Posted by ghost on January 29, 2005, at 14:50:13
In reply to XANAX v/s ALPRAZOLAM GENERIC, any difference btw?, posted by neo on January 29, 2005, at 10:05:08
some people have really catalogued the generic companies to say which are better, but i don't have that info.
what i can say is that name brand drugs made by the major pharma companies have very strict standards. generally speaking, they require that their tablets contain 99-101% of what they're supposed to contain, whereas generics (in the US) are only required to have 80-120% of what they say they contain. in other words, you could be getting less (or more) of your active ingredient and a lot more "stuff" (the fillers they use to make tablets and whatnot).
so your increased side effects could be because of this difference in tablet composition. some folks are very sensitive to generics for this reason.
ghost
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