I prefer the brand names Debs...


you know... like...

thai stick...

panama red...

antartica thunderf--k

purple cush

hi rapunzel

Hi My Lil Sis



love and hugs to you, Honey...

and to you too.

It may be different outside of the US:

In addition to tests performed prior to market entry, FDA regularly assesses the quality of products in the marketplace and thoroughly researches and evaluates reports of alleged drug product inequivalence. To date, there are no documented examples of a generic product manufactured to meet its approved specifications that could not be used interchangeably with the corresponding brand-name drug. Questions have been raised in the past, as well, regarding brand name and generic products about which there could be concern that quality failures might represent a public safety hazard. FDA has performed post-marketing testing on many of these drugs to assess their quality. In one instance, more than 400 samples of 24 marketed brand-name and generic drug products were tested and found to meet the established standards of purity and quality. Because patients may pay closer attention to their symptoms when the substitution of one drug product for another occurs, an increase in symptoms may be reported at that time, and anecdotal reports of decreased efficacy or increased toxicity may result. Upon investigation by FDA, no problems attributed to substitution of one approved drug product for another has occurred.

FDA works with both brand-name and generic drug product manufacturers after a drug product is in the marketplace to assure its quality. For example, brand-name and generic drug product manufacturers may want to change the drug formulation, site of manufacture, or manufacturing process after the drug is in the marketplace. These types of changes can be put in place only after the drug manufacturer provides the FDA with sufficient evidence that the drug identity, strength, quality, purity and potency will not change.

http://www.fda.gov/CDER/news/nightgenlett.htm

(In the US) They have to contain the same "active" ingredients, but what they don't tell you is how much the different "inactive" ingredients can effect the strength of the "active" ingredients or even just the way your body metabolizes them. I have a friend who is a chemist for a big pharmaceutical company, and he has said that the worst case of this is in hormone related drugs and blood thinners.

After having issues with her script, he insisted that my mother try the real Coumadin vs the generic for two months. The difference was amazing and well worth the money. Coincidently the reason she is on blood thinners to begin with is due to a complication with hormone meds. Not good!

If you visit the wedsite of the drug company that makes the meds you are on, sometimes they can provide you with information about the inactive ingredients in their products. I personally found them more forthcoming than I had expected when I contacted one myself about my mothers issue and the info given my by my friend.

i find alot of generic meds are better than the name brand stuff here in the U.S

Ooops!

i found the same thing to, brand name meds worked better, lasted longer, and i had less side effects.

maybe they are there, but not in the uk

hey debb,are u still having problems getting th meds you want

ill email you

Ohhh... they save money in the manufacturing of the drug...

and add all these fillers, which are often bad for you ..

as other people have stated & as i also have seen ...



and then they make such drug addicts out of so many people

charging an arm and a leg for drugs they have caused people


to absolutely need ... legal drug pushers...



as they build a new wing

onto their already flippin hugely decadent estate

that is so much more elaborate then most people

will ever even see

let alone have the opportunity to live in



they have traded the hypocratic oath....


for a very very hypocritic oath


it's All about them....

i know, they dont think of the patients

Is it a matter of them not being available? Or does the insurance only accept generic when it's an option?

If it's the later, you might like to hear that a mailing champagne, consisting of my email correspondence with the drug company along with the doctors recommendation based on her side effects, eventually made her insurance cave in to our demand to include the Coumadin on her list of accepted meds. It did not happen quickly, mind you.

We have insurance Commissioners here, and while this office proved quite useless to my effort, there may be something more helpful in place in England if you seek it out.

im going to pay and get my meds in brand name.