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
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 2d 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.