Re: Re: GF Meds

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Coleen,Legally a generic med has to have the same amount of the same active ingredient(s) as the name brand and it has to document the same pattern of positive and negative reactions. Or at least that's the way it's SUPPOSED to work.

However, like you, I've found various generics that I absolutely cannot tolerate or that just plain don't work for me when other generics or that medication as name brand work just fine. Most of my troubles involve generics of metformin or birth control pills. I'm thinking this just might be another of the many ways where the FDA is failing to provide proper oversight.

And this is in addition to the trouble of seeing which ones are free of troublesome additives... Bleh.DeeOn 5/11/06, C <

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Just be careful in other ways of taking the generics. I do know for a fact

that generic Rocephin is not the same as brand name Rocephin, the generic I

took for a month relapsed me back to where I had started taking the brand

name-which was 5 months prior, it took then 3 months of the brand name to

reach the point I had been when I took the month of generic so as far as I

am concerned the generics aren't worth their money either. I believe the

drug companies are like the gas companies. The generic cost $349, if

Insurnce paid brand name Rocephin to them it was $666 and when I have to pay

out of my pocket its $1385 month. Tick season is here, please be so careful

Coleen

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Just be careful in other ways of taking the generics. I do know for a fact

that generic Rocephin is not the same as brand name Rocephin, the generic I

took for a month relapsed me back to where I had started taking the brand

name-which was 5 months prior, it took then 3 months of the brand name to

reach the point I had been when I took the month of generic so as far as I

am concerned the generics aren't worth their money either. I believe the

drug companies are like the gas companies. The generic cost $349, if

Insurnce paid brand name Rocephin to them it was $666 and when I have to pay

out of my pocket its $1385 month. Tick season is here, please be so careful

Coleen

Re: GF Meds

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> Hi, I am pretty careful about making sure my meds are GF. I will make

> sure a medicine is on the gf list before I have a doctor prescribe it

> for me. My question is, what about when pharmacies say they filled

> the generic brand? Is the generic brand the same thing?

>

Definitely not.

It's " the same thing " in terms of the medicinal ingredient.

But ALL the other ingredients are different: color, shape, binders,

all the places gluten lurks.

You MUST check that the generic is OK.

For that matter, you MUST check that the name brand is OK.

And when you get a refill, you MUST check that it is STILL OK.

I think I'm the only GFer that my pharmacist has, but he's been a

good sport about the whole thing.

He'll make phone calls. He'll look things up. AND he'll give me

the little sheets with the long eye-numbing words PLUS ingredients

lists AND phone numbers.

Between the two of us, we've been able to figure out every med

so far.

My pharmacy is CVS. When I get a refill, the pharmacist just

blips the little magic box of lines into his scanner thing and

determines whether or not the current generic is the same as the

last generic. If it's the same, I don't worry. (I suppose the

formula could change between batches, but I don't expect it to

do so.)

So grateful that he found a GF generic for one of my two new meds.

For the other new med, I had to go with the name brand because

the name brand is GF. And I had to wait a day 'coz they don't

normally stock it. But the copay wasn't an issue as I only got

a few and the full price was a mere $6.00.

Work closely with your doctor and pharmacist on this issue!

I've glutened myself with medication once. But ONLY once, so far.

Learned that one the hard way. Hope I learned it well enough.

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this is one reason I use as many alternatives as possible. Dr has ordered another antibotic on top of the Rocephin IM, since she is sending prescription I don't yet know the problems its going to cause, first checking out what all is in it-GF?, then to see what its going to do to my colon, my stomach does not like anything that isn't food going into it. OF course I had Celiac for 59 yrs before it was found, makes me wonder just how much villi i have left, I do know if I only eat meat and veggies I will loose weight so I throw in calories like mad.Coleen

Re: Re: GF Meds

Coleen,Legally a generic med has to have the same amount of the same active ingredient(s) as the name brand and it has to document the same pattern of positive and negative reactions. Or at least that's the way it's SUPPOSED to work. However, like you, I've found various generics that I absolutely cannot tolerate or that just plain don't work for me when other generics or that medication as name brand work just fine. Most of my troubles involve generics of metformin or birth control pills. I'm thinking this just might be another of the many ways where the FDA is failing to provide proper oversight. And this is in addition to the trouble of seeing which ones are free of troublesome additives... Bleh.Dee

Just be careful in other ways of taking the generics. I do know for a factthat generic Rocephin is not the same as brand name Rocephin, the generic Itook for a month relapsed me back to where I had started taking the brandname-which was 5 months prior, it took then 3 months of the brand name toreach the point I had been when I took the month of generic so as far as Iam concerned the generics aren't worth their money either. I believe thedrug companies are like the gas companies. The generic cost $349, ifInsurnce paid brand name Rocephin to them it was $666 and when I have to payout of my pocket its $1385 month. Tick season is here, please be so carefulColeen

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