And the smell doesn't wash off you if you get it on you.

 

[PharmB10]

Cephalexin caps = very potent rotten eggs

 

[twester]

There's a PreNate that smells like vanilla and a spironolactone that smells like peppermint.

I agree - Armour Thyroid is the worst.

 

[njac]

Reconstituted Fortaz = cat pee. And the smell doesn't wash off you if you get it on you.

I think it's a combination of cat pee and diesel fuel. most of the cephalosporins have it, but Fortaz is certainly the strongest.

 

[PolarBear21]

Worst for me: Enteric Coated 81mg aspirin

Best for me: Prenatal vitamins (smells like milk candy)

 

[BravoKilo]

Worst: Opening an unsealed stock bottle of amoxicillin the morning of a rather nasty hangover. That about did it for me...

Best: A variety of the prenates... smell like vanilla frosting to me.

Best & Worst: Suboxone -- rather nasty acrid aroma at first, followed by pleasant citrus notes

 

[tussionex]

someone once told me that abbott actually patented their tablet coating and, thus, their proprietary smell!


chemet is beyond disgusting.


primaxin is the biggest cat-piss offender in my book.


vistaril liquid tastes like bathroom cleaner.

 

[SuziLovesSydney]

best:
suboxone smells not so much like candy, but EXACTLY like fruit loops!! yummm
dilantin (brand) smells like spearmint, which is heavenly
omnicef suspension smells soo good, makes me wish i got that instead of amoxicillin when i was a kid
benicar smells yummy too, like buttered popcorn



worst:
armour thyroid = barn-like smell ughhhhhhh
&& of course PVK & metformin

 

[museabuse]

I like the smell of depakote,
oxycontin smells like rubber cement.

 

[FungManX]

I recently cracked open a vial of imipenem/cislatin and that smelled pretty good lol.. most penicillins tend to smell good.. I actually like the amoxicillin child oral solution a bit

 

[Avelox]

Zithromax suspension smells good too imo

 

[bananaface]

Bubblegum flavored amoxicillin b/c i liked it as a child.

 

[njac]

I recently cracked open a vial of imipenem/cislatin and that smelled pretty good lol.. most penicillins tend to smell good.. I actually like the amoxicillin child oral solution a bit

was it dissolved? they're fine until you add sterile water. then good god.

 

[goldennemesis]

Cephalexin caps = very potent rotten eggs

Agreed. I worked in a compounding pharmacy and on the very bad days I would have to break those suckers open and mix them into a suspension. Definitely used the powder hood for that one.

 

[fiorio]

worst-metformin 750 ER(?) a particular brand (don't remember which it is), smells like sperm.

 

[jawnly211]

smells like sperm.

 

[Hels2007]

Worst: Certain brands of generic metformin (Teva especially, like rotten fish), all oral antibiotics, Tussionex.

Best: Depakote ER and many other Abbott film-coated tablets (they patented vanilla-smelling film coating)

 

[tussionex]

Worst: Certain brands of generic metformin (Teva especially, like rotten fish), all oral antibiotics, Tussionex.

Best: Depakote ER and many other Abbott film-coated tablets (they patented vanilla-smelling film coating)

i do not!

i smell lovely

 

[jawnly211]

forgot how good cal-nate by ethex smelled.....

so yesterday my tech and i took a couple minutes off from filling scripts to enjoy the sweet aroma of it

makes me wanna just gobble them all up!!!!

 

[cGMP]

Worst smelling: Take a whiff of Folbee/Folbee Plus.
Best smelling: ?????

 

[Jbuprepharm]

Best is Benicar, always take a huge sniff when filling a script (once the bottle is empty of course)

 

[corbomite]

The worst by far has to be a 1,000 count bottle of docusate sodium that has partially melted. Makes Armour thyroid smell like a cool spring day.

 

[Old Timer]

The worst ever in the history of pharmacy can probably only found in independent pharmacies that are very old.

The winner is:

Asafoetida



With a name like Devils Dung, need I say more??????

 

[Chiyo]

Worst - Chemet
Best - Ethex prenatal vitamins

 

[jiiniix2]

worst - liquid vitamin
best - liquid sulfameth/tri grape flavor