Posted by yxibow on November 11, 2008, at 0:19:56
In reply to Re: Is there a generic Lexapro?, posted by bleauberry on November 10, 2008, at 17:22:52
> Someone else mentioned it already, but your best bet is to get 20mg pills and cut them in half. The 20mg won't cost much more than the 10mg, but will last twice as long, saving you a lot of money over any given time period.
As I said, that is up to your doctor per pill. He or she is writing the prescription and if it is a controlled substance or something that can lead to overdose, they may not prescribe it that way. Its their medical license in jeopardy if you OD, not to mention their conscience and compassion.
> And besides all this, I always preach to people to stay away from generics. Not that they don't work, well, a lot of times they don't, it's just that they aren't usually as reliable as brand, and if you are trying to duplicate what was done in FDA clinical studies to approve that drug, they used brand, not generic.
I know you have issues with generics, we will agree to disagree. I think that if you start with a particular generic brand, try to keep with it -- it may require special ordering because pharmacies keep up with market rates.
As for an example with Neurontin, gabapentin made by Greenstone is theoretically a spinoff of the original manufacturer. So there are some oddities.
I see no reason for getting non-generic benzodiazepines or older beta blockers for sure -- in fact a good many aren't even manufactured by the company since they were in the lab in 1957 give or take and came out (Librium) around 1960. Also propranolol has been out for probably two to three decades.
I know there is this issue that has been mentioned about generic Wellbutrin -- I can't say anything about it since I haven't taken it for years and it made my OCD worse. At that point it was non-generic.
I don't think TCAs are made by their manufacturer, if so they are probably frightfully expensive. They are drugs of the 70s.
I've almost always taken generic Luvox, it basically dropped out after the manufacturer ran screaming from the Columbine incident and also probably low sales.
> Going forward, if you ever start another med and it is available as generic, refuse it, insist on the brand. Use the larger dose sizes cut to custom sizes in order to afford it.
You'll pay more, much more in our f* up insurance land that the US is.
-- tidings
Jay
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