Posted by yxibow on June 5, 2009, at 14:49:15
In reply to What's your favorite version of generic Valium?, posted by qbsbrown on June 5, 2009, at 9:36:47
> I've done fine on the brand name, but am taking Mylan, and it's basically a placebo, sugar pill sincce day one. It makes me physically i'll.
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> My sleep is terrible, i've developed food sensitivities etc, heart palpitations, things I've never experienced on the brand name.
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> But I am working on a taper, and i'm sure many of these things are common to arise.Its the taper.
I can't see how even if you had 80% of the Valium you had before it would be a "sugar pill". I take the Mylan version. Watson used to be the one standard at the pharmacy.
I had to increase it because I believe it is helping with some breakthrough symptoms (I no longer 'feel' Valium, its subtle anyhow and I'm partially habituated) -- but not because of the generic difference, which had been changed long enough for the plasma level to easily adjust.
There has been a lot of discussion of what's your generic X, and without discounting a possibility of some differences for some, I think there is a lot of suggestibility, placebo effects, and causality not being causation.
Personally I can't even believe any major pharmacy (or minor, they have even worse cost issues) would be dispensing the "real" Valium which came out in what, 1961 or so...
There are cases where companies held on to their original and there were no generic probably because of supply and demand.
My particular choice in anticholinergics, Akineton, never had a generic since its manufacture sometime probably around the 1970s.
And it was discontinued, and since there was no generic, one less for Parkinson's patients and pseudoparkinsonism and other side effects of other medications.
-- Jay
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