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Phenytek availability
Wed, 07/02/2014 - 19:03Suddenly Rite aid told me they couldn't get any more phenytek through their warehouse and my doc's pa has been calling around trying to find a pharmacy that could(got some generic "phenytek" but previously with generic phenytoin my level dipped and I had a seizure....(my neurologist back then said it was garbage which he never used)....so I wondered if anyone else was having the same problem and if anyone had ony info......thanks, Mark
I don't know of any shortage
Submitted by just_joe on Sat, 2014-07-05 - 09:00
I don't know of any shortage of either phenytec or phenytoin it is a generic form of dilantin. Rite aid told me they couldn't get any more phenytek through their warehouse my neurologist back then said it was garbage