Posted by halcyondaze on January 6, 2007, at 19:37:54
In reply to +/- 20% really sucks, posted by linkadge on January 6, 2007, at 15:09:15
> So, generics are allowed to be as much off as +/- 20%?
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> That means that for a 20mg prozac you could get as little as 16mg or as much as 24mg.
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> That means you could have 8mg difference between two days.
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> If you were taking 375mg of effexor, you could have as much as much as 150mg difference between two doses.
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> Isn't there something wrong here? If I dropped 150mg of effexor in one day, I'd be in hell.
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> Now effexor isn't generic yet, but what if it was your anticonvulsant? You could have a seizure if you dropped this much.
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> Linkadge
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>This is why I pay for brand-name Parnate instead of going with the generic. Thankfully, on my insurance, brand is $30 (as opposed to $10 for the generic) but I remember my mother paying $200 for her Prozac, which just wasn't the same as generic fluoxetine.
Plus, many times pharmacies are connected to several retailers, meaning that you can get -20% one month and +20% the next month from the very same pharmacy.
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