Posted by drylightning on June 3, 2009, at 16:11:49
In reply to Re: best/worst generic xanax » drylightning, posted by yxibow on June 3, 2009, at 15:24:52
> > > Not necessarily. Suggestion? How bought paying for a few days worth of the namebrand. Try it and see. Then compare to Greenstone and Sandoz?>
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> > Are pdocs willing to give away samples? I'd like to call my doctor and ask her to give me a sample of Sandoz when I see her in a week. (I don't know if that's enough time, though.) And, I may also ask her for some Greenstone, since I only took it a few isolated times, as well as namebrand.
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> > Is this reasonable to ask? Is a week enough lead time? Will she think I'm trying to hoard pills?
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> No. And the number of "original" samples are coming down with tightening on drug representatives.
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> Generics are not given away as samples, hawked on TV, and print ads, hence they are CHEAPER, that's why they're generics.
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> I just don't see the issue with generic Xanax since it came out in 1981 -- I don't think you'd want samples from 1981.
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> But to each their own.
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> -- JayJay,
I presume that by "no" you mean I shouldn't expect my pdoc to give me samples, right?
Also, you're saying doctors do not give out samples of generics because they don't get them. That makes sense. And restrictions are reducing the number of name brand samples that the pharmaceutical companies give out to doctors. That also makes sense.
Finally, are you saying that you think generic = brand? I used to think that, and may think it again someday soon, but for now I'm obsessing. I just don't feel quite as good as I recall feeling last time I was on a dose this high. And I've read too much about Mylan (my generic now) being weak. The internet is a blessing and a curse...
Thanks,
dan
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