Posted by seldomseen on November 17, 2008, at 6:38:11
In reply to Re: I noticed something with the name brand, too, posted by linkadge on November 16, 2008, at 20:21:41
"The issue of whether generics are equivilant is probably a phenomina more prevalant with psychiatric medicaitons.
You don't hear of somebody's blood pressure all of a sudden going through the roof after changing to an equivilant dose of a generic blood pressure medication do you??"Well....
Patients who switched from Toprol XL to generic experienced serious side effects, such as a dramatic increase in blood pressure, an increase in heart rate and ectopic beats, nausea, dizziness, hives, and headache. These problems generally stopped when the patient switched back to Toprol XL.
Pharmacists are not allowed to switch a patient from name brand coumadin to generic Warfarin (anticoagulant) because of documented differences between the two.
Also, a patient can not switch between Lanoxin and generic digoxin (heart failure meds).
So, the psychotropics haven't cornered the market of problems with generics.
Seldom.
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