Posted by RMFlorida on September 21, 2009, at 10:32:57
In reply to Re: Dexedrine (Dextroamphetamine) Has Disappeared » bulldog2, posted by yxibow on September 21, 2009, at 4:25:12
@yxibow -- I'll clarify a couple points to be certain my post is not misinterpreted...
I did not attempt to demonize Teva/Barr in a generalized sense; I don't have any information to support that.
Rather, I simply pointed out the very significant difference in their particular formulation of Dexedrine, and the fact that there exists *no alternative* in the event people do have bad luck with that particular formula.
In my humble opinion, I'm sure Teva/Barr's drugs are no more toxic than the brand-drugs (on the whole) and had nothing to do with Michael Jackson's death. I agree that was not relevant to this post.
However, with that said, you've taken an off-topic point (Teva/Barr beyond the Dexedrine issues, and in general) and continued to take it further off-topic, and these off-topic points dillute the important point I attempted to make.
For example, you mention that some people may have a different response to generics and that it's probably not the generic (rather, it's a change in their environment, condition, mental perspective, etc).
Nothing I wrote disagreed with this in any way. However, if you read my post, you'll realize that I didn't come to my conclusion lightly; only once I returned to the original drug and noticed a profound difference. In other words: taking the original for months, no problems ... taking the Barr for a month, WITH problems ... go back to the original, no problems once again.
All the while, having assumed that I was on the same drug / generic (in other words, there was no subjective logic relating to Barr or any other vendor, because I shared your opinion that such differences were not empirically justified, and had believed I was on the same prescription until speaking with the pharmacist).
In short, I'm not looking to start a thread discussing the strengths or weaknesses of Teva/Barr as a whole, or of generics-versus-brand drugs.
Rather, my point was much simpler, and very explicitly declared:
Those prescribed to Dexedrine (conventional, immediate release) no longer have *options*. Barr is the only manufacturer, and there have been *more than the usual* number of complaints about their formulation.
One such compliant is from me, a person who until they took the Barr Dexedrine, swore that generics were the same as brand-drugs.
My goal was to present this in hopes of helping others who stumble upon this thread. People who, like myself, wonder if they're crazy because they've run into these same issues.
I also hoped to bring this issue to the attention of others, on the odd chance that it might eventually help get to the bottom of this issue by raising awareness and eventually fixing the problems.
Finally, I wrote this point as a request, in the event that I'm wrong, or that someone has information to share about an elusive alternative to Barr Dexedrine that does exist, or an accepted work-around, so to speak.
To anyone that would prefer to discuss Teva/Barr beyond their Dexedrine product, it detracts from the original topic, and if at all possible, I'd like to keep this on-topic as much as possible.
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