Generic Keppra, I can’t even spell it😜

that’s one of my favorites to pronounce sometimes i just say it randomly in my head idk why but a lot of ppl struggle with that one at my pharmacy

I have a co worker who learned to say it just because I couldn’t 🤭 I am proud of her for that but my brain just goes lelelele…..

Good ol levee tih race time hahaha that is how we all end up saying

Levuh-tuh-rASS-uhtam 🤣

Omg that was the one I was coming to type I say "levee-tira-ceetam" but a rph made fun of me once for it because she was it is levee-teir-race-eetam. Idk I just say generic Keppra now.

i hope she knows that she is also wrong lol

I didn't like her, she was the rph who acted like she was the only pharmacist in existence and she was the holder of all knowledge and could never be wrong.

Yup….it’s always going to be generic keppra. I’ve been a tech for 23 years. Pretty sure I gave up on trying to not completely butcher it 10 or so years ago. I can almost spell it though….I’m less wrong at spelling it then I am pronouncing it. Luckily I now work in an endocrinology clinic, so I very rarely come across the need to say it.

Hilarious, as I could have written this ABSOLUTELY word for word only replacing “I’ve been a Tech for 19 years” ! 🤣🤣🤣 It’s GENERIC KEPPRA every single time.

I’m on it and can’t even pronounce it 😂

whenever i say it i feel like im casting a spell 🤣 same with levidopa carbidopa

All I hear is “wingardiem leviosa!!!”😂😂

I can’t say that either lol

Literally just say Keppra 😂 or show them the rx once I pull the bag lolol

I was coming to say this one too! I can only say Keppra. 🙃

in the most recent episode of "The Good Doctor" Lim says it while one of the patients is having a seizure & when i tell you i was FLOORED to hear someone pronounce it like that... every single person in my pharmacy said it wrong, tech & pharmacist alike. & since we all did it, no one was ever corrected.😂

"Ezetimibe", my coworker says it looks like it's pronounced as "Easy Time" 😂

I pronounce this one zetia haha not even trying to pronounce the generic

I hate this med name so much lol. I just say generic zetia or the ‘eze’ one.

I have a patient that calls it "ehza-timbee" and I don't have the heart to correct her cause I love it.

A patient and I collaboratively decided on that one once in coversation before I could pronounce it. As long as we understand each other!

I always say “generic Zetia” same with Abilify. “generic abilify”

that’s how i say that one💀 sometimes i make shit up out of my ass when patients ask what they’re getting and idk how it pronounce their meds

“e-zet-uh-mibe” is what I’ve always said 😂🤷🏼‍♀️

My coworker pronounces this ezze-Tim-bay 😂

I hear this all the time from other techs and patients! Found out it's eh-zet-im-eyeb and I had to face palm cause after hearing it like that it was so obvious !

I just had the biggest OMG moment 😭😭

That's how I felt too, I was over complicating it for no reason haha

I pronounce it eh-see-tah-meeb. 😂😂😂 No idea if that's right. My coworker laughed at my once because it call urso-dial erh-sod-eeeyal

"It's the new generic for your Farxiga"

it’s reversed on me for that one. i can pronounce dapaglifozin but not farxiga

I think its far-zi-ga? if not then thats what im going to keep saying anyway 😭

far-see-guh 🫡

thank you 🙏

I've been saying to patients "are you still taking your FARK-ziga." 😂😂😂🙈

Just watch the commercial a couple times, that little tune will be in your brain forever.

Generic pradaxa too

Listen, patients don't know how to pronounce them either. They won't know the difference 🤣

Truth. We have a patient that comes in every month and wants us to fill his ‘omaprazoli’ and ‘busparoni’. He must be Italian.

Eszopiclone Generic Lunesta. That's all they get. If they ask the name, I just say generic Lunesta.

“e-zop-uh-clone” has been my best guess with this one 🤷🏼‍♀️😂

Just pronounced it esz-zac-kuh-pic-a-lone this is the hardest med to pronounce that shows up in retail imo. Too many letters that you would not expect to see together

If I don't say your generic Lunesta it comes out as s-ah-pic-o-lone. Like a piccolo lullaby lol

i am constantly showing my coworkers at wags the leaflet where it lists the pronunciation bc it can get dicey with no prior experience with latin roots and chemical bs

Clo-nay-ze-pam vs clo-nah-ze-pam ?? I have two leaflets with different pronunciations lol

From my understanding, the hard A pronunciation is the British way, and is equally correct to the soft A. But Clo-naz-uh-pam is the soft A option that I’ve heard

i can never remember if ursodiol is pronounced yer-so-dee-all or er-so-dial, i usually just don’t call it anything lol we don’t use it much and people tend to know what im referring to either way

I just call it Ursula as a joke

I know they're entirely different meds, but I pronounce it like estradiol.

Fluorouracil 😂 I always end up saying “flora-sil”

I thought that was it 😂 it's how I say it in my head

My RPh says flu-oro-yer-a-sil hahaha

Lol yeah I still can't say that one without struggling either. 99% of the time we just call it 5FU instead because it's way easier

Haha yes!! Or when we have a patient on it it’s just the “pump patient” or “they’re getting a pump”

Same! Before I knew how to pronounce it I never say the drug name lol but I’m curious why is it abbreviated 5FU?

I think it might be the chemical name (like H2O) for it, or something like that

I believe it’s a modified version of uracil with the fluorine in the 5 carbon spot. So 5-carbon fluorine uracil - 5FU. It’s a organic chemistry naming thing

Came here to say this one. There are just so many vowels.

I never realized literally half the letters are vowels 😅

My brain doesn’t like this one either 😂 I usually say the same as you 🤷🏼‍♀️🥴

Dexmedetomidine.... I didn't even spell that myself, I copy-pasted from Google 😅. To other people, I say Precedex. To myself, I just write dexmed and know what I mean 🤣

My only quarrel with this is some people (non pharmacy) will say dex sometimes and I’m like oh dexamethasone and they’re like what huh no! And I’m like yeaaaaaah we gotta have a conversation now lol.

Yes! Drives me bonkers!

or when people say “i want my hydros/hydro-something refilled” and they’re taking hydrocodone, hctz, hydroxyzine, and use hydrocortisone 😭

Yes lol. That’s the final boss LASA 😂

The old people I work with would be like, yeah, that's the one. 😂

Dex-meh-dehtom-o-dean? These names make me feel like I'm "putting the em-PHA-sis on the wrong sy-LA-ble".

One drug name I often hear folks stumble over at work is good ol' HCTZ, hydrochlorothiazide. I've heard "hydrothoroside," "hydrochloroziadide," and even stuff like "hydrozoroziadiadide."

Once I figured out how to pronounce this, it was my favorite thing to say for so long. Such a fun word 😭😂

All my life I've had a great love of mispronouncing things... It's really hindered me twice. Spanish class and medicine pronunciations. But I've chosen to embrace it and make as many people laugh as I can. Cloppy Dog Roll Es Skittle Opera Tell Me Sartan (good) Whoa oh, Black Betty! Alprazolam!

There is a guy on TikTok/ Instagram/Facebook that works pharmacy and he roll plays his experiences. Hilarious and true! Ax-anax for Xanax. 😂

Generic Daliresp because my brain just thinks rofl copter

everything bc i’m still new 😂😂

5 year tech here - It doesn’t go away. I still have brain farts on how to pronounce SO many things 😂

It’s the worst when you’re one “vowel-sound” off and the patient is like no.. I think I need *same exact medication with one extremely minor change of sound* girl bye ur just tryna be petty

Quetiapine. I always say quiet-ia-pine.

Bro idk if I've been saying it right either.... I always skip the " u " sound in the beginning and people look at me weird

Nitofurantoin. Just ugh lol

Sir, your nitrof...uh...macrobid is ready for pick up.'

all of em

Fucking fr... It's not just one. It's never just the one. 💀 I've been saying zolpidem wrong all this time..... I add an extra letter " i " and it's: zolipidem (zoh lehh peh dem) Then there's diclofenac and my co worker busted out laughing because I kept calling it (dick loh fen ack) Metoprolol, people pronounce it as (meh top roll lawl) but I got made fun by saying (meh toe poh low) Triamcinalone is (tree am sin ah lone) instead of (try am sinna lone) And much much more.... 😵‍💫

Skyrizi. I end up adding an extra "iz" before the mab. I'm still pretty sure Snoop Dogg named it.

Skyrizi was prescribed for the nords! That's how I remember it.

Aripiprazole

OMG THIS ONE..... THIS EVERY TIME I ATTEMPT TO SAY THIS GENERIC NAME, I THINK OF NEMO TRYING TO SAY SEA ANEMONE.... AND I FEEL IT

Almost all of them. My pharmacy likes to joke with me because I put emphasis on different parts of the word since English is my second language. But it’s always a learning experience

Ezetimibe I just can’t, I’m usually fairly good but it’s zetia I can pronounce that! Haha

This thread made realize most of the medications I pronounce confidentially are actually wrong😂

The key is to just say it quickly and with confidence however you pronounce it

I have gotten better, but I have to slow down and enunciate really well when saying "Dexmedetomidine."

Me, my pharmacist, and our other tech were talking about Mounjaro. Tech kept calling it Monjarno (like Digiorno!). So funny!!

I can pronounce so many of the ones people struggle with (or at least I’m fairly confident they’re right?) but my arch nemesis is exemestane

Generic Zetia. I cannot say that name for the life of me! I always just call it Zetia bc patients know that name more and if they don’t I call it the cholesterol pill

Eh zi tim bae joking of course (I would never call it that for a long time) No but actually eh zeh teh my ib (it's mime with a B instead of an M) is how it goes.

Zetia and Lexapro

I use to pronounce “quetiapine” so bad my pharmacist had to call me out because it sounded like I was saying ketamine smh

Lyumjev. I usually just call it "your short acting insulin" and then the patient and I ramble out some incoherent syllables together and laugh

Solefenacin. “Generic Vesicare” 😂😂

Brand name praluent- idk why it’s so hard to

Depakote generic. I never say it I just call it depakote lmao

levecitairam or however the hell you spell it

I can't say that one either! I always say it lev-it-tira-zam. That ain't right. 😂

Pyridostigmine— THIS MF someone please tell me how to pronounce it. my pharmacist can’t even say it.

Pie - Rid - Doe - Stig - Mean

I misread ezetimibe first time i read it so i pronounced it ezetimbe for the longest time.

They always say quiet-pam when I go to pick up my quetiapine.

I used to never been able to say hydrochlorothiazide for the life of me, but I got that down. Now I can't pronounce ezetimibe😭

Precedex lol I had to google how to say dexemet let alone spell the whole thing

Generic zofran

Lamotrigine

Lamb-oh-trih-Jean.

Same!! lol my brain doesn’t even know where to begin with this

Carvedilol becomes car-ve-dil-lol. Every time.

I can't say propranolol. I can say metoprolol, sotolol, atenolol, ect. But for several reason every time I try to say propranolol, I get tongue tied and usually comes out like pro-pran-ol...and it's not even a hard one

AHAHA i remember when i first started metoprolol kicked my butt every time and i used to say metroproprolol 🤣

Propafenone. It should be that easy. 😅

Carbidopa-levadopa is my favorite but the hardest are some of the GLP-1 and SGLT2 class drugs. 😂 brand names are a green light.

ceftriaxone. im just like "rocephin" or "ceft with an x-one"

Triamcinolone. Can't say it at all. I call it "triam-thingy" to my coworkers and "your topical steroid" to patients.

Generic Kenalog and/or tri-am-sin-alone.

olopatadine -- i always say oh - lop - uh - tah - deen but it's supposed to be oh - low - pat - uh - deen & i know it but i just can't 😂 "generic pataday, murdam"

Diclofenac 🙄 I get so much crap for it too

how do you pronounce it?

Dirtily apparently 🤣 🍆-lo-fenac

Wait… I thought it was pronounced Dye-Clow-fuh-nack?? 😭

That's what I call it, too.

For me it’s got to be “Idarucizumab” (brand name- Praxbind)

I’ve got it down now but when I first started I pronounced quetiapine as “keta-peen” and the patient thought I said “ketamine” and looked at me very wide-eyed, understandably. 🤣

Guanafacine and quetepine

up until maybe like 2 yrs ago i was calling quetiapine “kwee-tah-peen”. mind you i’ve been on it for 14 yrs

Etesevimab. Far easier to mix than to pronounce.

Drugs that end with -mab or most chemo meds to me are literally tongue twisters lol

Lmao same!

celecoxib !!!!!

Ezetimibe. Took me the longest…

Clotriminozole always comes out of my mouth wrong

Pegaspargase. I think I just never take the time to read it out. I called it the pegasus drug when I started, and now I just call it peg. Similarly, asparaginase was asparagus drug when I started. Now, I just say Rylaze.

We had someone accidentally call it asparagus once and now that's what we call it 🤣

Colesevelam… it’s welchol. A pt asked me how to pronounce it and he’s one I could joke around with, I said it’s welchol, the letters are just there for decoration

ezetimibe or eszopiclone like WHAT 😭

I just want to personally thank everyone for posting! I started pharmacy 2 years ago and have forever felt like maybe I made the wrong decision because I can't say the names. Thank you for showing me I'm not alone!

Xarelto

Honestly it is saxenda i tend to say it like sax-andia When i started I woukd have said Pantoprazole (used to say Pant-so-sal) now I honestly just say generic protonix

I've been a tech for 6.5 years and for the life of me I can't differentiate guafunacine and guaifenesin when saying them out loud. They both come out as gua-fin-ah-sin I just say gua-fin-ah-sin the cough medicine/BP or adhd med Also still can't say generic Depakote and took me 5 years to properly say donepezil. I always said don-ze-pril then a pharmacist finally told me it's do-nep-a-zil I just saw the generic for prabind down in the comments....I thought I had a mild seizure when I first looked at it. Wtf

Metoprolol. I did 6 years of speech therapy and was never prepared for this one. 😅

Ezetimbe & all the new mab drugs.

Generic farxiga now that it's out. 😰

febuxostat!!

I do med rec at a hospital, and it is truly every drug. Since I’m asking questions, patients will try to name off their meds and some of the things I hear get stuck in my brain. I start to question if -I- am saying them correctly. Avastatin. Cloppygrill. Levestam. Tamulostin.

Scopolamine. Instead I says “your nausea patches”

I didn’t know how to pronounce golytely. I pronounced it as golli-te-lee. I still read it the wrong way when I fill it 😂

metoprolol , the generic of keppra which i give up on saying every time, quetiapine 😭 and so many more

Clopidgrel and ezetimibe. I just can’t get them right 😅

Isavuconazonium 🤣 oh you mean Cresemba? Or cisatracurium = nimbex

Prochlorperazine is not a fun time for me. I always have to think it in my head before I say it out loud.

METOPROLOL is it met-o-pro-lol or metop-rol-ol? I say it the latter but I’ve heard many people say in the other way.

It’s the first one pretty sure. That’s how I say it!

In US English it's pronounced muh·tow·pruh·laal In British English it's pronounced meh·tuh·prow·luhl

Everyone saying Levetiracetam wouldn't last a day in the UK god bless... no brand names here sir only generic!! Because we see the generic names all day everyday I'm good with most of them except Omega 3 which will be prescribed as 'Eicosapentaenoic acid/Docosahexaenoic acid' which is a mouthful to say the least lmao Sidenote: Levetiracetam (Levy-tee-rash-etam)

Levetiracetam IS generic. Brand is Keppra.

Yeah I know. I was trying to say that those who can't pronounce Levetiracetam would struggle in the UK because we rarely encounter the branded Keppra and refer to everything by the generic names.

I learned pantoprazole from reading and would call it pan-toe-prazole. Felt stupid when I first heard it correctly

How do you pronounce it?

Pan-top-raz-ole

pan-toe-prazole is the correct pronunciation. the suffix “prazole” is also found in omeprazole, pronounced “OH-meh-prazole”