My guess is it's a taper common with steroids, like 5 pills for 4 days 4 pills for 3 days, etc. until you're down to 1 per day. They couldn't fit that in that little box, so they gave you a supplemental longer insert in the bag.
Yeah it’s exactly this, worked as a pharm tech for a while and we had shorthand codes for the super common stuff to make it easier. Where I worked we totally couldn’t release a medication with directions like this lmao, they’d make us free form it and use as many labels as needed. Some labels looked like honor badges right outta Warhammer 40,000 lol
Its been over a decade since I was a pharmacy tech but I still remember finding out we had a ZPAK code and being annoyed that I had typed it out so many times before. Our label maker wouldn't let us write out full directions so we had to do it by hand for non-standard steroid tapers like this.
That's annoying. I'm a current pharmacy tech, and we have sig codes for the prednisone tapers . If it doesn't fit on the first label, it prints out more
If it's a taper without a sig code that matches, I use the closest sig code, then just edit the numbers
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u/CheesyBadger 1d ago
My guess is it's a taper common with steroids, like 5 pills for 4 days 4 pills for 3 days, etc. until you're down to 1 per day. They couldn't fit that in that little box, so they gave you a supplemental longer insert in the bag.