Posted by bleauberry on November 17, 2008, at 18:15:24
In reply to Re: I noticed something with the name brand, too, posted by linkadge on November 16, 2008, at 20:18:54
Hey Link, I have always liked your posts and still do, so keep them coming. But I gotta say, on this particular topic, you might as well throw in the towel. There is WAY too much evidence to discount in the way you are trying to. Good effort though.
Just wanted to re-iterate something I said in a previous post that you seemed to gloss over. That is, I know of people who got switched to generic and didn't know. They had no history of offs and ons, the kind you spoke up. Their downturn after the switch was rather dramatic and scary.
They did not know they had been switched.I was with a friend last night. She told me she has been taking wellbutrin for a couple weeks. I asked her if it was regular, generic, SR, or extended release. She had to go get the bottle and let me look at it, because she didn't know, and she didn't even know what to look for on the bottle. Just a small example to point out that people do take meds blindly based on their doc's prescription, but other than the overall name of the med they really have no clue if it is generic or brand or time released or anything. Those of us here of course are highly aware, and maybe because of that we take for granted that all other people are. They aren't. People can get switched from brand to generic and not know it. And I've seen it result in disturbing developments, as have other people here, and has happened so many times it is uncountable. The phenomenon is too large to discount as placebo or relapse or off/on or whatever.
And like the other poster said, there are medications that involve life-and-death where generic substitutions are not allowed. Gee, I wonder why. It's kind of like an ostrich burying the head in the sand thinking it is safe from its prey if it can't see it. They know generics are life-threatening in heart or blood pressure, yet they ignore that generics could be threatening in other fields. Human nature on display. Kind of sad.
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