Posted by Zyprexa on April 28, 2010, at 15:35:48
In reply to Re: proof of superiority of branded/Zyprexa, posted by stargazer2 on April 27, 2010, at 21:18:36
I've tried the Teva and Sandoz versions and find them to be almost the same. They both have a sweet smell, very much unlike the brand which smells of rotten eggs. Teva makes the 200mg pill, Sandoz makes the 100mg pill. I've never taken the 150mg pill, so don't know who makes that.
My previous doctor would only Rx brand. Because they are better, she would say. I've taken many gernerics which work very well, and I never even tried the brand of some.
I started on brand syntroid and it worked. I told my new doctor that I wanted to try the generic and it does a great job on my TSH. So what is wrong with that? I still take the generic. I think the reason they say the brand is better is because between all the generics and brand they work out to be of slight difference of strength. So if you take brand the pharmacy won't give you a different generic. But!, you can have the pharmacy fill only one particular manufacturer of the generic, so you won't have this problem, which also suggests that there is a difference between manufacturers. You just get the doctor to write on the script, the 1. generic name of drug, 2. manufacturer you want, 3. dispense as writen. I do this with my perphenazine, because one is much better than the other, and with my gen syntroid.
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