And specifically, I need to refill doxycycline and zithromax soon. Are these better to get brand name? It would be a 30 dollar difference, each.
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My holistic doc said brand Zithromax is much more effective. Never tried it.
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I found the brand names to work better, but if you can only afford the generic it's better than nothing. My insurance started to pay less and less so I am stuck with many generics these days.
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for me it was amoxil and vistaril
the generic amox made me very nauseaus-but the breand name didn't-doc said they would work the sma ebut i couldn't tolerate it
the generic vistaril has one ingredient missing and does not help me sleep
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MariaA
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Biaxin XL gave me less of a bad taste than generic clarythromycin. Not sure if it's because time had gone by since I'd started the generic, and the taste is a side effect that was going anyway, or if it's the XL part.
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Flagyl for sure.
It is more expensive, but definitely worth it.
Flagyl ER comes in 750mg so it was only one pill a day.
Yay!
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Lamictal (mood stabalizer) is better with the real deal, I have also heard that the name brand of minocycline, Minocin, is preferable, and more powerful.
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I've never had a drug that was more EFFECTIVE, MEDICALLY, than the generic.
I think we are talking about minor things like taste, or wether it upsets your stomach more or less etc...
Afterall, the ACTIVE ingredients are the same. It's just the inert, fillers that the drug is combined with that change the way it tastes or acts on the rest of your body.
My Dr. (LLMD.) told me Plaquenil was MUCH less nausea causing than hydroxychloroquinine and wrote something to that effect on the script itself.
WOW! I had a heck of a time getting the generic form which was like 1/4 the price. All b/c she had to write "get brand name" on the script. They just HAD to call her, and she was away or on vacation or something. I ended up having to wait several days b4 I could start the drug.
In the end...my stomach wasn't upset anyway. Just my feelings from dealing w/ the pharmacy trying to get the cheaper generic version.
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There is no longer a generic for toprol ER. The methoprolol generic has been recalled and no one else makes it. Pharmicist said switch to lopressor, but I don't know if that is the same or different type of drug.
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lpkayak
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abigale-were you referring to this?
"the generic vistaril has one ingredient missing and does not help me sleep" ?
the generic didn't work. i tiold my doc. she looked it up in that little book they have and she told me one ingredient was left out of the generic. she didn't say what it was. but consistently vistaril works and the generic doesn't
maybe a filler or whatever makes it more or less absorbable???
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From the drug effectiveness standpoint, it may be worth getting brand names for drugs that have an extended release action. Generic drugs do have to have the same active components as brand name, but not necessarily the same release time. For Lyme most abx do not fall into this category, but certainly the name brands may have some other non-active ingredients that make them preferable. Coatings to reduce taste, stomach upset, etc.
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