Posted by linkadge on July 15, 2009, at 15:26:14
In reply to Re: Nortriptyline Generic or Brand Favorites?, posted by SLS on July 15, 2009, at 7:31:56
>Well. actually, neither do I. But you and I do >not have 25 years worth of patient experience >either. I guarantee you my doctor would not be >doing this just for grins. And being generics, >there certainly isn't any under-the-table motive >involved. He has seen what he has seen. >Different is different.
Not necessarily. Patients are unreliable. There are so many other factors that can be responsible for a patient relapsing. Patients want, however, to believe that their recovery is the result of just one factor (for example an antidepressant).Antidepressant trials too are not reliable. In one study, drug A will beat drug B and in another study drug B will beat A. That one generic does better than another in some study doesn't mean anything.
People relapse all the time but people want *something* to blame their relapse on. I have never seen a *blinded* A-B-A traial design which proves that a patient relapses when switching to generic and then gets better when returning to the original drug. All of the studies showing patients relapsing on generic drugs are unblinded.
I believe that aside from bioequivilancy, there is no difference between one generic to another. So long as the company knows how to synthesize the drug properly.
I mean take SLS. Ok so he relapsed when he switched to generic lamotrigine. No offense SLS, but you are relapsing all the time, drug change or no drug change.
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